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by venture_lol 9y ago
Reminds of the time a friend wanted my opinion on a quote he received that it would take a week to open a socket in Unix using C code
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Overflow of good food, drinks, friends galore...and alone duo time lol
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Darn...opening 2 sockets, read from one and write to the other, that qualifies as "show me mama...no hands" :) ?
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by venture_lol 9y ago
HN, slashdot, reddit, etc. etc :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Successful "gaming" and "advancing your career" means you have figured out how to work the organization to achieve objectives...that means you know when you are a go-getter, a driver, a supporter, a smoother, a leader :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Do you know why companies spend billions on marketing? And why there are a gazillions companies helping people market their brand, product, and services? Yeah, marketing matters. Take a look at any successful business and see how much they
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by venture_lol 9y ago
How do you expect to have folks listen to you if you have no money and no influence? :) Just the law of nature ... :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Yes, obsolescence (all aspects) has always been the bane of any leader and entrenched entity. There are many factors that are in favor of AMZN and GOOG and the likes. Factors that are for you can also work against you. Generational shift of
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by venture_lol 9y ago
What do you mean by best? In a car race, why would you want to build the best car? I just want my car to cross the finishing line first. Besides, there is no race. This is continuous evolution. The race has barely started, let alone ended
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by venture_lol 9y ago
And how do you know that? The field is huge and mind boggling. I would think, considering the breadth of AMZN, they stand a better chance of being able to apply AI to for a wider impact
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by venture_lol 9y ago
It's just a bomb, rather a bit larger than other bombs. What's the fuss? :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
The sound you hear is millions of devops engineers counting their money, courtesy the proceeds from migration to aws, then migration to higher and higher clouds, then, one day, once the pendulum has reached its extreme swing on one end, mig
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Wow, and folks used to calculate the trajectories that put men on the moon with just pencil and paper :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Try not to look at your customers with as walking dollar signs :) Think of what you can do to support what your customers need to do rather than think of how you can get your customers to fill your pocket :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Static and dynamic linking are just 2 sides of the same coin. Any language, as it grows and takes on larger tasks, its dependencies will also grow. Build time dependency management, distribution, and run time dependency management are diffe
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by venture_lol 9y ago
It's not just money. You need the backing of movers and shakers who know doors to knock, open, and barge through.
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Support means you can get someone (or a minor army if necessary) on the phone or on the premise immediately Platinum support means you can get C-level executives on the line. Reputation and counter party risk all factor into evaluation and
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by venture_lol 9y ago
It would give you the opportunity to step up and be a trusted source of information and clarity
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by venture_lol 9y ago
New pitch: Mercedes AMG. We don't just want Mercedes, we want the AMG level :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
That's because noone really, truly, honestly want to RTFM of a given stack, library, etc. It's more fun to roll your own or to pick up a new one. I mean, in how may ways can you organize code that manipulate a DOM tree, pull data,
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Just stick to honest to earth filet mignon
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by venture_lol 10y ago
Jupp. When you speak, keep your audience in mind. It is for your audience's benefit that you speak, not necessarily for yourselves.
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by venture_lol 10y ago
The ultimate product owner: Mike Row :) Talk like this guy the way he talks about a pencil and everyone will want you http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/5minute_arguments/mike...
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by venture_lol 10y ago
Excellent advice. You are there to offer your services -- not to ask for a job! Go in with a humble I-will-kill-it attitude
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by venture_lol 10y ago
New term: Product Owner :)
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Ask HN: Use Our Power VM
1 points by venture_lol 10y ago|1 comments
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by venture_lol 10y ago
Yes, we are thinking about specifying the licensing term such that clients cannot use it to create new project. We are looking for the proper phrasing, wording, template and general experience of folks who have been on either side of the ta
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Ask HN: How do you protect the IP of proprietary platform, toolset, and SDK?
2 points by venture_lol 10y ago|2 comments
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Contracting and Proprietary SDK and Platform
1 points by venture_lol 10y ago|0 comments