brettinlj

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by brettinlj 13y ago
I have a counter to the emphasis of getting to the top. I used to work for a much larger company (definitely "enterprise") and as a product manager I was often the decider of a vendor to use. There were times where the vendors&#x2
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by brettinlj 13y ago
The problem with older founders... often their needs are different (financial burdens, children etc), though they also often have more life and career experience, which make for a different set of challenges to success. Fixed that for you.
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by brettinlj 13y ago
Great idea. This would have helped me with my morning commute today when SF Muni had a bit of a meltdown. Have you put the source up on github? Also, if you're already playing around with APIs and frameworks like Flask and get the itch
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by brettinlj 13y ago
Apparently as per their docs ( http://docs.clustrix.com/plugins/viewsource/viewpagesrc.acti... ) this is true specific to end-user transactions: "Note: serializable isolation not currently available to end user
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by brettinlj 13y ago
It would be nice to see a "NewSQL" database like Clustrix in this comparison. From my understanding of their white papers the transactions are ACID.
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by brettinlj 13y ago
Regarding this quote: "I’ve lived in a country that had a period of 'full employment' and now has 14% unemployment, and I don’t see how anyone can be so misanthropic to claim that those 14% of people just got lazier." I
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by brettinlj 15y ago
Recipe for disaster. Spoken from a product manager.
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by brettinlj 15y ago
Depends on the company sometimes. I happen to come from a strong engineering background (good school, worked as an engineer at companies from Qualcomm, to small startups to Disney) and got into product after working with a good one. I am th
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by brettinlj 15y ago
As a mobile software engineer turned product manager I can echo what the first to replies said. Skip training/certification as real product management skills are built on doing it and the mistakes you make along the way. If you're intereste