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by kehunt 8y ago
It's tempting and easy (for the fortunate) to buy a Thing or and App to occupy their kids so they can have our own device time. STEM apps are educational; guilt-free, no harm. Right? But device time is robbing our children of the trial
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by kehunt 10y ago
Excellent point! You can reach me at kehunt@yammer-inc.com.
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by kehunt 10y ago
Yammer (Microsoft) | Software Engineer | San Francisco, Seattle | VISA https://careers.microsoft.com/yammer Hiring all roles (mobile, front end, java services, infrastructure) in San Francisco and Seattle. Yammer's mis
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Fear, uncertainty, and deploy: unmanaging change at Yammer, part 2(medium.com)
8 points by kehunt 13y ago|0 comments
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by kehunt 16y ago
Some other data points: * Animoto was running several thousands of machines in 2008 ( http://bit.ly/EDLtt ) * Litmus runs 400 servers ( http://bit.ly/d7Hc7y ) * 99Designs runs entirely on EC2 ( http://bit.ly/aotKgg ) I've personally had lon
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by kehunt 16y ago
It wasn't long after Yammer moved up from LA that I joined, so IMHO it was a good move :) SOMA is just about the perfect place for startups: tons of converted office space, access to both City and peninsula engineers, it's easy to get to, a
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by kehunt 18y ago
Chandler is the project featured in Scott Rosenberg’s book "Dreaming in Code" -- a thoroughly enjoyable book that explores why software development is so hard. The story ends a little too soon, after several years of experimentation, rewrit
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by kehunt 18y ago
If you're not happy at work, do whatever you have to do to change it -- even if you need to quit and build up a portfolio for a few months. I left a stable but miserable existence at IBM a couple years ago, and now enjoy every single day I'
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by kehunt 18y ago
I've run http://Dibs.net on EC2 for over a year, with images served up on S3. Several servers have uptimes since I booted them in June '07. I have nothing but good things to say about my experience with AWS. If you can, I highly recommend
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by kehunt 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback slater. It's true that geolocation data is probably less accurate outside the US. And since I'm on a budget I use only free services (the paid data sources would have more accuracy). I might be missing your point, th
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by kehunt 18y ago
Having spent a year trying to compete with Craigslist (albeit entirely on my own), I can say it's a damn hard market to break into. You're competing with free. Your market by definition scrimping on money. You're competing against a very we