A long time ago on an internet far far away, there was a setting in crusty old browsers like Netscape Navigator that allowed you to control whether you wanted images to load automatically. It's the new old thing!
This problem already has a solution, it's called: LESS STRESS
But no because America is a culture of burnout referring to other countries as slackers, we have to innovate to sell you more crap to solve a problem that was the invention of that very same society!
It's really simple, right? You want an office with office facilities but are only have a few people. So, you sub let space from someone. This ain't complicated.
That's not the way it's pitched here. Some people do use these co-located incubator spaces for cheaper rent but it's an open space for all the companies. Cross pollination and collaboration is encouraged and that is the basis of the business model. It's also pitched for people who are interested getting into "the scene" whatever that means. That's the part that I find to just be a no value sales pitch.
There is no evidence that I'm aware of that it helps grow businesses any better than anything else. What it does do is it allows the investors in the to reap a huge profit with a lot of hype and happy talk.
I guess my biggest problem is the people who run these things tout it as if they are the heroes of the tech industry when they're just basically glorified "tech slum lords" out for money who couldn't care less about the industry.
Very nice and all, but it's got nothing to do with TFA. Cow-orking spaces are places you go to rent one or a small number of stations at which you can ork cows (i.e. desks). Your neighbour will likely be from a different company. The company you rent space from doesn't give a fig if you get high utilisation or low utilisation of your workers as long as you pay the rent and don't piss off the other customers.
My bad. We have one of those where I live. It's a scam to make money. Paid membership to be in some large incubator with no orchestration? The only reason I can think of why anyone would do that is the sense of feeling like you belong to some exclusive club like a prestigious golf club membership.
I was part of an early stage start-up and, frankly, slaved for more years than I should have with the occasional missed paycheck. Ended up going through a reasonable amount of my savings before I finally decided that enough was enough.
This, a million times, this. This is the reality for most startup opportunities. And look where you ended up on the other end of it. Worse off than when you started eh?
Could you see yourself managing an open source project for the long haul?
Your naivety is admirable. If money is no object then by all means do whatever you like. However, if money is the primary concern in starting up the business, the most profitable path is to build it to a certain point to attract buyers and cash out. Sad, but true. I will say this though, money = freedom so once you're financially self sufficient you do any software project you like in whatever way you like without having to fear if it doesn't work out. The last bit you have to have your business managed appropriately to ensure insulation. Hire a good lawyer.
It sounds like you don't have any real ideas, so don't start your own business.
Correct
If you want to join a startup, there are certain recruiting firms that specialize in startups. Every recruiter who contacts you, tell them you are looking to join an early stage startup. It also helps to go to meetups and such.
I would add to this that if you don't know how to negotiate well, don't do this. Every startup's wet dream is to hire a low paid salaried unicorn that doesn't have equity or stock options in the company. Step 1 - hire cheap unicorn, Step 2, Step 3 - Profit!
Finally, if you don't have "full stack" ability, then it's going to be a lot harder for you. Maybe build up your skills a bit.
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....
This can work if both sides perceive this arrangement as a win/win. But usually the reason why it's a win/win is because the technologist (you) doesn't care about the money and you truly care about your craft. That makes it easy for the other business partner because they exploit your ethics to reap all the rewards of your hard-earned work. If you go into an arrangement like that, when you get older you'll realize later in life that you have nothing to show for it and all that really matters is your family and friends. You'll be right back where you started but much older and with a lot less energy and enthusiasm.
You will need to be able to sell. Are you any good at selling? If not quite your job and get a job as a used car salesman (or other sales job) for six months while someone else teaches you how to sell. This is far cheaper in money and time than the mistakes you will make if you don't know how to sell
Anyone can learn how to sell and most sales people are actually very bad at it. You see the key to influence is to influence people in such a way that they don't realize they are being influenced. Most sales people are absolutely fricking terrible at it. Basically, in order to be a good sales person you have to learn all the thinking patterns and techniques employed by expert sociopaths aka Jordan Belfort. I use this knowledge to frustrate unscrupulous negotiators. It's all psychology. Eliciting reciprocity? That's amateur hour.
