bruce511

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by bruce511 16y ago
>> What I don't get is why more companies aren't structuring themselves to take advantage of remote workers. Lots of companies _are_ structuring to take advantage or remote workers. It's called outsourcing. After all, why pay high r
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by bruce511 16y ago
yes. And more to the point what happened to the people who used to _work_ in them? 'Cause those jobs are now being done outside the US by people prepared to work for far less. If decentralizing is an option then the US border certainly isn'
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by bruce511 16y ago
Unfortunately it's no as simple as just plugging a solar plant into the grid and standing back. The biggest difference between a solar plant, and a coal plant, is the ability to balance supply and demand through the day (or more specificall
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by bruce511 16y ago
"...only actual asset they got was the domain name mysql.com" Not true. Apart from the domain, they also got the MySql brand name. More importantly though than that they got the ability to sell MySql licenses. But wait you say, MySql is fre
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by bruce511 16y ago
"In some countries, when trademarks are transferred, there must be a continuity in the underlying product or the trademark is lost." If you say so, but it's certainly not the case in the US, or most other countries. Ford for example regular
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by bruce511 16y ago
The "protection" you speak of is that consumers can associate a producer with a product. In this case the producer of the original product was Sun which is now part of Oracle. Thus someone who gets an update for "Open Office" is getting it
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by bruce511 16y ago
Trademarks are a legal thing - they are in effect "owned by someone". While the _code_ is open-source, that doesn't mean other people can come along and just use your trademark. Nor does it mean that a project originator should just have to
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by bruce511 16y ago
"This bubble is always different"... Right up to the moment when the people involved lose everything and start eying their office windows and wondering if they open... Bubbles exist because human nature is the same yesterday, today and tomo
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by bruce511 16y ago
I worked for 18 months as a fire & rescue person at an airport. While it was a real airport (terminal building, check in desks etc) it was a small regional airport, and thus we typically had only 1 or 2 scheduled movements per day. We h
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by bruce511 16y ago
Fair enough, as long as you recognize it's a zero-sum game. Indeed regardless of what he does it's probably at least two thirds of the people will be unhappy with the outcome. You're obviously welcome to (and should) push for your own cause
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by bruce511 16y ago
The IOU should be from the company to the person who puts in the money. The interest rate agreed upon should be balance to the risk.
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by bruce511 16y ago
I'm in a company with a similar system. I graduated from employee to "equal owner" - we've since had 3 more people do that - but also 3 owners (including the 2 original founders) have moved on. We've made some mistakes along the way, and re
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by bruce511 16y ago
No, not the same thing. The investor who puts in $1000 for x% is an investor, not a founder. They have already completed _all_ their obligations. The founders are "earning equity in return for work". Their obligation is to work for a period
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by bruce511 16y ago
Which is what interest rates are for. In other words, if someone takes an IOU instead of cash then they are assuming risk. This risk has value, and in the real world this is what your interest rate reflects. The Lender adjusts the rate rela
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by bruce511 16y ago
Understand the following restrictions from the manager's point of view; a) everyone thinks they're smarter / better / faster etc than the folk around them. b) everyone thinks they deserve "above average" pay. c) there is always someone else
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by bruce511 16y ago
I suppose it depends on your definition of "social media". The other day i heard someone say "if you're not on facebook, no-one will find your product." I suppose that depends on your market. If you're buying wide-body jets for national air
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by bruce511 16y ago
not surprisingly it's... openssl s_client -connect google.com:443
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by bruce511 16y ago
Hang on a minute. Is it only me or are the conclusions a little disingenuous? a) Is it fairly normal for projects of this size to be over-budget? If so is their overrun more or less than the norm of projects of equivalent size? b) Is it fai
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by bruce511 16y ago
Where you see crazy, those cunning Danes see "forward planning". For some of those (now married) Danes living overseas, coming home (without bringing the wife) might seem like an incentive...
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by bruce511 16y ago
You're exactly agreeing with me here. These are bad practices, and we should rail against the practices themselves. The root of the problem is however, in a different place. Unfortunately the author writes the article from a point-of-view t
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by bruce511 16y ago
The author seems to really dislike Microsoft. He's obviously not alone, but it's a pity when the article is clouded with so much obvious bias. For example, he complains about MS defending their patents, and sees this as a direct attach on O
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by bruce511 16y ago
Since then Microsoft has abandoned it's server platform, and clearly Linux has won. Oh, no, wait....