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A word of warning, my experience with mikrotik in the WiFi-6 space has been overwhelmingly negative, both in a single AP setup at home and on a corporate WiFi network managed by someone else.
Bugs, random drops, poor performance on some machines. It is not set and forget and I gave up on it.
Well, now I'm rooting for the Europeans/chinese to develop something better and release it.
One can hope.
Nitpicking: the "antique" suitcase in the picture is a very recent suitcase made by Saddleback Leather (worth about 1400$!)
I mentioned that no greater precision than a day of work is required. The point of the question is not precision, but who and possibly how.
There is a secondary discussion if developers should be accountable for sticking to estimates, and my opinion is that they shouldn't - developers should be accountable for the quality and maintainability of the produced code, documentation and tests, not timelines - that's the job of the PM. A good PM will be able to observe that on average the unit of estimation takes 20% longer or shorter and adjust the project timelines accordingly. Also, if someone is worried about developer productivity, it can always evaluate it in relative terms, i.e. how many tasks generated with the above method does one developer execute vs another developer in the same unit of time.
Has anyone been able to identify what is the name of the organisation behind the website and where is it legally established?
I would like to know if the access fee benefits the artists in any way - the east european movie industry is not exactly swimming in money.
These people have a somewhat modern alternative with mechanical keyboard and eink screen. It has wifi and that's it. From watching the reviews I understood that a major drawback is that no editing is possible on the device itself and it is very expensive (600$)
I personally use occasionally an android based ebook reader with a bluetooth keyboard (Onyx BOOX Poke 2 with logitech k380). Distraction free writing is a thing.
Do you think there are more people around you in your situation?
If there are, there might be strength in numbers. You could organise to deliver a signifficantly larger project than any of you could get done individually. You do not need to hire anyone - use the principles of a cooperative and get like minded people that share the profits in an equitable way.
Along the same lines there are companies that may be looking to expand to capture the avilable workforce in your geographical area but lack the apropriate contacts to get started. Your written communication skillks seem to be above average which I consider quite important for such an engagement. If this sounds interesting, do leave some contact details.
Project managers with technical skills are worth gold in product companies (possibly in other companies as well).
Run a few product implementations at customer side and there will be no monotony.
If you grow older and start appreciating more the routine in your life you can go into product management using the knowledge accumulated on customer side implementations and finally consulting.
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You are rambling and the situation you are describing is nonsensical and not related to anything that is going on in Romania.
Telekom is the former Romtelecom.a quick Google search should clarify that for you.
Coverage in Romania is 98% mandated to all operators by law and regularly checked (http://www.ancom.org.ro/en/ancom-has-verified-the-coverage-o...)
Bribing a city Hall worker for fiber Internet connection is again made up. City halls and all other institutions in Romania are not connected to the regular Internet, the connectivity is provided by STS (Special Telecommunications Services) to a private government network. In remote villages this is provided over satellite or radio link. Regular Internet is purchased by the local authorities from local providers (as needed) and is the same service that would be available to anyone else.
If you would run a local farm, do not host your eCommerce site using the available bandwidth, do it in the cloud, that's what grown ups do.
Please provide sources for your claims and do start a WISP if you want to address the rest of the population 2-10%, spread out over a country the size of UK.
Romania has 14.3M (1) Internet users for an active population of 9.2M (2)
As the same time, about 98% of the population has mobile phone coverage (which implies some form of data access) with terminals that can be had for 0 upfront cost and ~10€ per month subscription with very large traffic allowance. Telekom (previous Romtelecom) can offer DSL services in most villages where a phone exchange is present.
Corruption or not, its probably a bad idea to start a wireless Internet provider in Romania because it already has excellent commodity connectivity virtually everywhere.
1. https://www.internetworldstats.com/europa.htm 2. https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-active-population-do...
The article does not mention that similar setups are already in operation in Schipol airport and Abu Dhabi. http://www.2getthere.eu/
Seems to be same concept but cheaper and with rechargeable battery so even cheaper on the long run. (and more environmentally friendly, arguably)
Also the campaign is flexible funding, I have contacted them and they said they are shipping in November whether it gets funded or not, the product is mostly ready.
I'm trying to find a positive interpretation to this:
Could it be that they are trying to find out how the customers actually use their products in order to allow them to build a better product?
This is good stuff. I was wondering, does any one know about similar standards for system design and implementation?
I would be interested in seeing MIL standards or NASA best practices related to infrastructure (telecom, data, etc) design and implementation management.
While this may be off topic, i am actually a lot more interested how they executed the project management part of the whole program.
The project management techniques in use today seem like they have been largely developed in the US aeronautics industry.
The soviet space program was inteed a complex task requiring coordination with large teams in different areas of development. Is anybody aware how they organize that? is the methodology documented somewhere?
I see a lot of posters argueing about the type of cisco router that should have been used or if a soho Linksys router should have been used instead.
Assuming that the government has some rules that requires them not to deploy soho or open source products and they have to spend the money on some big brand company: how come Juniper was not taken into consideration (or other known network vendors)?
