Antifeatures Posted Wed, 18 Nov 2009

In preparation for LCA, I'm going to be giving my new Antifeatures talk a few times to smaller local audiences.

The first is going to be today in Boston (apologies for the late notice!) at Northeastern University at 11:45 and it's being hosted by the ACM chapter there.

The second one will be at my alma mater Hampshire College in Amherst this Friday. A draft flier (ignore the unpluralized "antifeatue") is below.

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Should we also ignore the "Lecutre Hall" instead of "Lecture Hall"? Or is that actually correct? ;-)
Posted by Sven Mueller at Wed Nov 18 10:38:41 2009
Will there be an audio record? if yes, where will I find it?

Thanks!
Posted by OsamaK at Wed Nov 18 10:50:08 2009
Free software can have anti-features too, but for different reasons. Try apt-cache show mail-notification and you'll see that SSL/TLS support is disabled. Sure, the reason isn't financial, but rather licensing issues, but the end result is the same thing: The hands down best IMAP checking GNOME applet for Ubuntu is useless for some subset of people.

And that has been argued over (and over. and over. and over.) for 3½ years now on launchpad - https://bugs.launchpad.net/mail-notification/+bug/44335?comments=all with the original author marking it as WONTFIX (because he believes that that linking GPL code against OpenSSL is fine), Ubuntu packagers saying: "No it's not!" and users saying: "That sucks! We want something that f'ing works!"

And it's not even possible to compile it yourself any more without manually hunting down source code because libeel2 was removed from karmic. sigh.
Posted by Kasper Henriksen at Wed Nov 18 11:40:53 2009
That was a draft poster for a reason; the one that's actually getting put up can be found over here: http://stout.hampshire.edu/~sam08/makohill.jpg

(looking forward to seeing you this Friday, Mako!)
Posted by Ian McEwen at Wed Nov 18 11:52:10 2009
I will also ignore the pluralized "alumni"... ah, too late.
Posted by Kat at Wed Nov 18 15:13:04 2009
I updated it with the full version. Sorry about that!
Posted by Benjamin Mako Hill at Wed Nov 18 17:28:12 2009
What about the record?
Posted by Osama Khalid at Thu Nov 26 06:28:17 2009

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