matty_makes

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by matty_makes 8y ago
Your job isn't decision making but you can make sure management is fully aware of what they are dealing with. Outline major problems that you keep running across, you mention highly coupled platforms, that usually means changes in one
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by matty_makes 8y ago
Project leadership at a small company/startup is going to be much different than at a larger company and vastly different than at a Fortune 500. The path of a PM is typically to progressively manage more complex and larger projects wh
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by matty_makes 8y ago
I think you missed the point of the article. It only matters for certain demographics. The byline says it all: "they can have a big effect if you’re not rich, not white, or not a guy" I'm not sure what 'rich' mean
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by matty_makes 8y ago
Someone should create an app that translates a companies T&C into layman terms with simple stuff like "they track your location", "sell your usage data", etc. Just need a team of lawyers to interpret them, and a nic
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by matty_makes 8y ago
Retire. You can live off the interest if invested in mostly stable stuff (so I've heard) assuming you don't have a larger tax bill looming. You may read lots of "awesome coder, great bizdev person" stuff online but 95%
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by matty_makes 8y ago
My kids have put more of their money into Fortnite stuff in 1 year than they have paid for in total for any other AAA title game. So have all of their friends. It isn't whales, its the 10-18 yo disposable money. They get into the sta
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by matty_makes 8y ago
It's been happening for decades though. Kids don't watch Saturday morning cartoons these days or wait to see what toy will be in the next McDonald's happy meal. They watch YouTube and see ads there. Internet advertising isn
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by matty_makes 8y ago
A great feature on Playstation is Family Management using sub-accounts. You can set time limits where it will log them out automatically. You can also setup a schedule with certain hours per day and end time. I hear lots of "how much
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by matty_makes 8y ago
Rails as the stack and REST as the implementation. You can then spend most of your time on making sure you have a good understanding of the domain and then design the API to match that understanding. Rails because you asked what _I_ would r
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by matty_makes 8y ago
Large companies sometimes don't actually 'do' any of their own IT work. There are layers of SLA's across data centers and applications, spread across multiple vendors, contractors, etc. Everything must have a legal cont
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by matty_makes 8y ago
There needs to be a paper trail. Newer technology is not the answer for voting. What would be a good idea is a team to do UX on voting ballots, nationally. Solve this problem once and take into account all the variations of local things (
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by matty_makes 8y ago
I only skimmed the article until I realized they weren't talking about Apple starting a privacy focused actual social network. That's what I thought the article would be about. So this is off topic but what I'm imagining is
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by matty_makes 8y ago
There is a culture thing about MacBook Pro's being used by developers. The latest round of MBP has a pretty horrible keyboard experience, so home or at the office, I have it hooked up to monitor, keyboard and mouse. When I had a previ
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by matty_makes 8y ago
Documentation. There are "standards" about REST and other mental frameworks about API's but when it comes down to it, everything is slightly different since there are so many small decisions that affect the end product like p
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by matty_makes 8y ago
The hosting country, like Russia, knows they are spies and puts surveillance teams on them 24/7. The spy's (aka CIA Officer) job is to make sure their agents (the host country people they are gathering intelligence from) will not
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by matty_makes 8y ago
The video describes mostly about what they would do under active surveillance e.g. people following them. Some of the prosthetics she describes also may throw off facial recognition.
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by matty_makes 8y ago
Smart phones are hard to use, not just iPhones. They are as bloated with features as an enterprise software that offers licenses by the seat.
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by matty_makes 8y ago
My kids are really into a couple online games. The games are geared towards mixed levels of instant gratification and longer gratification, creating and maintaining an online character/persona, getting approval from peers as you climb