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"You know what would be totally awesome? Making an vector plot with arrows from old to new locations of each language. That would make the moves you mentioned obvious, as well as others like the increases in popularity of XQuery and Arduino, Puppet, Standard ML and AutoHotkey (whatever that is), and other even less common languages. I'm particularly intrigued by XQuery and Puppet." - Donnie Berkholz

"Have you seen my colleague Stephen O'Grady's post on R&D/revenue ratios in tech companies? He saw pretty similar results a few months back. If not, you really should start reading his blog. =) http://redmonk.com/sogrady/201..." - Donnie Berkholz

Checks for rebates when rates drop. - Donnie Berkholz

"Now take the first derivative to look at growth rates. That's what tells you where the opportunity lies. BTW I don't really buy 4-year forecasts at all, whether they're coming from a startup looking for money or Gartner. But if I did, I'd be tempted to push that out to 2018 because those IaaS/SaaS curves look exponential, or at least quadratic." - Donnie Berkholz

"Cool, thanks! Looks very roughly equivalent to iPhone, so I guess that on the market-share graph, it would produce another region of about the same thickness. Not a huge difference but a very real one." - Donnie Berkholz

"I'd love to see BlackBerry added to the "mobile as PC substitute" graph. Wonder if it would turn the past 5-7 years into a mirror image of the early '90s." - Donnie Berkholz

"I don't find the GRANT act awesome at all, if I understand correctly from your brief summary. If I'm applying for a research grant that discusses the next 5 years of my work, I have no interest in giving my direct competitors complete access to it." - Donnie Berkholz

"Considering how often journalists seem to get fired for "exposing" that they are actual humans with real opinions rather than objective robots, no wonder they don't do much besides broadcast their own articles. It's just a matter of self-conservation." - Donnie Berkholz

"Ever looked at letting users set higher percentages for proficiency? I'd be a bit concerned that I'm encouraging students to just give up on the occasional hard question, which isn't great training for applying these skills in real life. How long does it take to get to e.g. 99% if you're in a logistic model and missing some occasionally, is it exponentially harder?" - Donnie Berkholz

Good to see RH & Canonical collaborating on this, since they've been going in opposite directions with things like GNOME. - Donnie Berkholz

"Thanks! Great to meet you last week, albeit briefly. Hopefully we can have a longer chat at some point in the future." - Donnie Berkholz

"Thanks for an awesome time. The sheer quality of *every* other speaker and the ridiculous level of audience engagement made it worth 2–3 days of any other conference; I've never seen anything like it." - Donnie Berkholz

Bugzilla community management - Donnie Berkholz

Bounce rates by time of day, changes in analytics over time, etc. - Donnie Berkholz

Great use of end-user and developer input to prioritize the future. - Donnie Berkholz

Reminds me of jwz's critique of GNOME devs — if there are problems with something, trash it and redesign/rewrite from scratch instead of fixing the issues. - Donnie Berkholz

"Got any connections at glassdoor.com or similar? Might be able to get retrospective access to older years of their data, or some way to filter by submission date. Then you could look at things like the salary of a Google software engineer in 2008, 2009, 2010, etc." - Donnie Berkholz

"The difference between fixed and proportional R&D seems to me to be whether the company wants to expand its offerings or replace them. Apple might be a good example for fixed-rate R&D, since it's primarily coming out with replacements for things that already exist or a very small number of new products. But companies growing their markets rather than selling more of a single product would probably be more interested in proportional R&D." - Donnie Berkholz

"I don't follow how downloading less stuff equates to not using the internet rather than using it differently. If it said less IP addresses were used, then I'd believe the conclusion." - Donnie Berkholz

Patterns for systems with limited memory - Donnie Berkholz

"Seems to me that the global bias there is that both StackOverflow and GitHub cater to a certain type of crowd that probably doesn't overlap much with enterprise and is very bleeding-edge/web2.0. (Even still, most folks aren't on git.) How's this stuff match up with the Black Duck data?" - Donnie Berkholz

A system for standardizing setup for R projects, simplifying maintenance, making data input easier, etc. - Donnie Berkholz

Minneapolis #9, not bad. - Donnie Berkholz

"I agree that these are critical, so much so that I'd consider them requirements rather than features to be compared; nothing would be in consideration at all without them." - Donnie Berkholz

"I agree that these are critical, so much so that I'd consider them requirements rather than features to be compared; nothing would be in consideration at all without them." - Donnie Berkholz

"Automated and customizable provisioning; monitoring with a high-quality dashboard and emergency notifications; and intelligent management of VMs and hardware including migration (on-demand or manual)." - Donnie Berkholz

"Automated and customizable provisioning; monitoring with a high-quality dashboard and emergency notifications; and intelligent management of VMs and hardware including migration (on-demand or manual)." - Donnie Berkholz

"That's reversed, for Blackberries the tweets are positive and everything else is negative. That's why excluding (positive) tweets results in a negative sentiment." - Donnie Berkholz

"That's reversed, for Blackberries the tweets are positive and everything else is negative. That's why excluding (positive) tweets results in a negative sentiment." - Donnie Berkholz

"Hmm, it cropped out my link: http://careers.stackoverflow.c..." - Donnie Berkholz