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"People. The hardest part of building a business."

If you're going to work and are having the hardest time with people, you should question the team. Anyone expressing an inkling of toxic, negative, or unprofessional attitude needs to be removed. Some people go bad, but it's just them telling you they want to go. Be graceful, but fire them.

Whatever you do, don't try to fix attitude. Everyone is entitled to their attitude in America, and it's the wrong battle. Let them have it.

They are not, however, entitled to contaminate your work culture, which must be upheld as sacrosanct. And, if it's you, then you've already burnt out.

A lot of old school management involves whips and dangling carrots. Managers are supervisors, and workers are presumed to misbehave without supervision. They are motivated with rewards, and put in check with punishment. Workers hate managers, and managers hate their job which would not exist if the workers would just behave. Good workers question their environment, their pay, then leave.

In reality, most ambitious professionals will behave when they take ownership of their responsibilities and opportunities, and will seek to build trust with others that do also. When handed, responsibilities and opportunities can quickly turn into dreadful obligations, so people must want them, and they will when they are aligned with their professional ambitions.

Once you have a team of such individuals, a manager is relinquished from behavior management. This holds true even at the lowest paying jobs.

Having this as the premise of your corporate culture will allow you to focus on managing work, not workers. And will allow your workers to focus on their work, and not each other. Trust will also naturally build among those showing responsible behavior. All this without "managing people". All this without "a leader".

Everyone leads themselves towards a common goal, empowered by a common philosophy, from the comfort of a common, sacred, positive workplace.

This formula took me five years, and it wasn't just the hardest part of building my business. It was five years of not being able to build my business. Today, I can say without reservation:

People are the best part of building a business.

And I am grateful to everyone, including those whom I fired, for teaching me this lesson.
How much of the software that is hosted locally is web based software? My point is not that everyone is moving to the cloud, my point is how many new initiatives are being targeted at the "windows desktop"? Microsoft's only leverage was customers dependence on Windows APIs and fat client Windows Software.

Isn't most of Oracle's desktop software written in Java and doesn't it run on anything that runs Java?
https://www.mlflow.org is open source.
And here I am trying to figure out whether your comment is itself an advertisement for booking.com and you an adbot.
It is Demandware. The pricing is awful (a flat rate of hundreds of thousands + 3.5%), the old pipeline based model is awful, and even the new JS based replacement isn't great. It has the ability to run "jobs" but the error reporting around them tends to suck & so does the coordination aspect of it. Importing data is a pain, there's XML everywhere and the schema borders on being nonsensical. The underlying tech is just old and shitty and you can tell. Not worth what they're charging for it IMO. I'm hoping to investigate Shopify Plus as an alternative. Not sure what kind of functionality it might be missing vs Demandware, but the difference in pricing alone is worth it.
Give them away to homeless people, you'd love the irony, or simply send them to me (L/XL).
Haha, that's a pretty funny line , I haven't seen that before.

However if it's a representation of a hardline anti-irony/satire stance we will have to agree to disagree there. I'm all for holding accountable people whose bad behavior has gone ignored in the past but I don't think that extends to what is (to me and many others) purely artistic expression.
If you're unwilling to ever say what your cultural values are, then your only cultural value is "do what thou wilt". Anything anybody does is automatically your culture, if it's defined in actions only. Somebody brings their dog into the office, your culture is now dog-friendly. And for anybody who hasn't seen your history of actions – like new hires – your culture doesn't exist at all.

The benefit of defining your values is not descriptive, but aspirational. Your values are not "here is how all of us will infallably behave at all times"; it's "here's how we want to be, even when it's hard, because we think it's right and because we need to rely on each other to keep ourselves honest about them."

Shitty people will still manipulate or ignore those values at their convenience, but if you're working with shitty people it'll never matter what systems or values or rules you have.
As others have said, it's a good thought to have (and the book indeed sounds like an interesting read), but we should still define what "on a macro level" actually means.

E.g., is "macro level" the average? Then it could just as well be a rich elite (or the spike part of a power law distribution) pulling up that average.

Even if it's not, we should investigate how different parts of the world are improving differently and why.

E.g., yes, eradicating certain diseases in African countries is laudable - but in an age where others dream about genetically augmenting humans, is that the bar we should use?

And even if the overall measure of health and well-being might go up, why is it that nevertheless statistics for certain groups seem to regress? Like job security or the ability of low/middle-income groups to make savings?
This is a non-useful comment so feel free downvote, but the product offerings for GitLab sound ironically like Windows released product offerings.
Who knows how much this is even costing him. It's pretty good PR for the publishing company and will probably generate sales from non-graduates. Could just be a genius marketing move which benefits brand Gates and the publisher.
Of course. By its very nature, outliers are the only thing that news covers. Exceptions make news. Conventions do not. If you're hearing it on the news, it's useless information, like a TouTube video of a cat playing the piano while juggling mice.

