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by mattzito 10y ago
So - what you saw was automatically generated on your phone, and not uploaded to facebook. It's just displayed on your phone in the newsfeed view, and you can opt-in to having it posted. This happened to a friend of mine who is an ex-
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by mattzito 10y ago
I think there are differing approaches for dealing with that, and it differs based on your target market. In the enterprise space you absolutely have to have a six to twelve month roadmap of where you want to go. The trick then is to take
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by mattzito 10y ago
There has been new legislation passed that starting..next year?..labels will have to show total sugar and added sugar, so you can realistically get a sense of how much is original vs. additive.
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How we reindexed 36B documents in 5 days with Elasticsearch(thoughts.t37.net)
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by mattzito 10y ago
Well, in NYC at least, they are neither illegal taxicabs nor gypsy cabs, but fully licensed livery car services that follow all of the rules therein (no street hails, drivers are livery licensed, and uber operates licensed dispatch location
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by mattzito 10y ago
There's definitely a difference from an operational support standpoint. All of your configuration management for security and third-party tooling has to be rebuilt, you have to handle an entirely different set of patches, potentially
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by mattzito 10y ago
Yup - our really good developers would do this end to end in < 40 minutes and without needing anything. But the range of times was stunning. There was a lot of people that managed to pass, but it was a three or four hour exercise (I&#x2
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by mattzito 10y ago
As I think I said elsewhere, we allowed people to use a database if they wanted to (and could install it themselves on the dev VM we gave them), but then we would include looking at how they designed the schema, how much thought did they pu
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by mattzito 10y ago
I don't even remember how sophisticated the querying had to be - I think it was something like: - find and display all movies by the specified year - substring text searches in the title Maybe one other. But it wasn't even approa
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by mattzito 10y ago
Well, as other posters have commented you sort of do, but since we let you use libraries and the like, you had lots of options: - sqlite - Storable (perl) - serialize some other data structure to disk - in-memory I seem to recall one or two
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by mattzito 10y ago
At a previous startup, we gave potential developers a very simple test: we had a file with a comma separated list of movie titles, release dates, etc. The candidate was expected to: - read that file in - store it in some sort of data stru
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by mattzito 10y ago
Or potentially most of their employees are contractors or remote bookkeepers who don't list them as an employer - a quick Linkedin look shows that a number of the people are located in India, so potentially they're a core group of
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by mattzito 10y ago
But they also were emailing - I got like five emails for my personal projects warning me that things were changing. Plus it was reported in the tech press: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/17/instagram-new-ap
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by mattzito 10y ago
Then you're never going to be able to integrate with any APIs. Even the best free APIs have clauses that the provider isn't liable for any damages caused to you due to their changing their mind about the business they want to be
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by mattzito 10y ago
I think this article, while correct, really misses the boat on why offering ranges is so important. In a lot of cases, the wide-eyes dreamer client is the person who needs the most guidance on what something will cost. My typical way of do
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by mattzito 10y ago
Well, it's really hard to say since it's clearly addressing a target audience (LEAs/LEOs) with a specific set of needs, and we are not those people. However, as I read it, they're saying that if you just need confirmatio
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by mattzito 11y ago
Oh sure, I'm not trying to compare NYC vs. SV directly, SV is clearly an order of magnitude larger. I was just comparing fundraising in NYC today vs. 10 years ago, and it's lightyears different. I can tell you from working with
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by mattzito 11y ago
I don't think your perspective is valid anymore - in the mid-2000s USV was the only game in town, but today there's probably 5-10 good size NYC-based VCs focusing on tech, tons of little firms (<$100m funds), and many other SV
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by mattzito 11y ago
As someone who has spent their whole career in and around startups in NYC, I think it boils down to a handful of things: - The dot-com bubble in the early 2000s left a bad hangover, but also built up a set of young people with tech experien
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by mattzito 11y ago
Got it - so really, it's not "earlier", full stop, it's "identify bad tumors vs. okay tumors early". Thanks for the clarification.
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by mattzito 11y ago
> For example, in the field of oncology there's very little money put into cheap accurate early screening. And an almost obsessive pour of money into trying to understand mid-to-late stage cancers. Even James Watson has criticized t
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by mattzito 11y ago
Oh man, i loved those things. I tried to make sure I got some variant of one of those for at least one holiday a year. I still managed to start a very small fire by hooking up a 9v battery to some steel woold that had been soaked in some ch
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by mattzito 11y ago
Here's my checklist: - If I'm asked a question, or asked to offer an opinion, do they seem really interested in my response? Do they challenge politely/with an intent to gain more info, or do they dismiss it? - Whats' t
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by mattzito 11y ago
As a Manhattan resident, the problem you describe isn't really the one being addressed by de blasio's plan. "Billionaires row" in midtown was already expensive real estate beforehand in a very desirable neighborhood, it
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by mattzito 11y ago
Yeah, I think there's probably a middle management trap in a lot of organizations where they want you to have an MBA for a director of product management role, but for a vp of product or cpo job they're actively recruiting the exa
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by mattzito 11y ago
So, I'm a college dropout, and for me not having a degree was an issue until I hit the 10-15 years of experience mark and was up for executive positions. Then not only was it not an issue, no one ever asked.
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by mattzito 11y ago
Well, there's a couple of strategies: - IP-diverse nameservers - TLD-diverse nameservers - BGP anycast IP-diverse nameservers requires that you expect that your DNS servers will go down rather than start returning bad results - I highl
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by mattzito 11y ago
Sure, but you get that the whole distribution model is different, right? Gas stations accept everyone who has a gas-powered vehicle, and take 5-10 minutes to fill up. Supercharger stations accept people who are on long trips and take 40-so
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by mattzito 11y ago
Right, BUT - everyone tends to make those long trips at the same time. Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Spring Break, Easter, Passover.
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by mattzito 11y ago
I imagine that might happen at shitty companies hiring junior people. But for all ranges you're going to want to have people meet with multiple teams and build a profile. That takes weeks and often means that statistically at least on

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