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Comment on The Future of IT for Accountants by Joe

Joe — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:14:43 +0000

Hi Peppe,

Same rules apply for lawyers/solicitors. Just about everything I said works across all the conservative professions.

Joe.

Comment on The Future of IT for Accountants by Peppe Santoro

Peppe Santoro — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:02:28 +0000

Although I found it a couple of months after posting, there are some real nuggets of wisdom in this and it left me wondering what’s different about IT for lawyers (because I’m in the middle of my own experimentation in that regard).

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Comment on Investing where the startups are rather than where they aren’t by Number 9

Number 9 — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:26:03 +0000

Without knowing any of the reasons for or against my position would be that it should be a level playing field across the country.

My cynical side has a feeling that the allocation is more to do with the usual pothole politics than a misguided growth policy.

Saying that it’s very easy to be derisive about government policies in the startups/technology space and after I watched Anil Dash earlier today on TWiT http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/35 I asked myself the question :

“Have we done everything in our power to educate our goverment?”

That is not a rhetorical question by the way.
I am honestly interested in understanding how these decisions are made.

If we do have OPEN and frequent dialog with our entrepreneurs through the likes of Enterprise Ireland and its just not on my radar then great.

My feeling is however that are ideas and requests are taken in, analysed in some form of Rube Goldberg process and then pushed out to the masses.

The video I linked to earlier has a lot of great insights but one of my favourites was the http://www.whitehouse.gov/OpenForQuestions idea
Wouldn’t it be great to have that sort of transparency about our policies!!

I know we messed up the voting machines
http://insideireland.ie/2012/01/11/noonan-irish-pubs-might-take-old-e-voting-machines-49284/
But that does not mean we should throw the baby out with the bath water.

Comment on Investing where the startups are rather than where they aren’t by Imogen Bertin

Imogen Bertin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:26:28 +0000

A much ignored fact about Ireland is that of all the EU countries, only Greece has more of its population concentrated in the capital. I’ve been collecting information about digital marketing jobs since September and intend to continue until March. It’s not analysed yet, but I think even a straw poll among your friends will tell you that many people in this field have to travel to Dublin or the UK or the US constantly if they wish to work, despite the “skill shortages”. The EI problem is that a bit of ring-fencing ain’t gonna fix it. You need larger interlocking clusters of businesses (good old Japanese keiretsu) in your regional “gateways”. Just my humble… And I applaud the work of groups like it@cork in trying to achieve this.

Comment on Investing where the startups are rather than where they aren’t by David Miller

David Miller — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:30:58 +0000

Agree 100% Joe. I checked out that EI fund today for my start up http://www.complyfile.com but being based in Co Wicklow (not part of the EI definition of the South East) I simply had to ignore the opportunity. This is mildly ironic given that when I last approached the Co Wicklow Enterprise Board in summer 2011 I was told then that all of their 2012 funds were already committed.

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Comment on How to remove an airlock from a mixer tap by Rita

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Comment on Today is No Software Patents Day by Jamie Lawrence

Jamie Lawrence — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:16:40 +0000

I work for a very large software company and we’re encouraged through bonuses, and almost required by career politics, to participate in patent generation processes.

I find it particularly unpleasant that these are not ideas from our existing products or processes, or things which we will ever implement. We’re asked to think of anything at all. “A Method for attaching Artificial Flowers to Cubicle Walls”? Yep, that’ll do. The employee gets their bonus, the local office gets another pat on the back and wider recognition, and the company gets to boast about their status as a global innovator and scare smaller companies with the huge patent portfolio (even if much of it is crap and outside our commercial interests).

It sickens me and yet my colleagues look at me like I have two heads when I say I’m not participating. Sure, why wouldn’t I want a €1500 bonus? That apparently is all it takes for the company to buy their souls.