Jay Levitt
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14 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - The Public Restroom as... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Mendelson's Musings - Quick Ways To Get Fire... · 0 replies · +1 points
Oddly, I have yet to find someone who'll make that their basis for compensation.
14 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - My Airplane Super Power · 0 replies · +1 points
Also: Discover new bugs that really ARE in the compiler, not my code.
14 years ago @ Mendelson's Musings - Drummer Jokes 101 · 1 reply · +1 points
Seems he was trying to stop his head from ringing.
14 years ago @ Mendelson's Musings - Drummer Jokes 101 · 1 reply · +1 points
Investor: This recession's awful. I can't stand to listen to the market reports anymore.
Drummer: Really? I couldn't listen to them before, but now everything's great.
Investor: Great? Have you heard the Dow today?
Drummer: Yeah, and boy, did I miss that! I can't hear anything above 8K.
14 years ago @ Mendelson's Musings - Drummer Jokes 101 · 1 reply · +1 points
He speeds up.
14 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - When I Grow Up I Want ... · 0 replies · +1 points
15 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - The Unbearable Frustra... · 0 replies · +1 points
We almost inevitably found the problem. If not, I left satisfied that it really *was* intractable, and I never got that "if I could just talk to the guy who wrote it, he could solve it" feeling.
Shame that their phone-based Xbox support doesn't live up to their web-based XP support.
15 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - Understanding Ignoranc... · 0 replies · +1 points
I get annoyed by certain very bright entrepreneurs, because all they talk about is what worked for them. Who cares? "This worked for me" doesn't mean "the true path to success"; it doesn't even mean "important". (In "Founders at Work", half the founders swore that Aeron chairs were critical; half swore that plywood desks were critical. Talk about a distinction without a difference...
Success is nice, but I'd much rather hear about what didn't work, and why. Only then can you start comparing successes to failures, and find out what's important.
Richard Satava gave a great talk at BIF-4. He said that DARPA had a rule: If more than 10% of their projects succeeded, they considered it a problem; clearly, they weren't taking enough risks.
15 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - Mailing List Spam · 0 replies · +1 points
My personal (non-commercial, non-bulk, DKIM-signed) server was being silently blackholed by Postini a while back; my mail didn't even appear in the Postini junk folder. After multiple brush-offs and back-channel escalations, I found out that Postini feeds their spam scores back into their spam scores! If I send five e-mails to Postini clients a day, and one gets mis-tagged as spam, I'm 20% spam. Which is awfully high, so I must be a spammer, so the next day, I'm bumped to 40% spam. And clearly, my spam volume is increasing - just look at the numbers! By the end, I had a 98% spam score - and no way to get off their list.
See also "vicious cycle", "begging the question", "Kafka".