amongst other things...
It appears that someone has beaten me to the punch with one of my goals - a GPG plugin for Firefox. Ok, so I didn't reach the goal, but it is one I can cross off my list. If things keep going like this I might reach them all without "much" effort. Scary.
Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research.
The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose offspring, usually long-haired, are devotees of Iron Maiden, AC/DC and their musical descendants.
Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.
Regardless of who you are, or what you do, you're a member of some sort of community. Most people invest time, money and more, often to simply give back. As a result of this some members come to expect a certain level of mutual respect from their peers and possibly even the creators / developers of said project.
When this respect is broken it can often lead to ill feeling within the community. The question of scale is often small, but naturally if it reoccurs often it can kill a good project for no "real" reason. Within the Open Source community this arguably isn't a big issue as people pick up the project because it does something they want, or need. For commercial projects, on the other hand, it's better to liken to a band without any fans. Without them, they're just weirdos on a stage making cocks out of themselves.
Investing personal time in a commercial project is noble, but I'm personally finding it harder to continue to do this due to my peers and others involved in a certain project.
Respect is such a little thing and simply restructuring a phrase can convey it. No real effort required, but the rewards can be astonishing.
Common sense perhaps? Then why is it increasingly disappearing? Or is it?
