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by omouse 10y ago
Basically you're pointing that quality of tech hasn't increased and we aren't cutting enough scope so that quality is very high which is why only large companies can afford the better software. I totally believe that the SMB
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by omouse 10y ago
There are two ways to run a business after it reaches some profitability: always optimizing or just kicking back and relaxing. Some people are happy with just their Facebook page and others would optimize and increase sales further by funne
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by omouse 10y ago
few bigs target small business because, let's be honest, they're a pain to work with at scale It's not that difficult, it's just incentivized in our not-so-free market. Big companies can afford lawyers and lobbyists an
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by omouse 10y ago
There's also a difference between existing small businesses and ones that were recently set up. If you have minimal or no tech infrastructure, you can spend on the new stuff because that's the best of the market at the moment. If
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by omouse 10y ago
Because they aren't getting subsidies or discounts to do so? Honestly, that's the hardest thing about a small business, you're too small for subsidies and for all the nice deals with the state that you get as a big business.
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by omouse 10y ago
Of course that's why it's a negotiation .
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by omouse 10y ago
Good.
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by omouse 10y ago
highly recommend checking this site out: https://osmihelp.org/ and there's a forum devpressed.com I think is the address, the corporate firewall won't let me go to it for some reason though.
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by omouse 10y ago
Nobody can be bothered to quote the most important part of the article? > "At Apple in 2007, organizationally it was the wild west," Burrough said. "I was hired under a particular manager, but for the first two years worke
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by omouse 10y ago
That's the problem, our accounting; we treat people and training as a cost when it's the intangibles that are making the most cash. That crazy cool idea that was prototyped by a software engineer in two weeks could be a cost savin
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by omouse 10y ago
It's about power, the sooner you understand that, the sooner you can negotiate better terms. And yes, they are just coders. Coders are bad at negotiating, they're bad at politics, they're missing out on earning ALL of their l
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by omouse 10y ago
It's funny to be in this situation where interest rates are low, and returns on investment are usually low (at least for consumer accessible investment vehicles), but then businesses and the owners/executives are making bank.
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by omouse 10y ago
as the other reply said, supply has increased non-linearly while the number of companies has increased linearly. Even with all the companies out there, you're getting lots of mergers and acquisitions and consolidation. In terms of cons
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by omouse 10y ago
propping up the existing banking system isn't the point of blockchain; sure it could save money but it could generate more revenue than 12billion a year if used for a new banking system. the monopoly on credit has to end.
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by omouse 10y ago
Congrats on catching up to Emacs which has had a tutorial built in for decades. pops open the champagne
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by omouse 10y ago
not really looking forward to the release of webpack2, all it means is wrestling with existing webpack 1 configs (which are already fragile and difficult to deal with) to port them over. I wonder if the performance has improved.
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by omouse 10y ago
If the value in column X is less than the value in column Y, we don't fix the problem. Something like that, from Fight Club.
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by omouse 10y ago
This was tried in the mid to late 2000s and many of the mesh networks, at least the ones run by cities, were shut down or are much smaller now. The problem with doing things through the legal system or through government is that mesh routin
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What new development managers should know(philipotoole.com)
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by omouse 10y ago
Fedora is also a great option; I switched to it a few months ago from Ubuntu and it's been great.
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by omouse 10y ago
>The best I've worked with considered PM tools essentially fungible After taking a class and reading up on project management and trying to get more organized about my own projects, it's basically that. People have been able to
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by omouse 10y ago
JIRA is so customizable that it brings out the personality of a micro-manager, even in people who are usually not micro-managers. It's interesting to see how a tool used every day can shape thinking and behaviour patterns.
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by omouse 10y ago
one of the largest players in the project management game acquires another tool and it's a-okay because there's loads of competition; but realistically, trello was one of the competitors to JIRA that actually could hold its own wh
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by omouse 10y ago
You can make profit for a number of years before things go badly; profits are a lagging indicator.
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by omouse 10y ago
This is the kind of doc that should be written about work projects as well. I always love seeing great docs that make the job of understanding a codebase way simpler.
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by omouse 10y ago
Thanks for the corrections!
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by omouse 10y ago
You should be scared, in Canada the government pushed the retirement age from 65 to 67 so that's 2 years more of working and 2 more years before you have access to your own cash.
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by omouse 10y ago
When you compare Medium to Wordpress (which you mentioned in another comment and which is extremely popular) you can see the value that Medium provides; the reading and curation experience is better and the addition of "# of readers&qu
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by omouse 10y ago
That's not how pair programming works. At some point you're going to need more than one person to understand the code and they either go through that learning process months down the road or right now when they can be most useful
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by omouse 10y ago
That's interesting to hear because I was reading the Software Project Survival Guide and it said that, at the time, Microsoft knew the value of quality because their tester to developer ratio was 1 to 1. Higher quality code had a ratio

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