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by josh2600 13y ago
I know Peretz personally and he's one of the most rational people I've ever met. There's some question as to whether he should've left the scene or not and I think there's some discussion to be had there, but what h
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by josh2600 13y ago
Asking about checks. (P.S. Your thoughts and response are always very thoughtful and appreciated).
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I've been in the industry for about a decade. All of the issues you're talking about stem from the confusion about whether telecom networks are private or public assets. If telco assets are public, net neutrality and network unifi
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by josh2600 13y ago
That was a wonderful read, thank you for sharing.
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by josh2600 13y ago
Confusion is an opportunity to provide education and build consumer trust. If you're breaking intended behavior you need to pacify the confusion that results (this is a social capital creation opportunity). I do appreciate your point t
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by josh2600 13y ago
It turns out marketing is a thing and when you go into a brick & mortar store to buy a digital object people get confused. This is another example of technical superiority not being enough to win (see VHS vs Betamax as the classic examp
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by josh2600 13y ago
The article's described origin of Big Data ignores the original big data problem: Insurance, specifically actuarial tables. The origins of big data are actually far older than 1990, going back to the first mass computing systems in the
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by josh2600 13y ago
Saw these folks at CloudBeat last year. Thought their pitch was terrible but OMG did I love the product (I still thought they should've won!). Really glad to see they successfully raised a series A. I believe it was Paul who pitched an
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by josh2600 13y ago
I came here to say exactly this. Source: I work in the guts of some of the biggest telecom networks on the planet. Federation is a problem because none of the standards interop. The closest thing we had was XMPP which became mega-bloatware
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by josh2600 13y ago
Do you think of that as a large number? What would be a number that would cause you to shut down? I'm not trying to be facetious, I just think that 25,000 uniques/day in a consumer play is not a lot. Do you feel differently? If so
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Blackberry used to provide hardware-based PIN messaging services. Once the world decided that software was king and that apps trump security it no longer made sense to invest in Blackberry. Ergo, Blackberry is not a real alternative not fro
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by josh2600 13y ago
These are called VRADs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRAD . The demarc for your DSL is the modem. If you provide your own modem you still are subject to AT&T's rules. You cannot legally connect to sensitive nati
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by josh2600 13y ago
I'm not much into hero worship, but if you guys don't know Bunnie you should really take 5 minutes to understand who wrote this article. Bunnie is a hardware monster of the best kind and an EFF 2012 Pioneer award winner. He's
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by josh2600 13y ago
This brings to mind the famous Johnnie Cochran quote: "In America you are innocent until proven broke".
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Just use RedPhone. Moxie knows what he's doing and it's auditable + good technology. Whatsapp is a joke, but lower friction matters much more for their market.
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by josh2600 13y ago
CC and BCC originate from secretaries taking notes on desks in large firms. There was a note for the person who the message was intended for and a carbon copy (literally a sheet of carbon under the top note) that would be archived. Blind Ca
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by josh2600 13y ago
If you want to see what it looks like when your email address has been pwned I tried lol@lol.com and got back 4 hits.
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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
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by josh2600 13y ago
Not to be pedantic but there's actually a fairly recent example of consumers choosing style over substance: the motorola RAZR. Just saying...
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by josh2600 13y ago
Yes, and that's anti-competitive. I'm not arguing that AT&T was planning to build a network, but just gifting a fiber network to Google isn't exactly fair competition. Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of faster
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by josh2600 13y ago
This is correct, but you do need to understand that there are technical limitations to twisted pair. Even if AT&T or $TELCO runs fiber to the node everywhere, twisted pair has gigantic line loss issues over long distances. We really nee
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by josh2600 13y ago
Well, pole rights in San Francisco are run through AT&T and the permitting process (while it's supposed to be 30 days) can take up to 180 days to complete. There are still access rights required for poles because they're consi
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by josh2600 13y ago
I'm just gonna leave this here... http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
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by josh2600 13y ago
In my experience, Cable/Telco companies don't build fiber networks with greater than 15 year payback, with 30 being the hard cap. I think your math is fairly accurate. Source: See my other comment, I did fiber rollouts with telcos
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by josh2600 13y ago
Why is this doomed? I'm from telecom land and this is how it is always done... The fact that LA is soliciting bids might mean that they provide easements on the entry rights (which are the main thing that prevent rollouts of this natur
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by josh2600 13y ago
Just in case you guys don't know this, since I don't see it mentioned anywhere, Dave is also the co-founder of ITA software which is basically the engine holding up modern transportation. It powers almost all of the websites that
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How we pulled off our first conference and why people loved it(blog.2600hz.com)
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I would say that this is a great example of doing unscalable things in the beginning of a startups lifecycle, which is an arguable section of a recent Paul Graham essay. Take it for what it's worth, but if you believe PG then this migh
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by josh2600 13y ago
Everytime stuff like this comes up, I think of Cory Doctorow's excellent essay, "All Complex Ecosystems have Parasites" http://craphound.com/complexecosystems.txt If you pave over your lawn when you get your
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by josh2600 13y ago
HIPAA isn't taken seriously until shit hits the fan, much like FINRA or any other piece of alphabet soup. I've seen companies closed over HIPAA violations, and I've seen folks go to jail. It's totally ok to ignore HIPAA

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