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cjoudrey / ASS.md
Created June 3, 2018 16:21 — forked from klaaspieter/ASS.md
Acronyms Seriously Suck - Elon Musk

From time to time, Musk will send out an e-mail to the entire company to enforce a new policy or let them know about something that's bothering him. One of the more famous e-mails arrived in May 2010 with the subject line: Acronyms Seriously Suck:

There is a creeping tendency to use made up acronyms at SpaceX. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important. Individually, a few acronyms here and there may not seem so bad, but if a thousand people are making these up, over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don't want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.

That needs to stop immediately or I will take drastic action - I have given enough warning over the years. Unless an acronym is approved by me, it should not enter the SpaceX glossary.

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cjoudrey / SMBDIS.ASM
Created May 30, 2017 04:18 — forked from 1wErt3r/SMBDIS.ASM
A Comprehensive Super Mario Bros. Disassembly
;SMBDIS.ASM - A COMPREHENSIVE SUPER MARIO BROS. DISASSEMBLY
;by doppelganger ([email protected])
;This file is provided for your own use as-is. It will require the character rom data
;and an iNES file header to get it to work.
;There are so many people I have to thank for this, that taking all the credit for
;myself would be an unforgivable act of arrogance. Without their help this would
;probably not be possible. So I thank all the peeps in the nesdev scene whose insight into
;the 6502 and the NES helped me learn how it works (you guys know who you are, there's no
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cjoudrey / capybara.md
Created September 13, 2012 19:13 — forked from remi/capybara.md
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cjoudrey / chef_solo_bootstrap.sh
Created June 16, 2012 16:39 — forked from ryanb/chef_solo_bootstrap.sh
Bootstrap Chef Solo (Ubuntu 12.04)
#!/usr/bin/env bash
apt-get -y update
apt-get -y install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline6-dev libyaml-dev
cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p194.tar.gz
tar -xvzf ruby-1.9.3-p194.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.3-p194/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install