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by mattzito 12y ago
A lot of enterprises end up with messy CA implementations, and have to deal with bundling their certs, partner certs, and so on. I could see this being useful for them.
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by mattzito 12y ago
I think there's a middle ground here - first off, is it that obviously illegal? Is there an expectation of privacy, similar to eavesdropping on a conversation at the table next to you? I think it is now , but if we go back to 2007&#x
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by mattzito 12y ago
Yeah, I think it's a clever concept, but it seems almost egotistical to say, "Look, I care enough about how you pronounce my last name to embed a link in my email sig " Many people classically mispronounced my name - it&#x27
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by mattzito 12y ago
A lot of the startups that I see that try this are doing it because they really believe that they're bringing the value in this relationship - that they're going to be so successful, there's so much money here, they have SUCH
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by mattzito 12y ago
This might seem obvious, but I have a style of email for any kind of update where the recipient is not as day-to-day or emotionally involved as I am (investors, executive management, other business units, etc.) Basically, you bullet out the
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by mattzito 12y ago
I think it depends on the nature of the issue. Semi-complex and non-time-sensitive issues like (as an example of something I am dealing with at work with our internal helpdesk right now): "I need you to disable email address X entirel
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Except that roads do create traffic. Your line of thinking was exactly what drove NYC's road construction boom in the 40s and 50s - new road is built, utilization briefly goes down, then, as soon as people realize that there's
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by mattzito 12y ago
> Leave it to "years of urban planning" to determine a proper solution is to make roads so poor that people decide not to use them. What a weird level of snark. At least in NYC, demand is effectively infinite. Close to 2 mill
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It's a lot more complicated than that, if I remember my research on this subject correctly. It is definitely true that in a perfectly abstract system that if your roads are 70% utilized across the board, and you double capacity, you w
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by mattzito 12y ago
I came here to post a link to that exact book - the one thing I will say is that the book is basically divided into two sections. The first section is a history of the militarization of US police that is fascinating, well-researched, and
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by mattzito 12y ago
It's been years since I worked in the domain name space, but as I recall vaguely, part of the registrar accreditation agreement is that you have provisions to transition your customer domain names to another registrar in the event yo
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by mattzito 12y ago
"Distribution", in this case, doesn't mean taking from the rich and giving to the poor, it means a combination of logistic and political issues. Often times, there is enough food already being donated to address the immediate
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Except that at least back then, all you had to do was pay to upgrade your tv and you got the content. Today, not only do you have to buy the new TV, you have to hope your ISP has enough bandwidth to deliver the content, possibly pay more fo
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by mattzito 12y ago
I think there's some good points in this article - and I relate to it, 'cause this is exactly how I learned Perl. The one other item that I'll add is that some of the characteristics that make Perl awesome for sysadmins, li
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by mattzito 12y ago
Yeah, I'm not suggesting that everyone should optimize right out of the gate for acquisition, I even thought about making a more detailed set of points on that, but decided it was overkill. I think it's like this: - There's a
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For sure, there's a basic amount of stuff that you should always be doing: - Employee agreements - Updated financials (potentially get them audited once a year) - Insurance paperwork - etc. There's no reason you should ever not
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The really critical point I'd like to highlight is this one: > Marin’s team sent over a list of hundreds of technical, legal, and business questions that we’d need to answer for the deal to go through...Tracking down document after
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by mattzito 12y ago
There is a double standard to a limited degree- I can't remember the source of this, but a good explanation I saw described it thusly - it's the difference between "punching up" and "punching down". When a wom
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by mattzito 12y ago
Exactly - I read pretty quickly, but usually don't have the time/patience/inclination to watch a whole 30+ minute talk. Transcripts are the best, I wish more talks had them.
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I'm in nyc - let me know if you need mentors, we can talk.
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It's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem_fi...
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by mattzito 12y ago
I actually emailed the publisher about this, as the power broker is one of my favorite books (but totally impractical to carry around). I got a response saying that they would love to do an ebook version of TPB, but Robert Caro won't
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How would they know? Without tracking race (self-identified or otherwise) as a reference point for other data, countries could have a terrible problem discriminating against people based on the color of their skin and no one would know.
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I'm really reaching back into the depths of my memory, but I've implemented this in the past. It's not quite as simple as they make it sound - there's a lot of sticky edge cases that crop up here (some of which have no
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by mattzito 13y ago
I'm the author, just wanted to say thanks for the hat tip. As far as a response, as much as I enjoy a good old fashioned internet flame war, a response isn't necessary. I'd be happy with their thinking about how they messag
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I would guess, too, that there are mitigation actions that can be taken by computers that humans don't have the reflexes to handle. For example, I was always told in driving school as a kid that if you're about to hit a deer, you
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by mattzito 13y ago
As someone else pointed out, "shut down all trading immediately" isn't so clear cut as "let's stop doing this". The other aspect is that while I think people should be empowered, shutting down business operatio
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by mattzito 13y ago
I did not mean to give the opinion that I thought Dropbox was forced to hire Condi. Nor did I intend to suggest that Dropbox agrees or disagrees with her. Here's what I think . I think Dropbox said, "As we try to beef up our cr
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She's an independent board member. She does not have the ability, in practice, to do anything other than vote on compensation and various other corporate policies. And if all it takes to get dropbox execs to turn over data is fiscal
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Some are - some are still very much in growth mode, or on track to be acquired by a larger player for strategic value, both of which can screw with the multiple.

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