When there are a lot of stakeholders or process to be moved through, a project manager to keep track of all of that is really key. This is a skillset most people don't really have and a good project manager is a life saver.

At the same time, lots of development shouldn't be treated as "project" work. Tight collaboration between design, development and product leaders are the core. You want project managers to get out of the way there. That's more creative work and no gannt chart is going to help.

Failure to recognize whether what you are working on needs PM is a pretty common failure pattern. A PM doing a lot of work where they shouldn't results in negative contribution, and missing them where they are needed tends to result in failure to deliver.

In the enterprise software business all sales people are commissioned. Except for the ones we had at my last employer. We recognized that sales is hard, competitive and requires special work. At the same time, the key element that wins a deal might be a developer working all night to sneak a feature into a demo or build a new demo environment.

So why do you pay the sales guy a huge commission check for doing his part and the developer her normal salary if the developer was the one with the heroic effort?

You're best off paying everyone a fair salary and chipping in some bonuses and team celebrations to capture heroics.

The rote IT jobs that are best suited for labor arbitrage outsourcing are also the ones that should just be automated out of existence anyway or handled auto-magically by your cloud provider. The remaining jobs are the ones where close collaboration with the business makes them far more effective and those are going to be ones that you're going to regret offshoring.

The number of jobs that don't fall into either of those buckets is getting smaller by the day. It's hard to see how this kind of outsourcing has a long term future.

They point out that anyone bwi wants an image they find in the Getty catalog will find it via image search and steal it. The goal is to offer the embed as a slightly easier way to get the image for free and so have some home of monetizing use from people who will not pay.

That's reasonable.

Advertising isn't evil.

People telling me about cool shit I might want to buy? That's a service. And if they've figured out enough about my behavior to advertise things I'd actually be interested in rather than random shit, that's even better. Please, please, please profile me. It was creepy the first time (ok first hundred times), but I'm over that.

If you lie in an advertisement, that's evil. If you horrendously and needlessly distract from content, that's pretty lame. But if you have a cool pitch to make in the corner of a website I frequent, that's a win-win-win. I get free content. I'm not too distracted. You get my business if you've profiled me well enough and I'm in a buying mood. The website gets paid. Who loses here?

Adblock sites that allow annoying BS that gets in your way. Or better yet, stop visiting them. Let ads in where they behave civilly.

I believe Cord stem cells are rather "pure" stem cells that are very undifferentiated. Making them ideal for a handful of medical procedures and unspecified future medical procedures that may be created. Generally, this nifty resource is lost right after birth (it's thrown away). So some companies have been created to store them, and provide them to you (or others if donated) in the case one of those rare procedures is required.

If I recall correctly, you're looking at $500-$1000 to get things going, and a 50-100 annual fee to maintain. This falls under the broader cateogory of stuff sold under the banner of, "You love your baby right? You'd do anything to protect it? Right? You're not a callous evil person."

They're never pretty and are frequently ugly, but really don't have to be all that bad.

I'm divorced (and now happily re-married!) and while painful, the divorce wasn't ugly. We hired a lawyer together to help us through the paperwork. If you're cheap, there are also forms at Staples. The lawyer was well worth it. I kept most of the furniture and cut my ex a check in return. I had stuff, she had some cash, we were both ok and clear of any alimony claims. I probably could have fought and paid a little less to my ex and a whole lot more to lawyers.

Remember that at the very least you once loved that other person. Treat eachother with some respect, and part civilly. It's strange when you're called, "a model divorcing couple" but a million times better than going to war.

Sounds like there is a market for a mobile testing lab (and the equipment that could fit in a large truck with a generator).

Downstream is a key component. We get rain / melt-off that is used by farmers and cities in other states as well. Water in the west is a precious thing and "ownership" of it is order dependent. Someone owns the first drop of water flowing in the river, and someone else own X gallons / time period only if there's enough left over them after the senior stakeholders are accounted for. Those rights don't care if you are upstream or downstream, but on seniority.

With the possibility of water intensive shale oil extraction, oil companies have been buying senior water rights in Colorado for some time and then leasing them back to farmers / etc. If shale oil happens seriously, and needs the water that's predicted, things could get ugly in a hurry.

I think the "distributed across the map" part is key. In beginner / intermediate play, a really key ability is to actually remember to keep building stuff while scouting or fighting. Can you throw down that building on time while also looking at your opponent's base and gleaning useful information there in an early scout? In an early skirmish, can you micro well enough to gain a minor advantage while also still building workers for the long term economy that actually matters? In the midgame, it's worse, you have building workers, troops, scouting, managing supply, map positioning, upgrades, watching the mini-map for counters/drops, etc, etc, etc all going on at the same time in different places of the map and screen.

90% of the players in the world can't really do these things consistently well because the require you to take care of a lot of background work while actively focused on the exciting stuff. That's genuinely hard and you get better at it incrementally at best.

How did that work out for him in Russia?

BS. My wife scheduled her LA to Sydney flight in sync with Quantas' use of the 380 over 747.

Writing "All X do Y" when talking about people is almost always wrong.

The line really is starting to crumble with DevOps entering the field. While it's still usually two different people with different skill sets. They're increasingly being put on the same delivery team.

As a software company that makes products for IT departments, someone who can write code and "gets" IT is an extremely interesting candidate in a range of positions (from development to solutions engineer).

Your risk is that we (or anyone else) stops believing that you can actually write code. So you'll want to stay sharp there with a pet project, contributions to open source or something along those lines.