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by ruff 2y ago
Ha, if you think that was bad, you should have been there when it was just Entourage ;).
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by ruff 4y ago
Hmm... for all 10 digit US numbers the telcos introduce 10 DLC registrations last year that require you to register and verify your business in order to send any meaningful amount of SMS traffic. You have to provide details like a DUNs numb
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by ruff 8y ago
NumberAI | Full-stack | B2C Communication & AI | Oakland, CA | Full-time | React, React-Native, Python, Kubernetes NumberAI is a seed-stage startup, bringing AI messaging to businesses across the world. Amazingly, 80% of businesses in t
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by ruff 12y ago
I'd bet $100M on IFTTT if I had it. They've got an amazing ecosystem of often proprietary devices and services feeding event information into them. v1 is rules by end-users—v10 intelligence by the system. What if they could take
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by ruff 13y ago
Maybe different now—back then, nearly everyone only had a single Exchange account. We looked at supporting both WebDAV and EWS. The result would have introduced by confusing UX but also reduce reliability of both solutions (adds a lot of
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by ruff 13y ago
I was the PM who led Outlook for Mac 2011; so I know many, many of those tricks. We rebuilt the thing in Cocoa with an entirely new Exchange client codebase—it was a beast of a project done in a fairly short period of time. For better or w
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by ruff 13y ago
FYI If you drag one or more e-mail message out of Outlook for Mac, it creates .eml files. These are just RFC2822 MIME source with a file extension—almost any mail client out there can read them. If you drag an entire folder out, it creates
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by ruff 14y ago
It should make your blood boil that our government operates in such a way that companies see this as just another vector for competing against each other. Dan Lyon's piece is pure sensationalism. Reality is likely more like: 1) there is a
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by ruff 14y ago
Probably not something I can share (sorry); just, really, good management isn't often as much about "command as control" as it is steering a lot of smart, opinionated people who often disagree. You're completely right on the growth aspect.
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by ruff 14y ago
You're missing the point. At some time, a company has figured out at least one way to succeed. At that time, you're going to grow extremely rapidly and take all sorts of ways the company does things, break them down into elements, and opti
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by ruff 14y ago
This is interesting—as someone who is part of a "management team" at a company that has grown rapidly from startup to perhaps a post-startup stage, there is some truth to this. There's a giant void of advice out there for folks who are maki
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by ruff 14y ago
There are a number of much larger "organizations" out there that run with dispersed/non-centralized authority. Morning Star is a good example cited by HBS Review: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?... BTW, if yo
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by ruff 14y ago
BTW, another approach is eventually tackle a vertical... perhaps you'll end-up being the #1 CRM app for small practice attorneys, dentists, accountants, etc... you can potentially carve out a niche there, give yourself more focus on whom yo
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by ruff 14y ago
Small thing—but not sure I'd buy a product from a company called "Dangerous Apps" It's been a while since I've used Goldmine, ACT, or any of the more SMB focused CRM apps but it's definitely not clear why I'd choose CRM Fly vs those product
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by ruff 14y ago
A very tough problem to solve: you organize by customer and you start to get requirements driven by particular customers, making your more of a custom dev shop that can't scale the business. You organize by engineering team and you become
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by ruff 15y ago
They also don't share the methodology--for example, Entourage 2008+ and Outlook for Mac both use WebKit and all HTTP requests from them don't identify them as a client. Not sure if they are lumping that under Apple Mail or not accounting f
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by ruff 15y ago
Emeryville, CA (super short/BART ride from SF--No remotes) Location Labs ( http://www.locationlabs.com/jobs.php ) * Back-end devs (Python, Java, Ruby) * Front-end devs (JavaScript, CSS, HTML5) * Mobile devs (Android, iPhone, Blackbe
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by ruff 15y ago
Emeryville, CA (first Bart stop from SF across the Bay) Location Labs http://www.locationlabs.com/news/jobs/ Location-based mobile consumer and safety services. Shipping on over 100m devices in the US. Opportunities range from mobile de
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Ask HN: Tips on managing rapid growth in your company?
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by ruff 15y ago
It's opt-in--definitely no way to get a locate without a device owner providing permission to do so. It's kind of like a Facebook app, if you're using a service that uses Veriplace to get location information, any end user can log in and m
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by ruff 16y ago
Bill Atkinson remains one my idols. If only the Hypercard source would be released!
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by ruff 16y ago
Location Labs ( http://www.locationlabs.com/jobs.php ) Emeryville, CA (super short/BART ride from SF--No remotes) Back-end devs (Python, Java, Ruby), Front-end devs (JavaScript, CSS, HTML5), Mobile devs (Android, iPhone, Blackberry, BREW),
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by ruff 16y ago
The Pixar Story has some issues with it--largely cuts out Alvy Ray Smith and gives a lot more credit to Steve Jobs than deserved. I'd recommend reading The Pixar Touch for a balanced portrayal of the company. For what it's worth, I got to
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by ruff 16y ago
Don't know if it still does it but ClearContext use to provide this exact solution for Outlook. It prioritized your Inbox based people and e-mails that you haven't responded to yet. http://www.clearcontext.com/user_guide/contacts.html Th
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by ruff 16y ago
The bozo bit is starting to flip... Give the PM the benefit of doubt; I'd be direct with him about why you don't think his actions are right--tell him what you expect from him and why the way he's behaving isn't constructive. If he doesn't
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by ruff 16y ago
This is a good point and something I should have made clearer. As PM, you ar first and foremost the customer advocate. Drop the ball here and you fail. Engaging at a more technical level needs to be about ensuring focus, not meddling where
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by ruff 16y ago
I'm a PM at a large, well known software company. In fact, I lead a team of PMs and have been in a PM role for several years after running a failed software startup during university and a stint as a sales and marketing guy at a solar star
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by ruff 16y ago
This is a great point--once you've set your price, it's very hard to come up. It's a lot easier to establish value with your product/brand at a higher price and then offer an alternative, lower-priced SKU to get more volume while still usi
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by ruff 17y ago
http://blogs.msdn.com/techtalk/archive/2005/12/16/504872.asp...
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by ruff 17y ago
One thing to consider is looking outside the CS department. When I was in school, some of the most talented hackers who were actually trying start-up ideas were students in various random majors who spent much of their time toying with ide

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