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Most people don't care enough about seeing the stars. They would rather feel safe in their neighborhoods if they need to go out at night, and street lights do a good job of providing that feeling.
Great question and some useful advice. What online forum/community is the best match for this type of question? Maybe it's too niche, but it would be nice have one.
Yes, if a majority of the votes from shareholders approve of a sale others will be forced to sell.
A business tool to integrate into sharepoint? What?
There's not a lot to say other than: find a mentor now.

Start cold-emailing CTOs in the same portfolio as your company. They'll be happy to help.
you should try meditation ^_^
Someone else must've been interested. Salesforce, maybe?
Microsoft exec #1: "It seems that people are hating us less and less these days. Somehow, the quality of our products and services is perceived as higher and less hostile to users. That's a problem!"

Microsoft exec #2: "How about we acquire one of the most hated brands out there? One that makes tech people grind their teeth when it's even mentioned. How about LinkedIn? That should tarnish our image up till it's right back where it used to be."

Microsoft exec #1: "There could be a vice-presidency in it for me if I can make that work! Great idea!"
Some specific references regarding Jared Cohen and Hillary Clinton:

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http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279...
You could say something very similar about LinkedIn itself, albeit on a slightly smaller scale.
spot 1 on the frontpage already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153
"Think: everyone who graduates from college and looks for a job will now have a Microsoft account."

https://twitter.com/saschasegan/status/742342770891862016
A social network is only as good as the recency of its data. They could integrate with Bing to show "people you know", and with other tools, it if people stop updating their profiles, it would be an expensive building acquisition.

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spot 1 on the frontpage already. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153
Serious question, what does Twilio need to go public for? They have a solid business model, with huge companies using them. Is this just so venture capitalists can get paid out? Edit: I guess this has been asked, and answered in the previous thread.
I look forward to the movie version of this fiasco with Jennifer Lawrence playing Holmes http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/j...
And isn't Linkedin the only network who got people to pay subscriptions? That's extremely interesting for MS.

On demographics alone, though, the deal doesn't seem to make sense.
> and ordered them by list price,

Missing steps: opened Excel, created a new document, pasted them in, did 'Text to columns', clicked the 'Price' column header, went to the 'Data' tab, clicked 'Sort', expanded my selection to include adjancent cells...
Yes, annoying. Ended up right-clicking, inspect, and delete element.
ISIL isn't acting active in Pakistan. The US is at war with several Taliban factions and what's left of Al Qaeda and its support groups in Pakistan.

ISIL and Al Qaeda are more enemies than friends at this point in their histories.
Borrowed it cheap, makes for a fast close. Maybe looking to pad the MS revenue numbers later in the year due to less growth in cloud infrastructure. (Straight out of IBM playbook.)
Twilio finished 2015 with a $35.5 million loss on revenue of $167 million. For the year, it listed research and development costs of $42.6 million and a combined $85.3 million in operating expenses.

I'm not sure if that justifies $161M market cap.
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tl;dr: in your situation many people go off and get an MBA. Don't do that. There's a reason there's only one CTO in HBS' 60,000 person alumni database (I am she.)

I was a very hands-on CTO for years after a decade of coding, and broadly enjoyed it. But as the teams I managed grew it became increasingly unfulfilling. When you're CTO, you're often excluded from business decisions which have a bigger impact on your team than any tech innovation, and the input you do have can be hard to relate to the shared business context of the CEO/COO/CFO.

So I went and got an MBA (Harvard).

Now I know exactly how to frame (and improve!) my non-technical contributions, have much more context on what "success" means, and have the credibility to really be a part of the senior team.

Unfortunately, there's no real place in the world for a highly technical business leader. You have to leave code behind at a certain point and spend your time on people/financial/planning issues. The ultimate end of that road is CEO, and not everyone wants to go there.

Also, I'd really misdiagnosed my malaise. What I'd been missing was not strategic input, but the opportunity to build things. To weave together inspiration and ideas into innovation and growth. I love building things and challenging assumptions, it fulfills me.

Now I'm off to start a new venture as a solo entrepreneur. The only truly successful technical leader is the founder, and that feels right. My last day at my day job is June 30th. :)
If this would have been a mistake, the executives at Microsoft would have heard of it by now, no matter how disconnected they are from the world, and then they would have reverted it. Which they didn't.
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Seems grossly over priced on a per active user basis:
________

26.2 billion / (425 million*25% active) =

$247 per active user
Maybe they need cash to grow more aggressively.
On the "Add Company" form, question 7 says:

> Is the company fully distributed?*

> This means all of its employees work remotely and the company does not have an office.

