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It seems 99.999% or more are as lucky, but because something is rare and scary - it made a story on the news.

What article is not mentioning is this, for the US:

Private sector: + 687,000

Government sector: – 319,000

Total: + 181,000

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The government sector doesn't produce virtually anything that counts toward GDP, so GDP growth relates not to 181k of total employment growth but to 687k of private-sector growth. So, no, this is not about eliminating jobs and a few people getting rich. It is about statistcs, and lying to force the agenda.

As a founder/CEO who started as a programmer, I have been running my second company for 15 years. I am not great, but I got the company to be sizable and profitable.

1. I will take five automated CEOs. If I can split my company into five distinct companies (one per product), it would be amazing. We are splitting the company into two to streamline focus on different/incompatible industries, and I am dreading the process of finding another CEO. It is very, very hard.

2. I know a lot of CEOs. It helps. I didn't know a single one when I started. It is no more a cult than my programmer's peer group was.

3. Did I tell you how hard it is to find a good CEO? It is VERY, VERY hard. Think of hiring a great product guy with agency to do whatever needs to be done, with people skills to attract talent, a sales drive, and a willingness to deal with finance & legal. Oh, and I am in the tech field, so I need him to be very hardcore technical. Your mileage might vary, but this is who I need. Anyone who has that is running their own companies. Oh, and the person has to have a proven track record. I cannot let someone unproven ruin the company and well-being of hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers.

4. I don't believe CEOs are special in any way other than that most other professionals are special. There are probably some underlying qualities, but they're all so different.

5. Some CEOs got there because they were lucky, but they didn't stay there for long because of luck. It is very, very simple to screw up as a CEO.

6. Growing someone within an organization to become a CEO is very hard. We are trying - giving some people more and more responsibilities, trying to involve them in more and more aspects of the organization. The filter is - repeatable success. You don't have to succeed all the time, but you have to succeed most of the time. Most people don't want the pressure, aren't interested in certain aspects, or are unsuccessful more often than they should.

7. Boards are not a cult as well; they don't have CEO's back. Boards are represented by investors (pension funds, wealthy individuals, etc.) - they will oust the CEO if the company's performance suffers. They are willing to pay a lot to the CEO because ... it is so hard to find a good CEO.

People wouldn't keep using old shoes, and I am old enough to remember graphic artists who wouldn't use computers. It takes time. At some point, it will be a no-brainer. Yet, it will not be simply because method A is so much better than method B. It will be because people using method B change, retire, or are fired.

California prohibits non-competes, which is one of the reasons why so many new start-ups are created here. So, while it is not the most 'business' state, it is actually very startup-friendly.

Does it include warehouse workers?

No one takes them to jail; companies and organizations can run however they want, unless they break laws. It doesn't mean that the government that runs and wins on an anti-DEI agenda should give them money.

PSF made their own choice based on their own politics and optics. Note that requirements had nothing against diversity or fairness. It was fairly specific: "discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws."

DEI was weaponized in the USA, where in quite a few instances, people couldn't get promoted or hired because of their race (typically white or asian). It was about preferential treatment, where you would get hired because of your race, and not merit.

I am all for diversity, I am all for fairness, and I don't think we should exclude people based on the color of their skin or their socioeconomic status. Yet, that is exactly what DEI did, and I have seen it firsthand many, many times.

PSF is just being stupid (or pragmatic) about it.

I visited Portland a month ago. There are security guards at each pharmacy and supermarket. I got screamed at by a violent/homeless person because I walked on her block. Some streets - and we are talking downtown/center - I was just afraid or disgusted to walk on. So, yes, Portland is a dump that needs to get cleaned up.

X is much more fun now. I am not subjected to my own bubble, and I see opinions different from mine, which I often find irritating. Yet, given that I want to get out of the bubble and see opinions different from mine, X works wonders for me.

If people donate hardware - probably yes. If people with such hardware would be willing to run tests, then probably yes. Otherwise - my guess would be no, no specific testing for such drivers would be made.

I don't think there would be any guarantees, as it is a free product. So, it would be based on things like the availability of patches upstream (kernel.org), and how many people need the fix, as well as how much effort you are contributing to the fix (be it testing, willing to replicate the issue, etc...)

