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by mattzito 11y ago
> That doesn't make it the nexus of activity on Facebook. That wasn't my contention - your contention was: > Following is not "a thing" that's popular to do on Facebook. And yet, the hundreds of millions of pe
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by mattzito 11y ago
I think the Percona writer is focusing on "corruption" in terms of how I think most database folks imagine "corruption" - where a series of commands will erase a block of data, or make a block of data unrecoverable. I ag
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by mattzito 11y ago
I'll have to disagree - we do Facebook page monitoring and I often see random brands with millions of fans per country. I often thought the same thing because I never friend anything, but I am clearly not the majority.
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by mattzito 11y ago
Ooookay, I put a chunk of money into LendingClub, and here's what I learned: - Remember that the money that you make on this is taxed as income , which stinks for high income individuals - The alternative is to set up a lendingclub IR
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by mattzito 11y ago
The difference here is that while AOL was a completely walled garden, many of the various players here have APIs that you can connect to. Then you have intermediary companies like IFTTT and Zapier that are glue between those various servic
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by mattzito 11y ago
One of the things I always encourage people to do as part of an acquisition is to handle the transition gracefully (1 year-ish), and then start looking around for what else you might want to do inside the acquirer. Often there won't b
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by mattzito 11y ago
I wasn't totally skeptical - we did RAC on AWS in tests back in the day using a third node as an iSCSI target, but it was a) sketchy as hell, b) not at all redundant, c) not something I thought Palm would go for.
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by mattzito 11y ago
How did you do RAC on AWS without shared storage?
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by mattzito 11y ago
Dtrace was, and still is, awesome. Linux has come a long way in this area in the last few years, but DTrace was one of the hottest systems management capabilities I'd seen in forever, particularly on the very large SMP systems that ha
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by mattzito 11y ago
I think the reality is that there are a lot of angels that will lose a lot of money on their investments. However, most of those angels are wealthy individuals, and as a percentage of the total amount of investment capital across all of th
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by mattzito 11y ago
> This holds back so many projects - how expensive hosting web applications eventually becomes. Hosting web applications costs a fraction of what it did 5-10 years ago, both in terms of straight costs as well as operational expenses.
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by mattzito 11y ago
And as someone who also was acquired by BMC, the interesting bit for me was that the acting CEO of Boundary was a guy named Larry Warnock, who had another company that was acquired by BMC, Phurnace, for what I expect is roughly the same amo
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by mattzito 11y ago
> Bitcoin is huge to many industries: Is bitcoin really huge to those industries? Or are those the biggest industries using bitcoin? A quick search pulls a stat that worldwide gambling revenue is ~350b - is bitcoin really even 1% of th
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by mattzito 11y ago
Potentially the car could flash the headlights, a signal that's commonly used today to say, "I am waiting for you to go".
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by mattzito 11y ago
Uber is actually highly regulated in NYC. When you get an uber, the car that's being driven is a licensed livery cab with the city, and the driver is a licensed livery cab driver with the city. They're subject to all of the regu
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by mattzito 11y ago
No, alas - the Twitter terms of service are very clear. If you are storing a tweet, when someone deletes that tweet you have to delete all of your copies of it. Full stop.
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by mattzito 11y ago
How do you read nytimes "all the time" with the paywall? Edit: I'm confused by the downvotes. I wasn't trying to turn it into a discussion about whether paywalls are right or wrong, I was just drawing out that either th
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by mattzito 11y ago
While you are mechanically correct, your ideas would absolutely be hugely valuable, you have the benefit of already knowing what macroeconomic trends and historical events will happen. Put another way, you could probably make exactly the sa
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by mattzito 11y ago
> I don't have sympathy for people who make their SOs an unconsenting part of three-way sexual relationship Do you have sympathy for people whose three-way sexual relationships are unconsentingly made public?
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by mattzito 11y ago
Or an SO who has an agreement with their spouse to let them quietly cheat has to now deal with strangers and friends alike "knowing" that the spouse sleeps around. Or person A is in a sexless but loving marriage with person B. Th
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by mattzito 11y ago
It is by definition a private matter - we have no idea what the context behind these peoples actions are. They could have an agreement with their spouse to let them discreetly cheat. Cheating could be a part of their particular marital or
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by mattzito 11y ago
It seems really surprising that you're not tracking location, as that might dramatically skew your distribution.
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by mattzito 11y ago
Random mainframe anecdote: I remember a client in the early 2000s who had a non-IBM mainframe that when originally implemented and designed predated the wide availability of Ethernet and TCP/IP. Everyone knew it was a piece of junk by
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by mattzito 11y ago
Honestly, it's just the classy thing to do - the impact of changing your name is nominal, the potential confusion with the other Dcron is significant.
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by mattzito 11y ago
Thanks for replying, and kudos on trying something new. Couple of points that I was hoping you could clarify: 1) A quick google search yields [1], which says that a typical family doctor has 34 hours a week of patient interactions, 92 patie
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by mattzito 11y ago
Interesting concept, but I'm skeptical that the economics work out. It's true you save on office space, but you lose on volume of clients (patients) you can see at any given time. On top of that, in a practice, doctors are able t
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by mattzito 11y ago
I think GP is saying that in his case the iron supplementation in U.S. Flour was the cause of his problem.
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by mattzito 11y ago
This seems largely, at my admittedly brief viewing, to try to quell some of the structural concerns around all of these "non-core" businesses that the Artist Formerly Known as Google are participating in. I think it will streamlin
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by mattzito 11y ago
Synthesio - http://www.synthesio.com | Multiple positions | Remote or NYC 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 and di
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It's a lot more complicated than that - there's a massive skilled labor pool, but at any given time, a huge percentage of them are gainfully employed and not currently looking. Many of the really amazing labor pool members are rec

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