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Sunday, July 30th, 2006From OSCON
To bogart: To hog something which is supposed to be shared.
The bus factor the degree to which something may fail when someone gets proverbially run over by a bus. Managers must consider this in their planning.
embiggen to make bigger.
Source:How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People. Or Snakes in a Project.
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Wednesday, January 8th, 2003According to Fortune Magazine, Adobe is the 5th best place to work in the US: Adobe Systems No. 5
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