Awesome writer.
Nothing truer then the 911 handicapped columns he was writing back in the day.
He's the kind of writer that makes Democrats rethink free speech.
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Nothing truer then the 911 handicapped columns he was writing back in the day.
He's the kind of writer that makes Democrats rethink free speech.
"I'll hire you for $50 million, then you hire me for $60 million, think how much value we just brought to the company."
Linux itself is fine with the GPL. Thats an OS only.
The problem is usually the Linux dist. Their solution to the packages problem is to include the kitchen sink.
Licensing is along the lines of "what's that". Ergo you use FreeBSD (or one of the others) when you need to have something to satisfy lawyers.
It's all tracked.
Companies can modify some minor bit for their "secret sauce" and bundle it up inside the vacuum cleaner. Not the hacker version.
Since the internet of the future is the "internet of things" that's kinda important.
FreeBSD is a great server OS. With VM's hardware support gets less important for some use cases. IE LAMP.
The ports selection in FreeBSD is second to none. Linux has nothing close.
JuniperOS is retooled freebsd.
Lots of imbedded projects are based on BSD and always will be. The insanity of GPL licensing.
GPL3 is for activists and manifesto's. LGPL, GPL2 more then covered it for non activists.
The biggest hurdle to bitcoin will be finding real brick and mortar "banks" that can reassure people that they understand security beyond trivial platitudes.
Few were comfortable with retail banking until Deposit Insurance was created.
Bitcoin will need a similar thing. Except nobody can provide insurance to companies built in a couple months by one geek on php.
Eventually all the free services do it.
Hopefully results will get duplicated!
A funnel.
You try 10 companies, 2 work etc.
You have 10 co-founders, each time you learn something.
Don't understate the value of luck and randomness. Even Bill Gates realizes he was just plain lucky as much as he was smart, had the tech, timing etc.
The more you try the more you can take advantage of randomness.
IE if you don;t play you can't win.
99% of the portfolio managers, investment professionals have no more luck in picking stock then HFT or these other strategies.
It's basically gambling in one form or another. The ony way to get ahead in that world is to cheat.
HFT by itself isnt; a problem. When juiced with regular insider information, front running your own clients etc it's a massively profitable biz.
The biggest crowd that hates HFT is the stock pickers, day traders (any left?) and others that work int he investment biz.
They have had a nice scam going for the last hundred years and you are ruining their party.
Haw can they go have cocktails at 4 pm every day when computer programmers are working hard all night long?
The other group of course are the luddites. Afraid of any advance in technology. Other favorite causes, "Kids and violent video games". "The 100 mile diet" "environmental anything".
It's a good thing it didn't happen to some random European tourist.
It's taken google hpw many years to read bell level reliability?
Anybody that spends any amount of time in co-location data centers.
What percentage of machines are IBM when you look into a random cage?
Not many.
I hate to say it but Lenovo will do a much better job with servers as they further commoditize then IBM.
Some random service doesn;t take any amount of care of interest in the job.
You are far better off to pay somebody to do it and be invested in the task with a sense of pride then to employ a random cleaning company and whatever worker they happen to send that week.
What I do find is that employee's think hiring is like being on a talent show.
Clearly you have never done any hiring. Once you get out of tech you'll be lucky if 50% of workers show up for work the day after they have been hired.
Fully 10% of workers will be hired, you will arrange a day to start work and they won;t even show up. You'll never hear from them again.
Companies can spend time training people over and over. Millenials expect to be promoted in 6 months and be constantly feted for their work.
Hopefully one day you can own a company and spend your time training workers to have them leave when they become competent.
""Scott Kupor is the managing partner and chief operating officer at Andreessen Horowitz,""
CNN this is what we call sales literature or propoganda.
This isn;t some kid of balanced article that is randomly presented.
The more insane the valuation the less real work Kupor has to do and the earlier he can retire.
It's naked self interest not economics.
There is a crazy amount of wall square footage in offices/commercial/malls/hallways etc where a robot traveling on a mobile linear beam can totally do the work.
As somebody that spend some amount of time every week hiring, one of the biggest issues is not automation but the workforce itself.
Finding people that are willing to show up and do jobs is just a major problem.
Companies want to hire but the candidates that show up at the door can often be barely employable.
All the millenials want work from home jobs with executive pay.
The idea of starting in the back sweeping the floors (no matter your education but to show work ethic and flexibility) is gone.
The working world will get harder over the years. The "raised like a delicate flower" to "love their job" are in serious trouble in the future.
Putting food on the table takes time and effort. It's called "work" not "play" for a reason.
In 5 years the valuation of this entire list will be 10% of it's current value.
It used to be called a pump and dump and it was something that legitimate firms didn;t participate in.
Nowadays making up overly positive press releases to manipulate people into thinking a stock is going somewhere (beyond off the brokers balance sheet) is called "social media".
The only people that make money are the VC, wall street and the others that get the inside information and the IPO at a decent price.
Widows, children and people reading this get screwed.
Welcome to the new economy.
Many techies don;t realize they are just cheerleaders to a scam.
Dropbox worth $10 billion? Seriously that's funny. The stock brokers tell us it has value "in the future" and tech people dont; understand how hard it really is to make a profit.
Who wants to be compared to Bill Gates in everything.
Worse yet would be putting up with a buffoon like Ballmer on the board. They need to kick "Developers Developers Developers" to the curb.
Microsoft has peaked.
Google is the new Microsoft especially since they will work so closely with the NSA. That virtually guarentee's they will pushed by the govt as the best solution for everything.
It's much easier to monitor then all these random desktops that Microsoft presents them with.
I signed up for the monthly paypal deduction. Many a tech can expense a minor $10-$20 per month subscription for a important project like openbsd.