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Cory Doctorow

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Total quotes: 3

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Cory Doctorow

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Birthday: July 17, 1971

Birthplace: Canada

Nationality: Canada

Occupations: Podcaster, Editor, Science Fiction Writer, Journalist, Author

Spouse: Alice Taylor

Total quotes: 3

“The final text clarifies that any link that contains more than "single words or very short extracts" from a news story must be licensed, with no exceptions for noncommercial users, nonprofit projects, or even personal websites with ads or other income sources, no matter how small.”

— Cory Doctorow, The Final Version of the EU's Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet

Tagged: Media Cliff Notes

“The researchers showed that programmers' stress levels were a better predictor of the quality (and thus the maintainability) of their code than the more costly process of code-review, where another programmer checks a colleague's work before it is put into production, in order to ensure that it will be clear to future maintainers of the system.”

— Cory Doctorow, Programmers' stress levels can accurately predict the quality of their code

Tagged: Programming, Research, Health, Stress, Code Quality

“Hardin's paper starts with a history of the English Commons -- publicly held lands that were collectively owned and managed -- and the claim that commons routinely fell prey to the selfish human impulse to overgraze your livestock on public land. But this isn't what actually happened to the Commons: they were stable and well-managed until other factors destabilized them.”

— Cory Doctorow, The "Tragedy of the Commons" was invented by a white supremacist based on a false history

Tagged: Tragedy of the Commons

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