Episode Details

Lowering your expectations on open source is a favorite topic of ours, so we return to it. Spoiler: people gotta make money somehow. Also, we explore inebriation in Amsterdam and other locales, Mary Meeker’s slide fest, public cloud outages vs. desktop computers, and better consumer identity management.

Also:

• Wacky tobaccy
• Seattle Smell
• Denver’s Flaming Skull Mayor Announces Plans To Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms.
• Miller time is any time.
• Here’s how you’ll be disappointed.
• After the gold rush
• The dispassionate gang of four.
• Lifestyle businesses like IBM.
• Everyone overvalues the present.
• Spend $50 million here to make a billion there.
• The Super Mainframe.

Talking points:

• Coté fell asleep.
• Ate too much French butter, had salt crystals in it, tho.
• Using wildcard emails for logins - pinboard guy on securing Congressional campaign.
• TED Talks.
• Father’s Day? (Yes, June 16th)
• What’s the position on booze now-a-days?
• Zoom.us works, like dropbox works. Why was that so hard?
• Passport photos and Skillcraft pens (a bit pricey in Europe).

Relevant to your interests

• Salesforce to buy Tableau Software in $15.7 billion deal.
• This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips, may it rest in peace.
• Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds.
• Mozilla to Launch Firefox Premium.
• ceejbot/economics-of-package-management.
  • “Money let’s talk about.”
• What’s driving open source software in 2019
• GitHub hires former Bitnami co-founder Erica Brescia as COO
  • “Brescia handled COO duties at Bitnami from its founding in 2011 until it was sold to VMware last month.”
• Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL - huh? - Project Svalbard: The Future of Have.
• Forget power ou