Wait , what ? My comment started by "Thanks" that's a weird interpretation really...
If you have 1000 companies following the course that's like 10% chance of getting funding, regardless of whether or not there is an equity that's the point.
> With Google’s history of abandoning efforts like this, I wouldn’t spend too much effort using any language developed by them.
Well , to be fair Go is becoming a major server side language and I don't see Google abandoning it any time soon.
That being said , Dart is basically on "life support" has of now , there is no SDK what so ever beside Google + Firebase , and I haven't heard anything from AWS / Azure or others vendors to support Dart + Flutter.
I feel like everyone is basically waiting for the language to take off to actually invest in it.
I'm afraid it will end up like Xamarin , a niche tech that will eventually die out because very little people accept the ecosystem that is forced on them by using the framework.
Reading the few comments here is really interesting.
Every-time there is a discussion about Dart , people talk about Flutter... they very rarely talk about Dart on the Server or on the Web...
A while ago I considered using Dart to build a Web API. I was shocked by the non-existent ecosystem around this language.
The Redis package has been un-maintained for almost three years now, and Angular Dart is always a few version behind the TypeScript version and doesn't support SSR.
I was also very surprised that Google during dart conf never commented on using Dart on the server but instead always insisted on using it for their clients (Web and Mobile). I think I'm not lying by saying that a huge part of Google runs on JVM , Go or Python but definitely not on Dart VM.
For me Dart is the language that developer needed , but never wanted to use. It failed miserably when it was introduced few years ago, since then JavaScript took off and has become almost a universal language.
This is very frustrating seeing how much the language is efficient and well structured but it the same times doesn't mean much now seeing how mature JavaScript is becoming.
For me Dart took long to become what is it now , and today the only thing that would make people using this language is really Flutter.
Beside that , I'm afraid they are very little reason to use this language.
> I am not sure why developers are not hot about it.
Because it's designed entirely for enterprise customers. If you have a startup you have very little reason to choose OpenShift compared to Heroku or AWS honnestly.
Yup , this article is basically similar to the already existing thousands of "Entrepreneurs" stuff existing on Medium.
>How to hire your first workers, or how to manage them
It's really sad these days we cant get things that are actually intellectually honest , people are "ok" to "open" about stuff that has been written about X Million times , but now how about they fail to manage X or Y or choose to hire X instead of Z and turn out wrong.
The reason "Westerners" fear Robots and Japanese do not is definitely cultural , but not in the same way.
Mostly for "Westerner" , it's related to the fear of losing their Job.
Per say , just look at Autonomous Car. Truck driver is of the most occupied job in the US and potentially it's one of the most replaceable by using AI and Robotics.
That's just the tip of the iceberg , what about McDonalds ? Domino's ? Both with their thousands of cashier , delivery guys and cooks ?
That's what people fear , not this gimmick of "Terminator" based on some BS "Christian" culture.
On top of that , when you know the American culture is almost entirely based on "Fast Money" for venture capitals it raise some concerns about the security and the effectiveness of those robots. Especially seeing how much accidents have happened with "Semi Autonomous" cars or the horrible accident that killed a pedestrian at full speed by Uber[0].
Most importantly , Japan is a declining country from a demographic perspective. Robots are needed for them to survive and stay productive and occupy jobs that very little people would accept to do these days in their culture.
This demographic decline is not happening in "Western Civilization" due to important amount of immigration. Either of "Talents" ( Engineers , Doctors...) or Students , who later stay in the country and eventually create a family there. Ultimately having for effect to maintain the demography of "Western Civilization", Japan claimed many times to be hostile to this form of growth , therefore the need for robot and the mindset of not being "scared" by robots as they are key for both their economy and their culture .
Ultimately making those robots a sign a of "hope" and not a "threat".
> because it's purely a marketing concern, it means nothing from an architectural standpoint
Serverless computing is an system architecture design that focus emphasis is abstracting the entirety of the infrastructure to let developers focus solely on code.
Per say , with AWS Lamba + API Gateway + S3 developers can create Web Application that usually required EC2 Servers and web framework like Spring , Laravel etc...
