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by mattzito 11y ago
It's a largely unknowable question, since it's just in the eye of the beholder. It could be purely a "let's wring whatever value we can get out of the brand until it's a dried-up husk and throw it aside". Or i
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by mattzito 11y ago
I'm a product VP at a mid-stage startup, you can ping me offline if you want to catch up and talk through any of this.
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One exception that i'll say is that a lot of platform-y products where the developers are relatively closer to the target audience tend to do better without product management. Not that it gets you out from some of the challenges I lis
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by mattzito 11y ago
It's a really long article explaining and justifying what "Product" is. I think a much simpler explanation is that product management is the hub that connects all of the other groups together in a unified and consistent fashi
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by mattzito 11y ago
Synthesio - http://www.synthesio.com | Solutions Engineers | London and Paris We're one of the leading social media analytics companies - every month we pull in >2bn pieces of social data, and allow our users to slice an
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by mattzito 11y ago
Some of the worst startup founders I have seen are people who come from being execs or management at very large companies, because they have no frame of reference for how things should be done when you have 5 people. So I don't think y
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by mattzito 11y ago
Well, because starting a company is a huge risk with a very low percentage of success, even with an awesome idea. Some ideas will require corporate backing to be successful, either because it is more of a feature than a product or because
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Twitter, #TwitterFlight, and Devs(mzi.to)
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by mattzito 11y ago
The analogy is beyond tortured at this point, but I would say the way I see this is that the state department laid down a highway, and said, "Have at it!", and people built all kinds of different cars - kit cars, motorcycles, high
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by mattzito 11y ago
Okay - I don't work for Twitter, I only care about twitter inasmuch as they're a big data source for my company. So I don't speak for Twitter. That being said, this event is a whole event focused around Twitter developers, a
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by mattzito 11y ago
Almost no one actually needs firehose access, and they charge accordingly (particularly since that's a huge chunk of their value). If you need programmatic access to data, the folks at Gnip will happily sell you the data you need, and
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by mattzito 11y ago
So, you can pay Twitter for access, and people do just that. We pay quite a chunk of a money for a significant percentage of the global stream of Tweets, and we use that to do analytics and sell those analytics to customers. Now, we als
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by mattzito 11y ago
I was in the audience for the keynote, the clear message was that twitter was confused about what their relationship to developers should be, and they're looking to fix that.
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by mattzito 11y ago
It's entirely possible back in those days that you had a tiny LPAR (VM) for your CVS data on a big pSeries box that was shared with a bunch of other resources. On top of that, it wasn't uncommon to connect those tiny LPARs to shar
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by mattzito 11y ago
I feel like you took only one part of my comment to disagree with out of context with the rest- I'm not even disagreeing that the MTA is inefficient, I'm just saying that by looking at only one data point (cost/mile), you&#x2
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by mattzito 11y ago
I'd be interested in seeing a better comparison - it seems odd to compare a metro commuter rail vs. one stop through one of the most congested, densely populated infrastructures in the world. Presumably there are economies of scale at
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by mattzito 11y ago
Well, there's a couple of scenarios: - Long-running processes where they don't want to destroy and redeploy every single time a fix or change gets deployed - One is where they try to reduce the configuration sprawl by making confi
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by mattzito 11y ago
At least in the US, the whole recruiting industry hit its nadir during the dot-com bubble of 2000. I remember getting a cold-call from a recruiter, "Hey, got a great gig at a soon-to-IPO startup for a Solaris and Linux guru", &qu
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by mattzito 11y ago
I think the price point here is about a couple of things: - Chef and Puppet are too expensive for most companies to acquire, and have too much operational cost for too little revenue - Ansible got a strong following in the SMB space, Red Ha
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by mattzito 11y ago
I think anyone inside of Dell whose area of responsibility is a core focus of EMC (storage, security, etc.), should worry quite a bit about their jobs.
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by mattzito 11y ago
I think you are so many degrees of separation away that you should be fine. EMC has always been very hands off with VMware, and VMware is relatively hands off with Pivotal. The most possible disruptive outcome is that Pivotal spins out ent
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by mattzito 11y ago
It's less a trick, than a sad reality for certain types of software. I'm sure there are others, but for Oracle, for example, currently they require you to have a perpetual license for every core that's running inside your Am
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by mattzito 11y ago
I'm not the GP, but I think its' not a very full-time role because movement is slow and progressive. They have the next 18 months of what the company is going to do locked down and defined. I would also suspect they have strong
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by mattzito 11y ago
Once flying from the US to Delhi, a flight attendant came to get me in the middle of the night, and waved me over to an open window row to show me the border. It's quite pretty, but it is striking how few lights are on other than th
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by mattzito 11y ago
You can think this through a few ways. One is that they see finance jobs as desirable jobs, focus their whole lives up to that point on getting the job, get it - and find it's horrible. What do you do then? Do you go back to all the
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by mattzito 11y ago
It's a little different - in effect, the amount of TV I watch has no impact on the cost to me from my cable provider. In this case, the more ads you consume, potentially the more you pay from your wireless carrier.
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by mattzito 11y ago
I think you are underestimating the amount of graft and corruption that may have been involved in a lot of these fortunes. From knowing folks who have opened factories and businesses in China, there is a staggering amount of market manipul
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by mattzito 11y ago
Gosh, and let's not forget that RPMs can also contain pre- and post- hook scripts, so you could be in a situation where you say, "Install this RPM and satisfy dependencies", and another RPM is downloaded and installed as roo
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by mattzito 11y ago
You're not wrong , exactly, but what ends up being brutal is not just packaging, it's packaging and supporting dependency management + post-install configuration. RPMs, for example, are pretty terrible at allowing you to specif
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by mattzito 11y ago
Kind of a fun article, but I felt the premise of, "I track down illicit foods" was diluted somewhat when most of the foods turn out not to be illicit.

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