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Signing the 900 lb. Gorilla, eh? We did too. We were a $250k ARR legacy app when we were introduced to our 900 lb. Gorilla. A Fortune 10 Financial Services company. We signed them …

Halfway between 'golfing' and 'drinking' is 'bowling'. Genius!

I just retired after a 28 year career in mortgage technology. Here is my take: First, modern mortgage origination is a scale business based upon quantitative processes that depend …

Electric RVs with level 5 self driving. Everyone talks about Teslas for self driving, but for my self driving car, I want an RV with a shower, a desk, a full kitchen, a queen sized…

Keep this in mind: In a large organization, NO SINGLE PERSON makes a decision. It's THE PROCESS that makes the decision. And THE PROCESS takes time. One of the greatest skills you …

From a traditional Dev perspective, blockchain programming can seem really weird. No decimals, no patches or point upgrades to deployed smart contracts (for the most part anyway), …

The thing you need to adjust to is this unfortunate truth: At large companies, NO ONE makes decisions anymore. It's the PROCESS that makes the decisions. And the Process takes a lo…

What a slanted load of BS. No matter your politics, all Americans can agree on 3 things: 1) Cutting in line is wrong; 2) People who shoot bald eagles are real a-holes; 3) the 2 ind…

Asshole design on sifted, can't read the article without joining.

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Normally, when you short a share, your broker has to go find somebody who already owns it and they "borrow" it from there and allow you to "sell" it short. But if you can believe t…

read "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. In the near future, Home Owners Associations in the US (assisted by AI managers and horrifically powerful robotic armed guards) form their own…

The dual slit experiment. Run the experiment with no one watching it, it produces result A. Run it again and watch it, it produces result B. Watching the experiment changes the res…

Rule of Thumb #1 : The closer you are to affecting the marginal profitability of the company, the more you make. e.g. Updating actuarial tables on a 20 yr old insurance system = lo…

Hiring for a programmer position, It's January and it's the coldest day of winter, down in the low single digits. The candidate is a 40-something man with a pretty good resume for …

Yes, three. One was a total failure. One went public a few years after i left and the last one was a private sale by me to a Fortune 500 company. I'm not saying my rule of thumb is…

You're probably not falling out of love with coding. You're falling out of love with having to unremember a lot of the things you've learned and replace them with new, unfamiliar t…

900 hours. That's my rule. It takes 900 hours of concentrated effort in brainstorming, building, tweaking, disillusionment, trashing it all, starting over, brainstorming some more,…

Don't confuse Sales with Marketing and don't confuse Marketing with Advertising. If you have correctly defined your market, correctly segmented your sub-markets, correctly defined …

yes. It'll be like hsx.com, but for felons.

A betting site offering over/under wagers on the number of people from the Trump administration who are indicted in the coming years.