Maybe you're right. Physical/behavioral differences were bigger, but fears based on them were simpler. As in your wolf/dog analogy - maybe they weren't developed enough to make a big deal out of it.
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(I don't have any big opinions about the effort, I just wanted to hear what was the database chosen that was able to track all different data formats... and it could have been sexier, but yes - Postgres would do.)
Not sure about the "Git" trademark part...
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purely judging from your profile picture it seems that you're about half my age :) and I think it's excellent that you're doing a bunch of things - personal blog, linux, tutorial post... Just remember - most of the guys around here tend to do it for marketing reasons (i.e. we want to find a job and we're advertising our capabilities), and those projects might not be the most interesting things out there.
Bottom line is - just because everybody else is doing it, might be because they have different motives than you, and I hope you'll do/build firstly what's interesting and fun, and secondly what's financially viable.
Good luck, have fun!
Please note that I'm coming from a 3rd world country, Google probably has my university well below it's radar, and I know people from there hired by Google (in double-digit numbers). So not being on the "A list" is quite normal for a vast majority of the world, yet you can make it happen.
On a personal note - I interviewed and got reject by Google, but I'm a white male so I do think they actually rejected me because of my performance and not because of my other attributes.
It would be interesting to hear what were the performance/carrier paths of those 300 people she hired, to understand whether they really just needed a leg-up. That would validate her hunch about untapped potential. On the other hand I'm afraid that it's likely that if they were not promoted it would be again blamed on racism, because if you have that one differentiator, it can be used in any situation.
(Yes, I'm aware that this comment is not going to be palatable to politically correct majority).
What you should not associate with your salary is your own sense of worth or success, because there you're on mentally unstable grounds.
But in my original response I just gave a random example, and you're right that we should not expand the discussion in that direction.
I dislike the "genius" and "gifted" labels because in the long run they're excuses why you're not one. "It's ok that he got a better salary - he's a genius!". With a "nature" argument, you don't have to think about the "nurture" argument - your actual skill. Then you can give up without being ashamed.
99% of the people you'll actually meet are averages with interests and luck to manifest their skills in the right way. And on the other hand, I've attended local Mensa chapter meetings to see first-hand that "geniuses" can in 99% of cases be just ordinary people with some special interests on which they may or may not capitalize.
So - always value contextual knowledge, skill and effort, and encourage yourself and other people to develop. Because otherwise you just like to play the lottery and complain how the numbers are too random to your liking.
You're welcome and you deserve it!
> Let's not imply that all decisions are malicous and all lawyers are evil.
I'm really not. But I can imagine that if you're a professional versed in blindly protecting IP - this is what you would do. The decision to do it in that specific way (suing infringement left and right) needs to come from the top and typically is not a decision that a lawyer would make alone. So, 3 scenarios:
1) this is an unsupervised default action of a lawyer that's just applying the law without guidance from management, because that's what they expect that they should be doing.
2) management approves of this and they're short-sighted thinking that the logo IP is more important than the community
3) management decided that they'll make a business move that requires stronger branding and purposefully want to kill the community to monopolize the support.
In case 1 and 2, we can hope that this will be corrected. I really don't like case 3, but again - I was never a very good business-person.
EDIT: Wow, so it was No.2. Glad to see the feedback loop working. But as pointed out by others on this thread - it's not that RPi should not protect themselves and their trademark - it's that they can do it in a better way than sending take-down orders.
Maybe RPi just hired some <profanity-word> lawyers that need to justify their salaries by doing same-old, before somebody in the top level wakes up and goes "maybe that's not the best way of doing things"?
On a tangent, maybe worth it's own thread - can you propose a good European news site, in English? There's plenty of aggregators and crap-generators out there, but quality reporting is getting harder to find, and I'm grateful for any recommendation.
The point of the article was not about the quality of the product (cakes) but about a model of small-time abuse in which she has first-time experience. She is allowed to state the situation and give an opinion.
Secondly - comparing BBC journalists to people selling personal lifestyle as a product is insulting. Journalists are in obligation do declare "opinion pieces" if they're writing them, while influencers are basically only doing opinion pieces, and have a business model of convincing manufacturers that their opinions is worth paying for. Their positive opinion is probably worth just a bit more money (yes, that's also an unsubstantiated insult, I just like to blend in with the crowd here).
Could those 30 students have gotten GCP access and carried out their assignments? Probably. I wouldn't portray myself as a savior while trying to sell a product. I'd say that those 30 students were doing you a favor. (In the same way Autodesk, Microsoft etc are giving away student licenses to get you into their eco-system. It's really not a new thing)
But, to my original quote that you seem to have disliked - you are a small company (I saw 10-ish people?) that's entering a highly populated and competitive market with the assumption that your early adopters "need your product badly". I can only assume you have one helluva product. I'd say in 2-5 years you'll have the answer (not that it has to be bad news).
> early users do need the product badly and are willing to accept certain imperfections
Agree on the second, but the first parts is a wild exaggeration. You get to discover that for yourself.
Good luck, I'll take a pass on the invite, and wait for the site to become open, if that happens. As you're not limiting viewing of articles, I'm not losing much, and the biggest downside is that you'll miss-out on the early adopters and hype-surfers, but mostly it's just bad PR.
I just find hypocrisy in the contrast of: - hey, we're a cool new site, we'd like your attention - but you can't be part of the party, you're not one of the cool kids
I respect the company's drive to adapt to new trends with it's portfolio but... the chip market?
To quote Bloomberg from here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-11/cisco-ent...
"The new initiative has the potential to attract business from customers who want to build their own machines instead of buying whole packages"
So, Cisco is doing the complete opposite of Apple?
(disclosure - Cisco engineer, purely personal opinions and no insight into company's strategy)