Apps hosted on AWS with EC2 requires strong knowledge in system architecture and system design . They also are quiet complex to scale , monitor and manage.
Serverless abstract all this and lets you focus only on code.
AWS Lambda is self healing meaning when a function crash , only that function crash not the entire server , API Gateway is managed by AWS it won't crash ( or very unlikely ) S3 , as i'm concerned , as never let me down.
Meaning I could author an entire application similar to Hacker News without any "Server" logically speaking, technically speaking there is always a server just like NoSQL doesn't mean "NO SQL" but "Not Only SQL" and is not buzzword :)
Interesting concept , don't know if this is something that would work outside of germany though , because of how dependant it is on the culture of the country between owning something and renting it.
I'm very curious to know if product come in a generalist box with the company logo on it or if it's sent with the original box that is sold with product ?
>My guess is Oracle Cloud will make the most aggressive bid
Not sure , it's also about sells arguments.
Governement often runs on Oracle because it was the most popular RDBMS at the time with enterprise support. So this is a massive argument technically speaking to convince customer : "We'll migrate your oracle DB and infrastructure for you , we have the tooling for that".
> Often times companies are legally barred from disclosing this information.
You are talking specifically about the financial and banking industry. Working in the banking industry , compliance regulation prevents banks from communicating about why your funds are frozen so the SEC can investigate and determine whether are not a fraud or suspicious activity were committed.
Such thing does not exist in the IT Industry. Microsoft ran their in house auditing tools , determined the account was suspiscious , set a flag "is_suspicious" as "true" in their database and the next day a batch ran and suspsended their account.
IT Audit for GAFA is 100% automated , there is no human interaction unlike Banking , Insurance and Finance.
Hence, the fact that BFA must communicate after the investigation about what fraud you committed to properly charge you in court and banned you from the services( You can even be banned in an entire country from owning a bank account depending on the severity ) but they must tell you why.
That is not the case for tech, it is completely unregulated which is why it's making me this upset.
>"We canno't provide details about why your account is closed and won't reactivate it"
This type of behaviour should be banned by the European Union.
You should be provided with the exact reason of why your account is being closed , regardless of who is the provider of the service.
It's unacceptable that companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Airbnb feel entitle to behave like this knowing how critical the service provided by those companies are for some organization. Plus the fact that those suspensions are usually done automatically by an algorithm powered by Machine Learning or something similar.
This type of mechanism could destroy an entire organization if the account of CEOs , CTOs, CFOs are suddenly locked down without possibility to access their emails , their contacts, their meetings and others business critical information.
This is why I hate giving my personal info when "Signin Up" for online services of stuff made by startups. They usually know nothing about Back End security , and today's trend is to create product that "sale" and to ship as fast as possible regardless of compliance or security.
One way or another it usually end up being stored in a completely unsecured manner.
This is even more outrageous knowing how secure Firebase actually is. The documentation even contains a "Securing your Data Model" section .
It's not "Open Core" if the core is not open. In this case a debugger is core part of a language.
It's a very clear movement in order to keep C# devs within their ecosystem and guarantee revenue with Azure. They loose money here , they must get it somewhere else.
This guarantee a total monopoly over the .NET ecosystem , Rider is probably one of the only tools that tried to offer an alternative they are stuck with the exact issue of not being able to bring the debugger because of that hostile license policy.
>Even the GitLab everyone's talking about in this context is Open Core.
I never talked about Gitlab and I don't care about them.
Don't be mistaken about MS , almost every move they do as a double intention behind it.
Just to name a few :
One MS engineer is core member to Webpack & Angular , why ? Windows Server dashboard is written in Angular , it's a critical product, they need some controller there.
One MS engineer is core contributor to Electron, why ? VS Code is powered by electron , it's a critical product, they need some control here as well.
One MS engineer is core contributor to Vue.js , why ? Azure is investing hundred of millions in China and Asia due to insane growth over the past 5 years, they need a good image in asia.
If you think MS has changed , you are delusional about the situation.
Wait , what ? My comment started by "Thanks" that's a weird interpretation really...
If you have 1000 companies following the course that's like 10% chance of getting funding, regardless of whether or not there is an equity that's the point.