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yllus

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About yllus

VP of Technology at the Canadian Football League. Personal website at http://yllus.com/ , or tweet me at https://twitter.com/sullysyed .

Recent public activity

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    Comment #32414264

    Mike, Raymond - big fan and daily user of the webcam. Congratulations on the new product launch announcement, very interested in becoming a customer!

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    Comment #27996636

    Congratulations to the founders for the launch, but unfortunately I had the same response. In situations like these - intrigued but with no real understanding of what the product i…

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    Comment #27900436

    This is phenomenal work. A genuinely modern take on MUDs of old. Is multiplayer already implemented? I'm weirdly interested in starting up a good old MUD clan/guild again on an all…

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    Comment #26964754

    It's anecdotal, but unfortunately I'd say that the experience is much the same in single-payer Canada. I have never had a GP who is not trying to rush me out of their office as the…

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    Comment #26651621

    Nice deck! And terrific market positioning; in doing my own research of trying to get all organizational data in a single place in an otherwise non-technical organization, I've don…

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    Comment #26400455

    Really interesting concept and product - perfect for the times we're in! Desperately needs a video of the product in action on that home page, get on it! :)

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    Comment #25619263

    I'm all for an Assassin's Creed style augmented reality view of the world! But I don't see why it's something 5G would usher in over 4G (or 3G).

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    Comment #25618777

    I remember listening to a Masters In Business podcast [1] with the President of Qualcomm and listening to his explanation of why 5G was going to be a huge game-changer. He perked m…

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    Comment #23838162

    It's an incredibly busy position if you're doing it right! I've had development teams of 4 - 20 reporting to me, and I think my responsibilities have generally included: - Being th…

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    Comment #23837874

    I'm curious about a related question: Does a manager need to be the best coder on the team? How much does it help/hurt if they're not?

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    Comment #23686113

    It still comes down to: Would you rather be seen as someone who creates value (profit), which is a "developer", or who works on odds and ends for the company and ultimately costs m…

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    Comment #23408279

    Let's not make Mr. Esper out to be doing this for any other reason than because of the strong and immediate backlash from the violent street-clearing that occurred in DC. This is t…

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    Comment #23354834

    To draw anecdotally from my own experiences, its for two reasons: 1. It's simple to get started with, but complex enough to tweak to your needs in respect to simplicity of deployme…

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    Comment #23099519

    Sorry, use of the term GUID confused things - I meant that if an identifier string is generated when you click on the ad, and the purpose is to simply see if that identifier comple…

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    Comment #23098592

    Re: Ad/marketing attribution, that's not necessary correct. If the data point that gets sent back to Facebook is a GUID type string that matches the GUID that got generated when yo…

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    Comment #23097873

    For those wondering why the Facebook SDK is so widely used in popular mobile apps: Facebook Login is actually in the minority of reasons to add the Facebook SDK to your mobile app.…

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    Comment #23092250

    Is this a fair summary, then: A site with free-to-read content must by default load no tracking scripts/cookies - aside from those that do so in anonymized aggregate form - unless …

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    Comment #22929131

    I think I might be offside with this as per site rules, but does this link really need to be Breitbart? They're an incredibly deceitful organization that exist almost entirely to w…

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    Comment #22903069

    I think there's a balance to be struck here depending on the type of site and what organization you work for. If you're thinking long term and beyond the time period that you yours…

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    Comment #22901234

    Elastic Beanstalk comes with the load balancer already in place, I've never had to think about load balancing as a thing-to-figure-out. And Amazon Aurora lets you set up a read rep…

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    Comment #22899033

    I guess we only have anecdotal evidence to go on here, but except for exactly one case I've always seen the organizations I work for get and wait for a positive response to their r…

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    Comment #22898928

    Instead of EFS, use a WordPress plug-in like WP Offload Media Lite ( https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront... ) that immediately moves those uploaded files t…

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    Comment #22898905

    Everything depends on your organization's scale and complexity! We've got multiple developers and have a workflow built around Git (feature branches, pull requests and all that); i…

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    Comment #22898859

    There's a lovely WordPress plug-in called WP Offload Media Lite ( https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront... ) that takes the upload locally and re-ups it to a…

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    Comment #22898814

    This is ridiculously over the top. I run our organization's WordPress sites on Elastic Beanstalk (just do a "eb deploy" from your Git repo of the site and it gets up there), plus R…