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My point is that IBM didn't invest in open source to improve it, they invested to take advantage of it. Open source software was still frowned on since "free" was a dirty word in t…

I guess I should have said "When I was at IBM, the academy released a report, etc." No air quotes, required; I was there. I was on the open source community of practice core team a…

I think we should place a royalty on the pipelines, not the pumps. Take 10% from everything that flows down the pipeline, and use that money to drive us into the clean energy age. …

Carbon tax is pure economic foolishness. Imagine there's one pipe with smoke coming out of it, and imagine there's another pipe with a lever. If you pull the lever, bags of money w…

Not really. The IBM Academy reported that open source software was the single biggest threat to their business model, so they "invested" in Linux to keep their foot in the door. Th…

What about grinding it up into soil? They have developed techniques in British Columbia to grow fully mature forests in 10 years by laying down a mixture of soil and nutrients 6 fe…

Joe was truly one of the greats. My favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo5WL5IQAd0 Thank, Joe.

For a good chuckle, search Youtube for Diebold voting machines. LOL.

I find it very ironic that AWS is behind this. Whenever I buy books from Amazon I am amazed at their broken search engines. Just search a topic on Amazon and then try to sort the r…

Smart man. Oracle is garbage.

"Software methodologies are all about handling risk." Not even close. Methodologies should about creating working software with a short feedback loop between customer and engineer.…

Sounds just like a ponzi scheme bursting. No surprise.

I highly recommend Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There. https://www.marshallgoldsmith.com/product/book-2/ Great book on overcoming smart people faults.

Elixir and the Erlang Beam are eating their lunch right now. Vastly more scalable and a joy to program.

I agree Java is dying, but so is .Net. Microsoft is trying it's best, but .Net Core is no where near as popular as .Net 3.5. (google trends). Embrace the Beam. :)

This happens to me all the time, and I'm in my 50's. I'll be lying in bed thinking about some topic, and my wife will poke me and say, "Turn over, you're snoring", and as far as I …

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is a good place to start.

The bigger question is when will the rest of the world admit it uses the same tech.

The solution is to require ALL vehicles to have self driving features like collision avoidance.

So 3100 out of 57000 employees signed the letter. That makes google only 95% evil.

This is the same old model; give them something free, then monetize it. Thankfully, the internet allows us to just go somewhere else or write your own. https://medium.com/@benhanse…

Just like TV. I can see the images, but I can't have them. Good thing they don't own the view button, and there are other search engines. Google is so evil now.

Get 'em hooked on something 'free', then monetize it. Rinse and repeat. Just like they are building a browser that only blocks the 'annoying ads', now they are designing their emai…

Google brings their advertising machine to email. Goodbye gmail. Can't say I'm surprised.

Flowers in the Blood is an excellent read for anyone interested in this bit of history. https://www.amazon.ca/Flowers-Blood-Story-Jeff-Goldberg/dp/1...