Teach Software Engineering, not Computer Science.

Most graduates will end up working as âoesoftware engineersâ not scientists.

Managing teams, projects, risks is more useful than the math behind sorting algorithmsâ¦

Big VCs need to deploy large amounts of cash to their target investments.

There are only so many industries that can scale to be worth billions. So only firms that can scale exponentially will get funded by these massive funds.

Little startups that just need $5million and then get acquired for $50million arenâ(TM)t worth the effort to get a return on a $1billion fund.

So weâ(TM)ll see otherwise good startups falling into the funding gap between angel/seed and series A.

Which will push back on angels as thereâ(TM)s no point starting something if itâ(TM)s not going to be able to cross the gap..

HotLink Supervisor allowed third party hypervisor to be managed by vCenter - vCenter could not distinguish between vSphere and the HotLink agent running on KVM, XenServer or Hyper-V. McAfee was a big customer.

The company has since closed, but Iâ(TM)m trying to get the code so I can maybe release it as open source if thereâ(TM)s enough interest.

( i am the inventor and co-founder of HotLink).

The HotLink.com domain was sold, but use archive.org to find details from before 2019.

Richard.

Any kid with the perseverance to spend 3years solving a hard engineering problem is someone to be invested in.

Whether itâ(TM)s a university scholarship or just a grant to invest in him.

âoeSpecialization is for insectsâ

Go get them Aaron.

Good advice.

It's very unlikely a person will have the skills to both do low level engineering and create a sales and marketing strategy.

So find someone who compliments your skills and can do the things you can't.

I've co-founded two startups with my business partner - she is great at the outbound side and I work the technology side. Finding that key business partner is just as hard as a romantic partner - you need to "date" just as much before settling down....

1) Make a series of movies titled "PowerPoint", "Flash", "SilverLight"

2) file DMCA take down notices.

3) all the crappy presentations and horrendous web sites disappear.

I could also do evil ( or more good depending on your point of view). My final movie will be called Stallman....

And it's for that reason that I always discuss package during the initial phone call.

But you'd be surprised at the number of prospective employees that say "it depends". They may be prepared to waste their time, but I'm supposed to waste a couple of man days on their whim?

I even try to explain that it's just a mutual efficiency thing...

But it's like they think I'm just trick them... How does that benefit me? They start, they are unproductive while they learn stuff, then they get a better offer? I want to find people that want to work for me, not just those looking for a job...

I don't know about other hiring managers but I have a budget, I can't afford to build my team with only the most experienced, I need a balanced team with a mix of skills and seniority levels... Money is not free, salaries make up ~90% of my costs so there isn't a lot of room for making savings elsewhere...

i think it works like this... Engineer wants to work for us ( interesting product ) and the package we offer is smaller than they could get at a large company, but the work is more interesting and there is significant upside.... Partner of engineer prefers package size over interesting work because they don't have to do the work... We've even started having the CEO talk to the partner in some cases.

Vanye.

We use standalone Zephyr in conjunction with JIRA, Confluence (both hosted OnDemand) and Stash.

What I can't work out is the justification for their pricing.

I pay Atlasssian about $10 per user per month.

Zephyr wants $80 per user per month, others mentioned are $25 per user per month.

Is test management really worth 5-10times as much as I pay for bug and content management ? Or 1000 times as much as I pay for source code and code review ? (Stash is $10 for a year for 10 users)

No.

So we continue to use the Community Edition of Zephyr... I really like Atlasssian's pricing model and they will continue to be my vendor of choice until someone else can match their price/performance combination*

*For more than 10users prices can get high...

We use JIRA and Confluence OnDemand and Stash on-premise (to replace their subversion hosting we initially used).

We evaluated gitlab before deciding to go with Stash - based largely on JIRA reputation.

I found stash to need way more memory than they claimed was needed

I think the VM is configured for 16GB - it was 2GB initially.

We are using the built in database - primarily because I can't be bothered to worry about getting a real one setup.

Our main repository is about 800MB - ~8000 commits

Yes, a touch of common sense.

I try not to be an asshole, but I don't see why I should give someone a job who can't be bothered to look after their career.

If I have someone who's motivated to learn new things vs someone who should be able to predict the end was coming, why would I pick the person who's spent the last 3 years being complacent not improving himself? The fact that you are self taught but then couldn't be bothered to do it anymore is a double kicker.

We're so far beyond jobs for life that its upto the individual to look after themselves. If you don't do that who do you blame ?

Kids let this be a lesson to you - if you want to be able to retire you've got to keep an eye on the ball. Your 30s and 40s are when you need to be working to maximize your income (savings).

Your best option now ? Marry a rich person, start at the OpenUniversity.

Sex worker.

While outsourcing sex workers will work for the vacation bonk, the daily bonk needs to be closer...

Pucker up, its working time...

What a bunch of assholes you all seem to be.

Someone dies. A spouse, father and son, and everyone's reaction seems to be along the lines of "good riddance". Two children are going to grow up without a father and your best attempt at humanity is "ohh another 1%-er died - so what"

Is this news - no, but it is social interest. Its a reminder to live whatever life you have to the best you can, because you never know when you'll die.

So get out of your parent's basement and do something today that makes people proud to know you.

richard - 48, overweight, stressed, 2%-er

Which part is cruel and which the unusual ?

Only one of those was in the valley.

I think there's probably more it it than that.

When we grew up (rural England in the early 70s) we had what would now be called a highly nutrious diet - we grew all our own "organic" vegetables (we got cow shit for free, pesticides cost money) and had chickens (fresh eggs daily). Ended up only buying meat and milk...

So did my cousins next door.

They were certainly richer than us - it seemed a lot, but it probably wasn't...

Only my sister and I went to university (the only people to have done in any generation), they took low level white collar jobs (bank teller/hairdresser)

Nature certainly has a hand in it, but I think its more likely nurture that has the bigger hand.