jamie
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Worth following the development of cockroachdb
https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
The long term goals of that project seem to align.
Comment · 13 years ago
Interesting when read right after this from another z16z partner: http://bhorowitz.com/2013/10/08/cash-flow-and-destiny/
Comment · 13 years ago
The folks behind this project know Django really well - I've recommended this to people a number of times.
Comment · 14 years 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 manager.
Maybe the original poster will make an outstanding product manager. It's certainly worth exploring.
Comment · 14 years 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 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.
Comment · 14 years ago
Inflation since 1999 should easily tip you over the $1B mark :-)
Comment · 14 years ago
It's even worse than that:
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2005/corp_011205.html
Airespace wireless for $450MM.
Comment · 14 years 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 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.
Comment · 14 years 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.
Comment · 14 years 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.underconsideration.com/fpo/archives/2011/05/presi...
Comment · 15 years ago
You might like tastypie: https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie
Comment · 15 years 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/
Comment · 15 years 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 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.
"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