So it seems the companies listing as 100% distributed may not be entirely accurate.
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does anyone actually interact on LinkedIn? I thought it was just a platform for recruitment spam
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Warcraft the game IS censored in China, Blizzard had to change all the skeletons into ghouls before being allowed to sell the game there.
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Ok, you get points for that, TIL :-)

Still struggle with the idea of feeding said thing properly in 2d.
I love (to play) small field soccer but the large field game, to me, is about as interesting as watching paint dry.

The field is so large and has so many players that the ball is Brownian diffusing from one end of the field to the other, maybe eventually into the goal.

In the U.S., the rise of soccer as a youth sport fits in with the rise in social immobility. Back in the day you could play Little League and dream you'd become Babe Ruth or Alex Rodriguez, but today being American means there is no way you can be Pele.

I am amazed at how little connection there is between the pro sport in the U.S. and the huge youth sport. I used to coach kids soccer and found that none of the other coaches knew the names of MLS teams other than the L.A. Galaxy. That's sad.
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Shoot! I was planning to buy the stock soon.
Say what you will about the crappiness of the product and the dark patterns, but it was a great stock to buy and probably the only social network with a diverse split in revenues (excluding Facebook - they use acquisitions to diversify revenue but nothing has been monitized yet)
Link to the press release: http://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/13/microsoft-to-acquire-li...
It's purely subjective, but I really wish Twilio well for this - something about Patio11 speaking highly of them probably.
> MS could look up those org charts

That's the best remark in the whole thread. Employee poking at competitors. Sales teams looking up the right people to connect with. Thanks to the LinkedIn share button, like Facebook, they can have parts of your browsing history. I don't even know whether the purchase should be allowed.
The abstract answers this: any other tenants (aka third party) running on the same physical machine as your VM can steal the 2048-bit RSA keys stored in your VM. Not specific to Amazon, works with any cloud provider, there was a paper a number of years ago about this.
Well yeah, I think we're agreed. We might not use recruiters, but LinkedIn still helps us maintain business connections.
More civilians (mostly muslims) are killed by the Taliban / ISIS etc. than by the United States.
I'm still not sure what purpose Yammer serves. It's basically business-y old-UI Facebook, as far as I can see. But I've never understood any of that range of products - Lotus Connections, Salesforce Chatter, Yammer, etc, etc. They feel like solutions in search of a problem.
You wanted to be the lead developer and you got CTO. You can be both in a very small startup, but CTO is a management position, not a coder. Maybe you should find a job you'll enjoy more and leave. Or find another CTO to replace you and become lead developer, but that could lead to awkward relationships inside the company.
I'm not currently in enterprise but I've worked at Ford and U of Mich. before so I have experience in that space. Thing do tend to get entrenched in enterprise space more so than in smaller businesses, but even still LinkedIn doesn't have any tentacles that make it irreplaceable. When the next thing comes along, enterprise users will be slower to switch off LinkedIn, but they will do so.

If Microsoft had paid a lot less I could maybe see this purchase being more logical, but at $26 billion I just cannot agree this is a smart buy on any level.
Skype for business button on LI profiles. More stickiness for o365.

Data for Dynamics. People assume CRM here, and I tend to agree, but I wouldn't discount the ERP/supply-chain management software play. Microsoft seems to be more interested in manufacturing than marketing.

Slide share integration for PowerPoint/O365. More stickiness.

Lynda.com - increasing developer pool for C#/Xamarin, which in turn means more stickiness for Visual Studio, Azure, Windows and SQL Server, Dynamics families, SharePoint.

Lynda.com - increasing user base for productivity software.

Lynda.com - future play for HR training both content and technology.

A truckload of content.
Not sarcasm, I'm thinking MS purchases the company knowing what its issues (or perceived) are. I see MS as the lesser of 2 evils, a company I can generally trust with my data.

The 'Dark Patterns' that LNKD employs would hurt the rest of MS, so this less unethical behaviour would be as that result.

Also helps that LNKD will be consolidated with MS in future, so maybe less pressure on the bottom-line as they'll be a part of the MS group instead of shareholders expecting certain EPS from them.
You just use the PCI bus. GPUDirect gives you DMA access to the other GPUs on the same bus. If they're in PCI express x16 slots, it's relatively speedy.
Great move. IMO this is Microsoft making a play for HR managed services -- look for them to sign a big deal with ADP / BenefitsExpress / buy someone like Zenefits to complement this purchase. The power and value of LinkedIn is as a recruiting platform; and recruiting is a big-money problem that's only getting worse. If they can turn LinkedIn into a benefits management platform, that would be a huge win for Microsoft and likely resonate with employees as well -- while giving Microsoft de-facto ownership of the supply chain for knowledge workers.

Microsoft is a traditional B2B company; they make boring enterprise software and sell it through traditional resellers. As more and more core business functions (like HR managed services) start being sold through these channels, it makes more and more sense for Microsoft to get into it. More importantly, Microsoft already has a sales relationship with nearly every company in the world -- and they can now cram a high-margin talent acquisition / management product down that sales pipe as well.

