California Tech Startup Relocation – Part III

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The Question:

Just about every week for the past few months I’ve received invitations from startup founders to relocate to CA in order to participate at CTO / Co-Founder level in their venture. This because the Silicon valley VC / Angel investors have some requirement about will not fund unless tech team is a) local to CA, and b) “long-term”. Any of my Angel/VC/Entrepreneur friends know how it might be possible to participate without relocating from UT w/ family? I doubt it would last more than 2 years. So far my offer is to only relocate for $130k salary plus $10-25k sign-on bonus and/or 100% moving expenses paid. But still having trouble convincing the wife on this since I make a better-than-average living working remotely.

The Answers:

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Hug a FSF/GNU Programmer Day!

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Linux + Google OS + Chrome aim to make the browser the future. Look at Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice/LibreOffice vs. Google Docs. http://bit.ly/jWRaLS Notice in US + Canada the browser app is cutting into desktop. The OpenOffice rebels moving to Google Docs. Subsequently, India + Philippines adopting because they work for US + CAN. The Chromium.org Chromebook video demonstrates this very well http://bit.ly/fRRHgy but there are others like Linux Mint and Peppermint Ice Linux.

This is the classic age-old battle of FSF+GNU decentralized vs. MSFT+APPL centralized platform locking strategy in general. Here you see Canonical’s Ubuntu cutting into marketshare of both Windows and OSX http://bit.ly/im7xi0

Cloud computing is definitely going to be the future for private sector. Clasically however, I expect big government to remain firmly rooted in the past except for black budget project cooperatives with Intel+IBM+GM.

In recognition of this fact, I propose a new international annual holiday where we all say thanks to AWS, Akamai, Heroku, and the millions of independent heros burning the midnight oil to dismantle those who seek to imprison information rather than keeping it free.

Thank you Google, Canonical, FSF, GNU, and … ok maybe Apple, sometimes.

Virtual Appliances

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I just noticed this feature in VirtualBox 4.0.4 called Virtual Appliances. A quick Google search turned up the following description:

“VMWare has a ‘Virtual Appliance Marketplace’ that contains pre-assemblied VM images configured for various purposes. For example, if I want to compared (and learn) django (a python based web framework) and ruby on rails, I could download two images, setup two VM’s and start hacking. No need to configure a LAMP stack, no need to worry about trashing my base system with installs/uninstalls.”

Oh, this is what I have been doing myself internally for a few years now. I build servers generically, then quickly clone them, hack on them until the project is over, then delete them or archive them or revert to a “clean” snapshot. Productivity has been through the roof! Now, it looks like there’s a marketplace for this:

Some of the more interesting appliances:

  • Cacti, Nagios
  • Exchange 2007
  • Openflier NAS appliance

Something to watch, I think.

Considering Gaming Industry

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Thinking about moving to California and getting a job in the gaming industry.

VCs funding tech startups like crazy these days. I know I personally am spending a lot of money on entertainment; I think that’s proportional with global/national level crises.

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Health Problems of Computer Programmers

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I recently started experiencing lower back pain. I am confident it is due to years of sitting in poor posture. After a little research into Chiropracty I began to realize there are a whole host of problems that happen to a programmer over his/her life as a result of poor working conditions–not just poor posture and lower back pain.

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Shedding Bikes: Programming Culture And Philosophy

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