In addition to learning sales, you must learn negotiation in general. In business, no one is your friend and if you offer your shirt off your back, you will lose it in seconds. It's competition and it's nasty and if you don't like that, you shouldn't go into business because that's all big business is. If you don't like playing the game, you've lost before you've ever started.
99% of all businesses fail in the first 24 months for one reason; no one knows your product exists. I would suggest some quiet time considering how to communicate the existence of your product to others.
And of those 99%, 99% of the ideas are crap and there is no market for the products.
Hmm, I think memory is failing you here. I clearly remember many, many programs randomly crashing and taking the entire OS with it - and losing hours of work in the process, having to fiddle with hi memory and extended memory in DOS for hours to get some half-assed program to work, installing version after version of certain buggy drivers and goofing around with interrupt jumpers to get a somewhat stable system, etc etc etc. And the worst thing was trying to figure it all out on my own, without any internet forum to help me out.
It was fun at times, but mostly frustrating. I sure ain't missing those days...
GP is not referring to DOS (see 8-bit). He's referring to much older computer like C64, Atari, TRS, Apple II's and stuff like that. GP is correct, these were more reliable. However, the reason why is because the hardware in all of these types of computers were standard. DOS, on the other hand, was for IBM PC Compatible computers which could have very diverse hardware (motherboards, video cards, sound cards, chipset, CPU, etc.) General purpose operating systems that could be hooked to unknown hardware that was supposed to conform to any number of standards to guarantee predictable operation is what made things very tricky. It is still quite tricky to this day. That particular computing problem is very difficult to solve in the general case.
Honestly, I think companies themselves created the buzz around young people liking co-located spaces when in fact, it's the companies that prefer open, co-located spaces because it makes it a lot easier for them to observe you and make sure they get as close to 100% utilization out of you as possible. It has nothing to do with people thinking co-located "spaces" are cool. The Fortune 500 company I worked at that adopted them, it was very clear what their motivation was for moving to them. And as others have posted, it's very clear there is less productivity in co-located spaces as well.
The Internet of Things shall henceforth be known as the catchy and marketable Silicon Valley-ish term: ID10T. Marketing companies please feel free to use this idea freely. Want to crank it to 10? ID10T. See how cool that is? You're welcome.
Law overrides contracts, less the law specifically states it can be contracted out of.
Perhaps there should be penalties for putting in clauses that contradict law. The companies put them in to scare people in to not exercising their legal rights, knowing they're not enforceable.
I wonder if it would be covered under existing "obtaining by deception" or "loss by deception" laws...
You mean like employment contracts? Good luck with that.
Has not. Non American citizens are not guaranteed the same rights as American citizens. Always been that way across the world. Take a vacation to North Korea or Iran and see if you get the same rights as in your own country and report back.
I think that using the argument that the US is only doing the same thing as the insane dictatorship that is North Korea is not a good way of proving your country's sanity.
You're missing the point because you have your rose-colored liberal glasses on. The United States is no more obligated to do anything for North Korea than North Korea is obligated to do for us. No country is obligated to do anything for any other country except by agreements such as treaties and for members of the United Nations, they've agreed to abide by specific agreed upon rules by every member of that organization. There is no world government which is what people like you seem to want. There is no world governing body other than organizations like the United Nations, NATO, WTO, etc. that establish rules and this is certainly not covered under any of their jurisdictions that I'm aware of.
Your liberal idealism is admirable in that you envision a better future world where it might not look like it does today. However, at some point though, you need to stop living in fantasy and come into reality with the rest of us. If you want to make a difference in the world, it doesn't happen by projecting fantasy, it happens by hard work and persistence. It's not for the lazy. If you're not willing to do that, you're not really interested in real change. Talk is cheap.
Ha ha ha. Trying to use the operating system to protect against the operating system.
EPIC FAIL.
You cannot do *anything* on a Windows 10 machine to stop Microsoft sending the data. Do you *really* think that editing the hosts file is going to be of any use ?
If so I've got a bridge you might be interested in.
If it is true that Windows specifically bypasses its own DNS API to get around hosts file redirects it can still be done but requires a lot more effort. You need to hijack the right API calls. In the very worse case scenario, you could write a kernel driver to sit in the kernel driver stack but I seriously doubt this would need to be done. Do you have the expertise actually answer this question competently? If not, I suggest you move over with your ego and let someone who has the expertise weigh in to actually answer the question.