IMO this is one of those acquisitions that wouldn't have made sense for Apple, Google or Facebook -- their customer base is too consumer-centric. But given Microsoft's heavy enterprise sales base, it absolutely makes sense for them. Nadella has finally gotten Microsoft to realize it's not really competing with Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook -- its real competition is Oracle, Salesforce and IBM. Viewed through that lens, this is a great purchase.
> A heirarchy of GPUs, outputs wired to inputs, mirroring the heirarchy of deep nets would be useful for real time robots & cars, NVIDIA's other big market.

Isn't that exactly what they're doing with NVLink?

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal (NVLink High Speed Interconnect section)
Of course HN is mocking the deal like we know better without any form of analysis of the situation.
Why wait 10-20 years for the same amount to come in via a steady income when you can get it all in one go?
I thought the same you described. Microsoft executives are not dumb, people talk about their failures, but they take controlled risks and are still strong. What about companies that do not take risks and never fail? The profit of this corporation is still impressive, even delaying to take some steps on industry and failing in some products.
Yes, I know, but I'm talking about a job board that's:

- pay to play for big biz
- free to small biz
- highlights YC gigs
- etc.
What took them so long?
I think part of the problem is that we often see CTO as the holy grail for the technical side of things, where that is the final stop in a linear career path. DEV > SR. DEV > ARCHITECT (maybe) > TECH LEAD > DEV MGR > VP/DIR > CTO

If you love coding and solving problems, you may find yourself less fulfilled farther down that line.

We're also talking about titles that end up being somewhat arbitrary and non-transferrable once we take companies of different sizes into account. CTO of a 10 person startup might translate to Tech Lead in an enterprise software business. CTO at a startup might still get to write code (I know many that do), whereas CTO at a company with a couple hundred developers might not even see code.

If you aren't happy, find somewhere that you can do what you enjoy doing. If this is truly your first senior management position, it might be clear that senior management isn't for you - or this isn't the organization that you should be in a senior management position. You could certainly find Sr Mgt or CTO roles where coding is part of the everyday routine.
161M isn't the market cap. It's the value of the shares they plan to sell at IPO.

With 82,200,793 shares outstanding after IPO if the price holds at $14 that's a market cap of 1.15B.
Learning is painful, and it's tempting to just go back to your comfort zone. You dont really learn much in your comfort zone, and learning often feels a bit uncomfortable. Check out the Ideas behind "growth mindset" for more about this [1].

You mentioned the idea of management being about cleaning up crap and dealing with people instead of writing code. A few thoughts on that. There is a lot of people and management work involved in making code pay off for an organization at scale. Code by itself doesn't offer any value. It has to be in production, it has to be used by the customers, it has to be something that adds value for the customers. And it has to be managed in a way that the code is delivered before the competition gets a chance to sink you. Also code doesn't write itself, teams of people do, and those teams need to be built and maintained and recruited and taught. Making all of those things happen involves people relationships and soft skills. Your job is to make those things happen smoothly, guide and grow the engineering teams, prevent the fires, and establish the relationships that make that all happen smoothly and scalably.

It's a different set of skills from writing code, but it can be learned if you apply yourself to it and recognize the value it'll provide to your organization if you do.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing...
Market cap isn't $161M - they're issuing 11.5M shares, but there will be over 80M outstanding after the IPO. Market cap will be just under $1B.
I actually have a "ffs" alias for when I work on a project with multiple people (or from multiple computers), except it does a "git stash && git pull --rebase && git stash pop" (because "ffs" is my reaction when I try to "git push" and can't)
I just disabled forced update on my box. It was shocking that MSFT did not make the process straightforward. Ended up downloading a third party tool. Shocking!

Recent MSFT behavior was making me think they've changed. I guess not. This genius acquisition indicates the old MSFT is alive and well. Given the dollar amount, the good news is that they can't do too many of these moves without sinking their ship.
To put it extremely simply, there are specific ranges of acceptable statistics about what winning play looks like in poker. With thousands of hands of data winning players can intuitively pick out stats that are out of line.

For example, there are two related stats: went to showdown, and won money at showdown. These calculate how often you get to the last card and reveal your hand against another player/group of players to win the pot, as well as the frequency you actually win these showdowns. Generally, the more you are showing down hands against opponents, the lower your chances of winning money, simply because it's not always possible on average to have better hands than your opponents above a certain frequency of times you're getting to showdown. If a bot/player had access to other players' hole cards (like actually happened on the Ultimate Bet network) a telling example might be that they go to showdown way more than average while also winning money at showdown far above an average rate.

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> Rokeach added a comment in the final revision of the book that, while the experiment did not cure any of the three Christs, "It did cure me of my godlike delusion that I could manipulate them out of their beliefs."

