PhoneBoy Says

@matigo How do you do markdown footnotes?

// @thedan84

@matigo it's not called Sillycon Valley for nothing. :P

How are companies that haven't been GAAP profitable for 4+ years still even in business?

@matigo no kidding. :P

@matigo It's definitely a personal grudge. From an article where Nir Zuk was interviewed back in 2010 [itworld.com]:

First, the engineering department in Israel grew very quickly, from a few engineers to a few hundred. It became very bureaucratic and it was impossible to do anything. They were focusing on fixing bugs instead of developing new technologies, and I like to develop new technologies. So, we started a small engineering group here in the United States and we built a product called Floodgate, a quality of service product which Checkpoint started serving, and then in 1998 we had a complete implementation of a bandwidth optimization product. The product was ready to be released, and then Checkpoint decided not to release it. The reason given to me for not releasing it, was that the engineers in Israel were really angry that someone in the US was having fun building new products. I'm not kidding you, that was the reason! Then I said, okay, this is an organization that I don't want to work for, and I left that day.

Check Point killed his baby. As a result, he wants to kill Check Point.

Meanwhile, I blogged: http://phoneboy.org/2016/09/01/a-word-about-competition-in-the-information-security-industry/

@larand Didn't a huge chunk of California belong to Mexico at some point?

@literary those are good pictures…looking sharp

@matigo It was. Really the only reason I agreed to go. ?

It's been a few days since I've been here, but it's also been a few days since I've been home. Las Vegas. Trade show. I don't think I need to say anymore. :P