Sometimes the differentiating business practices is your competitive edge. Infact, it many times is just that.
I should know - we do loose some business because we cannot adapt the software to suit our needs (closed source portions/original design approach), and are forced to have our business to fit within the software specs. That sucks.
For startups the standard software package might allow cheaper start up, but eventually there will be things which does not suit the business.
Biggest competitive advantages are reached via business practices, look at Toyota and how their heavy emphasis in manufacturing automation keeps them ahead. Hint: Their automation solutions are pretty much everywhere, even their competitors buy heavily from Toyota to get their OUTDATED automation solutions in use. You could say Toyota is the Google of the auto industry. Toyota's automation procedures & know-how is like Google's datacenter procedures & know-how.
then you got to learn how to use keyboard if you keep hitting insert instead of delete.
I'm a business owner, i sell hosting services, manage tons of servers, code etc etc.
I *REFUSE* to use any keyboard which has non regular insert/delete key positioning, sizing or anything. how they are, is best how they are. I need both keys, regularly, each and every day.
For example, i cannot use any logitech keyboard as they have non-standard layouts. It's simply slow and hard to paste into SSH.
Also VIM uses either key i or insert to enable writing, and to get to replace mode only key allowing that is insert.
Both of those keys are immensively valuable for me, and i'm sure for tons of other geeks out there, pretty much anyone who uses SSH regularly, or linux.
Like another commenter (joaommp just below) who's never been so pissed on/., i am too and i got to agree 100% with joaommp: Timothy, you are in idiot.
wikileaks has from get-go been about publishing those documents, not to judge them, or decide what's worth their salt and what's not.
You could say they are new age of journalist: Publishing massive sets of data, and others can make the patterns and stories out of it. ie. publishing raw material.
They are doing exactly what they said to do. Whether or not this is due to Assange's ego is 100% irrelevant
the "find a good alternative" is the hard part. There really is little to no choice:(
We got to use Paypal, and are forced to use them due to practical market monopoly. However, that never was my primary choice, and i wish i did not have to use Paypal.
EXCEPT wikileaks is not behind this. Group of individuals, not part of wikileaks, or related in any way to wikileaks organization (as far as anyone knows) is doing this.
Hmm, someone could speculate why it's such a big thing here in Finland "to take a cruise to sweden" which is synonymous "let's get to a boat and get wasted for couple days, have immense amounts of sex and come back with a hangover lasting atleast 3 days". All the swedish women going on a boat to get some without rubber? XD
You notice that you are promoting limitation of the freedom of the press, and freedom of speech, right?
Certainly there is somethings which are better left unspoken and only harm could come if publicized, but that is very rare occurence, and if that information comes public, do not blame the messenger or free journalism.
It doesn't but people will not care of the intel if the man publishing it "is bad", framed or otherwise.
"Oh he was just an ahole rapist after fame!", and the masses ignore the information, as they mostly don't really want to know, they just want their entertainment.
there might be even more privately owned cameras than there are govt cameras, but that does not negate the fact that there is a hell of a lot of govt cameras in place at UK.
Indeed, and all that leads to the fact that warrant for arrest is being used for other reasons, and the accusations are a smokescreen. Assange working like free press should, seems very illegal from the point of view of some too powerful governments?
Indeed, him publishing leaked stuff, and the accusations are two separate things. Supporting him to publish this stuff, does not mean you support anything he does.
Also, it's widely out of proportions the accusations. Interpol most wanted? Oh come on... It's all media frenzy infowar
It's when those people "who just needs a programmer" actually gets even some of the money together, they tend to loose it and screw a lot of people.
I've seen it happened, i worked for one like that. I got paid about only 40% of the work i did - i was lucky! The next guy who he got bankrupted apparently...
and they fail to see how ideas are worthless without implementation, and only combination of an idea and implementation is worth something. at that point it's not any more just an idea, but a product.:)
software that is 50% complete and ships provides 100% more functionality to users than software that strives for 100% completeness but never gets shipped
there fixed it for ya:)
that quote is so correct it's not even funny:) thank fully, not all competition realizes this simple thing;)
and i did not read the parent fully before commenting (hey this is/., where no one reads the TFA neither!)