LOL alright, well, it seems the people in the article/video are asking for help. They similarly would be unreasonable to demand that someone give them help in a specific way. Beggers can't be choosers.
Thanks for this context also.

There are some capex issues with scaling up that farm, and I bet you aren't costing your own time in there. But, I hear you that it's possible, and it's interesting to hear that $.05 fully loaded is possible outside of government subsidy situations.
Looking at their buy-sell margins, Twilio has successfully changed the telecom paradigm, or at the least the vanguard of it. That is Big. APIs instead of circuits. Microservices instead of canned products.

I say that because this shows Twilio is both charging a (small) premium compared to traditional telcos, and have a less expensive operating model.

Most of their success is with startups and SMBs. It will be interesting to see their enterprise traction because Twilio's model puts the enterprise software developers and business units towards the front of the "buy" decisions, rather than traditional enterprise IT and telco teams.
I agree. One of these days, one of the icebergs will crack revealing a massive dinosaur that will come out of it's cryo-sleep.
I work for a company and the CTO submits PRs for two projects, and does some QA testing, and helps guide my team's R&D software. It is a medium sided company. For him it is a chance to lead the future of the company while still writing code and he embraces it fully, albeit he is very busy, but you can tell he gets energized by the way he plays the role.
This would not be possible without the right company culture. However as CTO you are probably the best suited person in the company to shift culture toward this, if you wanted.
Maybe I'm being nitpicky, but this line really bothers me:

Under Sec. Clinton, State Department officials approved almost every single proposed CIA drone assassination. They only objected to one or two attacks.

One or two? Which one is it? If they have actually gone through a list of requests and vetted which ones were approved by the State Department, then they know the actual number. A hand-wavy figure indicates that someone sat down, skimmed through the list, found "a couple, I think" and wrote the article. Something of this importance deserves rigor.
IIRC the driver handles the pinning, there are basically 3 types of video memory under WDDM, Dedicated Video Memory (on-card) Dedicated System Memory (memory that is assigned to the GPU only usually via BIOS configuration and is off limit to the OS) and Shared System Memory (A part of the virtual system memory allocated for the GPU), so in theory if you only use Dedicated Video Memory and Shared System Memory you could be pulling off data from the on-disk page file, but it's not like you can map a specific asset (say a texture file) on disk to your video memory directly.

WDDM also limited the volume and commit sizes based on some "arbitrary" limits that MSFT set out (IIRC it's something like system memory / 2 or something silly like that), there's a bit more silliness that for example if the limit of the max memory available for graphics is 2GB you can't commit 3GB but you can do 3x1GB just fine.

I'm pretty sure atm WDDM/Vendor Display Driver pin all pages to RAM only so it won't end up in the page file, TBH I haven't had a page file on my system for a long long time windows doesn't use SSD's for paging unless it really has too and considering I haven't been using a system with less than 32GB of RAM for the past 5 years I never had issues with it.

Here is a somewhat decent MSFT doc about memory management under WDDM (this is not for WDDM2.0 so it's not that upto date I'm guessing)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c5b2167-8017-4...

P.S.
Apologies if I used any terminology incorrectly this is stretching both my knowledge and recollection regarding this subject, it's also more or less limited to how GPU/Graphics are handled within Windows.
On their press release[1] presentation[2] they have shown this as Microsoft's Graph - http://imgur.com/elacuzH.
How and Why is the question.

[1]-https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor
[2]-https://c.s-microsoft.com/en-us/CMSFiles/InvestorPresentatio...
Here's the problem with that reasoning. As OP implies she has enjoyed leading/managing within her own companies. Before my company was acquired it was thrilling to perform these duties even though it was more grueling. So it's not necessarily a matter of not being cut out for that kind of work.
Could be to do with where you're searching. The fact that ag skips everything in your .gitignore seems to have helped when I tested. Both of these were run at the root of my projects directory...

$ time grep -r f_admin .
35.87s user 6.50s system 65% cpu 1:04.47 total

$ time ag f_admin
1.51s user 4.94s system 196% cpu 3.284 total
In this case, the deal was structured as all cash. So the latter is exactly what happens. One day in your brokerage account you will see $X for every Y shares you had.
LinkedIn, with a fake profile if you want to stay anonymous. Stack Exchange is a good place, but find the right sub. Then Reddit. Enough places to find advice.
I have limited time for keeping up with non-standard tools. It's the same reason I use bash rather than zsh/ksh/fish. With grep I have a solid mental model of what it does. ack/ag have some magic that is fine most of the time, but will eventually bite me when I do something unusual.

Still, I will check out ag. Maybe this time I will stick with it.

On a side note: People often say that C is just for legacy, and today everything new should be written in a higher level language unless it's a kernel or otherwise inherently low-level. Yet ag is basically a rewrite of ack in C.