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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Had an interesting pricing experience with them a couple of years ago. We were happy with our Mesos/Marathon cluster of ~100-200 machines but needed some acute support and we were in the same investment fund of DCVC. Got on the phone
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
That's exactly what happened to Pivotal. Boutique consulting shop turned into a consulting/services behemoth by strategic investments and business flow.
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
My point about Pivotal was not about the investor; it was about the similar investment thesis. the rabid cost cutting is pretty typical. True, if the thesis is around bloat, mal-investment, adventurism, etc. If the theory is somet
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
A PE firm usually buys when they think they see cost cutting opportunity. The PE firm buys things in which it sees opportunity. Often-times, the opportunity is to cut: the management team's adventurist streak in markets; wea
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Wow. The status page is even up to date... They're often seriously delayed...
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding how it works, some questions about this idea: * Presumably, you have to fully empty and then fill your tank? Over twice as long to refill as for gasoline/diesel. (Still: not terrible.) *
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
What a bummer. This could have been "Kubernetes for organizations", how to manage diverse sets of containers-of-emotions/talents in a scalable fashion. There is so little nuance and quality thinking around this topic inside
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Agreed. Just switched from X1 Carbon to T460s. Got it with 4GB of RAM and stuck a 16GB stick in the slot (total: 20GB). It's hard to tell the difference with the X1 Carbon and the extra USBs, HDMI and such are welcome.
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Carfentanil is terrifying. Wound up in a Wikipedia hole looking that up. 10,000 times as potent as morphine. Only recently illegal in China. Therapeutic dose of one microgram . May have been the way the Russians subdued the Moscow The
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
From my dashboard: EC2 VPC network health intra AZ issue The issue that began at Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:53:00 GMT has been resolved and the service is operating normally. Start time July 27, 2017 at 9:53:00 AM UTC-4 End time July 27, 2017 at 1
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Football is only 5th on this list of dangerous sports: https://www.thetoptens.com/most-dangerous-sports/ The real issue is that football trauma has effects over longer time periods and the long term effects are discou
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by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Amen. There was a great article about this in the The Atlantic a few years ago. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame... Anecdote: my mother-in-law was a smoker, felt dizzy one d
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
Unfortunately, few of the photos have anything to indicate scale and those few seem to range from 100m (small trucks on the far side) to 2-3m (the guy stepping on one). Still, those are incredible photos...
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
Would transpiling Scheme to Javascript and then executing the resulting Javascript on NodeJS give good performance?
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
I hugely agree. I've done a lot of web development in a range of circumstances and this current period is frustrating. I just started a new project at a new company; decided to use React; bought and downloaded a React Admin template;
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
I'm generally for Net Neutrality but you seem to be suggesting that regulation drives technological progress. Modulo things like natural monopolies, unaccounted-for externalities, etc, isn't the opposite usually true? Also, are y
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
I didn't get anything negative from GP. I think they were just wondering at the lack of comments from a likely over-represented HN Indian population about Trump nominating a decent number of Indian Americans... I had not noticed (yes
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
Why would you assume that software-as-a-whole has lost money? The industry is full of un-subsidized, non-cyclical, high profit companies... Microsoft, Apple, Google, Oracle, Autodesk, IBM, EMC, CA Technologies, Saleforce.com, etc. Not sur
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
That is clearly not true. See, for example: [Industry publication] A clarification: I meant that if you would show a net loss if you summed the net income of each airline in the industry since inception. To be fair, while it defin
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
I'm not sure how usefulness-when-traveling-internationally is relevant when the vast majority of the market for Uber, Lyft, etc will never board a plane more than a handful of times in their lives... EDIT: typo ("irrelevant"
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
The commercial airline industry has lost money over the whole of its existence. If I'm flying from NYC to DAL, I'm flying the cheapest carrier (with a slight nod to Frequent Flyer programs). I'm not sure how Uber, Lyft, etc
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
Ev was right about social (micro-) blogging with Twitter and the VCs backing him did well as Twitter figured out how to monetize content. Ev says he's got wind of a similar opportunity in long form blogging. I'm not sure why we&
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
I think you're referring to "Jake Braking", which is very noisy and is banned in many towns (in California). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
The Car Talk guys addressed this and agreed with you. It's better to use the brakes to slow down since they're ablative and designed to be replaced with wear. Causing the engine to do extra revolutions means extra wear on someth
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
I've been using Lenovo X1 Carbons for about 4 years (since they came out) and love them. Super light, enough RAM and CPU, great keyboard (after 3rd Gen...), has a TrackPoint (which I require). I'm been using Debian exclusively s
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
I greatly appreciate the Myers-Briggs test, but I've only seen it applied as a tool for self-understanding: I think I've been given the test a couple of times by schools and universities. Taking it has helped me understand a litt
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
Great to see that one of the key contributors looks to be an employee at JetBrains ( https://github.com/alexeykudinkin ), increasing the chance that this may already be or may grow to be an official project.
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
Interesting. While not an official Google product, this is in Google's GitHub repo. Seems to prove a nice validation of Rust's growing success.
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
+1 for Cassandra and KairosDB. We use Instaclustr to host Cassandra on AWS and do time series data management with Kairos. It's been a hugely scalable, robust system we use ingest about 5B datapoints per day. Also, Brian (project lea
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by CoffeeDregs 10y ago
So you would you sell your house and take an Ethereum contract in return? Note: I loved Charles Stross's suggestion of code-as-contract in Acccelerando, so I dig the concept.

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