bcantrill

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by bcantrill 6mo ago
That feels a tad unfair?
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by bcantrill 6mo ago
On the one hand, I admire (at some level) you sticking to your guns here, willing to take on all comers. On the other, though, I don't entirely understand the inference that you're drawing from the piece; what, exactly, is getting
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by bcantrill 6mo ago
You're taking me slightly out of context there, but my intent was: it's not about free speech. That is, I strongly support free speech (they have the right to be as racist as they want!), but that isn't what this is about:
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by bcantrill 6mo ago
I was recently asked about our (Oxide's) disposition to Twitter on the Peterman Pod[0], and the rationale for why we're no longer active there is pretty simple: the platform has become a cesspool of hate -- and it's antithet
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by bcantrill 6mo ago
I was 22! (I was only slightly older than my oldest kid is now!) So... yeah. May your mistakes at 22 not follow you around at age 52!
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by bcantrill 6mo ago
For whatever it's worth (perhaps not much?), I was actually asked about this three-decade-old post (!) recently on the Peterman Pod[0], which allowed for a slightly more nuanced discussion. [0] https://www.youtube.com/w
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by bcantrill 6mo ago
I do take a perverse kind of pride that this can now be said without any explicit reference -- and everyone knows you're talking about the lawnmower.
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by bcantrill 7mo ago
I would second the black bar for Kidder -- The Soul of a New Machine constitutes the literary foundation of our craft: it is our Odyssey . Speaking personally, I have spoken and written about Soul many times ([0][1][2]) -- and I know t
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by bcantrill 8mo ago
Yes, that's the joke?
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Oxide plans new rack attack(theregister.com)
6 points by bcantrill 8mo ago|0 comments
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by bcantrill 8mo ago
There's a lot of confusion here about the way VC operates (or companies, for that matter), but just to clarify one point: an IPO is not an "exit" -- it is a public offering. That is, an Oxide IPO, were we to be so lucky, wo
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by bcantrill 8mo ago
I LOL'd -- or certainly snorted. Underrated post, anyway.
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by bcantrill 8mo ago
Is this only based on On the Metal ? (If so, those are all from six years ago -- even the ones that were released a mere five years ago.) Please do check out Oxide and Friends [0] -- and feedback always welcome! [0] https://ox
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by bcantrill 8mo ago
Well, a couple of things. First, the Jonathan Blow episode[0] was over six years ago. Second, it was nearly a three hour conversation -- I don't think I can be accused of not letting him talk? Third, I definitely remember that I felt
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by bcantrill 8mo ago
Thank you so much -- it's honestly very meaningful to hear!
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by bcantrill 8mo ago
Ha ha -- there are definitely voices that I know I have been implicitly inspired by over the years, but I can safely say that Chad the Bird is new to me! I'm enjoying listening to some of Chad the Bird's work now; my apologies in
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by bcantrill 9mo ago
You may disagree with our rationale, but it is absolutely absurd to complain that that RFD 26[0] does not have "any meat." This is in fact dense technical content (10,000+ words!), for which I would expect a thorough read to take
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by bcantrill 9mo ago
I don't often do this, but I'm sorry, you don't know what you're talking about. If you bother to try looking for B-tree libraries in C, you will quickly find that they are either (1) the equivalent of undergraduate proje
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by bcantrill 9mo ago
One point of clarification: the C version does not have (and never had) a hash table; the C version had a BST (an AVL tree). Moreover, the "Rust hash table implementation" is in fact still B-tree based; the hash table described i
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by bcantrill 9mo ago
My intent at first was not to write about this, but I couldn't stop thinking about it: I was not only profoundly disappointed in my former colleague, but disgusted by the disdain towards VMware customers at Broadcom. I was earnest in
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by bcantrill 9mo ago
Yes, the point I was making (and as you point out, have been making for the last quarter century) is that we err when not making this realization -- and indeed, I think the linked piece is exactly backwards because it doesn't understan
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by bcantrill 9mo ago
Well, this wasn't badmouthing a customer -- it was showing contempt for customers , full stop. As for the accusations of hypocrisy: the example you picked (a deep cut!) was a Sun customer who insisted that we disable DTrace for the
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by bcantrill 9mo ago
Appreciate the love, but I think you are drawing the wrong conclusion here: Sun failed to endure not because it loved its customers, but to the contrary because it lost track of them: the company was disinterested in the mechanics of runni
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by bcantrill 9mo ago
The name is beside the point -- and their character outs them anyway. To be clear, this was a conversation I didn't initiate (they came into my DMs, going off half-cocked about several technical aspects of Oxide that they did not unde
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by bcantrill 9mo ago
Those aren't the choices. You don't understand how the poster passed on nine figures -- but if the secondary sale netted 7 figures (likely), the choice is in fact between having enough wealth to have total security for one's
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by bcantrill 9mo ago
I know from the outside this seems very simple, but it's more complicated than that. Certainly, if the objective is (merely) security for one's children, that can be secured with much (much) less money (and likely was secured i
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by bcantrill 10mo ago
Ha ha -- thanks, I think? For whatever it's worth, the most important advice I have for a speaker is: speak from the heart, not from the book. That is, don't tell people what you think they want; be true to yourself and speak y
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by bcantrill 10mo ago
I don't agree that we have been "bashing" Postgres. As far as I can tell, Postgres has come up a very small number of times over the years: certainly on the CockroachDB episode[0] (where our experience with Postgres is germa
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A Disappearing Service Processor(oxide.computer)
17 points by bcantrill 10mo ago|2 comments
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by bcantrill 10mo ago
For those looking for context, this is a regrettable response of mine from nearly three decades ago, resurrected because people disagreed with the way my handling bad community behavior well over a decade ago. And for whatever it's wo

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