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randoramaxon Multi-Cloud Is a Trap

It's hard to migrate data off of S3: once you drop petabytes in there, moving to another service will cost you a lot of cash.

randoramaxon Tesla stock sinks after Musk gives tearful NYT interview

a CEO of a public company should know that saying anything in public after thinking about it for only 20 seconds is just going to create disasters... Or make you POTUS.

randoramaxon Software Heritage Archive

The effects of com.java.some.class.there.and.here maybe :)

randoramaxon Software Heritage Archive

The effect of Com.java.some.class.name ?

randoramaxon Kanban for E-Mail

This proves again that software engineers have a strange understanding of kanban :)

randoramaxon OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II

I played it with my Amiga and didn't need no upgrade nor to fiddle with config.sys :)

randoramaxon Why We Should Listen to Flat Earth Believers (Even Though They're Totally Wrong)

That guy is using the flat earthers to raise funds from them. He conveniently tied his desire to build a rocket for himself to prove some flat theory, but his motivation seems to be completely a few one.

randoramaxon Intel Warned Chinese Companies of Chip Flaws Before U.S. Government

Most likely the NSA already knew, wouldn't they?

randoramaxon California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B

> Rail is a lot cleaner in that regard if you can get an electrified rail (not sure if this works with high speed).

Jeez! You know Tesla batteries and you don't know that high speed trains are electric?? WTH

randoramaxon California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B

You ignore the value in the intermediate stops. Think about living within 45 minutes from San Francisco downtown, somewhere in between LA and SF. Also think how bloody miserable are flights in economy, and taking your shoes off before boarding a plane. Trains are luxury!

randoramaxon Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

That is the theory. The practice is that markets crash and people cannot retire anymore. A lot like gambling

randoramaxon Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO

Read Jack Welch's autobiography, very informative on the subject of internal car and successions

randoramaxon 14,766 Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates Issued to PayPal Phishing Sites

I agree the blame is misplaced. Browsers should do a better job at highlighting scammy sites. There is a counter-argument on http://www.thewhir.com/blog/web-encryption-needs-the-freedom...

randoramaxon How DreamHost Builds Its Cloud: Selecting Hard Drives

Check out DreamHost Cloud if you need full control of the stack (based on OpenStack, you get more than DO and Linode at a better price)

randoramaxon Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop

This. Also companies that delete embarrassing threads are shitty companies, I wouldn't buy anything there. Support forums are everywhere, from Reddit to SO anyway

randoramaxon Definitions on the Economics of VC

https://hbr.org/2014/08/venture-capitalists-get-paid-well-to...

Quoted from the hbr article above:

" 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000."

Why institutional investors throw money at VC instead of much better options?

randoramaxon GPL Time Bomb – an interesting approach to FOSS licensing

And why would they do that? Try know well that they get support and features from the author, they gain nothing from sharing something they paid for. There is no economic incentive

randoramaxon GPL Time Bomb – an interesting approach to FOSS licensing

You have another option, keeping the GNU GPL as a license and avoiding this time-shift complexity: sell the binary, and offer the source only to those who buy the binary -- don't make the source code public on github. It's not only possible but it's what sustained many GNU projects, until they were acquired by others.

Nobody in the comments mentioned the most successful case: Cygnus Solutions had been developing the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for good money, all under the GNU GPL. Notably, they made a lot of cash from a deal with Sony to support the original Playstation in gcc.

A good read about how they marketed Free Software on John Gilmore's pages: http://www.toad.com/gnu/cygnus/