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Yeah but frankly its been kinda beta, not quite "it just works" so far.

I hope so. On Fedora 26 I still have to drop back to X11 in order to get my XPS13 to properly detect my external monitor (DisplayPort), Wayland will only allow the default lowest resolution with no option to increase it, which is very sad on a 28" 4K screen :-(

Will give Fedora 27 a go this evening and see...

Interesting, local VCs or FDI? Do you have a link?

If the EU is a political union, how come we don't have pan-European parties and elections yet? And a centralized budget? And common taxes? And common defense? I'm sorry but it is not even close to being a political union, unlike the USA for example.

You sir have won the thread ;-)

What about Ireland if English is a requirement for you?

> Especially if the free trade and free movement agreements stay in place

But isn't that what membership of the EU gives the UK today? So give up the membership, you give those up to. It's kind of the whole point of the EU.

> There is no better place in Europe to be than the UK.

Perhaps, for now. If hard trade barriers are in place soon that status will change dramatically.

Funny I always thought the US salaries were inflated, especially for grads. Not sure why they are so high, is it cost of living?

The app does, not the headphones itself.

It's a characteristic ("good judgement") rather than a principal, agree it makes no sense whatsoever being on this list.

Looks nice, and reassures me that if MS is spending money building a to-do app I wasn't so crazy after all for building my own :-) https://five.today/

Index investments are still investments, they help push up the prices of the stocks they buy too. That creates opportunities.

Superb book, recommended reading for those managing engineering teams as you will learn a great deal about the culture at Xerox Parc, and what made it so successful (peer review was a huge part of it, or as they called it "beat the dealer"): http://amzn.to/2nLvMFO

Two-finger scrolling works really well on Fedora with Wayland, in fact at some point it appears to have become default behavior (at least on my machine running the latest version).

Well 1 depends on Wayland actually detecting your external monitor, I normally end up having to drop back to X to get it to detect my secondary 28" 4K monitor :-(

> But, to me, Google is quite different.

I think they lost that argument when they started Google+, going into direct competition with Facebook with a comparable product, albeit unsuccessfully.

If anything Google is more sinister to me, with a much broader reach than Facebook into areas like mapping and navigation, personalized ad tech, personalized search, mobile OS, PC OS, web analytics, etc. etc., all at least partially geared towards data mining.

Not defending Facebook by any stretch, but "my dictator is not as evil as your dictator" does not hold up for me.

I hate having to collect specific hardware for specific games, that's the single reason why I never buy consoles anymore. It just feels very wasteful and becomes a storage headache over time.

I have worked with some managers that defensively promote others loyal to them around themselves in a similar fashion, but had not heard the term before "negative selection" but it explains it beautifully.

I done the same last year, only with a subscription to the paper version of the Economist.

Great comment, only tweak I would suggest is replacing "conflict" with "peer review" in terms of language, as I think people are more comfortable with that.

I'm learning as a leader that I am reluctant to accept a proposal unless it has been thoroughly peer reviewed for gaps or weakness, and if there is some disagreement about the approach, then great let me hear that to. Rigorous peer review is very healthy, the trick is to get people to attack the proposal and not the proposer ;-)

Okay I'm getting down-voted for complimenting this as a great deck (?), so let me expand on why I think it is:

- Slide 6 "Fight hero culture", this is a real problem in many organizations where I have worked, I have written about this before: http://www.alphadevx.com/a/423-Hero-driven-development

- Slide 10 "Make it safe to learn", we all know that a blame culture still plays a big part of many organizations, and we all need to work against that to enable honest discussions about failures.

- Slide 13 "Empathy is a core value", if you cannot understand why the other guy is pissed off about some issue, you will struggle to care about fixing it. Put yourself in someone else shoes for a change.

- Slide 18 "Build a culture of shipping", focus on deliveries not dates.

- Slide 20 "Do the simplest thing that could work", most engineers will jump to the complex solutions first (myself included), learn to test the obvious first.

- Slide 21 "Beware the illusion of agreement and be explicit", just because someone is silent in a discussion does not mean that they are in agreement. They might work against the consensus as soon as the discussion is over.

Great deck, some really nice advice in there for technical leaders.

> This has increased since the vote as the lies of the remain campaign proved not to be true.

Just curious as an outsider, what lies are those?

I'd argue the people buying digital smart watches are a new market: they are not giving up their mechanical watches to buy a smart watch. Instead they are smartphone users who have realized that taking a 5" smartphone from your pocket every time you want to check the time is not always convenient...

Looks like an interesting blog in general, thanks for sharing.

I think you can get 15" models from Dell under their "Project Sputnik" program too, well worth following Barton's blog for news on that: http://bartongeorge.io/

Get a Developer Edition XPS 13 from Dell instead, comes with Linux pre-installed. I have one and they are awesome, if manufacturers support Linux they get my $.

> Focus (do one thing at a time, maybe two)

I think it is important to focus on an achievable list of tasks each day, otherwise you can easily get overwhelmed. Getting items closed each day makes me feel effective.

My personal "hack" is to focus on no more than 5 tasks per day (apart from all of my regular everyday work tasks), and I am building an MVP to track those: https://five.today/

I honestly get a great feeling from a completed list at the end of each day (but I don't always get there!).

Yes I am aware that profits are taxed and not revenue. Parent mentioned reduction of costs as a compelling reason of locating in Ireland, as well as low taxes. Corporations are legally obligated to maximize profit for share holders.