lgleason

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by lgleason 10y ago
Ah a troll account....but... Atlanta has it's own "Silicon Valley". Sorry, not true. I am VERY aware ATV and the companies surrounding it. Lots of marketing focused products where the teams often have more business/s
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by lgleason 10y ago
It sounds like this is a throwaway troll account.
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by lgleason 10y ago
Have witnessed this in Atlanta......
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by lgleason 10y ago
Not from what I've observed with Atlanta having been involved deeply in the Atlanta community for a number of years while also being involved in other communities. But everyone is welcome to have their own opinion.
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by lgleason 10y ago
There will always be an element of who you know in any community, but Atlanta goes a bit further than the norm to the point of ignoring/devaluing the pieces that are at the soul of successful tech startups.....namely the tech.
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by lgleason 10y ago
This is common with Atlanta (and I'm sure other cities). It is a big marketing town. Coke for example, which mastered the ability to sell overpriced sugar water, was started there. The old over-stating things....if you say it enou
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by lgleason 10y ago
yup, seen the same thing!
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by lgleason 10y ago
One or two companies out of a city of 5+ million does not make a startup ecosystem.
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by lgleason 10y ago
The difference was that WhatsApp was about execution with a small team. The Atlanta way would have been to hire 2 engineers and then a army of marketing people to sell it. It's a shame because there is a lot of potential, but the lea
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by lgleason 10y ago
You would take a pay cut and there are many in Atlanta who would still complain that you are making too much and be thinking about how they could move your job to a low cost country. I've had conversations with startups "leaders&
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by lgleason 10y ago
I'm in Atlanta. It's a great place to work for a non-tech corporation, but the startup scene is so so. Most of the "tech" startups fall in to one of two categories. First, ones that will not get traction and are doi
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by lgleason 10y ago
it's actually the tip of the ice burg. Given that there is no standard of care and that there is no barrier to entry to being a software developer there are a lot of things that are poorly done in this industry. Security is just one
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by lgleason 10y ago
exactly.
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by lgleason 10y ago
My mother died from a MRSA infection after getting back surgery. It's really nasty stuff and a very painful way for someone to die.
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by lgleason 10y ago
I mother died from this in her late 60s after a operation on her back. It was MRSA and we made sure that made it on the death certificate.
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by lgleason 10y ago
given that most houses do not have all of this the thieves will probably run and move on to the next unit.
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by lgleason 10y ago
The problem with IOT is that it's the tower of babble. Interoperability will be the killer feature that will drive growth.
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by lgleason 10y ago
Looking at the statistics, are a significant number of break in's happening via lock hacking or via the good old fashioned kicking in the front door in your neighborhood? We have had break in's in our neighborhood and lots of co
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by lgleason 10y ago
Strangler pattern FTW, well that and never have two systems share the same database. Always have one source of truth.
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by lgleason 10y ago
Given that this was a 17 hour flight I would bet that this was probably the jnb to atl flight (Johannesburg to Atlanta). I fly that route frequently and this does not surprise me.
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by lgleason 10y ago
Because they are being funded by tax payers.
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by lgleason 10y ago
There are lots of ways to do what the article described. For example you set up a foundation, spend only 5 % of the revenue/assets (the minimum under the law). Then you make a family member the director and allow them to live in a m
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by lgleason 10y ago
AT&T has a reputation of paying lower wages than other employers in Atlanta. So for them outsourcing is all about cheaper labor so that you have more money for those MBA's and directors.
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by lgleason 10y ago
Keep in mind that Hillary and her running mate are pro H1B. A lot of people don't like Trump for good reason, but it makes it difficult to vote for her given that she is likely to work against my interests as an engineer.
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by lgleason 10y ago
Sadly, the not for profit sector has become a mechanism to avoid paying taxes rather than groups dedicated towards actual charity. That's beyond some of the salaries that directors of these organizations are making.
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by lgleason 10y ago
Given what I saw I'm amazed that any of their software actually works. Perhaps Predix will buck that trend, but I still posit that this would be the exception not the rule for them. What I can say is that I worked for a number of ot
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by lgleason 10y ago
They tried setting some some similar innovative type of tech offices during the .com boom. The offices were closed down and GE went back to their corporate roots. My guess is that history will repeat itself.
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by lgleason 10y ago
They will do a corporate rollout of pair programming once they Six Sigma Black Belts are done doing their lean workouts ;).
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by lgleason 10y ago
You've hit the nail on the head.
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by lgleason 10y ago
They've been saying this for years. Also, I've seen some companies get on the list that were far from the best to work at by gaming the system.

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