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John Appleby

@applebyj

CEO @AvantraHQ. Writer, Builder, Englishman, Foodie.

Philadelphia, USA Katılım Şubat 2009
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John Appleby
John Appleby@applebyj·
Excited to share I've joined @AvantraHQ as CEO! Automating Operations with AIOps is an imperative for all SAP customers. Improve business experience, security & audit, and reduce cost to serve. avantra.com/blog/avantra-v…
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Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff@Benioff·
Reflecting on the profound impact of my dear friend and Salesforce board member Susan Wojcicki. Susan was a trailblazer in the industry, an exemplary mother, and a cherished friend. We shared so many fun family events and elegant programs celebrating her incredible success. She had a remarkable ability to lead with grace and vision, lighting up every interaction with her wisdom and warmth. Her kind heart, wise counsel, and philanthropic spirit touched countless lives. My thoughts are with her surviving mother Esther, sisters Janet and Anne, her husband Dennis Troper, and her beloved children. Susan's legacy of leadership and love will forever inspire us. May the One who brings Peace bring Peace to All. ❤️
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Vijay Vijayasankar
Vijay Vijayasankar@vijayasankarv·
I dropped ten inches over the last year. What did it teach me about B2B sales? Nothing ... absolutely nothing ... sorry. I feel like I missed something
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Jelena Perfiljeva
Jelena Perfiljeva@JelenaAtLarge·
Out of all the bizarre things in SAP, this one is in top 5 for sure. You open a PDF form (in SFP) to view it (sic!) and right away get a message that... changes cannot be saved. Uh... What in the what? Why is it even possible to make CHANGES in DISPLAY mode?! 😱 #SAP #UX
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Vijay Vijayasankar
Vijay Vijayasankar@vijayasankarv·
@mattharding @marcfbe @applebyj In 2006, I was tasked with finding out why the performance of the SAP system was so poor at a client. After analyzing everything I could find logs for - I found the performance monitoring app on the app server was the culprit. Just remembered that story - for no reason at all 😆
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Vijay Vijayasankar
Vijay Vijayasankar@vijayasankarv·
SDN/SCN was such a vibrant community and I benefited immensely from it - and I have made some very minor contributions to it along the way. I am quite sad to see Marc's comment below, but not surprised. Traditional marketing metrics probably played the biggest role I guess
Marc Bernard 🚀@marcfbe

The SAP tech community is “dead” or on life support ☠️ 48 of 50 top kudoed authors last month are @sap Valuable content by other: Approx zero You might as well replace the site with sap-com/news

