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The Narrow Road Between Success and Failure
Before I started Likewise Software, I was in the venture capital business. Although my role was more on the “back end”, performing due diligence once we’d decided to invest in a company, I heard many, many pitches from aspiring entrepreneurs. For the great majority of these pitches (probably 95% of them or so), I recommended…
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Crusty Programmer Story 1
If you read my About page, you’ll know that I’m a crusty old programmer (COP). I may be 48 years young (as of January 2008), but I’m 144 years old in programmer-years. A year of intense programming ages you at 3x normal. (I suppose that, more accurately, I’m 15+33*3=114, since I didn’t start writing software until I…
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The Future of Linux
As a software developer, I get to see aspects of Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X of which end-users are oblivious. In previous posts, (for example, What Linux Needs to Learn from Windows) I have bemoaned the lack of standards between Linux distributions and the lack of system APIs. I’ve also praised Microsoft for…