karlkatzke

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by karlkatzke 8y ago
That’s one of the places I messed up. The original agreement was that they’d fund development of the features they needed, but I retained rights to the software and they got a license as long as they were funding development, but they could
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
My point in saying that was not to express arrogance, but was to point out that ideas are worth nothing and execution is everything. I executed poorly. If I had executed well and a bunch of other variables had aligned, I might have grown th
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
They took development in house. It’s not like PHP (despite some obfuscators being available) can’t be edited by anyone who barely knows the language.
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
The basic gist is that I was arrogant and negligent. I started a company to leverage an order taking and customer management system I’d built for a friend’s b2b outside sales company. Before, they were managing everything with excel spreads
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
LOL SCADA? You haven’t been involved with infrastructure in MASS have you? Let’s put it this way: it wouldn’t surprise me, especially in Lawrence, if some of the gas mains were still made out of wood. Before you scoff, NYC replaced the last
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
We use HipChat. It’s terrible, and it has been a frequent comment that having Slack would help us build better communication culture, because people avoid using hipchat (and use Skype or other platforms instead).
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
I did. I had three years experience as a software developer (full stack, but it was 2004, so it wasn’t a big stack) and leveraged an active consulting business that I would do after hours into a full time thing where I made enough to pay an
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
This was in the early 2000s. I’m not sure how effective pervasive cell phone data gathering was yet for people who weren’t customarily targets of surveillance. Maybe I was a test case since I was doing a lot of match.com type dating.
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
It didn’t before? I remember crossing the border from Canada to the US after 9/11 but before you had to have a passport (a driver’s license and birth certificate were sufficient) and I was asked a series of questions. The questions inc
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
Yeah, and my point was that we start the young people that we hire on the open stuff. Then we move them up and on to the other open stuff, which runs on top of the cloud vendors. (As almost everyone else points out, the closed cloud vendor
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
What makes you think there aren’t young people doing systems administration? Our last two hires in my most recent job were 23 and 27 respectively. Sure, they’re getting trained in the new hot cloud stuff... as the grumpy seniors figure it o
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
I know that we're pretty pro-privacy around here, but I'm gonna just go ahead and suggest that everyone not rape or kill someone.
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
Yep. I once worked at a place that leveraged PII for profit. I won't work at a place like that again. But I wouldn't hold working at Facebook against anyone, unless they knew and worked directly on monetizing PII and didn't s
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
So say something like a solution of baking soda and water?
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
I think a lot of people don’t let their grill get hot enough. I know I have problems with cleaning my smoker racks (and my wife won’t let me run them through the dish washer) so I have to throw them on my charcoal grill when I’m heating it
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
Diamond turbo blade = recover old used brick with the mortar still attached, very little if any chipping. Source: currently working on an older home with very unique (peach/salmon) brick, need to recover and reuse all I can find.
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
Lithium Ion batteries do not contain any lithium metal. They are considered Class B fires. Do not use a Class D extinguisher on them. Water is an acceptable way to extinguish a Li-Ion battery. Most battery factories use water to extinguish
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
Ibuprofen doesn’t work as an anti inflammatory until you take at least 2400mg/day.
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
Sodium Carbon batteries have the same issue with flammable liquid organic solvent electrolytes. There is research being done into using a solid electrolyte and a metal anode though.
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
tl;dr: You can run a socially responsible, human, ethical company in the current climate in the US, but it is nearly impossible to run one with outside investors who are not invested strongly in the company’s mission or who are not willing
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
P values of less than .005 generally mean that you accept the null hypothesis. The authors did otherwise for one hypothesis, which I find interesting.
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
I'm not a statistician, but the results section is worth reading -- the fructan results are not much higher than placebo but both placebo and fructan are more affective than gluten. "Overall GSRS-IBS scores differed significantly
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
While I doubt anywhere but the US or a military battlefield will get hundreds of bullet wound patients at once, it's quite possible to get dozens of patients in one go at any hospital. One memorable story I have been told is a tour bus
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
Wow, lots of impressive thinking ahead of time. I’m heading up our incident management team at work and this is definitely going in my presentations. A few things that jumped out: - Thinking ahead to how he was going to handle an MCA probab
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
There's replacements for Halon that work just as well without making a big hole in the ozone layer. Sprinkler systems only put out fires that start inside. When the fire starts outside and burns down through the roof, the sprinkler sys
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
Often, plants will survive wildfires (especially in CA, where wildfires are somewhat normal and plants have evolved to survive them) because they have moisture inside them. Buildings do not usually have moisture inside of them, and when emb
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
The right person manning that desk is worth a lot to the business. It's a huge gamble from the business's point of view, so they pay more to make sure that the right person is there. Bad management has cost the last company I work
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
Having the wrong management is almost worse than having unqualified engineers. I worked in a startup where they had put the Systems Operations (as in, Linux datacenter guys) under the Chief Marketing Officer for about a year for (reasons).
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
I'll believe this is an issue the day I go to work in a technology department that is more than 50% women.
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by karlkatzke 9y ago
There's an Air Argentina flight ( ARG1326 ) that's departed EZE and is scheduled to get to Punta Cana DR at 5am or so. Talk about a bold move.

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