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And then we were told we could not integrate for Tiger.
That we would miss our self-imposed deadline. Because it was “too much change at once, with the Intel changes”.
Tiger dragged on for another 6 months before release, with week-for-week slips. This was because of Intel-specific bugs — not in the kernel.
What Goes Into Making an OS to Be Unix Compliant Certified?
Quora
Hiring a young, female workforce in India comes with its own requirements — which include reassuring doting parents about the safety of their daughters. The company offers workers free food, lodging, and buses to ensure a safe commute at all hours of the day. On days off, women who live in Foxconn hostels have a 6 p.m. curfew; permission is required to spend the night elsewhere. “[If] they go out and not return by a specific time, their parents would be informed,” a former Foxconn HR manager told Rest of World. “[That’s how] they offer trust to their parents.”
Inside Foxconn’s Struggle to Make iPhones in India
restofworld.org
Whereas news in the modern social imaginary has the capacity to bring an unlimited number of otherwise unrelated individuals into a single space of deliberation, or to transform the many into one, __news in the jianghu imaginary is a medium of texts whose uses and effects are as heterogeneous and inconstant as the newsmakers’ world itself.__
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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