chris_mahan

And if amazon starts hemorrhaging cash like mad, will people scramble to get off AWS?

You want your date to get drunk.

Marketing isn't about lying. It's about telling the truth* that gets you to buy the product, not the whole truth. Who has time to tell the whole truth?

* for varying definitions of the truth.

We have medicine we spent billions in research and development perfecting. Let's find us a diagnosable disease we can sell it against!

We need a raspberrypi-like device with wifi built-in, that can be fully off-grid (with battery, solar panel) and have about 100GB of storage, for about $100, and we can make this work.

VPS in Germany?

What savings?

I don't watch TV (at all) and I game maybe 4 hours a week, usually in 2 sittings.

(I will occasionally watch a DVD, but maybe 2 hours a month, max.)

When people give me grief that I play the games, I tell them I'm a software developer: it's like a writer reading books.

I think you'll find that the python ecosystem is very large and varied.

You mean paying $900,000 for a house in a suburbs isn't a great investment?

To me, the rise of DevOps coincided with the commodization of server services, where provisioning of services could be performed by the software itself.

It's another abstraction layer, and requires new skills.

My experience is that it's a magnitude cheaper to have the developer talk frankly (no managers, marketers, lawyers in the room with them) BEFORE the product is designed.

"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping."

(http://www.trussel.com/bladerun.htm)

But you can't be an "engineer" without a Engineering degree from an accredited university, so DevOps.

But the real reality is that it's the salesperson the client is forming a relationship with, and that it's the salesman they trust to get stuff done.

Also, companies often like to hire experienced salesmen _because_ of their rolodex.

(Do they still use rolodexes?)

"Because you need to earn a living for one thing. "

Then make a better product, a more valuable product.

The best code is no code.

Yeah, not saying this was possible now. But in 10, 20 years?

Perhaps they can be entangled at the factory in the "special room" then kept stable over the next 10 years. That would be enough, no?

When two network quantum chips can communicate instantly (not at speed of light--instantly) over infinite distances, using entangled atoms, then we can ditch the tecos.

I'm so looking forward to that.

If those 50 clients would be better served getting a different product from a different vendor, then why would you want to stop that?

If your product is superior in value, the salesman won't be able to move the customers away from your products.

Make better products.

Anyway, you'll attract better salesmen.

But isn't that the point of a web browser? You're not viewing the whole of the internet at once, you're just viewing this one document. To go to other documents (down, up, sideways, within) you use hyperlinks?

And the question becomes: why is this IT department blocking the dropbox service?

Ahhh, but you see, if they were taxed, then Palo Alto would have the money to build more shelters.

Dropbox at work: The proxy server is refusing connections

They're just blocking the whole domain.

(Edit for those of you who think I'm just trolling for effect. I work at a LARGE fortune 500 (think 250,000 people) and http://www.dropbox.com/ is blocked at the proxy. If your company is going to offer business services, to, hum, businesses, one should insure that one should be accessible from businesses, no?)

So you're essentially rebuilding a browser inside of a browser?

I suppose they could be used by movie companies though: Add actors on sets, voice overs, music, a decent plot. I'd go see the Eve Online Movie.

The potential risks depend on the data, don't they?

Windows XP still seems to be Good Enough for the industry titans. (My desktop machine is still XP, due to move to win7 in the next few days, granted, but I'm typing this on XP)

I just went to m.trulia.com on firefox on android on HTC One 4GLTE and got sent to the "Download our free app" (in orange button). When I clicked on Continue to mobile Site at the top (green), The site was dirt slow loading photos of a bunch of homes. (granted, my network sucks where I am... but that's the point: bad network)

I've done plenty to cars. Have done plenty with computers too. I wouldn't let my family and friend ride in a car with compromized safety systems.