oldpond

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by oldpond 7y ago
My point is that IBM didn't invest in open source to improve it, they invested to take advantage of it. Open source software was still frowned on since "free" was a dirty word in that culture. We never sold it in our deals.
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by oldpond 7y ago
I guess I should have said "When I was at IBM, the academy released a report, etc." No air quotes, required; I was there. I was on the open source community of practice core team at the time.
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by oldpond 7y ago
I think we should place a royalty on the pipelines, not the pumps. Take 10% from everything that flows down the pipeline, and use that money to drive us into the clean energy age. Where else are we going to get the funds to fix this enorm
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by oldpond 7y ago
Carbon tax is pure economic foolishness. Imagine there's one pipe with smoke coming out of it, and imagine there's another pipe with a lever. If you pull the lever, bags of money will come pouring out of the pipe. That's t
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by oldpond 7y ago
Not really. The IBM Academy reported that open source software was the single biggest threat to their business model, so they "invested" in Linux to keep their foot in the door. They've had mindshare at Apache and Redhat fo
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by oldpond 7y ago
What about grinding it up into soil? They have developed techniques in British Columbia to grow fully mature forests in 10 years by laying down a mixture of soil and nutrients 6 feet deep and then planting seedlings very close together. T
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by oldpond 7y ago
Joe was truly one of the greats. My favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo5WL5IQAd0 Thank, Joe.
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by oldpond 8y ago
For a good chuckle, search Youtube for Diebold voting machines. LOL.
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by oldpond 8y ago
I find it very ironic that AWS is behind this. Whenever I buy books from Amazon I am amazed at their broken search engines. Just search a topic on Amazon and then try to sort the results. LOL.
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by oldpond 8y ago
Smart man. Oracle is garbage.
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by oldpond 8y ago
"Software methodologies are all about handling risk." Not even close. Methodologies should about creating working software with a short feedback loop between customer and engineer. That old blue cool-aid about risk doesn't
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by oldpond 8y ago
Sounds just like a ponzi scheme bursting. No surprise.
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by oldpond 8y ago
I highly recommend Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There. https://www.marshallgoldsmith.com/product/book-2/ Great book on overcoming smart people faults.
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by oldpond 8y ago
Elixir and the Erlang Beam are eating their lunch right now. Vastly more scalable and a joy to program.
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by oldpond 8y ago
I agree Java is dying, but so is .Net. Microsoft is trying it's best, but .Net Core is no where near as popular as .Net 3.5. (google trends). Embrace the Beam. :)
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by oldpond 8y ago
This happens to me all the time, and I'm in my 50's. I'll be lying in bed thinking about some topic, and my wife will poke me and say, "Turn over, you're snoring", and as far as I can tell I never fell asleep
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by oldpond 8y ago
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is a good place to start.
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by oldpond 8y ago
The bigger question is when will the rest of the world admit it uses the same tech.
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by oldpond 8y ago
The solution is to require ALL vehicles to have self driving features like collision avoidance.
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by oldpond 8y ago
So 3100 out of 57000 employees signed the letter. That makes google only 95% evil.
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by oldpond 9y ago
This is the same old model; give them something free, then monetize it. Thankfully, the internet allows us to just go somewhere else or write your own. https://medium.com/@benhansen/lets-build-a-slack-clone-with-...
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by oldpond 9y ago
Just like TV. I can see the images, but I can't have them. Good thing they don't own the view button, and there are other search engines. Google is so evil now.
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by oldpond 9y ago
Get 'em hooked on something 'free', then monetize it. Rinse and repeat. Just like they are building a browser that only blocks the 'annoying ads', now they are designing their email to let advertising through. So
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by oldpond 9y ago
Google brings their advertising machine to email. Goodbye gmail. Can't say I'm surprised.
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by oldpond 9y ago
Flowers in the Blood is an excellent read for anyone interested in this bit of history. https://www.amazon.ca/Flowers-Blood-Story-Jeff-Goldberg/dp/1...
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by oldpond 9y ago
Google. Advertising company. If I ever have to watch advertising on the internet, I'm turning it off.
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by oldpond 9y ago
I guess diebold makes their atms just like their voting machines. https://www.unhackthevote.com/
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by oldpond 9y ago
Reminds me of seeing Tom Peters at Planet Tivoli one year, raving about big, dumb companies to 10,000 loyal big bluers. It's not hard to argue about golden eggs dying at these big companies. I won two Master Innovation Catalyst award
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by oldpond 9y ago
Creating the electricity market was one of the biggest mistakes humans have ever made because it created the potential for Enron. And now we don't even question the existence of the market. There's a lot of good history to disco
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by oldpond 9y ago
Without net neutrality, the internet will become just another source of TV where you only get to see what the advertising industry and the regulators want you to see. At that point the phone in your pocket will become just a tiny TV set, a

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