In terms of troubleshooting, its helpful in aggregate to know things like "58% of users spend more-than-desired time on the installation folder selection dialog.. perhaps we should try to redesign it to flow smoother." Or "30% of new Acrobat installs fail the first attempt but succeed on the second," which may not be something MS can do anything about themselves but if they can get enough diagnostic information, they probably have a much more direct line for reporting bugs to Adobe than you or I do just posting requests on their help forums.
Telemetry is amazingly useful.
I don't think any amount of Telemetry is going to help Microsoft with UX design at this point. If you've been at this for 30+ years and still can't figure it out, it's time to retire and move over so someone else can do it.
You don't need it. I don't need it. We're also the extreme minority who don't need it. We're getting this because everyone else can't troubleshoot their own PC/device.
If Microsoft's marketing would do their job adequately, they would realize that there is a market for Windows 10 Power User Edition that doesn't need any technical support. The problem is the same idiot users that Microsoft needs Windows Telemetry to support are the same idiots that work in sales and marketing. You can't win.
How is an American company going to enforce this against non-US citizens?
Same way they do it against US citizens - cancel the account. *poof*
See #2. Define the algorithm by which you can determine password sharing is occurring. Facebook would love to hear it and would probably hire you if you could.
The United States has done off the deep end. I will never be visiting such a douche bag country that would pull this shit. If the States wants less "Terrorists" then stop pissing every one off. Stop stealing from every one and killing innocent people.
Slashdot Mirror
A long time ago on an internet far far away, there was a setting in crusty old browsers like Netscape Navigator that allowed you to control whether you wanted images to load automatically. It's the new old thing!
Unfortunately dream variables are all locally scoped - as soon as you wake up, they're undefined.
When you go to sleep again, is the state of the scope loaded from disk or is there an entirely new scope?
This problem already has a solution, it's called: LESS STRESS
But no because America is a culture of burnout referring to other countries as slackers, we have to innovate to sell you more crap to solve a problem that was the invention of that very same society!
Irony Alert: Pet Rock ?
Well alright, you see it was this mat... that you would put on the floor and it would have CONCLUSIONS written on it, that you could JUMP TO.
This idea... it's horrible
Office rental is a scam now? WTF?
It's really simple, right? You want an office with office facilities but are only have a few people. So, you sub let space from someone. This ain't complicated.
That's not the way it's pitched here. Some people do use these co-located incubator spaces for cheaper rent but it's an open space for all the companies. Cross pollination and collaboration is encouraged and that is the basis of the business model. It's also pitched for people who are interested getting into "the scene" whatever that means. That's the part that I find to just be a no value sales pitch.
There is no evidence that I'm aware of that it helps grow businesses any better than anything else. What it does do is it allows the investors in the to reap a huge profit with a lot of hype and happy talk.
I guess my biggest problem is the people who run these things tout it as if they are the heroes of the tech industry when they're just basically glorified "tech slum lords" out for money who couldn't care less about the industry.
Very nice and all, but it's got nothing to do with TFA. Cow-orking spaces are places you go to rent one or a small number of stations at which you can ork cows (i.e. desks). Your neighbour will likely be from a different company. The company you rent space from doesn't give a fig if you get high utilisation or low utilisation of your workers as long as you pay the rent and don't piss off the other customers.
My bad. We have one of those where I live. It's a scam to make money. Paid membership to be in some large incubator with no orchestration? The only reason I can think of why anyone would do that is the sense of feeling like you belong to some exclusive club like a prestigious golf club membership.
I was part of an early stage start-up and, frankly, slaved for more years than I should have with the occasional missed paycheck. Ended up going through a reasonable amount of my savings before I finally decided that enough was enough.
This, a million times, this. This is the reality for most startup opportunities. And look where you ended up on the other end of it. Worse off than when you started eh?
Could you see yourself managing an open source project for the long haul?
