jamie

(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:."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291980

jamie

11 anni fadiscuss

Worth following the development of cockroachdb https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

The long term goals of that project seem to align.

jamie

13 anni fadiscuss

Interesting when read right after this from another z16z partner: http://bhorowitz.com/2013/10/08/cash-flow-and-destiny/

jamie

13 anni fadiscuss

The folks behind this project know Django really well - I've recommended this to people a number of times.

jamie

14 anni fadiscuss

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 manager.

Maybe the original poster will make an outstanding product manager. It's certainly worth exploring.

jamie

14 anni fadiscuss

+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 you really love the technology industry and are ready to give up day-to-day coding.

Product management, when done right, complements development and is a great career path for well-rounded individuals.

jamie

14 anni fadiscuss

Inflation since 1999 should easily tip you over the $1B mark :-)

jamie

14 anni fadiscuss

It's even worse than that:

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2005/corp_011205.html

Airespace wireless for $450MM.

jamie

14 anni fadiscuss

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 not the most lucrative customer, how you treat every customer is important. You never know who, dispute being a low-revenue personal user, is a high-revenue business user.

jamie

14 anni fadiscuss

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.

jamie

14 anni fadiscuss

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.underconsideration.com/fpo/archives/2011/05/presi...

jamie

15 anni fadiscuss

You might like tastypie: https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie

jamie

15 anni fadiscuss

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/

jamie

15 anni fadiscuss

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 solution, does the provider have enough control/knowledge to fix the problem?

These things will get much worse before they get better, and it's best to think of all these abstractions as being a double edge sword.

jamie

15 anni fadiscuss

Don't forget about this: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/15/joyen...

jamie

15 anni fadiscuss

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 emphasis on building out not just a great technology company, but a great company culture.

This sounds like an excellent addition to AH!

jamie

15 anni fadiscuss

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 than what the emulator normally handles, emulator performance is much slower than usual.

In particular, initializing the emulator can be slow and can take several minutes, depending on your hardware. When the emulator is booting there is limited user feedback, so please be patient and continue waiting until you see the home screen appear.

We're working hard to resolve the performance issues in the emulator and it will improve in future releases. In the meantime, we wanted to give developers access to new APIs and an basic test environment as early as possible.

Keeping in mind that performance on the emulator does not reflect the speed or performance of apps on actual devices running Android 3.0, developing and testing on the emulator is still an important tool in evaluating your application's appearance and functionality on the new platform.

jamie

16 anni fadiscuss

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. That doesn't sound warm and fuzzy. When you unbox it, you still need to use the xbox controller with it's intimidating array of input buttons, pads, triggers, and sticks. Most people are going to be scared and intimidated by that.

If you power it up, you're going to be confused by xbox live. You're going to be confused by how many accounts you need to create. You're going to be confused by the number of options.

You're going to be intimidated by ads for Call Of Duty.

You're going to be confused what is an arcade game and what is a demo.

In short, as much polish there is on the Kinect, it can't overcome the fact that it's a bolt-on product for an Xbox. If it was a brand-new, $199 device it would fly off the shelves. What it needs is a 60 second demo: when you have a friend over, you need to be able to turn on the device and be playing Kinect 60 seconds later without ever seeing the xbox controller.

jamie

16 anni fadiscuss

  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 Gartner reading folk, and you'll hear it incessantly. http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_138285_11.html

Of course, now we have real success stories to point to. The iPhone's enterprise adoption is generally driven by normal folks, and the blackberry driven by managers.

jamie

16 anni fadiscuss

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 totally awesome; his Long Now talk "Climate Change Revisited" was a fantastic survey of alternative energy solutions, and how no one was the answer, but that a cocktail of solutions is. His ability to put big numbers in context was stunning, especially his equating of industrial output in the US pre-WWII to the effort required to build wind turbines to cover half the usage of the current US electricity grid.

Here's the video of the talk: http://fora.tv/2009/01/16/Saul_Griffith_Climate_Change_Recal...

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