slgeorge

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by slgeorge 5y ago
Absolutely. Remote working is absolutely devastating to the development of junior team members and people just getting started in the world of work. If you're just getting started in your area (whether development, sales, marketing, de
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by slgeorge 5y ago
OK, let's say I accept your framing ... What is your proposal or suggestion? Or are you in a nihilist mood.
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by slgeorge 6y ago
I'm a subscriber so I have self-interest in you being successful and I've paid money to help support that. If there's one thing I would encourage/plead you to do, it's to hire one person who will do "advocacy m
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by slgeorge 6y ago
ClojureScript which targets JavaScript as the host language ( https://clojurescript.org/ ) is a good option on the Clojure side. ClojureScript is great if you're drawn towards the "production use" side as pixel
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by slgeorge 6y ago
Weaveworks | multiple roles | world wide | REMOTE | https://www.weave.works/ Weaveworks is making it easy for teams to operate Kubernetes applications. We provide configuration management and operations tools so that Dev te
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by slgeorge 6y ago
And more importantly, the actual company Notion could lose their trademark if they don't try to prevent this. Something few developers understand. Spam was a trademark, it came into common use - it was no longer a trademark.
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by slgeorge 6y ago
> There's not much information, from what I've found, about best practises for creating a production ready application I have an interest in functional (Lisp) and decided that for me Clojure was a good choice. It was designed t
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by slgeorge 6y ago
The easiest customer to 'do more with' is the existing customer you have. You have two projects (presumably two companies), reach out to them and ask them where else they need more help, "what other projects could we help wit
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by slgeorge 6y ago
> As the company behind a "time limit" licensed codebase, this means I won't get much from the community in terms of code contributions. Which 'in my experience' is the situation for the __majority__ of c
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by slgeorge 6y ago
This is a good example of where Graalvm's native image is interesting. This is a CLI tool that lets Clojure developers create scripts that are as fast as bash scripts. Clojure may well not be your bag, but stay with me - we're tal
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by slgeorge 6y ago
I'm sorry but first the majority of software companies focus their sales compensation on the contract value (TCV) rather than the profitability. It's not generally the sales teams job to evaluate profitability, that the product&#x
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by slgeorge 6y ago
I will say that _as a coo_ I really like this first sentence: You think you need a COO. What you really need is an operating philosophy. I don't like the world "philosophy" but perhaps I'm just playing to type s
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by slgeorge 6y ago
Why would you do this? If you did an Arts degree (like I did in the UK) you probably recognise this technique. I will admit it was some time back - my degree was all about reading from multiple sources. The goal was to have multiple perspec
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by slgeorge 6y ago
Mostly because all of these systems came AFTER Debian. I mean Debian packaging is a terrible pain - but I have to have empathy with the fact that it's a technical system and more importantly an online community that's been doing i
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by slgeorge 6y ago
Disclaimer: work for a vendor in this area Anthos is a managed Kubernetes platform: you outsource management of the control plane to Google. If you look at the case studies and the diagrams it's for complex use cases. Altenatives, migh
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by slgeorge 6y ago
The direct competitors to Anthos are whatever the other cloud vendors do here. Anthos and OpenShift are trying to create a 'PaaS-lite', or maybe Orchestration++ is a way to think about it. Alot of the K8s vendors are trying to bui
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by slgeorge 6y ago
Ubuntu tests upgrades between LTS releases extensively and so do Ubuntu community developers and advanced users. As you said, server users always upgrade. Enterprise desktop users upgrade. A lot of general users don't - they reinstall.
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by slgeorge 7y ago
Yeah it's really interesting because it's a fully worked example of packaging a desktop application using a hosted approach. Personally, I'm more comfortable with that stack. Also worth looking at is Vlaaad's Cljfx ( htt
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by slgeorge 7y ago
It works. 1. It's actually cross-platform: - Still can't use Webex across Linux, Windows and Mac in 2020. - Same goes for Skype, plus half the users who have Skype don't realise it's Linc and the two are completely diffe
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by slgeorge 7y ago
When I was involved we did LTS, and then half the distro team was focused on the LTS .1 release which happens 3 months later. The reality of software is that no amount of internal testing is the same as the amount of bug reports you get aft
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by slgeorge 7y ago
It's not "open source" that's in question here, it is "work done for free without commercially paid developers". A bunch of work happens for things like wifi and cpu because of Android and ChromeOS. But, the nu
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by slgeorge 7y ago
Yes, you MUST buy certified hardware [0], preferably with it pre-loaded with Linux [1]. Ultimately, Linux didn't make enough of a dent in the desktop hardware space in the 90's/00's. The level of interest from hardware v
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by slgeorge 7y ago
Anything that isn't within a couple of levels of your own role is basically 'less visible'. That's sort of the point, it's about abstracting - divison of labour etc. So you can't really see the work that someon
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by slgeorge 7y ago
Argh you're probably right and entirely not my goal - since I was trying to think of a few different endeavours where someone might enjoy the activity rather than solely focusing on the result. And, trigger the comparison to writing&#x
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by slgeorge 7y ago
It's a common sentiment on Hackers News. It presupposes that the purpose of writing and reading is to extract the maximum amount of information in the shortest amount of time. Presumably, if we all lived in this manner we would also: *
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by slgeorge 8y ago
maybe it would be beneficial to replace it or strip it down to ensure your customer never has to worry about storage performance, for example. The way the user runs it means that they don't store any metrics locally. The Pro
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by slgeorge 8y ago
This seems especially important if you want to offer Prometheus as SaaS. Your customers won't want to run their own Prometheus installs (that's what they pay you for, after all), and asking customers to open their firew
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by slgeorge 8y ago
No worries. I dealt with this (with a bunch of fantastic professional legal/hr/finance people) to handle about 40 jurisdictions. I appreciate how NOT fun it is :-) Oh and I find it so odd that none of the famous "remote first
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by slgeorge 8y ago
Well it depends on whether doing things the legally correct way is important or not to you? For a small team it's unlikely as the cost of enforcement outweighs the benefit. But as you grow the amounts become more significant and there
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by slgeorge 8y ago
There are two problems, employment taxes/benefits and employment rights. Lets say you have a German company and you have people working across Europe. For the sake of argument lets say that you have 15 people in France. Let say that al

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