If end product is all you care, sure one is prone to first make some stupid fugly code, but in the end any intelligent being will notice that writing as simple as possible, elegant code with good structure is the fastest way to get results on a bigger project.
However there is a cost associated in greating that structure, so small things are just Quick'N'Dirty, for which it absolutely makes no sense to have a full blown software architecture when the task can be done in 100 lines or less.
I learned to code because i had an idea, and i wanted the end product out there. Programming for me as been almost all just a tool in my box of tools.
I used to enjoy coding greatly at some point, but for most part i'd rather do X other things than code. Working as a coder for a while i liked tho, but probably not because of the code itself, but creating stuff is what i liked:)
Hey, it's us programmers who are supposed to bring all that expertise on the table, get paid next to nothing, listen to verbal abuse day in and out, and in the end have a battle about getting paid at all or not, and when you are winning that battle, they threaten to sue you on court for demanding to get paid for work. Not only that, but they expect that if you start a job and you spend 1hr doing it, you may not charge for it at the following days anymore, but even a 1000hr job has to be done on that initial stretch. If that's not enough, they hire you on a hourly basis, but expect you to work at project terms, thus denying any right to pay a dime before you accomplish 1500hr job to get paid for the 150hrs owed.
Sometimes they put the payments on ridiculous terms which they do anything to stop you from achieving so that there would be a snowball's chance in hell they'd have a bad conscious to not paying you.
And if you happen to get all of that right, client decides in the end "this idea was bad, so this implementation must suck and you suck as a coder, thus we don't need to pay you", stays quiet for couple months, then implement your alternative idea to get the system done on minimal work.
Ofc, for a programmer "rush" and "hurry" are just feelings and do not exist, and programmer's 24hr day is actually a 48hr day and programmers don't need to sleep. Programming neither is a job which requires special skills, knowledge or way of thinking. Programmers also work each day faster, so you can just keep increasing the load on a infinite loop. They are efficiently semi-robots as they have no emotions but are still capable of creative thinking.
They are also masters of all fields of knowledge, experienced veterans. All of them know marketing & advertising, business leadership, how any industry works and rocket engineers along with being programmers.
If you do happen to agree to pay them, you don't need to pay the local rates, because you can get programmers so much cheaper from far asian countries. Not only that, but they never have a problem accomplishing a 500hr task in 1 week.
But most of all, programmers are telepathic and knows what you want without telling you.
You know what's the irony here? This was all based on my experience. I've been always avid coder, done lots of cutting edge stuff, just for fun or to profit myself. I finally went to work as a programmer because i needed that income. Took me a bit over 1½years to burn out, then finally first proper vacation and few freelancing clients to stop completely and refusing even very high paid jobs. Now i only code for friends, and even that with extremely long schedules. The best thing was that the income was worse as a full time coder than as a logistics worker in a warehouse! I quite literally earned more as logistics worker during the brief 2months i temped there before going as a programmer.
The sad part is that i actually liked working as a programmer, and i liked to have a little bit of hurry. I was 110% fine with that, but the loads kept increasing faster, and owner of the company was a total asshole. He basically told me that it's a illusion that i'm in a hurry, after i had worked 3 months constant overtime and my workload had doubled or tripled during that, some of which i WANTED to do, but the amount of work started to become a bit too much and i became stressed out. Final stretch was the owner of company gave me bullshit written warning. He refused to give me even average industry salary based on the fact that he wanted to make me a partner in that company - Basicly asking money for shares of unknown value, so that i would work for smaller salary. I was earning so little than under 100euros spending to fix my home computer took 4+ months to get together that money, after all gas to get to work and back and food are more important costs.
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Sometimes the differentiating business practices is your competitive edge. Infact, it many times is just that.
I should know - we do loose some business because we cannot adapt the software to suit our needs (closed source portions/original design approach), and are forced to have our business to fit within the software specs. That sucks.
For startups the standard software package might allow cheaper start up, but eventually there will be things which does not suit the business.
