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'Positioning' by Al Ries and Jack Trout. Where it all started.

Yeah, they'd have to be some new rookie company to make a mistake like that. In fact, it was EDS :0)

Yes. Took a job with a defense contractor in the UK. On day 1 they told me that it would take 6 months to get security clearance. The bummer was that the men's bathroom was in a se…

Maybe it was scanning us?

Yes please. Just the motivation I need.

It is so important to support things like Gimp. The alternative is truly being in thrall to Adobe forever.

Similar model - http://compellingsciencefiction.com/ I'm not a subscriber, but I've bought every issue on Kindle. Mostly good, sometimes great. Glad I discovered it.

Round about 1998 I worked in software pre-sales, and visited ARM in Cambridge, UK to try to convince them to buy our software. They didn't. My bad. But the guy I met was so ecstati…

Well, I agree in principle, but fact is, I've never worked for an organization that didn't have its share of stupid rules. 'Stupid' is subjective as well, so I think it's a bit of …

I think it depends if you're interested in knowing how to solve these problems, or simply in solving them. If the latter, there's a bunch of commercial solvers out there. I won't n…

Hey zapperdapper I'm so glad you posted. I'm a 57-year-old tech writer (UK-based) who followed a similar pattern to you for 10 years. Then I got sick of static daily rates and now …

I have always wanted to invent an ice-cube maker that works by being filled with water and placed in a microwave.

I worked there as a contract tech-writer a few years back. The people were great company and very talented. But the bling and the actual value proposition - who knows? I guess the …

Thank you. A very illuminating description of how things work.

Same is happening to me. These folks get hold of the details of recent domain registrants and spam them. I'm even getting phone calls. I don't think the information is explicitly b…

Forgive me, but more and more I see the phrase 'outer space' referring to stuff that happens at distances between the Earth and the moon. Is this a thing now?

A good employee does their job, and then does more. No way should they be allowed to work for someone else (themselves!) on your dime. Fired.

I've never seen a plan that didn't have to be replanned. In all likelihood, your initial list of tasks is going to double or triple once you get into the zone. So I think this micr…

And what does 'contrastive connotation' mean?

I think it depends on how much you could subdue your anger at at the Cobol language itself. I have worked for a Cobol company (Micro Focus) and found that I didn't want to stay the…

I don't think so - I think that particular accolade goes to https://www.emishealth.com

"Actually,it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits." Big difference.

Hey, you're not old! Really. I'm 57. At a guess, if you're experiencing 'ageism' - this is really a proxy for an employer's suspicion that you're no longer as biddable as early-car…

Back in 1996, having just joined a developer tools company, I recall my new CEO at our first meeting saying "The developer tools market is such a shitty, shitty market"