craig_peacock

I want my computer kernel to be snowflake free...time to investigate grown-up operating systems

For an organisation that is supposed to be protecting civil liberties and free speech, I am disgusted in the snowflake handling of this matter. Snowflakes have no place in computer engineering...

I would actually like to thank AWS for focusing on supporting Open APIs. Let the community design the standards and operations and let the vendors compete to implement them, open source included.

How about holding a grand committee on all the disinformation all of these governments have distributed and force-fed us for centenaries in some cases?

Text book example of a well researched and qualified article! A much needed breath of fresh air, thank you...

We can no longer leave article writing to Muppets. All journalists should be HIGHLY regulated, certified and only licensed journalists are legally allowed to write articles for the public.

I would rather take any insecure device over any regulation from any government, particularly the US. Your government has no business interfering in what hardware I decide I should run and from who. You are a muppet.

That was actually a very useful link. I am somewhat disappointed that there is no standard for quality of articles submitted. I am so tired of reading leftist bleeding heart sob-stories on what is supposed to be an engineering news site

Just an article by another precious snowflake white knight eager to hear his inconsequential opinion farted out.

I bet no one would blink an eye if Facebook allowed targeting jobs to only women. People really need to get over themselves, men and women inherently have different strengths, and so there are just some things that only men should do.

Anyone that can't take the criticism for bad work presented to the head of the most successful software project of all time don't deserve to participate. Linus has done an amazing job of keeping all my computers, safe, secure and reliable and anyone that messes with his method should not even be allowed to participate. I don't care about anyone's need to feel like a special and capable snowflake, I need the best software Open Source can provide.

One "kind-of-on-subject" talk, tacked on right at the end of the whole curriculum, I can really feel the deep understanding and empathy. I feel so sorry for whoever believes this curriculum is about anything other than alumni YCombi-Fanbois...

And nothing about discussing the mental, emotional and psychological pressures and stresses placed on entrepreneurs.. like that fact that the majority of entrepreneurs are likely going to lose their partners and possibly irreparably damage their friendships...

YCombinator isn't what it used to be. Shame

At best this article smacks of resentment and envy at worst this article cites no facts or reputable opinion pieces and seems wishy-washy in making its point.

I have found that in a start up there is only place for one person at the top. There are going to be disagreements between the both of you as there are in any team, and it doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong as there is actually no objective way to determine this in advance and ultimately one path has to be chosen or your company will land up in a deadlock, hurting moral and I am sure you will agree with me that this is a far worse position to be in for a startup. Ultimately the 'CEO' is responsible for the company's strategy and must answer for any failures, this does give them the privilege of having the final word when it comes to which strategy to follow. Over time this could lead to feelings of resentment between founders when a member of the team believe they are always being over-looked.

My recommendation is to ask yourself if you truly see yourself working at the company for an extended period (10+ years). Realising that the CEO is just another employee of the business and is probably going to face unbelievable stress in their lives over the next few years, possibly lose their house and/or girlfriend/wife, have the business take over every aspect of their lives while earning less than most of your employees, and still having to wear a smile every day despite living through the apocalypse, be grateful that isn't you.

Work hard, support your CEO where you can, as they grow you should to, build something you can really be proud of in terms of the product and the business structures/processes over the next 3/4 years, pick up your shares, and leave with the respect and admiration of your team.

You'll be in the possession of a large chunk of equity that should be growing quickly + your voting rights, not having to sacrifice everything in your life to continue growing the business, and not having to carry the stress that building a successful business brings.

In terms of your practical day to day responsibilities... Every IT business needs an accountant, lawyer and a technician; as you get a little bigger you are going to need a 'CEO', professional assistant and sales/marketing manager. Those roles are pretty clearly defined. My suggestion is find one that you really enjoy doing and write your own job description, exercise some responsibility, but otherwise take everything you don't enjoy about your job and make it someone else's problem. If that means hiring someone to do that work, do that, if you can't hire someone, then ask your ceo how he expects it to get done... Don't be confrontational about it...but it can be a great place to start the conversation around roles and responsibilities. Remember, you're building a start up to have the opportunity to create a place you actually want to work, that also means having the opportunity and the responsibility to craft a job you want. You're not going to get it all your way, but at least you've exercised a lot more freedom than many get to have.

And remember, regardless of your role or position, be respectful, be humble and be a professional and you will always grow.

This is an overly complicated data container format for not much advantage. To be honest, everything you can do with this can be done at the same level or better with SQLite, an actual database system. Having to implement 4 different parers and validation functions spanning a mix of csv, xml and json just to access what is essentially a csv file is not feasible.

Point being? I think I missed something

If I am understanding this right, this could be one of the most exciting developments for Linux in a very long time! The closest comparison I can draw is with one of my favourite OS's Genode, except this could be even better!:

https://genode.org/about/index

Garadget does not deserve to be in business. If you are a B2C company specializing in security IoT, you don't have the right to disable your clients hardware as you see fit...Garadget have engineered a common product, but they know little about business...