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Work Stuff

regarding sales pitches..

March 6, 2009

To the sales person trying to sell me, well, anything:
I am a tough sell. I will ask hard questions. I will not take anything you tell me at face value, you will have to prove it to me. If I think your product sucks, I will tell you that, and tell you why. If I [...]

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new site launched – slantly.com

December 15, 2007

Well, the project that I’ve been working (with a large team) on for the last two months or so at work has finally gone into public beta – check it out at slantly.com.
Basically, slantly is a site where you can post an opinion, and other people can either agree or disagree with it, and provide [...]

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changing with the times..

November 7, 2007

As many of you know, I’ve recently moved positions at work, and am now the primary systems administrator for an extremely smart group of people who are working on rolling out some new products.
Nifty technologies we’ve been working with:

Hadoop
Ruby on Rails
Amazon EC2

Other cool technologies we’ve looked at, but are not using quite yet:

AppLogic

If you are [...]

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