Once upon a time, I think news was an invitation to get engaged in your community because change was needed or forthcoming, and as a citizen, it was your duty to know about the subject in order to contribute constructively, perhaps in a town hall meeting or at least in a civic (civil) conversation with neighbors.

Today nobody acts upon what they learn in big media news, other than to form misinformed opinions fraught with bias, to vote only every few years for a bad binary choice in rigged elections fielding untrustworthy candidates who pretend to address problems but actually perpetuate them via myopic self-interested gangsterism.

Pop news is 99% clickbait and 1% fact.
I think maybe OP was just trying to say that the means matter - not just the end. End state of no more down syndrome humans is good, but maybe just aborting them all before they are born isn't good - depending on your beliefs/values. I think it is a valid point to consider even if their tone wasn't very constructive.
Thanks for the links. Very interesting material.
> I don't work for them but I think the move towards decentralization is the best way to address those concerns.

How feasible would a reliable, distributed archive be; given how massive amount of data Archive.org has? After all, it was created precisely because the already-decentralized web was too ephemeral and unstable. I don't think decentralization is a panacea in this case.

Some problems are best solved by institutions.
In college I took a break to work on a startup for a while... that folded, so finally finishing my degree, I went into the military. They actually paid me to play OPFOR in war games and jump out of airplanes. When I realized that you get pigeonholed by your initial choices, I decided I wasn't going to make a career of it.

The next step was government contracting. That was a pretty cool company where we actually got the title "Computer Scientist," and it was pretty exciting as we worked on some interesting big data analytics problems and actually did some computer sciency stuff with natural language processing and entity extraction.

And that was great, except they started to have management issues. So I took a friend's advice and applied to AWS, where I got to work on a fairly new service team. I started to appreciate all the cloud hype, here we had a service that let you request specialized hardware on demand, so you fire a big blob of JSON off and set up a whole network in minutes.

After a while, the stress of the pager was getting to me, and I was tired of working deep on the backend and not being able to explain what I did to regular people. So now I work in consumer finance. I work on a financial methodology optimization engine. The problems are surprisingly fun, though it's complex as all hell and I'm procrastinating as usual... (And, granted, most people can't follow me beyond "oh, I have a 401k" but still.)

Moral of the story: at no point would I say I had a dream job, every one of them had some downsides and no one job used my CS degree to its full potential.

But in all of them, there were definitely projects where I felt I made a notable contribution. Over the years, I've definitely got my money's worth on that degree. All I've ever done is looked for interesting jobs, not so much asking "is this is my life's passion" but "are these people doing interesting things?"

(Another thought: some areas like government and finance are shockingly primitive, technologically. If you find a company that has smart people working in an area that's primitive, you can be one of the first movers.)
I understand. However, there could be more than one open source ML platforms. Hence, open source alternatives to MLFlow doesn't imply MLFlow isn't open source.
I like the content but the website's scroll is somehow delayed and I'm unable to pinch zoom on my mobile device.
This really sucks. This is supporting a cipher with questionable design decisions and the authors have been combative when confronted with technical questions.

I don't know if it's backdoored but I certainly don't want it supported by the mainline kernel as it would aid acceptance even though the ISO rejectes it.
Hello my fellow kids...

It gets even worse if "the D" also refers to having the backing of Dara himself. Then again, I don't have the D to state that definitively though.
Yes, I think I agree that a co-op [1] seems like an interesting solution to this problem. I think the work around social benefit corporations (which are still for-profit) is somewhat related. I think the model definitely matters as a form of signaling intention. If the organizational form is too exotic or non-standard, it may drive people away (even if it is a better way of doing so).

My viewpoint is heavily Western-world skewed, unlike other countries where co-ops are more commonplace. Apologies in advance, I'm always trying to escape such a singular world view.

Your model might actually make businesses very happy, actually. Dealing with tons of different open source licenses no doubt adds legal burden/costs to commercial efforts. It would simplify both payment and legal terms. The tricky part then becomes getting enough people to contribute their work - it would be as much a marketing pitch to contributors. Probably similar in difficulty to trying to start a marketplace where you need both contributors and consumers.

I suppose one thing you could do was have a "pay-what-you-can-or-nothing" tier as an option that your contributors could choose. This way, there is still a both open and "free" version in the cases where people choose to offer that for their intellectual property.

