Doesn't Tesla have an open patent philosophy? I've heard Musk say that if someone builds a better electric car and it causes the end of Tesla, he's fine with that.
He has said that, but I haven't seen any legal paperwork to back it up.
Not that is matters. Cars, including electric cars have been around for 100 years. There are very little important patents he could have. Sure there is a lot you can patent, but the vast majority is details that are trivial for any competent engineer to work around just using known prior art.
The important patents are likely in batteries which Tesla doesn't develop. Or chargers, but again the important details come with the battery.
TESLA might have some patents on the NACS connector and similar things. Those are easy to work around, but you wouldn't want to.
It's just my experience. Microsoft wants you to use SQL Server for everything.
If you start thinking in Domain-Driven Design terms, you realize the technology should be dictated by the business models. In many (if not most) cases, a document database is more than sufficient for most bounded contexts and its services, events, commands, and data.
Spinning up a relational database, managing schema changes, and tuning indexes is a constant drag on productivity.
If Microsoft wanted to compete with DynamoDB or MongoDB, they'd make the Cosmos document database a first line service in Azure. But you have to first spin up Cosmos and then identify a type of data storage. There is no technical reason for this setup other than to lump various non-relational data storage types into one service and create confusion and complexity.
I've done bake-offs between Microsoft and AWS and when I talk about a standard serverless architecture, the MS people are usually confused and respond, "What do you mean?" and the AWS folks are "Cool, so Lambdas and DynamoDB. We have 17 sample solutions for you."
I'm not saying you can't do serverless in Azure. I'm saying the support and advocacy is not there.
> But you have to first spin up Cosmos and then identify a type of data storage
They call (or called, 3 years ago) it a "multi-modal" database, but really it was just a wrapper around three engines. It did come with fairly standardised pricing and availability guarantees, though, so my impression it was it was trying to sell to cloud architects and CIOs who might appreciate that.
I'd be happy to talk to you more about this. I manage a cloud team, oversee a sizeable budget, and have a lot of experience optimizing cloud spend (along with startup/unicorn/mega corp experience).
The play is, like what others have said, it's your expertise and providing consulting services to others struggling with cloud spend.
> You see the company hire friend after friend of execs, friends' kids as interns, friends' wives as Executive Directors, execs' girlfriends as "Chief of Staff" - and you realize you need to get something too, so you use company time to form your own startup.
They do this because no one wants to work at their startup. How do you see this being solved then?
>> They do this because no one wants to work at their startup. How do you see this being solved then?
Not really. Startups cannot really operate without doers, and most doers want something out of the experience -- equity, money, promotion, etc.
I've seen two start-ups (one Series A SF startup with bigname VCs) which promoted VC-frields' kids while the doers waited and waited.
In one case, the "child" was 25yo, became manager 6mo later, became Director 6mo after that, became senior Director 6mo after that. Some facebook stalking revealed the relationship, some photos at Lake Tahoe.
Eventually the startup collapsed because there were so many senior folks w/o real experience. I saw the same individuals follow leadership to a new company, which also had a huge implosion.
I find it really funny to be in some place where there is a privileged class, particularly when I discover it gradually. I can see how some people would find it infuriating.
Since OP didn't want the Google account on the pixel to be associated with their personal google account, it is possible no recovery phone number or email was set on it which can make reseting password difficult / impossible without someone at google actually looking in to it.
