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I had the opportunity to speak with a woman who works in mission control, monitoring the electrical systems and solar panels for the ISS. She said in her opinion, canceling the shuttle program was the right thing to do because using a space shuttle to fly to the ISS was the equivalent of using a mercedes to drive to the end of your driveway to get mail.

Great let me know when Linux can run the apps I need for work and I can reliably install it on any hardware and expect it to work without issue. I like Linux as anyone else around here, but to claim it can replace Win10 for the average user is a stretch.

If you've failed multiple times trying to start a business, I'll guarantee is not because of my doing TDF but because of poor product market fit. You'd be surprised how much crap a user will put up with of your products fit their needs.

Set dates and work backwards. Even better, get people to pay you and the then a date. Desiring to meet the expectations of paying customers can motivate you to cut the fat.

Which is why you scrap the MVP and rebuild your product with the people who are passionate about the technology and architecture.

The reason that Linux took off was because it gave the FSF a working operating system kernel they could use to build their UNIX replacement. It was a rare case where someone's personal project matched perfectly with the needs of a group they were associated with. People wanted a replacement OS and Linus delivered just enough people could make that happen.

Better yet you could wait until the kids are mature enough, watch the content, and then discuss it with them.

This is also wrong. The Civil War was about slavery. There's a speech in which a defining characteristic of the confederacy is slavery. Keep playing revisionist history.

It's not.

https://www.businessinsider.com/richard-branson-entrepreneur...

https://jamesclear.com/successful-people-start-before-they-f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson#1981%E2%80%931...

That story is not how Virgin Atlantic was formed, it's more about his first experience with making money in the airline industry, and would later lead to his decision to agree to a partership.

Beyond that, it's more a look into the mindset someone requires to be a successful entrepreneur. It's not about the technology, the architecture, or the language. It's about identifying a problem, and getting people to pay you for a solution. The technology is tertiary.

Then you analyze feedback and redo your prototype with what your customers need?

The key thing is understand the underlying desire. Ford is famous for saying that if he asked people, they would tell him they wanted a faster horse. He understood they wanted a quicker means of transportation, so he built a car. That's what you do with the feedback of the prototype. Listen to responses, and adjust or abandon.

As for experience? Not directly, but seriously, this isn't hard. This is literally the standard way every successful businesses operate. They analyze market demand, built an answer, get feedback, and adjust. Only very rarely does an individual's personal itch ever become a successful product.

These questions are telling:

* No one will actually use this. * Will designers really find this useful? * What if you launch and no one finds it valuable?

Why not do some basic user research and get people to pay for it? This isn't some new ground, there are literally hundreds of internet gurus all saying that if you whip up a prototype, present it to people, and they pay for it, you'll have a higher chance of success.

> At this point in my life I've started to believe that whenever you talk to someone who is "passionate about technology X and clean architectures" or "wants to work on challenging technical problems" is ultimately doomed to fail when setting out to create a (for-profit, bootstrapped) business

A flight to the Virgin Isles was delayed overnight, so a strapping young man named Richard Branson chartered a plane to the Isles with money he didn't have. His next move was to create a sign that read "Virgin Airline, $29 a ticket", which he showed to his fellow passengers. They all paid up and all flew to the Virgin Isles that night. Was he motivated by a "passion to help people get to their destination"? Hell no, he had a girl waiting for him and more than likely he wanted to get laid.

That is the only attitude that works for an entrepreneur, the ability to identify problems, find solutions, and get people to pay for them. If you say you have a passion fr a technology or a clean architecture, or that you want to work on challenging problems, you belong in an established company, either as a lead, an architect, or in the R&D. Entrepreneurs understand that technology is but a means to an end, and focus more on solving problems than gold plating something or waxing philosophical about software. They use the tools at hand to solve a problem to the best of their ability. They're not motivated by some grand scheme, their passions are more personal.

And yet that hasn't worked so far at all.