It is typical nonsense of a one-sided view of someone who wants to say: "My goal justifies any means." With all the typical justifications of such goals.

you are still young. Let's see how it works for you once you are 35+

It doesn't matter where you are as long as you serve someone in the EU. So, if you are in the USA, but your website is serving cookies / collecting logs for the visitors, and one of your visitors is in the EU, you must comply with GDPR. GDPR also requires explicit consent to collect information such as IP addresses (logs) or tracking cookies.

I have seen sites just banning all the EU IPs, but I don't think that would work anymore, as California & India have similar laws. I am sure a bunch of other jurisdictions have it by now, as well.

"The thing I do best in the world in a professional sense is writing, so if I were to become rich, getting rich through writing seemed like the most likely way for me to do it." And this is why kids should learn about bayesian probability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_probability in school. Otherwise, they will continue to make decisions based on such faulty logic

I look at this as optimizing money, time, quality & enjoyment. The "enjoyment" part is an important component.

I hate doing some tasks, and even if they cost more/save me little time, I would still outsource them. For example, I don't like cleaning the house or doing laundry. Making slides look good - I cannot do well or I don't enjoy it, so that would be in the quality/enjoyment category of outsourcing. Some tasks that I enjoy doing or I don't mind doing - and it provides me with a switch in my "work activity" - I would do. Like, I don't mind washing dishes or doing minor home repairs. So, I would do those things and use them as 'rest' from other activities that require thinking, coding, etc.

Alma is not following stream. It sues stream sources but selects only the right patches - to be fully binary compatible with RHEL

You can get a few more years of CentOS7 supported from TuxCare https://tuxcare.com/extended-lifecycle-support/centos-7-exte...

There is also KernelCare from tuxcare https://tuxcare.com/enterprise-live-patching-services/kernel... for kernel livepatching. It supports most linux distros.

Buying subscription and using it to build a distro would be against Red Hat Subscription agreement. I guess you missed all the drama of the summer, when Red Hat made it so.

Re-read the article, it is truly great. It is not about "profound beliefs", but about "profound beliefs, loosely held". It is not about sticking with your believes, but about validating them, and changing them based on data.

Now, talking as a technical CEO of midsize company, who coded in Lisp, and still codes: You are missing following pieces of data to justify your belief that List would be a good language for any projects for most companies: 1. Long list of successful companies with large Lisp codebases (are there examples of successful projects/companies based on such codebases) 2. Long list of examples of long term successful projects written in Lisp (how maintainable the code base will be if written in such language) 3. Long list of job positions for Lisp developers (ability to find more talent to expand the project when needed) 4. List of people in the company who can join the project (bus factor)

Management does care about how long it takes to write the code. Yet, it is only one of many aspects. So, while your beliefs might be profound, they are ... short sighted.

Of course there chechen restaurants in St. Petersburg: https://www.google.com/search?q=%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%...

Even more so in Moscow.

Second surprise for you - there are plenty of russians who are poor and alcoholic. There are plenty of russians that drink vodka.

And while it is a poor taste, there are quite a few people in russia with very poor taste.

What you are doing is trying to get the benefits of claiming that you are open source, without truly making it open source. What is open source is well known in the industry. If you search on google what open source mean - you will find that you don't fit the criteria. It would be much more ethical to truthfully say what you are doing. And don't get me wrong, what you are doing is still great.

I think there are two conversations going on at the same time. One is "per project" fee, where charging less upfront to charge more later on is just ... wrong. I don't think the article is about that case.

Yet, in SaaS world, when you sell per seat to a large company, you can either: 1. get a small deal / a few seats, and then expand (because your product is great) 2. try to land as big of a deal as possible from the get go.

The typical sales comp structure is forcing salespeople to go for #2, as they don't get as much money for expansion. My understanding is that the article is arguing for changing the comp structure to make #1 as exciting as #2 for the sales person. And that is the whole point. The chances to get the deal, and time to get the deal when sales person goes for #1 are much better than in case #2. IMHO: Makes a lot of sense.

comparison: https://wiki.almalinux.org/Comparison.html

AlmaLinux is 501c6 non-profit, community based. RockyLinux is owned by Greg/his corporation.

Who has tried AlmaLinux OS so far?

It is interesting how a bugfix can introduce a larger issue that it fixes.

We are software development company. Most of our compute/storage needs are for build/test cycles. We recently bought ~100K worth of additional hardware to migrate some of that work off AWS. The storage / virtualization is done using Ceph & OpenNebula. Including colocation/electricity/networking costs, the investment will pay for itself in ~9 months. If I would include deployment costs & work to migrate the jobs off the AWS -- it will pay for itself in 11 months.