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by mattzito 13y ago
> A good engineer can PM his own work, and doesn't need someone else to tell him what color to paint the bike shed A good product manager, having done their job, has provided the good engineer with enough information about goals, fe
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by mattzito 13y ago
As the other reply said, to a certain extent you have to trust your customers. Big companies don't want to be exposed to liability - I know of a large organization that accidentally skimped on their license accounting for a database p
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by mattzito 13y ago
Yeah, you're right, that's often the case, especially when you have cofounders and early employees that you don't want to dilute during the first funding round. However , I just wanted to keep the example simple, I thought i
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by mattzito 13y ago
Okay, so yes, you are mechanically correct in that if you sold 10% of your shares for $1m, you would get the cash not the company. However, the way funding events work in real life is that new shares are created by the company and then so
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by mattzito 13y ago
For certain aspects, you are correct - instead of sending in 75 infantrymen to hold a ridge, you can send in a few tanks and mechanized infantry using fewer people. However, the somewhat perverse reality is that the logistics and support re
726.
by mattzito 13y ago
Here's the reality, as I see it - most businesses , that is to say, (US) commercial enterprises that operate within the confines of the USA already comply with any and all search warrants, FISA letters, government requests, and so on.
727.
by mattzito 13y ago
I experienced an exact opposite response. We had a fairly troubling experience with an Uber driver late at night, and sent an email explaining what happened and requesting a response. The next day we had an email response, refunding our mo
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by mattzito 13y ago
Interesting article, but it seems somewhat disingenuous/self-serving/self-aggrandizing to have the architect of the final plan write the article. I'd much rather see a professional journalist interview and analyze the situat
729.
by mattzito 13y ago
Or have it charged to an entirely separate card, one that gets reloaded with money every month to cover planned MT expenses. Annoying, but the safest option, I suspect
730.
by mattzito 13y ago
I actually still use a travel agent for nicer vacation bookings. I almost always pay the same price as on the website, but get upgrades, free breakfast, spa credits, etc. etc. When it's more than the website, I do a cost-benefit analy
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by mattzito 13y ago
I haven't dealt with this directly in a couple of years, so apologies if I get the details wrong or if laws have changed In order for a US company to hire a Brazilian employee, it has to be through an established company that has a c
732.
by mattzito 13y ago
I'm a college dropout who majored in Acting at a major university - that's always a fun one to explain to people.
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by mattzito 13y ago
"Though someone told me they took a bottle full of frozen water and got through, since it isn't a liqid by the rules.. go figure." Maybe in the really early days of the liquids ban, but these days they're a lot more up t
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by mattzito 13y ago
So - just one comment on this: "The other reason is that when I asked people what they were working on, they all said they were rewriting all the Perl code in Java "because Amazon is a Java company" - apparently that was the
735.
by mattzito 13y ago
But you won't get criticism without showing people the app. Heck, I won't sign up for services that only have little explainer videos instead of screenshots and text, there's no way I'm filling out a form to figure out
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by mattzito 13y ago
Well, (this is a phrase that has never popped out of my mouth) in fairness to the hijackers, they planned for over a year. They flew enough to be top-tier elite frequent flyers, planned out which flights would have the fewest people and th
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by mattzito 13y ago
> Do you think of respecting others, their property and the law as some kind of luxury you could do without if you were sufficiently needy? In the abstract, no, of course not. I think I do a fairly decent job of living a moral life, an
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by mattzito 13y ago
> I'm not going to turn to robbery if I lose my job. Of course not, neither am I. Of course, I'm a white-collar professional, in an in-demand industry, with savings, and consequently, even if I had to really scale down my care
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by mattzito 13y ago
It depends (imo), on the amount of money you have left and who its from. If you've raised $1m from well-to-do-but-not-rich family members and with $500k left you're realized you're totally unqualified to be in your business,
740.
by mattzito 13y ago
I find that having a nondescript black case for my kindle makes it look enough like a book or journal that flight attendants have plausible deniability to claim that it didn't look like an electronic device. Call it the e-book equivale
741.
by mattzito 13y ago
Very important resource, but what a terrible interface for the questionnaire. Sliding and bouncing balls don't add any real value over just showing the flow chart along the side of the questions.
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by mattzito 13y ago
I find the most useful office layout is a blend of spaces. I think you should have: - hotelling rooms for phone calls, thinking time, etc. - team rooms - closed spaces for groups of people that often work together - conference rooms for la
743.
by mattzito 13y ago
Right, but bear in mind that their customers will see that ram usage as "wasted" RAM. I have a product with an agent that runs around 80MB of RAM usage on giant servers, servers with 500+GB of RAM, and my customers still complain
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by mattzito 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if location, coverage type, etc. mattered quite a bit, and it's possible that in the last few years it's become less appealing. But I remember having a conversation with a friend-of-a-friend who worked
745.
by mattzito 13y ago
Also, something I don't see people talk about as much as they should (perhaps because startups are staying smaller these days), but if you have 8-10 employees or more you should be looking at a PEO . We used Insperity/Administaff
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by mattzito 13y ago
First off, I'm not saying it's better . It's heavy, complicated, incredibly expensive, the really cool features are even more expensive, but feature-wise , it's an amazing example of what you can do inside of a relati
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by mattzito 13y ago
Yeah, I'm not going to defend Oracle (or their pricing model), but in this case it sounds like the person who did the migration was just not an Oracle expert. Data pump is great for database dumps (and very fast), and SecureFiles is b
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by mattzito 13y ago
It seems odd that the writer first bashes MM for just getting in a room with some designers over a weekend, criticizing the concept of doing something so important in such a slapdash fashion, and then bashes her for polling the company abou
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by mattzito 13y ago
They mostly say they've solved the problem of how you and your friends will find each other at the concert, or how you're going to deal with the back breaking hassle of getting your mail, and these types of things. Not real probl
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by mattzito 13y ago
I understand, but from the soylent webpage: "What if you never had to worry about food again? For many people, on many occasions, food is a hassle, especially when trying to eat well. Suppose we had a default meal that was the nutritio

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