The same claims were made during the outsourcing craze of the 90 and early 2000s. Companies tried to save money by sending development overseas to Indian sweatshops. They quickly learned you get what you pay for. If you need some backoffice crud app, Crossover will work. If you're building a customer facing app or anything with any significant complexity that requires fixes and features addition, you need inhouse people for the experience and expertise. The restaurant escape is great. You can automate like subway does and get decent fast food. You want a good meal that makes an experience you'll remember? Better find a great chef and kitchen staff for it.

Health INSURANCE should not be profit driven as it's a risk pool, and profit driven means they will charge high premiums and attempt to deny as much as possible. Health CARE should be driven in part by profit.

If you actual compare the data and spout outdated and trite political philosophies, healthcare systems that have significant government involvement tend to be more effective and offer a better quality of care for the money spent than free market solutions. Policies should be made based on data and facts, not sure political philosophy coined years before any of these issues became apparent.

No you haven't. The ACA is not government run healthcare by a long shot. Medicare and Medicaid tend to be immensely popular.

The FSF is not a software or technology organization, it's more a political one that uses software as it's platform. They don't care about ease of use or security. They care about how the software did their message.

Isn't this evolution at play? Getting emotional over every large scale systemic issue we encounter would overwhelm us, so the larger the numbers the more we dehumanize?

Seems obvious it’s a metal festival in the U.K. As for who HRH no clue.

> subsidising Starbucks baristas not so much

I'd recommend you read the Power of Habit. The author talks about the training program Starbucks puts its employees through to build willpower.

I am more than old enough. I also know the original documents are 20 years old at this point, and the world has changed since then. If Microsoft is running an EEE campaign against Linux, it's not very effective considering over half of Azure is linux.

Seriously, grow up. Microsoft is a publicly traded for profit organization. They're not embracing Linux and free software out of the "goodness of their heart" but because there's compelling reasons to. Russinovich literally said they transition because of "practical business reasons". They're not out to get your desktop or your phone. Their aim is Azure. They want people building stuff on Azure. Would they like you to build on Windows? Of course they would that means more money. However, they ported VS to macOS, released a multiplatform code editor, and pushed SQL server onto linux. They're realized the OS is nothing but a tool.

So, in others, a public-traded, for-profit organization is engaging in activities to broaden adoption of their products?

A few more thoughts. Microsoft doesn't view Linux as a competitor. Why would it? It has less than 1% of the global desktop share. You could maybe argue that Linux is a competitor to Windows Server, but then again, I'd counter with the claim that people who user Server are probably going to use Azure, which runs on Linux and offers users the ability to spin up Linux vm's. Microsoft views Linux as a tool. Their competitors are Google, Apple, IBM, and Oracle.

Also, your last 2 statements just make no sense. They have incorporated Linux into Windows via the WSL with Suse, Ubuntu, Kali, and Debian. They have done so pretty much to entice people to use Windows over Linux. I'm not sure how this is bad? They can't force developers to use Windows. Going back to what I said, a company is improving it's product to attract new users. Why should they care about Linux adoption? That's not their business model.

He's not a saint, I don't think anyone would claim that. My point was that after he amassed all that wealth, he did a lot of good with it. He's more proof that you can make a lot of money and help people.

It's a bit more than that. That particular passage was also about eliminating anything that got in the way of following god. I believe Jesus also said if your hand causes you to steal, cut it off. You could also argue that this is a passage about trust as getting rid of everything to follow a god requires a lot of faith that a god will survive.

For those of us who are atheists, the messages would be to not place things above people and to take risks in aiding others. Usually the things we fear never materialize.

He donated 2 billion dollars of his wealth to advancement of science, technology, education, wildlife conservation, the arts, and community service. What standard are we talking about?

Yes, I suspected you were a libertarian, and your comments prove that out. One sign is when you think your (misguided) beliefs trump an expert's knowledge.

Choosing a spouse or life partner is a major decision. Don’t rush into it. If you did, have the strength to end it.

Do great work and tell others.

Based on the evidence so far, the main culprit seems to be sugar and HFCS which has the same effect on the body as sugar.