I'm thinking a little bit of a variation on Patreon in the back of my head as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
Why would Facebook block BBC?
These are no alternatives. GitHub is a specialized social network with git hosting included.
Yes, that's correct. Where are you going with this? Both exempt and non-exempt employees there, including all the software devs, had an 8 hour core window that was called "core hours", and everyone worked at least 10 hour days.
I'll leave GitHub when I have some issues that I can't resolve. By then everyone will have blazed the trail for me, maybe a coupe times. ;)

Much like the United States.... all my stuff is there...
There are public instances running GitLab CE at framagit.org and 0xacab.org.
I disagree. WP pushes security updates up often. There's a huge emphases on security with each major update as well. It's poor plugin development that opens up other security issues. Plus the damn thing powers 25% of the websites on the internet, of course it's a big target. I have seen tons of WP sites hacked, all literally all were on shared hosting or way way out of date, which turns out is the main issue here, not WP.
Chances are he might have gotten distracted.
> the copyright holder of the copy you download from archive.org tomorrow, will be copyright archive.org

That is not true.
Well “rupture” in this context simply describes the rupture of the massive short ranged repulsive boson G5 leading to the rupture of the neutrino leading to the reproduction cascade (see p153) leading to the proportions of normal matter/antimatter and dark matter as measured by the planck telescope right after the big bang.
I've thought on the funding of software also, and at least for now I've reached the conclusion that the only sustainable way of funding is to use the software. Meaning that businesses should have developers (in-house, or I guess consultants) working directly to develop the software they are using, instead of trying to maintain this model of having independent projects and isolated users who then need somehow to throw money over the chasm between.

Implication being here that pure software product houses are not a healthy model. I understand this might be somewhat radical view, especially on HN where so much revolves around software products.
Also when the dependencies are frozen. If these change, you're walking on mud. It sucks.

Comparably it'd be as if building developer built from prefab that changes the design every week.
What kind of bullshit does the overhead fund? Is it more than just administration and facilities?
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I see what you are saying - and maybe someone can get by in either job without being strong in both skills, but I guess the point I'm trying to make is that all people-management roles ideally have both things happening. So to actually be good/great at roles that people assume are exclusive either to leadership (e.g., CEO) or to management (e.g., good ol' middle manager), both skills are necessary. And the big difference between the above examples is scope/scale, not how much leadership vs management is necessary.
I am a happy gitlab.com user. However, with all of this week's news I decided to see what it would take to run my own GitLab instance. I was surprised to find that on Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail the one-click GitLab installs required an instance that costs ~$40 per month just for me, one user. Any cheaper/smaller instances were to anemic to run GitLab at all. Seems like there are some performance issues to deal with there.
I have to admit to not knowing exactly how the projects and people for Apache Foundation are compensated, so thank you for sharing that.

I think you're absolutely right and perhaps I brought up the example of the Apache Foundation as one that seems to be working, but even it too is quite different from the model that OP was proposing.
Is this 1999?
Have these "younger employees" not heard of "context"? If you're in a business meeting, you can probably infer correctly, 100% of the time, that "have the D" isn't a reference to sex.

This story is pretty much the definition of "Much ado about nothing".
Probably around $60k.
"The Pentagon’s recent push to upgrade to Windows 10" is a terrible scourge that came too fast with no testing and broke too many things. It's awful.
The easiest, fairest sliding scale I can think of for charging corporations for this is per employee. Charging based on revenue or other accounting metric allows for monkeying and funny math.

For example, $500/yr/employee. That's minimal for small startups. For a company with 50,000 employees, that's $25m/yr.

Realistically you can't start charging that much initially but as more developers and projects use an OSCC license, the value increases and you can raise the royalty rate.
But since it is much newer, the docs and examples are much thinner than Phoenix.

Plus, except for unoptimized database actions (which would equally affect Crystal), Phoenix responses are usually sub 200ms. Some are sub 1ms. So it really isn't in need of performance increase.

Ecto, however, is really not pleasant imo.
Kill Atom was the most reasonable fear I heard. And I can’t see how that wouldn’t be a well founded fear. If I was Microsoft I wouldn’t want to keep paying devs to make two so similar products (atom, code). They are much more similar than e.g code/vs or github/vsts.

But even so: I agree the fear that the product will be worse in a few feels completely irrational.

What I can agree with is that it’s unfortunate that it’s no longer seen as a neutral ground for development. It felt almost like a standard or like a piece of infrastructure, rather than a for-profit. But that was of course never the case. But now it becomes obvious, which might fracture the community (it was very nice to have everything in one place - e.g package managers literally started drawing stuff from github links). The appearance of neutrality and trust was the #1 feature of GitHub. Everything else is polish. Microsoft will have to work hard to keep the #1 feature working.
Well than these are the criteria you choose not giving it a shot, fair enough.
> Also what exactly is so bad about MS owning Github?

