Unless we collectively choose to pay for a safety net, technology alone isn’t going to make it happen.
Fast low-latency access with seamless handoff orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash-OFDM#FLASH-OFDM (via fadingcity)
Yup, sounds about right.
Followers regurgitate half-understood jargon, abbreviations and acronyms Much clarity is lost.
He points out there is no need to check if you have new email: you have. Everyone always has new mail waiting. No one complains about not getting enough email.
A good podcast is like being with a group of interesting friends…a group of interesting friends that you don’t have in real life!
We think [Machine OS is] an interesting, somewhat esoteric pursuit,” Swainson said. However, Dell is most interested “cheapest, best, standards-based [tech] – all of this mundane stuff that is how computing gets done.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/12/dell_hp_machine_os/
One of the better summaries of Dell’s approach, from Dell itself.
Self-service IT to bring in $10m/qtr for BMC
MyIT 2.0 started shipping at the end of April, and is already off to a fast start with nearly $5M in deals during BMC’s fourth quarter — including major telecom, financial services, transportation and consumer packaged goods customers. BMC expects MyIT 2.0 will generate $10 million per quarter in revenue going forward, with pull-through revenue for other parts of our business.
And, back in my, the company said it had over 900 SaaS customers across it’s SaaS portfolio.
The problem is not that the various visionaries have their own jargon or even that they talk in acronyms. The problems begin when they come down from the mountain and forget to translate that jargon into common language. The point is not to sound smart to people who don’t understand the concept, but to communicate that concept.
Ode to Robert Brook, in so much as aping how he uses tumblr instead of Twitter
I have been thinking about that Merlin idea: “is this the group of people I want to hang out with an be associated with?” and how it drives long term career planning. Except for me, I think it’s “ideas,” and people in so much as they’re mediums for ideas. (Things have mostly worked out for me over the years here.)
Also note-worthy: all too quickly Clay Christensen raises and scurries past an incisive point in How Will You Measure Your Life?
The hardest thing for most first-time engineering managers is getting used to the fact that the sum of your importance is now far beyond simply the code you write or the infrastructure you design. Your job just got a lot harder, you need to balance more distractions and learn how to keep yourself out of too many critical paths. If your first answer to every problem is “I can just bang that out,” you’re probably doing it wrong. You probably have more meetings to go to, at the very least you need to have 1-1s with everyone who reports to you, ideally once a week. All of a sudden, managing your time will become one of your most critical skills.
On Distributed Systems and Engineering Management, interview with Camille Fournier in MVC