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brettinlj

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About brettinlj

Product manager and engineer who loves telephony and RESTful APIs.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #7383286

    I have a counter to the emphasis of getting to the top. I used to work for a much larger company (definitely "enterprise") and as a product manager I was often the decider of a ven…

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    Comment #7342493

    The problem with older founders... often their needs are different (financial burdens, children etc), though they also often have more life and career experience, which make for a …

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    Comment #7104370

    Great idea. This would have helped me with my morning commute today when SF Muni had a bit of a meltdown. Have you put the source up on github? Also, if you're already playing arou…

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    Comment #6637214

    Apparently as per their docs ( http://docs.clustrix.com/plugins/viewsource/viewpagesrc.acti... ) this is true specific to end-user transactions: "Note: serializable isolation not c…

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    Comment #6637121

    It would be nice to see a "NewSQL" database like Clustrix in this comparison. From my understanding of their white papers the transactions are ACID.

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    Comment #6029102

    Regarding this quote: "I’ve lived in a country that had a period of 'full employment' and now has 14% unemployment, and I don’t see how anyone can be so misanthropic to claim that …

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    Comment #3346613

    Recipe for disaster. Spoken from a product manager.

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    Comment #3346604

    Depends on the company sometimes. I happen to come from a strong engineering background (good school, worked as an engineer at companies from Qualcomm, to small startups to Disney)…

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    Comment #3346559

    As a mobile software engineer turned product manager I can echo what the first to replies said. Skip training/certification as real product management skills are built on doing it …