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Submission + - How about paid, open-source style development...

enbody writes: A year-old startup, Assembly, is built on the premise of creating products using open-source style development, but structured in a way that you get paid for your contributions. Open-source development is well-known in the Slashdot community, as are a variety of ways to earn a living around open-source, such as support. What is new here is being paid as part of the development, and not just for coding — your contribution might be as project manager or sales. A nice description with video showed up today on the Verge. Of course, the devil is in the details, but they have products so someone in Slashdot land may be interested. (Bias warning: I know one of these guys.)
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Submission + - Daylight Savings Time increases energy use

enbody writes: The Freakonomics Blog at NYTimes.com reports on a study of Indiana energy use for daylight savings time showing an increase of 1%. "The dataset consists of more than 7 million observations on monthly billing data for the vast majority of households in southern Indiana for three years.Our main finding is that — contrary to the policy's intent — D.S.T. increases residential electricity demand."

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