I would argue that Juniper could provide cheaper equipment of simmilar of higher spec (let's ignore for a moment if that is oversized or not) - and it becomes even cheaper if you consider the simpler licensing terms and upgrade support.
Isn't the government supposed to run open tenders? Is cisco mandatory in the US?
I'm surprised that after 75 comments nobody remarked this quote:
"You’re shocked because your initial image is of some back-alley Eastern European bootlegger — not an old Jewish guy on Long Island,” Captain Curran said.
I may not be so familiar with the north american culture, can anybody clarify this for me: Is it a generally accepted fact that bootleggers are east europeans and old jews would never do such a thing?
Is this actually a victory for Juniper as Cisco acknowledges Juniper as a threat? Or will this FUD campaign have a real impact on Juniper sales?
While the article is just a bit superficial the smiling issue applies to most if not all east european countries.
Indeed, east europeans will mostly have a 'neutral' facial expression which is interpreted by most westerners as a frown. It's not a frown, it's just neutral.
East europeans will smile for a good reason and will not hesitate to break in to a laughter if the situation is funny enough. However, walking about smiling for no reason is indeed considered the attribute of mad men. For example in the romanian language 'vesel' means happy but it can also mean mad, disturbed, absent minded or drunk if put in a certain context.
Not smiling can be an impediment if doing business in the western culture but east europeans eventually get it.
I seem to have offended some readers and I apologize for that.
Personally I come form a different background (eastern Europe) and at the time i went to university it meant working your ass off on projects and papers, working for professors that seemed unreasonable and obtuse and building relationships with colleagues and professors.
That time did give us a certain maturity and taught as an approach to people and work. Little did we know, the people we ended up working with were even more unreasonable and narrow-minded.
Of course, your mileage may vary.
While this doesn't speak for all its graduates I have met two of their products. One quite young, early thirties, one much older, early sixties. Both had the maturity and view on life of someone, well...who didn't go to university.
Is a degree from university of Phoenix taken serious by employers?
Interesting list of books. Is it just me or we are seeing a large number of books (not just here and not just books) dealing with the failures of communism, soviet russia and china?
I'm wondering, are we fearing the comeback of these ideologies or what's the reason behind this surge in popularity?
Could it be that the DNS system needs to be decentralized and deregulated? How difficult is it to implement a P2P based name lookup system?
I was wondering about what you guys think of NAS systems.
While I don't claim to fully understand the advantages brought by block storage vs. file based storage, NAS storage should be usable for most applications. If this is true than the clustered or scale out solutions offered by IBM (SONAS), HP (IBRIX) and EMC (with the recent acquisition of Isilon) might be a suitable off the shelf solution matching your scenario (probably there are some open source solutions also that I am not aware of).
The way I understand these solutions you can basically scale capacity and performance independently which in turn translates itself in the flexibility of achieving the ideal balance between capacity and failure point distribution/redundancy.
What do you guys think of this setup? Would it achieve your goals?
I'm coming from a corporate environment where having an off the shelf solution that is supported by some major company is as important as the solution itself.
That is a good point you are making.
However (this might be a personal opinion only) this system is just an optimized way to look at an assembly line. What I mean is that it is very well applicable when applied to develop projects that consist of large numbers of relatively similar actions (action being writing code in the case of software development) but it is less applicable in one-off projects like delivering a building or a space station.
On the other hand I might just be missing the essence.
Thanks, that's a good lead.
To clarify however, I am not necessarily interested project management, I am interested in whatever methodology was used to deliver those projects successfully. Was it the methodology? Was it an unlimited budget?
If there was any methodology developed at the time, there must be some documented accounts. My example with the plane development method is only relevant in the sense that an "agile" methodology was used back in the '60s and it has been applied to software development relatively recent only.
Maybe there is more to be learned.
I've lived in London and in the US for a while and English is my third language (after Romanian and German). I'm quite proficient in English, not as good as my mother tongue, but I understand everything that is said to me and my vocabulary is quite extensive; however my accent is east-european with no doubt.
What I've found out is that while Americans are a lot more insensitive (tolerant?) to broken accents the British absolutely can't stand it. They avoid talking to people with bad accent and will generally walk away form any conversation with somebody of a non-british accent. I've observed this with brits around the world, not only in the UK and for sure it's not related to talking among conationals only: generally they are willing to engage in conversations with people that are obviously not british as long as they speak proper english with proper accent.
Of course you can not generalize the above to every brit in the world however this is my observation.
About blogs I observed in a comparative study that pages not ending in .com are just a bit less likely to be clicked.
About a written message, what can I say? If the English is badly broken I get annoyed too. If there are minor spelling mistakes it does not bother me, substance prevails over form.
Google desktop anyone?
It's fast and searches in your outlook email. I get about 120 emails a day and reply to a lot of them. Any effort to organize them (I recommend CleaContext for this task) will include some errors at which point only a powerful search tool like google desktop can help.