slgeorge

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by slgeorge 10y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head at the end with "right tone at the right time" - the right time is almost certainly not when one has screwed up.
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Software vendors have often done some sort of limited operational management support in well-defined parameters. In a way I can see that SaaS is no different. For example, I was involved with a software product that we provided as a running
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by slgeorge 10y ago
> Even though open source is "cool" now, I can't help but feel it's mostly people working for companies > that just want to export their technical debt for free and use open source as a marketing tool. I think i
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Out of interest did you try using the Vim plugins for Clojure? I'm only playing, but found a good set-up with vim-fireplace; vim-clojure-highlight; vim-sexp; Vim-sexp-mappings-for-regular-people; vim-surround and luochen1990/rainb
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by slgeorge 10y ago
My main focus is on modal navigation, editing and dealing with text as objects - that's the real long-term benefit Vim gives me. For new users selecting one I think this comes down what you're looking for from the application and
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I don't particularly like the post, but I believe the point is to communicate the emotional tenor of the challenges and the fact that they all have nuances. While in real life what you're suggesting might be part of the solution,
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Yeah, and the bit you're missing is that Google basically forces them the hardware manufacturers to compete in a way that means only one can win for any cycle. It's a zero sum game - the last couple of years Samsung has done wel
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by slgeorge 10y ago
What examples are there of an "open ARM-based platform" with support for GPU's etc? I don't know of any situation where the ARM ecosystem works like that, the companies compete for differentiation, they have a very limit
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by slgeorge 10y ago
The macro question of how to (a) consistently support a high performance creative environment, and (b) objectively measure the performance of knowledge workers [0] must be the most significant challenge for leaders at all levels! On perform
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Using PR to generate top-level interest is just one approach to marketing, there are others that might be more suited to your situation. But, I do think you can develop good PR in North America even if you're based in Europe. In my exp
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by slgeorge 10y ago
The first thing is that "marketing" vs "PR" is a choice about where you think investment will be most successful. They're complementary rather than in conflict. PR is top of funnel, marketing is lower down. It depen
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by slgeorge 10y ago
It's extremely well researched and well written, with fantastic insight - well worth 23 USD - highly recommend.
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by slgeorge 10y ago
But the really good people, the people who constantly invent new things and have the skills to communicate their ideas and get them implemented, those people can work literally anywhere and if they can do what they want to do anywhere
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I agree that the variety of distributions can be a challenge for new users. One of the beauties of FOSS is that it's all open and consequently easy for moderately technical end-users to 'remix' and create new. One of the chal
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Oh total pish! I'm not going to start that war, but please at least reason from a factual basis. It's a silly war, Ubuntu reaches parts of the Linux (and other OS) that Debian doesn't target. If you think Debian is better you
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by slgeorge 10y ago
It's all a matter of personal taste and the purpose of reading a piece. Think of it as being like food, or some other sensual pleasure you enjoy. If you could condense all meals into a pill and just swallow it would you? Probably not,
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I completely agree with your point 3). If the primary goal is to get into "executive management" then that should be the basis of analysis - and there' s more than one way to do it. Talent/skill , luck and opportunit
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Your reasons a) and d) are really important as they protect the downside risk if b) doesn't come off. Most people do some form of structured education because they believe that the skills they acquire will be more valuable and that wil
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Selling the binary is difficult, which is why it's best to provide a "service" of a mix of things which also happens to include access to the binary. Then, you can refuse to provide future service if the end-user makes the co
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Because of the incentives - what's the incentive for someone to become a "management assistant"? According to your description it involves handling all the sh*t work that you don't want to do, but with absolutely no upsi
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by slgeorge 10y ago
This is a bit of a false equivalence. As he's French he broadly has no choice but to live within the laws of his state - he can campaign against them but for as long as he's there he's under them, and moving to another jurisd
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by slgeorge 10y ago
What was illegal about it? It was possibly immoral, if you think there's a moral requirement to hire the first person that fits the role. Though, employment is a relationship, and like any relationship there can be a host of reasons wh
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by slgeorge 10y ago
He's definitely assuming that this commercial version remains primary: "I will be forced to continually improve it and upgrade if I want to keep a for sale version without there being an equivalent FOSS version around (which in th
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Yes, I believe that's true. I was reminded of it a few months ago when someone was asking for advice on how to monetise some software that they felt would require ongoing effort. If I remember correctly it was widely disliked, but perh
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree. The skills might be abundant[0] but the effort and knowledge of the domain (business logic) are not available to many. It depends on the domain, games in IOS don't count for e
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by slgeorge 10y ago
>> Lawsuits destroy community. They destroy trust. They would destroy all the goodwill we've built up over the years by being nice. > Goodwill means nothing when the law is being broken. It means nothing when licenses are not
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by slgeorge 10y ago
>You simply don't, and are circling "instrumentation" and "measurements" in hope > they tell you anything useful. But all measurement in the world won't help you > know the value of something t
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by slgeorge 10y ago
>Will we reach a breaking point where someone (or some group) takes on the responsibility of making this stuff work? No. Or perhaps the answer is better as, lots of people already work very hard to try and make things work, but there&#x2
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Yeah, I feel this is often so true, perhaps I'm a little less pessimistic, but not much. The best way I'd visualise it for FOSS is that it's sort of an oscillating walk upwards (over time) to improvement - though any set of c
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Three people in the thread say they often read them. For an alternative, I'll say that I often skim them, but they're generally not very significant in my decision making process. The candidate is generally forced to take the job

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