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This is absurd. Research into HIV and AIDS has been ongoing for decades and remarkable progress has been made with drugs that slow the progression from HIV to AIDS (I have no idea of side effects or strength of the drugs however).
HIV wears down your immune system which leads to AIDS. Whether other causes could lead to AIDS I don't know, but HIV definitely does.
Ever see OpenPhoto? It was on github and open source.. You have to self-host but it's pretty good. I was using it for this purpose a couple of years ago.
I believe the dev team behind it also have a commercially-hosted offering called (maybe) Trove?
5. Humans will let you down.. bullshit occurs, its extremely frustrating. I've spent 10 years like you, trying to do the best I can for good companies but the good companies always turn to s* at some point.
The only sane option seems to be: be the boss yourself. Take a leading role somewhere where you can influence the running of the business, better yet start it yourself.
I agree mostly with the article. The most important thing about any team is its people and their individual & team dynamic. 2nd is motivation to make the project a success.
3rd or possibly lower is the methodology used. The methodology's main purpose in my opinion is to align everyone's working style to milestones, it doesnt reveal anything about whether the project will succeed, only how we will approach it.