ryanburk

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by ryanburk 12y ago
you should assume ~200k for an engineer in a market like seattle
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by ryanburk 12y ago
as someone who was there during this time as well, this is a truly excellent write up and captures the issues really well. I don't think the company ever recovered from the drag out of the cuts, and many people stopped taking risks and
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by ryanburk 12y ago
good point. but there is a very small engineering team in france (the remainder of the musiwave acquisition) and the rest is sales and marketing that spans EMEA (europe and middle east). if there are cuts, likely not broadly hit.
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by ryanburk 12y ago
I unfortunately can't find it either, but this month I heard a talk by Madeline Di Nonno, the CEO of the geena davis institute, cite that it is in 4th grade (~10yrs old) when there is a marked drop off in interest in STEM for the reaso
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by ryanburk 12y ago
the folks at http://project529.com are getting started in the bike registry space as well. I like their push for online bike sales to list serial numbers to lower the chances of stolen bikes from being sold easily. but getting t
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by ryanburk 12y ago
if you take a look at http://status.modern.ie/ you can see which major standards / features are in flight. or not, in the case of WebRTC
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by ryanburk 12y ago
I would say no - if you look at the other content of the site, it has nothing to do with jobs. it is a fun perspective though.
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by ryanburk 12y ago
really well said. I think too often people think that working at a startup and getting acquired will be a road to riches. not that $200k isn't a huge amount of money, but if you look at the payout over the number of years invested for
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by ryanburk 12y ago
having been involved with a few acquisitions in the past, usually the terms of the deal have a lock in period where you can't sell to aid in retention. then you add on top of that new retention grants to handcuff folks as best you can.
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by ryanburk 12y ago
usually it is an option or stock award grant that is valuable enough when fully vested over a long term (usually 4-5 years) that it is very hard to walk away from it. it "handcuffs" you to the company. http://en.wikiped
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by ryanburk 12y ago
very fair, appreciate the feedback. editing my comment.
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by ryanburk 12y ago
as called out in the cloudflare blog post from the other post[1], implementing the spam / abuse / fraud detection piece to be as effective in an IPv6 world is a huge challenge. IPv6 opens up so many different attacks that can be u
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by ryanburk 12y ago
I think comparing something like IPv6 adoption and D-Day really is beyond apples and oranges. IPv6 is important, make no mistake. but compared to what the world went through on D-Day?
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by ryanburk 12y ago
are you concerned about / doing anything for isolation between containers? I haven't seen a great (lightweight) implementation yet where you can get true container isolation on the same host. thanks for the write up!
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by ryanburk 12y ago
the wikipedia url needs a trailing period: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibovitz_v._Paramount_Pictures... . [edit] that apparently HN lops off. I haven't found a way around it.
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by ryanburk 12y ago
google security did a nice blog post supporting the statement that CAPTCHAs aren't as effective as they used to be: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-j...
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by ryanburk 12y ago
and by giving away for free the most expensive part of hosting - power - for the folks colo'ing with them, it is almost free for netflix and others to do this. it makes the offering something that other ISPs won't be able to compe
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by ryanburk 12y ago
EPCOT was originally going to be a place to live - a model for future urban living ideas. and going to be all of what is now disney world.[1] I don't think walt was going to live there though :-) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org&
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by ryanburk 12y ago
it is interesting to read that he expected to use the facilities to broadcast a number of his shows while also being part of the park experience. that would likely make it easier for him to spend more time at the park versus at the main stu
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by ryanburk 12y ago
do you have sources for the latency numbers for kinect on xbox one? I've searched and can't find anything concrete and the XDK isn't publicly available. and this might downvote me into oblivion, but is using "M$" st
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by ryanburk 12y ago
this is really good advice. I learned from a superb mentor Laurie Litwack who was a great program manager at microsoft that you should learn about each of your reports "heart, tree, star". heart: what do you love? tree: what &#x2F
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by ryanburk 12y ago
"share praise, take blame" has worked really well for me in the past. folks who fail at learning this tend not to last long or at least don't advance since no one will want to work for them.
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by ryanburk 12y ago
talking about themselves and taking credit are two of the big traps rookies fall into.
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by ryanburk 12y ago
the top answer is really well done, but lacks the gem from the second answer: "One of the major rookie mistakes I have made and see many others make is the assumption that human motivation is tied to economic outcomes" put anothe
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by ryanburk 12y ago
before building an idea | feature | company | etc, if you go through and make sure you can answer "what problem are you trying to solve?" you are much more likely on your way to success. everyone who is a builder should be asking
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by ryanburk 12y ago
IE6 is a really great analogy based on what happened inside of microsoft on this team over the past few years.[1] [1] I helped start up this team in 2004
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by ryanburk 12y ago
if you go with an amazon solution, it should absolutely be mechanical turk! https://aws.amazon.com/mturk/
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by ryanburk 12y ago
hal berenson is super smart and I think says it best in his reply to your comment[1]. microsoft, just like google and apple and redhat and linkedin and facebook, is a company - it is there to make money for shareholders. what they do to mak
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by ryanburk 12y ago
so I was at microsoft until recently and I can say that almost everything on this list had nothing to do with the CEO change outside of him being on the earnings call and the exec changes. at a company as large as microsoft and after the bi
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by ryanburk 12y ago
one aspect of this - if you don't make an attempt to protect the content, even if it is "pirated practically instantaneously", then the studios can't go after anyone pirating their product in the legal system with any ch

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