No idea. Especially compared to the other realistic options: Facebook or Google.

> The amount of conspiracy theory on HN is incredible.

If you think this is bad, I advice you to not investigate the mood down in /r/linux or other similar reddit-subs.
Even if that's the case, that still supports my original point that Microsoft having 90% of the desktop PC market has become increasingly meaningless in the age of web and then mobile. In the grand scheme of things, few new software initiatives are targeting Windows compared to web and mobile and only a select few companies are making any real money writing desktop software.

The example given of Autodesk kind of proves my point. They have the same annual revenue making CAD software that King digital has making Candy Crush.

Games aren't tightly tied to a single mobile platform now - most of them use a cross platform game engine. The reason they won't go to the web is payments are frictionless on mobile and you don't have to trust anyone but the platform provider.

Today anyone can setup their own shopping site and probably manage their own shipping but most small merchants still sell on Amazon.
The point of mass media is propaganda and entertainment in that order.
The Founder Hour – Jeff Morris Jr. (Tinder and Chapter One)
In my mind it is less about the people who made the statements or were there when the statements were made and more about whether the company has the same business model now that it did at the time.
Could you post some links?
Ok, you go ahead and make that arrangement with the book of your choice. You can't.
What are some other great resources for de-biasing oneself? I believe Charlie munger did a whole talk on this back in the day.
Isn't it funny how Google announces free GKE stuff the day before EKS was announced AND made generally available? :-) Like Jobs issuing a press release that the App Store had hit 3B downloads the morning of the Nexus One launch.
I'm pretty clearly in the minority with my opinion here, and I recognize that.

Amazon has made a substantial investment in Kubernetes here and that is nothing to shrug at. They are entitled (and justified) to recoup it. It's fair to say that K8S is not for lightweights, too.

AWS provides a fairly generous free tier and they are also justified to extract some payment from every user of their services that derives some non-negligible value. If you're using Kubernetes and you're not getting any value out of it, I think it's also fair to say that you're doing it wrong.
It's listed in the article
Amazon Grand Challenge: Moonshot Lab Google Glass Creator Babak Parviz
Doesn't this mean that even a US company which explicitly verifies it only works with US citizens must still IP block all of Europe to comply?

EDIT: A nasty surprise that might be, too, if it turns out there was important data via that service that you wanted to access abroad but couldn't.
Wow a floating video over the content with no dismiss button? Wut? :-/

Seriously why have the video float? If I’ve scrolled down it’s probably to read - like wtf is the intended user interaction goal there?
>Second, you've got to take into account that NN/ML/AI et. al. is going to "eat" a portion of all programming work within the next fifteen years or so.

Are there any repos I should look at to learn this? How is this possible when even humans can't read sarcasm online? I'm genuinely blown that this is even possible?!?
I think he's taking poetic license there.
Scaling license fees by ability to pay is the way to go, I think. A sliding scale from “nothing” to “lots” is basically how ASCAP works. And this is still just commercial. Non-commercial and personal use wouldn’t be applicable.
I am curious if GDPR has any impact on customer's rights to this data?
As was commented when this last came up, CalTech had years to find or train a replacement. They were unwilling to spend the money to maintain their human capital. Neither were the nearby universities. They suffer as a result of their hubris. Many companies do too when they don't realize their human assets are actually part of a bus factor of 1 and let them quit or fire them, then wonder why they lost critical tribal knowledge. I'm sure CalTech has hired plenty of non-technical administrative staff and dedicated multiples of the glass blower's salary in the meantime.
> You're describing network-centric warfare ...

It's from an (at least somewhat) seminal paper about 10 years old from a leading defense think tank, and others discuss it too. The paper was about the future of warfare, particularly the influence of AI and robotics, and not past doctrine. It was highly respected in the defense community, AFAIK, so perhaps we shouldn't assume that HN posters are idiots who don't know what they are saying.

> it'd be nice if we didn't assume everyone in the military was an idiot and hasn't thought of the things we have.

It would be even nicer if we didn't attribute things to people that they didn't say.
Social Security Expected to Dip into Its Reserves This Year
Does it have 4K screen? Which OS?
How long your battery lasts?
Great article, bookmarked for future reference!

I work for a small consulting firm focused on improving productivity and building innovation systems within small-medium sized businesses. And having strategic plans, vision, values is hugely important in building a focused innovation program. It's become routine in my engagements to spend significant time defining goals and values where the companies had none previously! This sort of exercise is valuable for firms at any stage and size in my opinion.
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