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I consider myself as educated, though having your own kids and being responsible for their life and well-being is what makes you doubt vaccines, especially when you read about people developing multiple sclerosis or other neurodegenerative symptoms following a vaccination.

Out of my own experience, and given the worst cases scenarios you hear from it's difficult not to fear for your loved ones (and I mean you literally feel it in your loins) especially when YOUR decision can have even the slightest chance of ruining their lives. -- Edit: Please don't get me wrong, I have kids, and their vaccines are up to date (like mine). A chat with an hospital pediatrist can help, for me it's when he clearly explained that without vaccines a kid can be gone within 2 hours. And virtually it's as narrow minded as refusing to take antibiotics.

Algorithmicians (? - well... algorithm researchers, obviously) and programmers are not working in the same field of work, even though the boundary might seem thin for most, there's a world between both.

Must all painters be artists?

I'm not related in any way with them but as a personnal favorite (I even use it at home) I'd recommend Zabbix as it's open source and quite straighforward to install and deploy its agents, once configured you can even forget about it.

Gosh, its default alerts will give you hints on things you never considered checking before while the integration of new/bespoke software can be done in a matter of minutes.

Founder and main developer here.

Archyn allows to build comparison matrices were any change on an Element is seamlessly cascaded everywhere without hassle.

I've built this because I wanted to have a smart comparison matrix generator without spending too much time on the logic and necessary orchestration.

For the record, all the examples you see in the landing page where built using this generator.

Basically to make your own Matrix you need to:

- Declare the Elements and Groups you'd like to compare,

- Create Qualifers and Affinities to link them (thing 1 "likes" thing 2),

- Create a Matrix and select which Elements or Groups you want to compare,

- Publish your Matrix and copy/paste its proposed code,

- Voilà!

Once done, your Matrix becomes live: any change to its Elements or Affinities will be cascaded down to it automatically.

Some sample data is already loaded when you sign-up so that you can play around to give you an idea about the concept.

Don't hesitate to give the free version a run, it's ad free with no time limit, and any thing you do remains private in your own Workspace (no sharing).

Also with any paid version you get the possibility to publicize your matrices so that you can embed them in your own website as well as an access to the JSON API for more complex scenarios.

AMA, suggestions and critics are welcome.

Founder and main developer here.

I've built this because I wanted to have a smart comparison matrix generator without spending a minute on the logic and necessary orchestration.

For the record, the examples you see in the landing page where built using this generator.

Basically to make your own Matrix you need to:

- Declare the Elements and Groups you'd like to compare,

- Create Qualifers and Affinities to link them (thing 1 "likes" thing 2),

- Create a Matrix and select which Elements or Groups you want to compare,

- Voilà!

Once done, your Matrix becomes live: any change to its Elements or Affinities will be cascaded down to it automatically.

Some sample data is already loaded when you sign-up so that you can play around to give you some idea on the concept.

Don't hesitate to give the free version a run, it's ad free with no time limit, and any thing you do remains private in your own Workspace (no sharing).

With any paid version you get the possibility to publicize your matrices so that you can embed them in your own website.

AMA, suggestions and critics are welcome.

How painful it can be when you realize that your backup process was wrong from the beginning and you're left with a useless gigabytes sized blob when in need to restore your DB...

When you have kids you come very quickly to the realization that rewards aren't a mean to efficiently motivate. However intrisic motivation is exaclty this: intrinsic.

So what? Unless you can do Inception in your kids dreams to push them to realise that what you ask them is not what you want but what's actually good for them, you're bond to use rewards because that's the only thing that actually works.

Intrinsic motivation comes from the realization that you must do something for good (your own or others, but in the end it's only for you... but that's another ethical topic).

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On the other hand, based on my understanding of the Janus model as I said in my first comment, the location of the seemingly void places are actually explained by the concentration of antimatter, which repulses matter through gravity. A possibly wrong summary of what I'm visibly struggling to communicate: This model explains how on the same way matter concentration attracts matter and rejects anti-matter, antimatter concentration attract antimatter and rejects matter.

But yeah, it's a breakthrough...

Oh look https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive

No one mentions as well that the optimum form factor for such a technology consists in two round plates facing each other (wink-wink).

Also the following is ridiculous: "It's also obvious why it makes no sense to ask "Why don't you ditch Windows and install Linux on it?". Because no Linux distro has Pen support, whatsoever. The performance base also has a physical key that you need to press in order for the hinge to release the display."

