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by amirmc 12y ago
We were promised paperless offices decades ago and we're still nowhere close. Right now we can barely get video-conferencing done properly. Hence, I doubt VR will help us anytime soon.
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by amirmc 12y ago
My impression from your comment is that there's still a chain of command, but different terminologies and durations. My prediction from this arrangement would be that - in time - you see the same people becoming 'decsion-makers&#
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by amirmc 12y ago
That may be in spite of their internal arrangement rather than because of it. It's not something we can ever know.
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Personally, I think that structurelessness is much more possible in 'our industry' because it's so culturally, racially, sexually, and class homogeneous ..." Do you think this is a good thing? It is not.
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Until then it's useful to keep flogging the essay until people accept that yeah, this problem actually exists." I fully agree, but I'm pleased to note that this is the first such 'management is dead' st
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by amirmc 12y ago
We need to make it trivial for anyone to run their own core infrastructure (mail, contacts and calendar). I'm working towards this using unikernels - http://nymote.org/blog/2013/introducing-nymote/
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by amirmc 12y ago
This is a risk that you should be aware of when using languages like this and thus use them appropriately. To continue with the building analogy, you don't want it to take an actual fire to learn that all your fire exits are dead-ends.
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by amirmc 12y ago
You need to factor in time. As an example Microsoft isn't treated the same way it was years ago and IBM isn't the same as before Microsoft. I'm not suggesting FB will become obsolete but people will use other services if th
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by amirmc 12y ago
Just because you can't see a reason, doesn't suddenly make it any less true. Just search for 'Facebook shadow profile' and find the stories for yourself.
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by amirmc 12y ago
People move from platforms all the time. Before FB there was MySpace, before Google there was AltaVista, before GApps you'd probably use MS Exchange etc etc. There are many examples. What's needed is software infrastructure to
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by amirmc 12y ago
FB is valuable for me too but that doesn't mean I trust it. As you say, it's a business that exists to turn a profit and I am cattle. I don't like this arrangement but I don't really have an alternative (as you say). H
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "It's like a mechanic running around screaming at people they are using the wrong oil in their cars or a lawyer running around acting crazy about people not suing everybody." These are awful analogies. A better one
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by amirmc 12y ago
Not speaking but doing a demo at the Xen booth on Saturday (likely 1pm-3pm but email me to be sure). The repo has details about the demo if you're interested (though it's probably also a spoiler) https://github.com&#x2F
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by amirmc 12y ago
Things like Sandstorm are really important as they allow people options without becoming a full-blown sysadmin. Just look at how many crowd funding ideas are based on 'personal cloud' concepts. However, we also need to work on the
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by amirmc 12y ago
I completely agree and I didn't mean to imply that communication difficulties only occur due to bad intentions. My point is more that lack of communication can directly lead to negative effects. Even when there are open/honest c
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by amirmc 12y ago
I think it's valuable to at least raise an issue even if you don't have the perfect set of advice to deal with it. Sharing such experiences can help others recognise their own problems. IMHO launching into ways to fix this issue
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by amirmc 12y ago
One of the critical things about management (in my view) comes down to communication. If communication is open, honest and frequent, then mistakes or roadbumps become easier to deal with. If communication is lacking, vague or insincere the
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "You absolutely can brute force with management. You can always pay people more, or give up some of your equity to someone who will work harder." That's not remotely 'brute forcing management'. That's jus
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by amirmc 12y ago
Those interested in immutable data-structures might like to look into Irmin [1], git-like distributed storage (due to be released soon). It's also part of a larger stack [2]. [1] http://openmirage.org/blog/introduc
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by amirmc 12y ago
On the bottom left of the first page: "7th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR’15) January 4-7, 2015, Asilomar, California, USA."
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... as long as a majority of people agree to them ..." That requires that people are informed and able to comprehend the ramifications of their choices. Consider this: Is it still democratic if those who happen to be in
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "That this control is inadequate in our view, doesn't matter for ... a democratic system." It absolutely matters. Without those controls you have a democracy in name only. You could quite happily rig elections, arr
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by amirmc 12y ago
You might like to take a look at Irmin [1], which seems like it would make it easier to get what you're after. It's also part of a larger stack that will make distributed programming a lot easier when it lands [2]. [1] http:&#x2
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by amirmc 12y ago
Dropbox, Drive, iCloud, etc are not in any way 'personal clouds'. They are very much somebody else's cloud . Proper personal clouds may be on the horizon when you don't have to become a sysadmin to run one. FWIW, I&#x27
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by amirmc 12y ago
Thanks for the info. Linux certainly captured mindshare and is synonymous with the cloud these days, but I agree these things are not clear cut.
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by amirmc 12y ago
I find it interesting that this post can be taken two ways. 1. It's clear that Linux 'won' in the marketplace so we can all laugh at how wrong this guy was and the curiosity of these 'microkernel' things and that po
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by amirmc 12y ago
I completely agree with you and I normally describe it in terms of creating the right culture (aka systemic behaviours). I've yet to read the article in full but will make time for it.
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by amirmc 12y ago
I agree with your comment except the last sentence. Engineers also value heroics, so it's unfair to lay the blame at the feet of 'business people'. Plenty of tech startups exhibit this pattern long before there are 'ma
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by amirmc 12y ago
I understand your points but I think you're being far too charitable. You assume that most people's views are self-consistent but I don't think that's necessarily the case. People parrot opinions all the time (cf during
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by amirmc 12y ago
See http://beta.datadealer.com

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