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by mattzito 11y ago
Sure - there's not much to tell. I was one of the founders of a venture-backed startup that raised a couple of rounds of funding from a set of VCs. I had/have pretty good relationships with a few of those, plus some other connec
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by mattzito 11y ago
I think it would be a very interesting business to be in - I think Id' be more interested in being a VC advisor, which I've done sporadically in the past. Get to be involved in interesting deals and get paid for it, without havin
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by mattzito 11y ago
> Phones and cloud services aren't in competition, they're complimentary services -- phones create demand for cloud services. Sure, from the standpoint that devices create demand for computing services, which these days are del
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by mattzito 11y ago
Well, you're conflating various things here: > One Windows app, deployed everywhere with a focus on productivity and smart services. In no way has there been any capitulation. In fact Microsoft leads the space. Does Apple have unive
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by mattzito 11y ago
The difference, of course, being that employees (even the fractional kind) will not get the preferential stock treatment that VCs have, and many will not have the legal resources or expertise to protect themselves throughout the ongoing lif
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by mattzito 11y ago
If the moral of this case that you take away is, "Don't interact with milennial women", I think you have a very skewed view of the world.
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by mattzito 11y ago
Okay, I'm a frequent flyer, though not to the level of Ben (though I did once go LGA-ORD-DEL-ORD-LAX-JFK without leaving the airport in Delhi to get to Executive Platinum on AA). Typically what Ben is doing is flying fares where the co
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by mattzito 11y ago
> I have several really amazing people that I could partner with on a few different things but due to financial obligations there isn't anyway they'd be able to join full time unless there was an investment. So pitching as a so
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by mattzito 11y ago
There's also, I fear, a trap here where we believe we understand nutrition, only to discover there are nuances that we still don't have a great handle on. As an example, there's the emerging posibility that one's gut flo
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by mattzito 11y ago
Why wouldn't you be better served by an adapted version of a configuration management toolchain like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible? This would give you the semantic representation you're looking for, idempotency, and a prebuilt library
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by mattzito 11y ago
I think there's another angle here, which is that the individual players may have been harmed - with confidential scouting reports or player performance data, the behavior of the Cardinals may have changed towards those players. They
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by mattzito 11y ago
Well, IANAPP but a quick google skim shows that the half-life of tritium is 12 years, roughly. That's a long time to store something to get down to levels where you could feel confident dumping the water out, or accepting the risk tha
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by mattzito 11y ago
This actually doesn't describe a green/blue environment - it describes having a single environment that has code deployed in a rolling fashion. Which is useful, but not this use case. It's also worth noting that this use cas
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by mattzito 11y ago
Should be tagged as (2014).
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by mattzito 11y ago
The difference between Oracle and Microsoft is that Oracle has offerings in the majority of the places that Salesforce.com plays in. Oracle has a CRM, a Marketing Cloud, Analytics, and so on. Microsoft has a CRM, but not one with a signi
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by mattzito 11y ago
I have a terrible, unmaintained blog at http://mzi.to that I keep promising to myself I will do something with. My bio isn't even accurate there at the moment. So if I do start writing about it, it'll be there.
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by mattzito 11y ago
> I would (and my advice to anyone else would be to) reach out to the potential client's IT department as a matter of course, whether or not they're likely to be involved. Ehhhh - I would maybe rephrase that to be, "Talk w
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by mattzito 11y ago
> It's a good idea to make sure that all the stakeholders (including IT) are involved at an early stage, to make sure that any obstacles to deployment can be avoided (or, at least, spotted in advance). An engaged, friendly IT depart
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by mattzito 11y ago
As a product person in the enterprise space, I think there's a lot of good things in this article. BUT, there's a couple of things that I think reflect Steven's background at Microsoft and are common assumptions in the Enter
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by mattzito 11y ago
Perhaps - but this is why trick questions are terrible in interviews. They tend to be around trivia, and encourage people to guess at a response. If you want to test someone on whether they can admit they don't know, just ask increasi
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by mattzito 11y ago
Guh, I'm so frustrated by seeing this type of comment over and over again: > Datasift falls squarely in the [business and analytics] bracket, which means Twitter’s decision is a complete reversal of their previous stated stance, a s
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by mattzito 12y ago
To be clear - the only access to the firehose that has been cut off is for people who want to resell that data. The writing has been on the wall for that for quite a while - there's really no reason for Twitter to sell data to a thir
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by mattzito 12y ago
It's also entirely possible that the reporter either asked AWS for some customer names and cherry-picked those, or the reporter asked their network for some names. In my experience, it's not paid other than in really shady non-ma
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by mattzito 12y ago
As I recall its a 2-engine vs 4-engine situation. The big planes that need 4 engines have extra overhead and inefficiency. That's one of the reasons that the 777 is so popular, close to the size of a jumbo and only two engines.
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by mattzito 12y ago
We're big users of Slack at my current employer, and we love it. But, no, it is not a silver bullet. The couple of things that I really like about it: - it's good for collaborative working or editing - got a fire going? about to
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by mattzito 12y ago
That particular style of stove gets like that - we had one in my family's restaurant. You can scrub it all you want, and it only looks worse. It's meant to be functional and reliable, but not attractive.
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by mattzito 12y ago
Ahhh, but that's due to a lack of understanding of the studies, which weren't "let's start with people who are circumcised and compare their behavior vs. those who aren't". It was, "We're going to tak
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by mattzito 12y ago
Isn't that the point? People will have risky sexual behavior whether circumcised or not, so if circumcision reduces the likelihood of AIDS transmission in people with risky sexual behavior, it's a net win. EDIT: the downthread co
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by mattzito 12y ago
Yeah, it's really tough to quit something while it's ahead, without the benefit of hindsight to tell you when the peak actually was.
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by mattzito 12y ago
This was also...14?-ish years ago. Sometimes on Solaris 2.6 or 8 boxes. I am pretty sure xargs didn't have that flag back then (which is why I said, "back in the day").

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