Your naivety is admirable. If money is no object then by all means do whatever you like. However, if money is the primary concern in starting up the business, the most profitable path is to build it to a certain point to attract buyers and cash out. Sad, but true. I will say this though, money = freedom so once you're financially self sufficient you do any software project you like in whatever way you like without having to fear if it doesn't work out. The last bit you have to have your business managed appropriately to ensure insulation. Hire a good lawyer.
It sounds like you don't have any real ideas, so don't start your own business.
Correct
If you want to join a startup, there are certain recruiting firms that specialize in startups. Every recruiter who contacts you, tell them you are looking to join an early stage startup. It also helps to go to meetups and such.
I would add to this that if you don't know how to negotiate well, don't do this. Every startup's wet dream is to hire a low paid salaried unicorn that doesn't have equity or stock options in the company. Step 1 - hire cheap unicorn, Step 2, Step 3 - Profit!
Finally, if you don't have "full stack" ability, then it's going to be a lot harder for you. Maybe build up your skills a bit.
Absolutely
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....
This can work if both sides perceive this arrangement as a win/win. But usually the reason why it's a win/win is because the technologist (you) doesn't care about the money and you truly care about your craft. That makes it easy for the other business partner because they exploit your ethics to reap all the rewards of your hard-earned work. If you go into an arrangement like that, when you get older you'll realize later in life that you have nothing to show for it and all that really matters is your family and friends. You'll be right back where you started but much older and with a lot less energy and enthusiasm.
You will need to be able to sell. Are you any good at selling? If not quite your job and get a job as a used car salesman (or other sales job) for six months while someone else teaches you how to sell. This is far cheaper in money and time than the mistakes you will make if you don't know how to sell
Anyone can learn how to sell and most sales people are actually very bad at it. You see the key to influence is to influence people in such a way that they don't realize they are being influenced. Most sales people are absolutely fricking terrible at it. Basically, in order to be a good sales person you have to learn all the thinking patterns and techniques employed by expert sociopaths aka Jordan Belfort. I use this knowledge to frustrate unscrupulous negotiators. It's all psychology. Eliciting reciprocity? That's amateur hour.
In addition to learning sales, you must learn negotiation in general. In business, no one is your friend and if you offer your shirt off your back, you will lose it in seconds. It's competition and it's nasty and if you don't like that, you shouldn't go into business because that's all big business is. If you don't like playing the game, you've lost before you've ever started.
99% of all businesses fail in the first 24 months for one reason; no one knows your product exists. I would suggest some quiet time considering how to communicate the existence of your product to others.
And of those 99%, 99% of the ideas are crap and there is no market for the products.
Hmm, I think memory is failing you here. I clearly remember many, many programs randomly crashing and taking the entire OS with it - and losing hours of work in the process, having to fiddle with hi memory and extended memory in DOS for hours to get some half-assed program to work, installing version after version of certain buggy drivers and goofing around with interrupt jumpers to get a somewhat stable system, etc etc etc. And the worst thing was trying to figure it all out on my own, without any internet forum to help me out.
It was fun at times, but mostly frustrating. I sure ain't missing those days...
GP is not referring to DOS (see 8-bit). He's referring to much older computer like C64, Atari, TRS, Apple II's and stuff like that. GP is correct, these were more reliable. However, the reason why is because the hardware in all of these types of computers were standard. DOS, on the other hand, was for IBM PC Compatible computers which could have very diverse hardware (motherboards, video cards, sound cards, chipset, CPU, etc.) General purpose operating systems that could be hooked to unknown hardware that was supposed to conform to any number of standards to guarantee predictable operation is what made things very tricky. It is still quite tricky to this day. That particular computing problem is very difficult to solve in the general case.
Honestly, I think companies themselves created the buzz around young people liking co-located spaces when in fact, it's the companies that prefer open, co-located spaces because it makes it a lot easier for them to observe you and make sure they get as close to 100% utilization out of you as possible. It has nothing to do with people thinking co-located "spaces" are cool. The Fortune 500 company I worked at that adopted them, it was very clear what their motivation was for moving to them. And as others have posted, it's very clear there is less productivity in co-located spaces as well.
IoT(I pronounce "idiot") devices
The Internet of Things shall henceforth be known as the catchy and marketable Silicon Valley-ish term: ID10T. Marketing companies please feel free to use this idea freely. Want to crank it to 10? ID10T. See how cool that is? You're welcome.
