Camille E. Acey

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  • Recent Thoughts and Reads

    camilleacey

    How’d it get to be February already? Geez. Things are good around these parts. I’ve been working and reading a little and hanging with my guys and skipping through snowflakes. Oh winter! Here are some things I’ve been thinking about. I just caught this great discussion on NPR’s On Being with physicist Brian Greene. He’s…

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  • New Year – New Links

    camilleacey

    Interesting Links & Recent Thoughts Save time this year (and always) with Betteridge’s Law –  Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the general concept is much older.…

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  • Linked Out

    camilleacey

    Here are links to a few things I’ve liked in the past few days 1) My friend Benjamin Haas of Control Group wrote a great blog post “What Women in Technology Means to Me“on his company blog. It warms the cockles of my heart for men to stand up as allies in this way. It…

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  • Spot the Sexism

    camilleacey

    Just got forwarded this commercial by a colleague who thought it was a cool proprietary vs. open source pitch.   The fact that they got this far without someone saying “Hey, that is wildly sexist; let’s not do this.” is really telling about the state of things in open source. In case you haven’t done…

  • The Elevator Pitch

    camilleacey

    FLOSS Seems to Love the Number Four Along with my old boss, Karl Fogel, and my coworker Paul Ramsey, Sumana is high on my list of people I know (and admire!) who can synthesize big ideas in a way that is thoughtful, entertaining and easy to remember. She’s currently attending Hacker School, and while she…

  • Posts I Would Post If I DId Post

    camilleacey

    I know I need to update, but I’m currently vacationing in the Alpine paradise I used to call home and can’t bring myself to do it, so instead here are the titles and summaries of a few posts I would post if I did post: A Complete Guide to Making Anyone Who Isn’t A Straight…

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  • So You Say You Wanna Support Women in FLOSS, do ya?

    camilleacey

    So you gripe about the lack of women in FLOSS and crack wise about meetups being “boys’ clubs” and make some vague intimations about the need for diversity in our communities, but have you done about it? Watcha gonna do about it? Well here’s one thing you can do about it here and now. Give…

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  • Through The Looking Glass

    camilleacey

    I’m still with the same company, but we recently moved to a new office. Lots of great changes are afoot and this is the third office we’ve worked out of in the two years I’ve been there…and the third office in a row with no private rooms. The issue of privacy bugged me a bit…

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  • Hanlon’s Razor

    camilleacey

    Just discovered this chestnut: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I already know I am gonna get a lotta mileage out of that one.

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  • Apply Some Pressure*

    camilleacey

    I’ve always been a fan of pushing. When my son was born I received a bill from the pediatrician who’d come to inspect him the morning after he was born. I was confused when the pediatrician came into the room that day as she wasn’t our pediatrician, but after having gone through the most life…

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