abraxas

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by abraxas 4y ago
This is highly aggravating and confusing when hipsters try to coopt terms that had a defined meaning for decades. The ones that grate me are "retina display", "real time", "x-nanometer node".
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by abraxas 4y ago
No, a much less sexy but profitable and still under-served market - industrial monitoring and process improvement.
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by abraxas 4y ago
We have been profitable for the past 18 months or so.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Reminds me of my dotcom boom/bust experience of the late nineties where the dotcom was posting monthly "hiring targets" and celebrating that they met them. They were so screwed and tanked badly right after March 2000.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Thanks. We definitely want to take it to the next level, beyond a "good lifestyle business" stage but we'll do it on our terms growing the workforce at a rate that makes sense to us despite some pressure from the board to &qu
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by abraxas 4y ago
We aren't early stage. We have a growing revenue stream but have been at it for about 5 years with some ups and downs along the way. There is a product market fit but the product still needs a lot of work on being more scalable (in ter
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by abraxas 4y ago
40M in revenue for the year?! Jesus, my startup is making about half that with a good sales pipeline for this year and we are 55 employees total. We might hire additional handful this year but that's it. How do you even onboard when yo
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by abraxas 4y ago
Vaadin
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by abraxas 4y ago
A good friend of mine and a very competent developer who is now very successful but graduated right into the tail end of the dotcom bust (circa 2002) spent his first two years out of college gluing soles in a shoe factory.
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by abraxas 4y ago
So distributed transactions with two phase commit, XA and all that. Imagine what, microservices hipsters tried that and it turned out too slow and cumbersome so they invented "sagas" which are still immensely more complex than a s
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by abraxas 4y ago
No question but utilities' distributions have to compete with higher treasury yields so that would be pushing downwards pressure on their prices. Actually in a tight money environment I don't really think there is a place to hide.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Wouldn't utilities (famous for their large dividend distributions) get creamed in a rising interest rate environment?
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by abraxas 4y ago
Only trouble with that particular implementation is that the Datomic Transactor is a single threaded single process that serializes every transaction going through it. As long as you don't need to scale writes it works like a charm. Ho
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by abraxas 4y ago
I've been in the industry since 1998. Things have gotten worse. Part of it is that in certain ways more is expected of software today but that's not entirely true. Currently I'm involved in working on a "data intensive&q
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by abraxas 5y ago
How these prices reached those levels without anyone batting an eyelash a mere 20 years after the last dotcom bust is beyond belief. It's never "different this time", folks.
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by abraxas 5y ago
So we have a 21st century scroll? Another 2 millennia before eInk launches a codex version?
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by abraxas 5y ago
Wow, I never thought about that in this category. Thanks for this insight.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Mostly when you need a ledger like functionality to your data. Datomic preserves the history of all the changes by design so it is very easy to reconstruct the history of changes to your data. If this describes the majority of your problem
619.
by abraxas 5y ago
Postgres makes a lot of sense with append only tables. You can easily partition them by time (usually) and thus have an easy way to break up the index trees as well as using a cheap indexing scheme like BRIN and being able to just drop old
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by abraxas 5y ago
If there is a natural key and updates are infrequent then table partitioning can help extend the capacity of a table almost indefinitely. There are limitations of course but even for non-insane time series workloads, Postgres with partition
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by abraxas 5y ago
so you're all building a JVM but hipster. Got it.
622.
by abraxas 5y ago
It's shocking how much delusion around the world there was about Poland being able to defend itself against Hitler's invasion. Are we similarly deluding ourselves about Ukraine?
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by abraxas 5y ago
The batteries don't look all that big. Do you know what the range is on a fresh pair?
624.
by abraxas 5y ago
Well, some things are worth dying for.
625.
by abraxas 5y ago
Then you sign a border trade agreement. Not fucking invade a sovereign country!
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by abraxas 5y ago
This, very much this. The centrists here in this situation are really making idiots of themselves. Russia is under no threat from NATO or anyone else on the planet with respect to its integrity or even its foreign interests.
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by abraxas 5y ago
There is a lot of value in having a columnar storage that is fully ANSI SQL and supports all of the goodies that you get in the Postgres ecosystem. NoSQL databases with their half assed SQL grammar implementations are a real pain to use in
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by abraxas 5y ago
Vaadin is very nice but I would only recommend it when you can afford to keep the state server side. Vaadin works best when you can use sticky sessions
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by abraxas 5y ago
I'm also a fan. I think Java fell out of favor about a decade ago as hipsters rushed towards Node and Rails. Meanwhile the Java pros have been delivering incremental improvements to an already mature and stable system that is Spring an
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by abraxas 5y ago
Not only that but they are mostly a lipstick on the HTML/CSS/JS complexity pig and thus do little to really simplify the job. As the thin veneer peels off one is usually forced to deal with the underlying complexity anyway.

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