Law overrides contracts, less the law specifically states it can be contracted out of.
Perhaps there should be penalties for putting in clauses that contradict law. The companies put them in to scare people in to not exercising their legal rights, knowing they're not enforceable.
I wonder if it would be covered under existing "obtaining by deception" or "loss by deception" laws...
You mean like employment contracts? Good luck with that.
Has not. Non American citizens are not guaranteed the same rights as American citizens. Always been that way across the world. Take a vacation to North Korea or Iran and see if you get the same rights as in your own country and report back.
I think that using the argument that the US is only doing the same thing as the insane dictatorship that is North Korea is not a good way of proving your country's sanity.
You're missing the point because you have your rose-colored liberal glasses on. The United States is no more obligated to do anything for North Korea than North Korea is obligated to do for us. No country is obligated to do anything for any other country except by agreements such as treaties and for members of the United Nations, they've agreed to abide by specific agreed upon rules by every member of that organization. There is no world government which is what people like you seem to want. There is no world governing body other than organizations like the United Nations, NATO, WTO, etc. that establish rules and this is certainly not covered under any of their jurisdictions that I'm aware of.
Your liberal idealism is admirable in that you envision a better future world where it might not look like it does today. However, at some point though, you need to stop living in fantasy and come into reality with the rest of us. If you want to make a difference in the world, it doesn't happen by projecting fantasy, it happens by hard work and persistence. It's not for the lazy. If you're not willing to do that, you're not really interested in real change. Talk is cheap.
Ha ha ha. Trying to use the operating system to protect against the operating system.
EPIC FAIL.
You cannot do *anything* on a Windows 10 machine to stop Microsoft sending the data. Do you *really* think that editing the hosts file is going to be of any use ?
If so I've got a bridge you might be interested in.
If it is true that Windows specifically bypasses its own DNS API to get around hosts file redirects it can still be done but requires a lot more effort. You need to hijack the right API calls. In the very worse case scenario, you could write a kernel driver to sit in the kernel driver stack but I seriously doubt this would need to be done. Do you have the expertise actually answer this question competently? If not, I suggest you move over with your ego and let someone who has the expertise weigh in to actually answer the question.
In terms of troubleshooting, its helpful in aggregate to know things like "58% of users spend more-than-desired time on the installation folder selection dialog.. perhaps we should try to redesign it to flow smoother." Or "30% of new Acrobat installs fail the first attempt but succeed on the second," which may not be something MS can do anything about themselves but if they can get enough diagnostic information, they probably have a much more direct line for reporting bugs to Adobe than you or I do just posting requests on their help forums.
Telemetry is amazingly useful.
I don't think any amount of Telemetry is going to help Microsoft with UX design at this point. If you've been at this for 30+ years and still can't figure it out, it's time to retire and move over so someone else can do it.
You don't need it. I don't need it. We're also the extreme minority who don't need it. We're getting this because everyone else can't troubleshoot their own PC/device.
If Microsoft's marketing would do their job adequately, they would realize that there is a market for Windows 10 Power User Edition that doesn't need any technical support. The problem is the same idiot users that Microsoft needs Windows Telemetry to support are the same idiots that work in sales and marketing. You can't win.
Cuts out all the stuff no-one wants, and lets you turn off the data collection.
Even without the Group Policy editor you can still manually edit the registry to do disable it. I posted a link above with instructions.
Also, you could find out what URL's Windows 10 is phoning home to and put the hostnames in your %WINDIR%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file
Awesome! How can we turn off ALL data collection? Show us THAT link and we are golden...
Here is how you actually turn off Windows 10 Telemetry
How is an American company going to enforce this against non-US citizens?
Same way they do it against US citizens - cancel the account. *poof*
See #2. Define the algorithm by which you can determine password sharing is occurring. Facebook would love to hear it and would probably hire you if you could.
The United States has done off the deep end. I will never be visiting such a douche bag country that would pull this shit. If the States wants less "Terrorists" then stop pissing every one off. Stop stealing from every one and killing innocent people.
Obligatory Mars Attacks scene.