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by ryanburk 10y ago
some history: this was introduced with XP SP2 as part of the windows security push. was a clever way to track the information without touching the binary data directly and supporting it in IE meant the majority of customers saw the benefit
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by ryanburk 10y ago
microsoft has a history of leaving large acquisitions where they are. skype (global), powerpoint, hotmail, yahoo ads, & webTV (mountain view), yammer (sf), dynamics (north dakota, but grew in redmond), an app virtualization thing (bosto
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by ryanburk 10y ago
there are roughly 3000 microsoft folks in the bay area. most are at the mountain view campus next to linkedin and moffett towers across the airstrip. but also a bunch in san francisco (yammer) and palo alto (skype).
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Linkedin trades office space with Google, enabling campus master plan(recode.net)
2 points by ryanburk 10y ago|0 comments
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Evernote names new CTO(venturebeat.com)
3 points by ryanburk 10y ago|0 comments
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by ryanburk 10y ago
impressive that he doesn't follow anyone.
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by ryanburk 10y ago
I agree this since private equity investments and buyouts seem to be accelerating and it is important to understand their motivations. I thought this post covered the differences versus VCs, angels, etc well: https://medium.com&#
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by ryanburk 10y ago
http://www.recode.net/2016/6/1/11826256/mary-meeker-2016-int... there is video from her at the code conference
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by ryanburk 10y ago
tesla is a good example of a company that did this at ipo. really, there are no financial implications. the valuation of the company stays the same with a split, but the price of the stock changes proportionate to the quantity outstanding.
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by ryanburk 10y ago
from the article: "From now until Demo Day, Meet the Batch will publish profiles of our S16 companies and founders..."
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by ryanburk 10y ago
there is exactly one "senior technical fellow" at the company - davec. while is wasn't entirely a solo effort - folks like forrest foltz, landy wang, etc were involved - it was amazing coming in on a monday morning and seeing
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by ryanburk 10y ago
I had the privilege to work on the windows kernel team in the NT5 then XP days. I really wish they could share some of his code. it was the cleanest, well segmented, and commented code I've ever seen. it made the system much more maint
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by ryanburk 10y ago
the nest one has always been great http://www.nest.com/humans.txt
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by ryanburk 11y ago
website seems down, but google cache here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9jrWlnp...
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by ryanburk 11y ago
$100 for 5 years [1] [1] https://www.dhs.gov/comparison-chart
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by ryanburk 11y ago
yes[1]. I thought I read that they promised this at the surface pro 3 launch but I can't find proof of that. [1] http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/tablets/1403174/microsoft-sur...
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by ryanburk 11y ago
they didn't take venture capital and instead self funded. even if you aren't generating revenue, you can bootstrap
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by ryanburk 11y ago
the article includes the link to the previous HN discussion on this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4644712
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storage virtualization startup datrium comes out of stealth(datrium.com)
1 points by ryanburk 11y ago|0 comments
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by ryanburk 11y ago
yes, but he didn't bring office with him to windows.
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by ryanburk 11y ago
no, even before the antitrust fun they were always separate business divisions / orgs.
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by ryanburk 11y ago
the brilliant long play here is that if I program with my kids using this, they are growing up on the VS IDE. gets them in the ecosystem really early.
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by ryanburk 11y ago
agreed. it has been over 15 years since I graduated from a pretty good CS program in an engineering school, and we definitely had math professors teaching many core courses that were math focused (e.g. http://www.cs.cornell.edu&#
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by ryanburk 11y ago
only if they issued additional shares to do this, which doesn't come across in the S-1
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by ryanburk 11y ago
I love this. but it does cost the company in terms of shares available to their underwriters to sell. and when you assume there will be easy first day gains to be had by getting the shares at the offering price that everyone wants a piece o
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What Happens at Six Years?(bryansaftler.com)
1 points by ryanburk 12y ago|0 comments
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by ryanburk 12y ago
things might have changed over the past 12 months, but if you report an app from the store app in windows 8, the report gets looked at and they were good about removing apps that had issues. I say this since I went through this process myse
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by ryanburk 12y ago
I would say it is probably both. calendaring tech is actually much harder than most people believe. both for usable design and efficient implementation. I say that having worked on the outlook.com/hotmail team a few years ago. and inte
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by ryanburk 12y ago
it would be great if the title was changed to reflect that this is a concept / design, and nothing real.
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by ryanburk 12y ago
having a ratio where you scale linearly is really not common in mega-scale web services since you have infrastructure services like borg / mesos / omega / autopilot / etc. you can take a snapshot and say you are 1:n beca

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