Wacom has been developing Kernel modules FOR YEARS. I've personally been using a Samsung XE700T1C for 4 years with full pen support without any problem.

I've even been surprised to see Ubuntu 17.10 supporting automated screen rotation, on-screen keyboard pop-up out of the box.

If I may give you one huge hint on your product's SWOT at least functionally speaking and especially in a global market: Ask your delivery teams, basically they're your eyes and ears on the harsh reality of the trenches.

After being a Product Owner I became a Global Delivery Consultant, and you can't imagine how much insight you get from the guys if you find the right mean.

Personally the best approach I took was a give and take quarterly worldwide meeting with the delivery experts and their top management to list the good the bad and the ugly from their own perspective (in any aspect of the product) while product management was providing insights on what was coming and a light update on the looks of the ongoing development schedule.

I can guarantee you that 3 Regional Delivery Heads telling you that feature XXX must be reworked is invaluable info and something you can't get from sales, support teams or even your own feeling. Added bonus: They will provide you with realistic business scenarios and expected behaviors and would be interested in taking part of the validation process for you.

Likewise, delivery guys will be more relaxed as they will be aware of the development fitness ahead of the official schedule and therefore won't sale features at risk (they're in projects all the time, they have to deal with the unexpected on a daily basis).

Because Delivery Teams are the closest to the product they are the first ones to proof it, support it and also bridge all the gaps for your customers. The rest is only paperwork and planning.

I know I wasn't in the same role, just mentionning what I witnessed regarding Product Managers where I worked in the past.. Having been a Product Owner for a couple of years in a 10k+ employees international company, just to name a few guys you need to meet regularly for the sake of your product, from makers to users :

Developpers teams, QA teams, Product Support Teams, Marketing teams, Finance teams, Sales teams (Global, Regional), Delivery teams (Global, Regional), Training teams (See a trend here?), Customers (from time to time, not counting support escalations).

Out of these exchanges you get your product needs and issues which you need to rationalise, plan and translate into features and fixes, plan a macro and micro roadmap including slightly-expected hotfixes, service packs, long term roadmap (to give your customers a sense of what's coming - up to 5y forecast sometimes), adding also various compliance rules on top of this (depending the market) and a frosting made of turn over rates plus international culture complexity.

Of course what I'm mentionning is not the whole world, but as far as I can tell it's a good picture of what you can expect from someone doing decent international product management.

Therefore, a junior Product Manager would be pretty much difficult to pull, unless you're hiring people who had the opportunity to cross the intellectual and business bridges (consumer/producer/user/support) a couple of times in their carreer (imagine yourself drafting your new product roadmap while travelling a plane to show up on site on a Friday in a customer's office to defend your product against a missing/crippling feature and try to propose a mitigation plan with the help of the local delivery team).

A Product Manager is in a sense a one man band, half Project Manager, half Architect, Salesman, Support Manager, Training manager, end user, customer, etc.

So, Junior without someone to back you up, I don't think so. Junior without having some experience of the Trenches, hardly, as you can easily be reckless toward the teams mentionned above and also miss some red flags ("ivory tower" syndrome).

If you find such an opportunity, be wary on the context and the expected work. This role can be more stressing and alienating than being a Project Manager because you are supposed to represent a Product in any aspect of it.

My personal experience on tiny and sometimes unrelated changes having a catastrophic impact: software configuration changes, new hardware, other softwares bug, antivirus rules and updates, etc.

These points can be roughly related to a living being: psychological/environmental/habit changes, transplant/implant, organ failure/traumatism, immune system false positive (e.g. alergies?), ...

I'm not against the idea gene manipulation, just saying that his doings are very marginal and must not be praised.

If labs have been relying on white mice and drosophilae it's for some good reasons:

Common sense (how many people died because of charlatanism?), ethics and Human Rights.

What is at stakes here can lead either to a nobel price (I sincerely hope for him) or a darwin award (thanks to the ignorance of such red flags).

As comments went on a previous post on a similar topic: Genetic changes are a lot like assembler software changes.

The best part? In living things there's very little documentation, based on "poor" reverse engineering (as we know little about it).

A "Managing Director" so I'm pretty certain that he didn't do it himself, his team(s) did. Frankly annoyed by this recurrent praise for management people, at this level such a guy never dips a toe in the trenches.