PabloOsinaga

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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
I am saying VB6 days, because in essence deployd (or meteor, or parse) are the same as an old-school DBMS database with stored procedures, and HTML+JS is in essence the same as a Win VB6 app.
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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
Great Work. suggestion: I would frame it differently - the coolness of what you are doing has nothing to do with the GUI part, but rather, the fact that it is a BaaS (backend as a service) open source. It's a simplified meteor, or an open
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Ask HN: Why am I willing to waste free money?
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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
you need to ask yourself who cares about knowledge management the most
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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
Not sure - it really depends what you are trying to do. The problem we are attacking at Kormox is really a 'Fortune 500' one - which requires an enterprise sales cycle. But I am not sure what you guys are up to...
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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
Here are my 2 cents: When you have product/market fit -> you'd do the 'traditional' thing - ie Gartner reviews, trade shows, marketing etc - All that requires big money - significant investment The interesting part though is when you ar
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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
parse.com also down
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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
Some feedback on main screen: Instead of explaining a theory (e.g., ' in today's world '), why don't you describe directly what it is Like: Store content securely in a Drop 1. Get your URL 2. Store content 3. Set password -> then you c
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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
There is a huge psychological bias for this argument. I believe it is 'sunk cost bias' or something like that. It goes like this. Say you are a miner. You mine. At the moment you get your bitcoins, you've realized value in the sum of (
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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
Question to Sahil or anyone with more context. Where is success coming from? I'd love to learn. What we see here is a beautifully executed very clever idea - which we all (as hackers we are) project into "this should be succesful" and the
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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
At the core, it is a library that extracts text from various document formats (PDF, xlsx, docx, pptx, etc.). It is important to note, however, that Tika in itself doesn't implement the text extractors, but rather combines different differen
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by PabloOsinaga 14y ago
I am trying to get a sense of how popular its clones were back then. I owned a TK90X (16kb RAM) - brazilian produced clone. I lived in Argentina back then. Any other clone owners?
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
The experience in McKinsey I think has been particularly helpful - but again, because I am doing an enterprise-software startup - which requires to work closely with corporate-customers. Thanks for highlighting the typo
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
I am the guy profiled in that article. I spent 5 years in "business school" before doing my startup. (1 year prep, 2 years of b-school and 2 years at McKinsey) I have to say, though, that the overall experience is being very useful to me
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
What you say is partially true for 'mainstream' type of things. Open Source is particularly useful for the long tail. That particular library that is very relevant to you and maybe 20-50 other people in the world. It makes sense to join f
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Lemon's CEO breaks laptop to signal importance of mobile(twitvid.com)
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
I want to share something that really impacted me in a big way, related to this notions being discussed here. It was something I saw in a museum in New York state, about 1 hour north of New York City - I cant remember the name of the museum
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
Can you elaborate a bit further on the data you have? Is it a flexible architecture where you plugin data from multiple sources? How do you solve ETL for that? Or is it a fixed data set? If so, what is it?
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LinkedIn releases SenseiDB 1.0 - Distributed, realtime, semi-structured database(twitter.com)
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
People seem to be liking it. What I think they like (at least that's my experience with it) is to see the HN community materialize in real time. Just my 2 cents so that you can try to isolate feedback taking that into account.
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
A nice add to the service would be the following: 1: let me choose my overall preference in a simple 3-levels way (alla investment management where you can choose "conservative, long term, aggresive" - something like that 2: Scan my email (
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
I don't see what's wrong with larger companies having a hard time attracting talent. A good read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm As transaction costs go down (in general), it makes less sense for us as a society to have
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
Nice idea and initiative. I admire the effort. Some feedback on the name: while it succinctly denotes how it works, I feel it has some negative connotations. For a founding team and investors to commit 1% of equity to charity, it is a big
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
So what specifically are you guys open sourcing and how does that complement existing open source search technologies like Lucene and the things that the folks over at Linkedin SNA have open sourced (e.g., Bobo, Sensei)?
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
I am really psyched to see IndexTank open source their technology (as notes mentions). Very intrigued to know which specific components of their technology will they open source - and how they fit within linkedin sna different projects htt
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
An interesting question is why 'physical' hubs work and why all those elements can't be captured yet online? One key element to debate is randomness - pg does a good job I think in describing the value of randomness in terms of random meeti
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
Is it just me? or do you also feel that anything that lays out your life as something so definitively finite makes you completely scared? I KNOW life is finite and I will day, but I don't want to see if so graphically! Makes me remember a
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
OK - I see. This is a PaaS play in a way, but one that offers a bit more of flexibilty/componentization than the "traditional" PaaS's I was thinking more along the lines of something truly generic.
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
or is your perspective that something as simple as this https://github.com/dotcloud/cloudlets/blob/master/sample.clo... would work? Wound't the system become a nightmare once I start installing/changing stuff in the machine in a very orga
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by PabloOsinaga 15y ago
That's nice. seems to be the infrastructure required for building such system. question is how do you come about building the manifests? Users need to do that???

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