Biggest competitive advantages are reached via business practices, look at Toyota and how their heavy emphasis in manufacturing automation keeps them ahead. Hint: Their automation solutions are pretty much everywhere, even their competitors buy heavily from Toyota to get their OUTDATED automation solutions in use. You could say Toyota is the Google of the auto industry. Toyota's automation procedures & know-how is like Google's datacenter procedures & know-how.
Also the Shift+Insert shortcut works on windows as well and is easier to use than ctrl+v in many cases.
then you got to learn how to use keyboard if you keep hitting insert instead of delete.
I'm a business owner, i sell hosting services, manage tons of servers, code etc etc.
I *REFUSE* to use any keyboard which has non regular insert/delete key positioning, sizing or anything. how they are, is best how they are. I need both keys, regularly, each and every day.
For example, i cannot use any logitech keyboard as they have non-standard layouts. It's simply slow and hard to paste into SSH.
Also VIM uses either key i or insert to enable writing, and to get to replace mode only key allowing that is insert.
Both of those keys are immensively valuable for me, and i'm sure for tons of other geeks out there, pretty much anyone who uses SSH regularly, or linux.
Like another commenter (joaommp just below) who's never been so pissed on /., i am too and i got to agree 100% with joaommp: Timothy, you are in idiot.
wikileaks has from get-go been about publishing those documents, not to judge them, or decide what's worth their salt and what's not.
You could say they are new age of journalist: Publishing massive sets of data, and others can make the patterns and stories out of it. ie. publishing raw material.
They are doing exactly what they said to do. Whether or not this is due to Assange's ego is 100% irrelevant
the "find a good alternative" is the hard part. There really is little to no choice :(
We got to use Paypal, and are forced to use them due to practical market monopoly. However, that never was my primary choice, and i wish i did not have to use Paypal.
VISA & Mastercard payment processing was not affected by these AFAIK.
As an fellow online business owner as well, i do hear ya.
Aah Faux news. Thanks for the official US Govt standing & propaganda on this. Confirmed :)
I can't see fox news here in Finland, nor would i dare to get close to such propaganda.
EXCEPT wikileaks is not behind this.
Group of individuals, not part of wikileaks, or related in any way to wikileaks organization (as far as anyone knows) is doing this.
They are merely supporters of Wikileaks.
Hmm, someone could speculate why it's such a big thing here in Finland "to take a cruise to sweden" which is synonymous "let's get to a boat and get wasted for couple days, have immense amounts of sex and come back with a hangover lasting atleast 3 days". All the swedish women going on a boat to get some without rubber? XD
didn't know sweden is a state of US of A. Thanks for correcting my misinformation.
You notice that you are promoting limitation of the freedom of the press, and freedom of speech, right?
Certainly there is somethings which are better left unspoken and only harm could come if publicized, but that is very rare occurence, and if that information comes public, do not blame the messenger or free journalism.
It doesn't but people will not care of the intel if the man publishing it "is bad", framed or otherwise.
"Oh he was just an ahole rapist after fame!", and the masses ignore the information, as they mostly don't really want to know, they just want their entertainment.
there might be even more privately owned cameras than there are govt cameras, but that does not negate the fact that there is a hell of a lot of govt cameras in place at UK.
Indeed, and all that leads to the fact that warrant for arrest is being used for other reasons, and the accusations are a smokescreen. Assange working like free press should, seems very illegal from the point of view of some too powerful governments?
Who knows, time will tell
Indeed, him publishing leaked stuff, and the accusations are two separate things. Supporting him to publish this stuff, does not mean you support anything he does.
Also, it's widely out of proportions the accusations. Interpol most wanted? Oh come on... It's all media frenzy infowar
not only can, but likely is way more secure. Peer review and all that
ROFLMAO! XD
Good one! :)
It's when those people "who just needs a programmer" actually gets even some of the money together, they tend to loose it and screw a lot of people.
I've seen it happened, i worked for one like that. I got paid about only 40% of the work i did - i was lucky! The next guy who he got bankrupted apparently ...
and they fail to see how ideas are worthless without implementation, and only combination of an idea and implementation is worth something. at that point it's not any more just an idea, but a product. :)
hahahah, that saying has mathematical error :D
software that is 50% complete and ships provides 100% more functionality to users than software that strives for 100% completeness but never gets shipped
there fixed it for ya :)
that quote is so correct it's not even funny :) thank fully, not all competition realizes this simple thing ;)
except coders often need to know about usability, languages, best practices, business methods, marketing...
oh wait, sorry, i was describing myself and i'm one those high paid consultants :)
if it's extensible product, code quality matters a ton, and even if not it matters.
