jamie

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by jamie 1y ago
(Hi - I'm an engineer at Slack -- reposting from our chief product officer Rob Seaman): "This was a mistake. We're fixing it. We appreciate you, Hack Club, along with all of you that are Slack users following along :heart:.&q
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by jamie 11y ago
Worth following the development of cockroachdb https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach The long term goals of that project seem to align.
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by jamie 13y ago
Interesting when read right after this from another z16z partner: http://bhorowitz.com/2013/10/08/cash-flow-and-destiny/
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by jamie 13y ago
The folks behind this project know Django really well - I've recommended this to people a number of times.
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by jamie 14y ago
That's true; there are lots of different paths people can take into PM, and you'll find all types. Like engineers, there is such a thing as a 10x product manager. I hope everyone at some point gets to work with an outstanding product manag
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by jamie 14y ago
+1 on this one. The best product managers I've ever met were former engineers who were good developers, but wanted something broader. That background (and a true love of technology) will make you a stellar product manager. But, be sure y
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by jamie 14y ago
Inflation since 1999 should easily tip you over the $1B mark :-)
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by jamie 14y ago
It's even worse than that: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2005/corp_011205.html Airespace wireless for $450MM.
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by jamie 14y ago
Same here - I'll never recommend them, and have actively discouraged people from using or investigating them. They may be great technically, but I always mention their spotty/inconsistent and poor treatment of me as a customer. Even if I'm
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by jamie 15y ago
That sound you hear is a giant checkbook opening in the direction of Pintrest. The parallels with Google Video and Youtube shouldn't be lost on anyone.
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by jamie 15y ago
FB has been doing cool type/print related projects for awhile. They've been showing up on For Print Only for a couple of years. Very cool stuff: http://www.underconsideration.com/fpo/archives/2009/12/faceb... http://www.underconsiderat
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by jamie 15y ago
You might like tastypie: https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie
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by jamie 15y ago
I think that's a different project; probably this: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919 I think you're thinking of this: http://haystacksearch.org/
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by jamie 15y ago
I think both of these links illustrate that errors happen, mistakes happen, software has bugs, and murphy's law always strikes. The question is, when it strikes, do you have enough control to fix the problem? If you've outsourced the solut
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by jamie 15y ago
Don't forget about this: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/15/joyen...
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by jamie 16y ago
This is fantastic news. I worked at IronPort prior to the Cisco acquisition, and Scott was a very effective CEO. IronPort was a significantly under-reported success story in the Valley, and a tremendous place to work. There was a huge em
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by jamie 16y ago
Slow is being charitable. It's molasses. This is what the docs say: About emulator performance Because the Android emulator must simulate the ARM instruction set architecture on your computer and the WXGA screen is significantly larger tha
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by jamie 16y ago
I actually think there's quite a bit of potential for the Kinect, but it's really hampered by one giant bug: It's an xbox. The whole experience still screams "I'm a hardcore game device". Hell, it's called an "XBOX" for crying out loud. Th
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by jamie 16y ago
build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy It seems that people have learned this lesson. Marketing folks even have a term for it: The Consumerization of IT. Spend some time around Gart
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by jamie 16y ago
I thought this was Saul Griffith's startup, but I see no mention of him on the about page. At his Long Now talk last year, I recall him talking about Makani as being his new effort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Griffith Saul seems t
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by jamie 16y ago
Yea, and I doubt that the footers lawyers append to every email mean much in terms of disclosure, but that doesn't stop law firms from trying it anyway. I think read receipts fall into the category of "good faith effort", and not much more.
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by jamie 16y ago
Excluding the graphics company, it sounds like they're trying to build out an application suite that makes it easy to keep firing up new vmware nodes as you grow. My guess is what you're seeing is the slow buildout of a platform to provide
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by jamie 16y ago
This is in the Summer Of Code roadmap: http://spyced.blogspot.com/2010/03/cassandra-in-google-summe...
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by jamie 16y ago
My guess is that a lot of this infrastructure is to support them moving to new technologies while the old ones are in place. Changing the engine while the car is in motion requires a lot of piecemeal engineering work, and I think you're se
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by jamie 16y ago
Yes, but more importantly, this should allow concurrency to the database. You can now have multiple writers to the same underlying database. Previously, I believe SQLITE would lock the entire database any time you accessed it.
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by jamie 16y ago
It's roughly comparable to innodb in that it's ACID compliant. MyISAM doesn't support transactions or transaction logging, so it's not as durable as INNODB or BDB.
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by jamie 16y ago
This is an awesome shootout! Be careful with BDB, its default tuning is geared more towards an embedded environment then a modern web-app. That's not to say it can't go fast! I took a look at your BDB demo and saw that you weren't creatin
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by jamie 17y ago
Also, it would be a throwback to how people worked before laptops. If you've ever been in a meeting where 20 people sit around a conference table and talk over their laptops, you'll recognize that as much value the laptop brings to the mee
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by jamie 17y ago
Surprisingly, it sounds like some of the guesses aren't too far off from the Microsoft Courier concept. I have to say, some of the ideas in that concept of a persistent, everyday computing device sound compelling. Something half way betwe
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by jamie 17y ago
Talk about burying the lede! From the last paragraph of the article: "The issue became pressing to me personally when I nearly mowed down, in my car, a teenage boy crossing West End Avenue."

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