Alon Hillel-Tuch

Partner at Stacked Capital, an early-stage NYC-based fund. Asst. Prof (cyber security) @ NYU. Co-Founder of RocketHub (exited).

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

@badtakeslmao 74 wythe is sponsoring it? What does that even mean, isn't that a wedding venue? Please tell me @nyc didn't approve some wedding fireworks show....

https://t.co/k1cS1Mjby8

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

Anyone ever have @verizon be honest in their outage report and be like, "You know what, you got us, yes there is an outage. What are you gonna do about it? Oh, nothing, because we're a monopoly on fiber in your area? That's right, nothing, you're gonna do nothing"@VerizonSupport

[DHH @dhh]

Our renewal bill for Datadog came to ~$83,000/year before we canceled. There's no way, no how the time we've spent replacing the key usage amounts to 1/3 or 1/2 of a full-time employee. Not even close. Enterprise SaaS pricing is bonkers.

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

Anyone else frustrated with taxes being hidden from advertising when its clearly a significant portion of the price? This is @Mintmobile, and the taxes are 36.5%! Should be advertised as part of the price since it's well beyond regular sales tax. @FCC

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

Today is a friendly reminder that true micro-kernel operating systems are the way...

[Forbes Technology Council @ForbesTechCncl]

Companies Are Killing Themselves With AI: A Hidden Crisis https://t.co/XQhLNiS5Er Written by @ahillelt of Stacked Capital

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

A quick but important discussion on AI and the erosion of talent in the corporate world. Companies Are Killing Themselves With AI: A Hidden Crisis via @forbes https://t.co/ifcxu2dIcK

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

AI Vulnerability: Our Next Crisis?
https://t.co/X71gEM9uZQ

[gaut @0xgaut]

when you start the task your manager asked you to work on 3 weeks ago

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

@rod_mallo

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

This doesn't even remotely remedy the damage to these patients

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

Excellent...

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Generative AI's Challenges To Cybersecurity https://t.co/f3sLY7EcZ4 Written by @ahillelt of Stacked Capital

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.

I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.

Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.

That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!

I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.

So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)

Follow me for more random code musings!

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

New article about corporate venture capital units and the pitfalls many face

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The Paradox Of Corporate Ventures: Why So Many Fail https://t.co/MfRnlflHii Written by @ahillelt of Stacked Capital

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

@crlitt https://t.co/k1cS1Mjby8

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

@susanshek @NYCferry Yeah, good point. The Circle Line goes up and down the East River plenty, but the pier is on the West Side. The Circle Line is also completely overpriced compared to the subsidized NYC Ferry. I guess the NYC Ferry is trying to be two things at once (commuter and tourist ride)

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

@NYCferry Who's holding up the system?

[Alon Hillel-Tuch @ahillelt]

Sigh... #jetski #NYC