There will be way less bugs with well written code.
It's funny how the worst code is usually where the code quality matters most (ecommerce)
and i did not read the parent fully before commenting (hey this is /., where no one reads the TFA neither!)
If end product is all you care, sure one is prone to first make some stupid fugly code, but in the end any intelligent being will notice that writing as simple as possible, elegant code with good structure is the fastest way to get results on a bigger project.
However there is a cost associated in greating that structure, so small things are just Quick'N'Dirty, for which it absolutely makes no sense to have a full blown software architecture when the task can be done in 100 lines or less.
I learned to code because i had an idea, and i wanted the end product out there. Programming for me as been almost all just a tool in my box of tools.
I used to enjoy coding greatly at some point, but for most part i'd rather do X other things than code. Working as a coder for a while i liked tho, but probably not because of the code itself, but creating stuff is what i liked :)
Hey, it's us programmers who are supposed to bring all that expertise on the table, get paid next to nothing, listen to verbal abuse day in and out, and in the end have a battle about getting paid at all or not, and when you are winning that battle, they threaten to sue you on court for demanding to get paid for work. Not only that, but they expect that if you start a job and you spend 1hr doing it, you may not charge for it at the following days anymore, but even a 1000hr job has to be done on that initial stretch. If that's not enough, they hire you on a hourly basis, but expect you to work at project terms, thus denying any right to pay a dime before you accomplish 1500hr job to get paid for the 150hrs owed.
Sometimes they put the payments on ridiculous terms which they do anything to stop you from achieving so that there would be a snowball's chance in hell they'd have a bad conscious to not paying you.
And if you happen to get all of that right, client decides in the end "this idea was bad, so this implementation must suck and you suck as a coder, thus we don't need to pay you", stays quiet for couple months, then implement your alternative idea to get the system done on minimal work.
Ofc, for a programmer "rush" and "hurry" are just feelings and do not exist, and programmer's 24hr day is actually a 48hr day and programmers don't need to sleep. Programming neither is a job which requires special skills, knowledge or way of thinking. Programmers also work each day faster, so you can just keep increasing the load on a infinite loop. They are efficiently semi-robots as they have no emotions but are still capable of creative thinking.
They are also masters of all fields of knowledge, experienced veterans. All of them know marketing & advertising, business leadership, how any industry works and rocket engineers along with being programmers.
If you do happen to agree to pay them, you don't need to pay the local rates, because you can get programmers so much cheaper from far asian countries. Not only that, but they never have a problem accomplishing a 500hr task in 1 week.
But most of all, programmers are telepathic and knows what you want without telling you.
You know what's the irony here? This was all based on my experience. I've been always avid coder, done lots of cutting edge stuff, just for fun or to profit myself. I finally went to work as a programmer because i needed that income. Took me a bit over 1½years to burn out, then finally first proper vacation and few freelancing clients to stop completely and refusing even very high paid jobs. Now i only code for friends, and even that with extremely long schedules. The best thing was that the income was worse as a full time coder than as a logistics worker in a warehouse! I quite literally earned more as logistics worker during the brief 2months i temped there before going as a programmer.
The sad part is that i actually liked working as a programmer, and i liked to have a little bit of hurry. I was 110% fine with that, but the loads kept increasing faster, and owner of the company was a total asshole. He basically told me that it's a illusion that i'm in a hurry, after i had worked 3 months constant overtime and my workload had doubled or tripled during that, some of which i WANTED to do, but the amount of work started to become a bit too much and i became stressed out. Final stretch was the owner of company gave me bullshit written warning. He refused to give me even average industry salary based on the fact that he wanted to make me a partner in that company - Basicly asking money for shares of unknown value, so that i would work for smaller salary. I was earning so little than under 100euros spending to fix my home computer took 4+ months to get together that money, after all gas to get to work and back and food are more important costs.