slgeorge

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by slgeorge 8y ago
This works if you have a person(s) for a period of time. But, the longer they work for you 100% of the time, and the more team members you have in a jurisdiction the more likely the team members are to be considered employees and that you h
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by slgeorge 8y ago
1. Individual service companies / Sole proprietorship One thing to be aware of is that in many European companies a person who works for you full-time is considered to be an 'employee' even if they come in through an individu
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by slgeorge 8y ago
This is a totally a product announcement, and to declare interest I work for Weaveworks. As it's Kubecon EU starting tomorrow there should be a lot of interesting news about K8s. Already wandering around there are more vendors and a bi
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Weaveworks announces subscription for upstream Kubernetes(weave.works)
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by slgeorge 8y ago
> Status, envy, screen size - this is all bullshit. You have never been a good dev. And in one line you've summarised WHY general office workers often think tech people are blinkered and entitled with poor social skills. The persona
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by slgeorge 8y ago
There are lots of roles where 'collaboration' improves the outcome. I would cite HR and sales as examples of this. Overall, engineers think they are Chefs but we all know that this view isn't shared by senior management in ma
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by slgeorge 8y ago
One suggestion: change the way you think of a schedule . Book in those 4 hour blocks, calendar gym, calendar leaving the office etc. People tend to start trying to work around the outside of those blocks.
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by slgeorge 8y ago
> "HR doesn’t know shit about tech, and dev managers don’t know shit about HR" This is the cause of a significant amount of waste, friction and general anger for both sides in my experience. Technologists are well-known for the
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by slgeorge 9y ago
"projects" benefit. It's not that easy to declare that companies do honestly. We can infer that most VC's and founders don't think it does because everyone uses open source, but few (any?) of the major growth star
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by slgeorge 9y ago
At the widest level 'has open sourcing ever killed a company'. Off-hand I can't think of any companies that have taken a successful proprietary product (code-base) and then open sourced it. If your main code-base and busine
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by slgeorge 9y ago
> Simply because all the regulations correlate with improved cars does not prove that they all caused the improvements. True, but the balance of evidence must be to demonstrate that making that change WILL cause an improvement. Otherwise
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by slgeorge 9y ago
The item it would solve is that if you "pay" then you can more directly influence their road-map. As a customer they want you to be happy and to remain one, that gives you the ability to influence direction. Individually, it may n
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by slgeorge 9y ago
It's tough to make that argument. Features are only a small part of how users consider change - and 'parity' definitely doesn't cut it. Office is a good example ... StarOffice originally and then RedHat, Suse, Mandriva (
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by slgeorge 9y ago
It's a trade-off. The benefit is "reach" which is beneficial for (a) marketing (b) OSS community (c) bugs and contributors. The cost are the (a) lower conversion to payment (b) costs from a 'shared' community e.g. c
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by slgeorge 9y ago
There's no particular evidence that "for profit" organisations do better at handling "common goods". And the very definition of your 'for-profit' organisation is that this is what is providing 'pressu
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by slgeorge 9y ago
I find both your comments confusing. In your first comment you said that screensavers were just normal windows and would crash back to an unlocked screen - that never happened. Here you're conflating KDE (started ~1997) needing logind
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by slgeorge 9y ago
Weave Cloud is the commercial service. It's a management platform for developers creating and operating Kubernetes-based applications. It helps you do CI/CD, observability, monitoring and networking/security[0]. It's acr
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by slgeorge 9y ago
You just literally defined subjective by using a "story" rather than an objective measure.
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by slgeorge 9y ago
That's true, but the reality is that lots of small start-ups are "doing it wrong" and will be caught eventually [0]. Most jurisdictions have firm differences between a temporary worker (contractor) and an employee. Generally,
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by slgeorge 9y ago
Your first point is not true compared to Ubuntu at least [0]. AWS is basically are repackaged version of KVM (the last time I checked), so there's no particular advantage. Ubuntu (and I'm sure Centos/RHEL) provide custom imag
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by slgeorge 9y ago
Yes they do. Ubuntu considers AWS/GCP to be certified platforms so the server is fully tested on AWS as a hardware platform and there are specific kernel/toolchain/user-space optimisations done to make it run well [0]. The ad
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by slgeorge 9y ago
It's a question of abstraction, at the start of the article she notes that she's run teams of up to 400 people. At that size there are layer-on-layer of people whose job it is manage divisions/groups/teams of people. The
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by slgeorge 9y ago
Someone in Google really has jumped the shark at this point. How we (geeks) knashed our teeth in the 90's when sites were IE only - it's been over a decade since I've seen this - and now GOOGLE is pushing their browser to the
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by slgeorge 9y ago
You're accounting for direct cost, but this doesn't account for the total value of each one. You did mention it, but for most office workers getting a reasonable amount of exercise is difficult and a big limiting factor in their o
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by slgeorge 9y ago
License choice is about the goals of the author. It can be complex, but as a simplification: * Goal: Maximise software using my component: one of the BSD's. Rationale: anyone can build on it or fork it. * Goal: Maximise contribution to
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by slgeorge 10y ago
You're passionate and certain in your beliefs - probably from a strong philosophical basis; My opinions are formed by my practical "experiences" and hard work for 10 years in this space. There's never been a good quality
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Yeah, agreed it was against user expectation - it's a great demonstration of what happens when organisations don't prepare their audience well or read the emotional response. It's a personal frustration and professional regre
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Perhaps, I wasn't clear enough with my point. You stated that Canonical sold data - "unity sells your searches". I was factually correcting you because it doesn't and didn't. Whereas you said in the previous comment
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by slgeorge 10y ago
No Ubuntu doesn't , and nor has it every done. It connects on-line and off-line searches, so it shows you the result in on-line locations. The underlying assumption was that users increasingly see on-line and off-line content as all
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I can't see why any free software user would consider it unreasonable to charge for delivery of a service as long as the source code for the service is freely available. There's nothing in the FSF / OSI that says anyone is

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