Loved the presentation and looking forward to the book. Appreciate you taking the time away from your business to do this — it's nice to get an honest feel for how someone else has done it, mistakes made, and successes achieved.
We need to share more like this among entrepreneurs — the Marc Andreessen quote about the entrepreneurial roller coaster of euphoria and doom is spot on.
How are you updating your master branch? Are you just doing a 'git aws.push'?
I'm reading that causes a little bit of downtime and AWS' recommendation for zero downtime is to create a new environment and then switch the CNAME to point to the new environment once it is ready... Seems like a little bit of an ordeal for pushing out changes.
AWS is cheaper as terpua mentioned... but Zencoder has been awesome for us. Easy to set up and our video processes have been running with zero problems.
"End-users couldn't care less what the code looks like."
This should be on a poster.
End-users don't care about any of the behind the scenes stuff that developers sometimes get completely distracted by — they care if it works. If it solves their problem and does what they want/need it to do, then it works ... if not, it doesn't. What goes on behind that? Irrelevant to them.
Saying that a particular view is stupid without offering any additional information or another viewpoint is... well...
This isn't 7th grade — come up with another word that really means what you want to say. There are a lot of ways to disagree with someone and/or an idea without the derogatory language.
Thank you. Unfortunately, 2 does not work for my goals. Therefore, 1 does not either (I mean in public situations, on the Internet).
For me, a partial answer is that I need to find a means to get attention off me, personally, and onto a body of work. The tricky part is that "leading by example" tends to keep me, personally, under discussion for some things. I am still working on it, but I had a fantastic epiphany from wearing a tweety bird shirt some months ago. It has been slow going and frustrating but I feel I am making progress.
"For me, a partial answer is that I need to find a means to get attention off me, personally, and onto a body of work."
I'd suggest focusing more on your body of work, and less on the personal aspects that draw people away from it. From seeing some of your posts, I admit that the confessional nature of many can be distracting and you'd do better to avoid giving persons more information than is necessary.
Attempting to answer your stated question would likely fall under the "confessional nature" of posts which you have made it clear you view negatively. So I think it unlikely to be a productive conversation, for either of us. Which is unfortunate.
Well, you have viewed the responses to them negatively. My point is that you're providing an anchor for others to detach you from whatever professional goals you're attempting to reach here. Sometimes it's useful to discuss where you came from as a starting place, but it's not often necessary. Just focus on the specifics of where you're going and it'll be easier to be productive without concern for what internet people think of you ~personally~.
Although we are one of the wealthiest nations in the world in terms of personal well-being and life expectancy, we are also one of the poorest nations at consuming the world's resources responsibly. We are currently ranked 7th to last in this regard and our overall HPI is 105th in the world. [1]
"I'm not looking forward to the coming months. It's going to be a political circus, with each side clamoring to push or protect their already strongly held beliefs and positions."
I think regardless of your position we can all agree on this.
It would be useful if we could all see that we really are on the same side of this — everyone wants to prevent another tragedy like this. We just have very different beliefs about how best to go about that.
"everyone wants to prevent another tragedy like this"
If that were true, wouldn't we'd only be seeing gun control proposals that directly flow from this event, not all the "usual suspects" that are also being proposed again? E.g. the "gun show loophole", which has not been implicated in any of these events to my knowledge. But it turns out gun shows are a vital part of the US gun culture and shutting them down, as the fine print of these proposals would do, would do it grave damage.
We're seeing a whole lot of what some people define as insanity, doing (recommending) the same thing over and over again, regardless of results. That doesn't strike me as a response to this event, but opportunism in using it.
I'm with you — and probably agree with your political views 100% if I had to guess. I think that most of those people do want to prevent these tragedies — I think that everyone does. I do not agree with their methods (as misguided as they may be), but that doesn't discount their motivation.
"I think that most of those people do want to prevent these tragedies...."
Well of course. But wanting that is not exactly out of the mainstream, is it? Who doesn't, besides the fantasies of NRA members and/or gun owners that too many gun grabbers hold in their minds?
It's not out of the mainstream, but I think that some on the gun control side really believe that gun owners don't care that these shootings happen. They basically opine that if you don't agree with their proposals then you must not care about preventing the tragedies from occurring again.
Piers Morgan is a good example (http://bit.ly/12q3n4q) -- he contributes nothing to the conversation or debate because he insults anyone that has a view opposing his.
We need to share more like this among entrepreneurs — the Marc Andreessen quote about the entrepreneurial roller coaster of euphoria and doom is spot on.