A word of warning, my experience with mikrotik in the WiFi-6 space has been overwhelmingly negative, both in a single AP setup at home and on a corporate WiFi network managed by someone else.
Bugs, random drops, poor performance on some machines. It is not set and forget and I gave up on it.
There is a secondary discussion if developers should be accountable for sticking to estimates, and my opinion is that they shouldn't - developers should be accountable for the quality and maintainability of the produced code, documentation and tests, not timelines - that's the job of the PM. A good PM will be able to observe that on average the unit of estimation takes 20% longer or shorter and adjust the project timelines accordingly. Also, if someone is worried about developer productivity, it can always evaluate it in relative terms, i.e. how many tasks generated with the above method does one developer execute vs another developer in the same unit of time.
These people have a somewhat modern alternative with mechanical keyboard and eink screen. It has wifi and that's it.
From watching the reviews I understood that a major drawback is that no editing is possible on the device itself and it is very expensive (600$)
I personally use occasionally an android based ebook reader with a bluetooth keyboard (Onyx BOOX Poke 2 with logitech k380). Distraction free writing is a thing.
Do you think there are more people around you in your situation?
If there are, there might be strength in numbers. You could organise to deliver a signifficantly larger project than any of you could get done individually. You do not need to hire anyone - use the principles of a cooperative and get like minded people that share the profits in an equitable way.
Along the same lines there are companies that may be looking to expand to capture the avilable workforce in your geographical area but lack the apropriate contacts to get started. Your written communication skillks seem to be above average which I consider quite important for such an engagement. If this sounds interesting, do leave some contact details.
Project managers with technical skills are worth gold in product companies (possibly in other companies as well).
Run a few product implementations at customer side and there will be no monotony.
If you grow older and start appreciating more the routine in your life you can go into product management using the knowledge accumulated on customer side implementations and finally consulting.
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Bribing a city Hall worker for fiber Internet connection is again made up. City halls and all other institutions in Romania are not connected to the regular Internet, the connectivity is provided by STS (Special Telecommunications Services) to a private government network. In remote villages this is provided over satellite or radio link. Regular Internet is purchased by the local authorities from local providers (as needed) and is the same service that would be available to anyone else.
If you would run a local farm, do not host your eCommerce site using the available bandwidth, do it in the cloud, that's what grown ups do.
Please provide sources for your claims and do start a WISP if you want to address the rest of the population 2-10%, spread out over a country the size of UK.
Romania has 14.3M (1) Internet users for an active population of 9.2M (2)
As the same time, about 98% of the population has mobile phone coverage (which implies some form of data access) with terminals that can be had for 0 upfront cost and ~10€ per month subscription with very large traffic allowance.
Telekom (previous Romtelecom) can offer DSL services in most villages where a phone exchange is present.
Corruption or not, its probably a bad idea to start a wireless Internet provider in Romania because it already has excellent commodity connectivity virtually everywhere.
Seems to be same concept but cheaper and with rechargeable battery so even cheaper on the long run. (and more environmentally friendly, arguably)
Also the campaign is flexible funding, I have contacted them and they said they are shipping in November whether it gets funded or not, the product is mostly ready.
This is good stuff. I was wondering, does any one know about similar standards for system design and implementation?
I would be interested in seeing MIL standards or NASA best practices related to infrastructure (telecom, data, etc) design and implementation management.
While this may be off topic, i am actually a lot more interested how they executed the project management part of the whole program.
The project management techniques in use today seem like they have been largely developed in the US aeronautics industry.
The soviet space program was inteed a complex task requiring coordination with large teams in different areas of development. Is anybody aware how they organize that? is the methodology documented somewhere?
I see a lot of posters argueing about the type of cisco router that should have been used or if a soho Linksys router should have been used instead.
Assuming that the government has some rules that requires them not to deploy soho or open source products and they have to spend the money on some big brand company: how come Juniper was not taken into consideration (or other known network vendors)?
I would argue that Juniper could provide cheaper equipment of simmilar of higher spec (let's ignore for a moment if that is oversized or not) - and it becomes even cheaper if you consider the simpler licensing terms and upgrade support.
Isn't the government supposed to run open tenders? Is cisco mandatory in the US?
I'm surprised that after 75 comments nobody remarked this quote:
"You’re shocked because your initial image is of some back-alley Eastern European bootlegger — not an old Jewish guy on Long Island,” Captain Curran said.
I may not be so familiar with the north american culture, can anybody clarify this for me: Is it a generally accepted fact that bootleggers are east europeans and old jews would never do such a thing?
Bugs, random drops, poor performance on some machines. It is not set and forget and I gave up on it.