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Published: June 14, 2019, 1 p.m.

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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\\u2019s slide fest, public cloud outages vs. desktop computers, and better consumer identity management.

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Also:

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• Wacky tobaccy
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• Seattle Smell
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• Denver\\u2019s Flaming Skull Mayor Announces Plans To Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms.
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• Miller time is any time.
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• Here\\u2019s how you\\u2019ll be disappointed.
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• After the gold rush
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• The dispassionate gang of four.
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• Lifestyle businesses like IBM.
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• Everyone overvalues the present.
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• Spend $50 million here to make a billion there.
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• The Super Mainframe.
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Talking points:

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• Cot\\xe9 fell asleep.
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• Ate too much French butter, had salt crystals in it, tho.
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• Using wildcard emails for logins - pinboard guy on securing Congressional campaign.
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• TED Talks.
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• Father\\u2019s Day? (Yes, June 16th)
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• What\\u2019s the position on booze now-a-days?
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• Zoom.us works, like dropbox works. Why was that so hard?
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• Passport photos and Skillcraft pens (a bit pricey in Europe).
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Relevant to your interests

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• Salesforce to buy Tableau Software in $15.7 billion deal.
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• This week\\u2019s dead Google product is Google Trips, may it rest in peace.
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• Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds.
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• Mozilla to Launch Firefox Premium.
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• ceejbot/economics-of-package-management.\\n\\n
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  • \\u201cMoney let\\u2019s talk about.\\u201d
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• What\\u2019s driving open source software in 2019
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• GitHub hires former Bitnami co-founder Erica Brescia as COO\\n\\n
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  • \\u201cBrescia handled COO duties at Bitnami from its founding in 2011 until it was sold to VMware last month.\\u201d
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• Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL - huh?\\n- Project Svalbard: The Future of Have.
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• Forget power outages -- what happens when Google goes out?\\n\\n
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  • Pedant tone: compared to what? Zip drives? My own laptop that\\u2019s not backed up? A corporate email server that goes down? Not backing up my photos? Was any data lost?
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• CrowdStrike prices IPO at $34, above range.
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• No Easy Way Forward For Commercial Open Source Software Vendors.
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• Software company MapR, once worth more than $1 billion, to lay off 122
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• I\\u2019ll be passing on Google\\u2019s new 2fa for logins on iPhones and iPads. Here\\u2019s why
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• Food Fight Farewell.
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• Mary Meeker\\u2019s most important trends on the internet\\n\\n
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  • Cot\\xe9: Been reading up on \\u201cdisruptions\\u201d in various industries. (I want to write a very practical, \\u201chere, put these features in your software/do these projects/etc.\\u201d kind of write-up for various industries.)
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  • Most of the the innovations and responses - \\u201cdigital transformation\\u201d are just getting better apps.
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  • Like, power companies that charge annually, my life insurance company with PDFs.
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  • E.g., Lemonade doing a claim for a Canadian Goose jacket for $979 in 3 seconds, Z\\xfcrich Insurance using AR with risk engineers\\u2026Pivotal stories aplenty.
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  • The framing is basically \\u201cuse these opportunities to reframe their relationship with the customer, leveraging the principles of customer experience and, in turn, will change their key processes and operations to deliver the CX-centric utility.\\u201d
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  • That is, better customer service, faster sales transactions (buying, whatever) with the customers, and easier research/comprehension (test out how long it takes you to find the details of benefits for your credit card - look up the price you pay for water - see what your total return on your retirement investing is, etc.).
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  • THIS IS ALL GREAT!
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  • BUT WHY SO HARD? (IS IT HARD?)
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  • My theory: this stuff isn\\u2019t hard, it just costs money and time. And just like developers don\\u2019t want to pay for anything, executives don\\u2019t want to pay for anything.
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  • Turns out, though, when you pay for something you get, you know, something.
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• LegacyConf day 3 keynote: 10 Government Legacy Systems Cost Taxpayers $337 Million Every Year.
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• \\u201cHow to Use Your Meat Buyer\\u2019s Guide\\u201d - SCHOOL IS IN SESSION.
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Nonsense

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• NASA is opening the International Space Station to private astronauts.
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• LaCroix slammed with new lawsuit alleging execs sparred over whether to falsely claim its cans were free of toxic chemicals.
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• Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty.
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Sponsors

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This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds\\xae and one of their DevOps tools, Papertrail\\u2122
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Conferences, et. al.

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• ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
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• 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Cot\\xe9 will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They\\u2019re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)\\u2026and back to a lot of US cities.
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• ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
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• Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
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Recommended Jobs from Listeners

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• Best IT Development Podcasts 2019 for consultants - Qemploy
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SDT news & hype

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• Join us in Slack.
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• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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• Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
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• Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Cot\\xe9\\u2019s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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Recommendations

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• Cot\\xe9: Magma notebooks.
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• Matt: Ricky Gervais Humanity on Netflix; GORUCK Echo (Discontinued).
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• Brandon: I am Mother on Netflix.
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