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- Nov 07, 2020
Apache Quotes
One name, two very different worlds.
These Apache quotes cover two unrelated meanings entirely, starting with a note on how military hardware borrows native naming, including Apache Longbow helicopters alongside Black Hawks and Tomahawk missiles. From there, the topic shifts into software, describing the Apache open-source model as Design by committee.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
- Foreign Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go 'off the reservation, into Indian Country.'
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020