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ryanburk

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About ryanburk

health R&D @ apple investing & coaching @ burkcolabs

previously: vp at godaddy. led cloud platform, infrastructure, authentication, FE, and eCommerce engineering through IPO.

partner at microsoft. worked on product & engineering for consumer services (outlook.com, onedrive, microsoft ID, windows update & store), search, security, and windows core OS.

founder at burkcolabs. advisory: cyber security, seed stage investing, health tech, cloud infrastructure.

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    Brad Feld had one of the most insightful and helpful blogs, particularly before the golden era of tech/vc twitter and there wasn't much out there for folks not in the club. hope th…

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    Comment #37992437

    earlier / dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991863

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    Comment #35016061

    this is announcing the closing of the deal (late last month)

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    Comment #34622425

    a lifetime ago back at Microsoft, Peter Spiro described these folks job expectation as "walk on water". if you wanted to exceed expectations, you had to "leave no wake"...

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    Comment #33791922

    note that they already supported this migration capability to AWS and Azure. example: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/microsoft-in-...

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    Comment #28724694

    is there a reason why a large % of the board turned over in the past ~year, leading in to an IPO? > Ms. Ford English was appointed to our board of directors in May 2020 and stepped…

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    Comment #22479837

    agreed - I think the title should be updated to call out the "app" shuts down.

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    Comment #21520528

    presales, consulting, and support.

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    Comment #21251787

    will be interesting to see what they do that goes beyond the acquisition of semmle. it is great to see how quickly they have been able to integrate that work.

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    Comment #21229586

    the tools needed to create WinPE - that shipped in the OEM preinstallation kits (OPK) - did do some work against the original files to make the magic happen. it was mainly around t…

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    Comment #21229458

    there is a lot of WinPE interest in the thread. I was part of the core team that came up with the idea and built it[0] and it is great to see how useful it has been for so many! I'…

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    Comment #19743107

    just a note: this commingling only happens if it is "fulfilled by Amazon" vs buying directly from the 3rd party through Amazon.

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    Comment #19219432

    I believe it is skewed since many people in these neighborhoods aren't making their money through salary income (anymore), but instead through interest / dividends. If you sold you…

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    Comment #18264319

    historically they have been in archived in "C:\Windows.old" and later are removed when a new update is installed or if you use disk cleanup->system files. there used to be logic to…

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    Comment #17823583

    the first rule of the mobile passport app is don't talk about mobile passport !! it is great, generally the same experience as global entry. and I'm worried that if more people use…

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    Comment #16451729

    not saying value is right or wrong. but that is the present value of a stock award that vests over time. this is valuing his expected contribution and whatever it took to get him t…

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    Comment #15201182

    it is really important to be aware that the duration of the freeze varies based on your state - it isn't always "until you lift it". I believe pennsylvania is an example where it i…

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    Comment #15176751

    they have definitely changed the source control infrastructure and are now on git. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-large...

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    Comment #14868513

    is there any source on this?

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    Comment #14550343

    he was so humble for someone so intelligent. even though it was 15yrs ago at this point, I still am struck by how happy he was to come to redmond for 3 days to sit through design d…

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    Comment #14524649

    > There's no technical reason this cannot be offered this actually isn't true. and I say this as the person who pushed for a 32->64bit upgrade path at microsoft in longhorn. at the…