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John Appleby
John Appleby@applebyj·
@vijayasankarv They were good times and neither of us would be where we are now without what we learned there. But all things must come to an end.
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John Appleby
John Appleby@applebyj·
@msuster Nothing can go wrong for you if you don’t invest in it!
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Mark Suster
Mark Suster@msuster·
What could go wrong? 😑🤔 Truth Social (DJT) * $4.6 million in trailing 12-month revenue * ~$9 million in cash in hand * -$14.5 million in EBITDA * $7.5 BILLION market cap It almost just feels like a fund-raising technique for him
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John Appleby
John Appleby@applebyj·
@Kellblog It’s a cut - chicken breast with the drumette attached. Intended to resemble a wing. Bonus fact: Aeroflot is known colloquially as “chicken airlines” because they used to only serve chicken.
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Dave Kellogg
Dave Kellogg@Kellblog·
I've seen a lot of adjectives on menus, but "airline" is not usually one of them.
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John Appleby@applebyj·
@vijayasankarv I didn’t say Hasso didn’t approve him, only that he didn’t pick him. Now he appears to stepped back into a more hands on role choosing the candidate. New guy isn’t so new… board member for 20 years.
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Vijay Vijayasankar
Vijay Vijayasankar@vijayasankarv·
@applebyj Hard to imagine the board having picked PR without Hasso's blessing . Hasso hand picked Vishal and Shai - didn't work out long term. It's not an easy place to get an external exec to be accepted
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John Appleby
John Appleby@applebyj·
@snowmaker Not only this but societally, SF is willing to accept such things much more easily than say… Oklahoma City. Possible to get ordinances approved and for citizens not to be in uproar.
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Jared Friedman
Jared Friedman@snowmaker·
(1/5) A few years ago, it was widely believed that the first deployment of self-driving would be long-haul trucks on highways, which is a much easier technical problem than city driving. VCs invested billions based on this theory. Why did so many people call this wrong?
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John Appleby
John Appleby@applebyj·
@datadictum I just wish it knew the stuff I’ve dealt with and closed those windows. So many things need a quick review and I forget to close them. 2-300 windows later…
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LindsAI Clark
LindsAI Clark@datadictum·
Is there a browser that counts how many tabs you have open and then asks if you are okay?
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John Appleby@applebyj·
@vijayasankarv Also, he was not Hasso’s pick… Pekka is both European and hand chosen by Hasso. Read into that what you will…
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John Appleby
John Appleby@applebyj·
@vijayasankarv If you read between the lines, Renjen didn’t fully understand the nature of the German Chairman of the Supervisory Board when he accepted the role and expected to have more control like in a US business.
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John Appleby
John Appleby@applebyj·
@vijayasankarv Yeah I was thinking the same. I’m too old and cheap to be a beta tester like I was for the first OS-X MacBook Pro and the iPhone 1.0.
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Vijay Vijayasankar
Vijay Vijayasankar@vijayasankarv·
God bless the people who will willingly pay for what is sure to be an inferior product and help subsidize the future versions I might buy
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy

[~2 more hours later] Okay I upgraded to the (latest) 1.0.2. and some of the jank got a bit better, e.g. my Disney+ app now starts ok, and I was able to watch some movies in a cool 3D theater. I am a bit salty that the app asks you to enter your password twice (second time to disable some age restriction), this feels spurious - I just painfully entered the whole thing 5 seconds ago. Also, unfortunately, the Avatar 2 (3D) I tried to watch seemed a bit laggy, I'd estimate somewhere 10-20 fps, which was rather distracting. The big thing that I stumbled on is the Immersive Videos inside Apple TV app, and those are AWESOME. The video is very wide and 3D and your brain really buys the illusion that you're actually there. There are sadly only about 4 relatively short videos available, but I would love to watch more content in this format. It's not perfect - e.g. any movement of the head breaks the illusion a bit (the capture device is rotate only), and anything that is either too high up or too close up, the depth breaks a bit somehow. And sometimes people are way too large, like they are giants. And the edges of the video are a bit weird and distorted. And when the camera moves it's a little bit disorienting. I'm also getting a bit more used to the look+pinch way of navigating around the UI, and I have to say that this is as close as I've come with a feeling that the technology is "reading your mind", almost like a first Neuralink. I think this is because eye movement and finger pinch are both very fast and effortless movements, so when you get into the flow, zooming around the UI in this way feels like the device is really reading your mind for where to go next.

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John Appleby
John Appleby@applebyj·
@xJonNYC I’ve been to the one in BOS and it’s phenomenal. Long walk from anywhere though, over a mile from my gate.
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JonNYC@xJonNYC·
My airport domestic lounge days are hopefully mostly behind me 🤪, but a person who’s opinion I highly respect sends some pics of the news Chase lounge at JFK and gives it very very high marks— and finds it much better than Amex lounge next door
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John Appleby@applebyj·
@xJonNYC You can go to heaven or hell, so long as you’re transiting in Atlanta
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JonNYC
JonNYC@xJonNYC·
MCO/DL: DL is flying an A330 to protect customers who missed flights due to excessively long TSA lines at MCO. backlog at the TSA checkpoint due to TSA staffing. - Wait times are approaching 80 mins at the checkpoint and DL have had several customers miss their original flights.
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