Andrew Montalenti

@amontalenti

CTO of . Bringing clarity to web content & analytics. Pleased to be a Pythonista.

Charlottesville, VA
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Joined April 2009
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    Aug 13

    From : "Facebook’s message to media: 'We're not interested in talking to you about your traffic.'" Don't worry, will continue to cover the traffic/trends. Dig in on your own at & .

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  2. 6 hours ago

    "It was not difficult to persuade the public that if we eat fat, we will be fat (this is a trick of the language: we call an overweight person 'fat'; we don’t describe a person with a muscular body as 'proteiny')."

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  3. 8 hours ago

    New post: Expanding my mind, once more, with functional programming.

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  4. 12 hours ago

    True, but wrong reason. First-time founders dump savings into the company to get it off the ground. The ethical among survivors pay themselves minimal salaries until revenue model starts paying for G&A costs. Maniacal focus keeps (small) remainder in cash.

    Not always, but often the best founders often have all of their savings 100% in cash. Zero angel investments, zero in stock market. They are investing. They are just 100% focused on doing it in where they already have the highest potential returns.
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  5. 14 hours ago

    "... 'investing in health' sounds like you're investing in making money off health. But 'investing in health', to me, is helping people get better. That requires quality research. Are you really interested in helping people, rather than selling product? Then invest in research."

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  6. 14 hours ago

    "Anything successful is hard to maintain."

    Whoa, there are still 3 million people using Netflix for DVDs via
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    18 hours ago

    Before that thought, it's a week of SICP. That's always super fun. I learn new things each time.

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    Aug 25

    My favorite part of the JS ecosystem isn't the pointless flamewars about frameworks. The best part are the meta-flamewars and consternation about the flamewars about the frameworks.

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    Aug 24

    Teaching is more a way for the teacher to learn than for the student to learn.

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  10. Aug 25

    🤔

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  11. Aug 25

    Anyone re-read "1984" in 2018? Worth it? I also never managed to read "Brave New World" the first time around. I'm thinking of resurrecting my fiction habit with dystopian classics, both the ones I read decades ago and the ones I never managed to read. Good idea?

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    Aug 25

    When you ask a prospect why they didnt buy, they usually give you a contributing factor, not the root cause Have a deeper conversation if you really want the answer

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    Aug 25

    “A country cannot remain complacent forever…eventually, you need dynamism again.”

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  14. Aug 24

    TIL! "Racket has been used for commercial projects and web applications. A notable example is the Hacker News website, which runs on Arc, which is developed in Racket."

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    Aug 24

    If your startup is growing well, but there are some things you can't do because you don't have enough people, that's actually optimal. That's what it feels like in every great startup.

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  16. Aug 24

    "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations. But there was a victory inside this deliverance, which should be noted." -Winston Churchill, speaking on a distributed system production outage recovery, 2018.

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    Aug 24

    Make the most of the weekend! * Get outdoors 🍃 * Unwind with a book 📚 * Watch a great film or tv show 🍿 * Spend time with friends and family 🤝 * Prioritize rest and relaxation 😌 * Plan for the week ahead 🚀

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  18. Aug 24

    Lessons from a rough night for my on-call engineering team: 1. Having true pros on-call for your real-time system is the difference between "this is impossible" and "this is painful, but we got this." 2. Never, ever, ever (!!!) use AWS EBS for anything.

    1/ Issues earlier today affecting dashboard display have been resolved and engineers are continuing to process and backfill data collected during that time.
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    Aug 23

    Making various improvements in anticipation of next week's SICP course. It's going to be fun!

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    Aug 19

    Can someone who knows / better than me explain why one would want to use App Engine over Cloud Functions here? Is it that App Engine lets you run the Chrome instances persistently whereas the Functions are torn down on every run?

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  21. Aug 23

    Otherwise known as "worse is better".

    “Why did JSON become so much more popular than XML? JSON is easier for both humans and machines to understand, since its syntax is minimal and its structure is predictable. XML documents are much larger than the equivalent JSON, and also harder to read.”
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