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It all sounds so straightforward: Put your code up on GitHub or start/join a project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), build a community of like-minded individuals, start a company, take in some funding, and then IPO. Or maybe not. One thing is certain: Running an open source company has unique challenges and opportunities.

By taking the leader's opinions as fact, your company may grow so rigid that innovation becomes impossible.

The customer-service obsessed company calls its executives "monkeys," has staffers ring cowbells to greet guests, and offers new employees cash to quit as a way to test their loyalty. The Las Vegas-based retailer is now going even more radical, introducing a new approach to organizing the company. It will eliminate traditional managers, do away with the typical corporate hierarchy and get rid of job titles, at least internally.

pre porovnanie vizie a misie :)

A few years ago, I took on a freelance project to implement an Internet Explorer component in C++. I was billing a healthy hourly rate on other projects at the time, but this particular client insisted on a fixed price. In a bout of temporary insanity, I made an exception.... Every developer knows that accurate software estimation is not possible even when perfect information is available about project requirements (i.e. practically never).....

podobne nazory na estimate trvania taskov som cez vikend cital aj v tomto clanku https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/11/death-to-jira/ , odhady veru nie su easy

Z toho clanku "death to JIRA" vypichujem: For some reason many companies today seem to be terrified of the prospect of writing more than a couple of paragraphs of clear and simple prose. But a well-written 8-page document can define the nuances of a complicated system far better than a whole cumbersome flotilla of interlinked JIRA tickets. ... Feature planning is about communication. JIRA is fundamentally a terrible way to communicate the requirements of a complex system. Words in a row, if written well, will always be better. A v dost vela veciach suhlasim.

Oracle is massively ramping up audits of Java customers it claims are in breach of its licences - six years after it bought Sun Microsystems. A growing number of Oracle customers and partners have been approached by Larry Ellison's firm, which claims they are out of compliance on Java. The moment you, as an organisation, are delivering something where Java is distributed to end users - something more and more companies are doing by distributing apps through which customers can obtain products and services - that is not general-purpose any more… and Oracle wants to make money from that. Nestudoval som to dokladne, no verim,ze na Slovensko faktury tak skoro prichadzat nebudu :)

Nuz, dufajme... Resp. este inak: tu diskusiu o (ne)distribuovani Javy by sme mali dotiahnut do konca.

After the launch, shared network, biometric services can be provided to all banks in Poland. Currently, a number of top commercial banks are interested in joining the biometric scheme, the company claims.

vysvetlenie preco nie je velmi vhodne, aby office-management a programatori boli v jednej miestnosti a zvonenie telefonov a postarka vyrusovali tych, ktorych naplnou prace je najma programovat: top performers overwhelmingly worked for companies that gave their workers the most privacy, personal space, control over their physical environments, and freedom from interruption. Sixty-two percent of the best performers said that their workspace was acceptably private, compared to only 19 percent of the worst performers

The longer an engineer remains at a company, the harder it is to find a few hours of isolation, free from interruption, to get work done.

AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The company targeted by the intelligence agencies, Gemalto, is a multinational firm incorporated in the Netherlands that makes the chips used in mobile phones and next-generation credit cards.