First âoeIdiocracyâ, now âoeOfficespaceâ [1]

Iâ(TM)m waiting for âoeRichard gets accosted by nymphamanicsâ

1. I read that he used ChatGPT to ask how to create a listening device. Time for him to spend some time in a Federal âoefuck me in the assâ prison. For stupidity if nothing else.

Stop giving the current administration the benefit of the doubt.

Donâ(TM)t forget convicted federal criminals and sexual offenders.

Iâ(TM)m not sure âoeplainâ adequately describes the level of stupidity. What about âoerampantâ?

As a lifelong active reader I started to struggle in my late 50s,finally being diagnosed with ADHD 4 years ago.

I discovered the concept called Bionic Reading [TM], but its implication was proprietary, so I wrote my own.

https://github.com/badonhill-i...

Maybe it will be useful to someone.

I planned ahead, buying one of the last 10 Britannica's every printed.

I'm ready for the EMP, zombie apocalypse or JD.

Kepler (other cat) still working fine.

I dont want to be near people whose neighbors have these.

As a US citizen living in the UK, how is this new approach going to work?

Teach Software Engineering, not Computer Science.

Most graduates will end up working as âoesoftware engineersâ not scientists.

Managing teams, projects, risks is more useful than the math behind sorting algorithmsâ¦

Big VCs need to deploy large amounts of cash to their target investments.

There are only so many industries that can scale to be worth billions. So only firms that can scale exponentially will get funded by these massive funds.

Little startups that just need $5million and then get acquired for $50million arenâ(TM)t worth the effort to get a return on a $1billion fund.

So weâ(TM)ll see otherwise good startups falling into the funding gap between angel/seed and series A.

Which will push back on angels as thereâ(TM)s no point starting something if itâ(TM)s not going to be able to cross the gap..

HotLink Supervisor allowed third party hypervisor to be managed by vCenter - vCenter could not distinguish between vSphere and the HotLink agent running on KVM, XenServer or Hyper-V. McAfee was a big customer.

The company has since closed, but Iâ(TM)m trying to get the code so I can maybe release it as open source if thereâ(TM)s enough interest.

( i am the inventor and co-founder of HotLink).

The HotLink.com domain was sold, but use archive.org to find details from before 2019.

Richard.

Any kid with the perseverance to spend 3years solving a hard engineering problem is someone to be invested in.

Whether itâ(TM)s a university scholarship or just a grant to invest in him.

âoeSpecialization is for insectsâ

Go get them Aaron.

Good advice.

It's very unlikely a person will have the skills to both do low level engineering and create a sales and marketing strategy.

So find someone who compliments your skills and can do the things you can't.

I've co-founded two startups with my business partner - she is great at the outbound side and I work the technology side. Finding that key business partner is just as hard as a romantic partner - you need to "date" just as much before settling down....

1) Make a series of movies titled "PowerPoint", "Flash", "SilverLight"

2) file DMCA take down notices.

3) all the crappy presentations and horrendous web sites disappear.

I could also do evil ( or more good depending on your point of view). My final movie will be called Stallman....

And it's for that reason that I always discuss package during the initial phone call.

But you'd be surprised at the number of prospective employees that say "it depends". They may be prepared to waste their time, but I'm supposed to waste a couple of man days on their whim?

I even try to explain that it's just a mutual efficiency thing...

But it's like they think I'm just trick them... How does that benefit me? They start, they are unproductive while they learn stuff, then they get a better offer? I want to find people that want to work for me, not just those looking for a job...

I don't know about other hiring managers but I have a budget, I can't afford to build my team with only the most experienced, I need a balanced team with a mix of skills and seniority levels... Money is not free, salaries make up ~90% of my costs so there isn't a lot of room for making savings elsewhere...

i think it works like this... Engineer wants to work for us ( interesting product ) and the package we offer is smaller than they could get at a large company, but the work is more interesting and there is significant upside.... Partner of engineer prefers package size over interesting work because they don't have to do the work... We've even started having the CEO talk to the partner in some cases.

Vanye.

We use standalone Zephyr in conjunction with JIRA, Confluence (both hosted OnDemand) and Stash.

What I can't work out is the justification for their pricing.

I pay Atlasssian about $10 per user per month.

Zephyr wants $80 per user per month, others mentioned are $25 per user per month.

Is test management really worth 5-10times as much as I pay for bug and content management ? Or 1000 times as much as I pay for source code and code review ? (Stash is $10 for a year for 10 users)

No.

So we continue to use the Community Edition of Zephyr... I really like Atlasssian's pricing model and they will continue to be my vendor of choice until someone else can match their price/performance combination*

*For more than 10users prices can get high...