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by bcantrill 1y ago
Thanks for the kind words (I think?), and you're right that I don't use LLMs to write. (I do use them to read near-final drafts -- the most substantive result in this case was the deletion of a paragraph.) As for the substance ab
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by bcantrill 1y ago
A postscript on this piece: unsurprisingly, the piece has especially resonated with parents of NCAA athletes, and I have since heard from parents in a wide range of sports (lacrosse, soccer, gymnastics) saying that the piece reflected thei
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by bcantrill 1y ago
For whatever it's worth, baseball is actually headed in the opposite direction: the cut in the MLB draft to 20 rounds has made college baseball more important at the elite levels, not less. That, coupled with the fact that schools can
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by bcantrill 1y ago
For whatever it's worth, details of my findings are in [0]. [0] https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2018/09/28/the-relative-perform...
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College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe(bcantrill.dtrace.org)
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Yes, that's all (unfortunately) correct. Part of the reason that we have been supportive of the openSIL effort[0] is to make our approach more generally attainable -- and of course we have opened our own work[1] and we will continue t
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Your (absurdly) broad claim is false -- and it's very easily disproven.[0] [0] https://ahl.dtrace.org/dtrace-conf-2024/
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by bcantrill 1y ago
13% of submissions to the conference were accepted to present.
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by bcantrill 1y ago
You made this comment twice, so I guess I'll reply to it twice, but the reality is that the acceptance rates of ATC was very, very low (again, under 13% in 2004). Low acceptance rates actually do indicate a shortage of good publishin
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by bcantrill 1y ago
I really don't care about how prestigious academics view (or viewed) ATC, but for whatever it's worth when our paper was accepted in 2004, was just under 13%. That is bluntly too oversubscribed for the practitioner (whose job is
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Oh no! I had honestly never heard of EE380 when they asked me to present[0], but I really appreciated the fact that it was (either implicitly or explicitly?) open to the public. I wish I had heard of it earlier, and sorry to see it go! [0]
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by bcantrill 1y ago
I absolutely agree, and I got to as much in my USENIX ATC 2016 keynote[0]: there are so many vectors now for sharing new ideas, it's almost hard to remember that in the heyday of USENIX ATC, technical conferences were really one of the
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by bcantrill 1y ago
I definitely agree with you, and apologies if that didn't come through in the piece! (Perhaps the rare case where I undershot on the metaphors?) One thing I didn't mention but certainly believe: academics were attracted to USENIX
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Absolutely. The reality is that SAFEs are often used to price a company, even though the pricing conundrum is exactly what they are trying to solve! If you want the reveal on SAFEs, raise them uncapped (with a discount, of course!) and watc
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by bcantrill 1y ago
It would be helpful to run out the math on the $500K investment: what's the post-money on that investment when it was made? How much capital did this mythical sold-for-$10M in 5-or-6 years company raise? (Or did it survive for a half d
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by bcantrill 1y ago
If you are taking truly no institutional capital, it's a party round -- and unless you have a repeat founder that knows exactly what they're doing (and often even then!), it's a huge red flag.
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Are you... actually willing to bet? Because I would take the other side of that bet. But please, let's make it meaningful: I still have a mortgage to pay and college-aged kids!
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Do not walk by their lower base! Sales people can make more -- but they won't unless they crush their number.
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by bcantrill 1y ago
We have had cash bonuses but they are (wait for it?) uniform -- and they have been based on company-wide events.
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by bcantrill 1y ago
One important detail: their comp model is different -- but the hiring model is the same. And that has yielded a deeply thoughtful and customer-centric sales team. We are very mindful of go-to-market anti-patterns![0] [0] https:/&#x
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Happy to go into it in more detail, but the salient points are in the piece: sales folks are eligible to make more -- but can also make less. This is in keeping with the way enterprise sales is done more or less everywhere: sales is differ
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Heartwarming that you found it! Kudos to USENIX for making this paper available in memory of Roger's passing.[0] [0] https://www.usenix.org/memoriam-roger-faulkner
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by bcantrill 1y ago
This is awesome -- and terrific to see that our process served as an inspiration! Really love what you've done here in that you've clearly incorporated some of our own lessons but also made it very much your own. All very heartwar
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Yes! We want to get a little further down the road on a few things with respect to plumbing the RoT through the stack -- but an episode on this is coming!
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by bcantrill 1y ago
No, the ZFS team did not "literally reference NetApp and WAFL" in their presentations and no, Sun did not "start it" -- NetApp initiated the litigation (though Sun absolutely countersued), and NetApp were well on their w
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Niagara did not shape design decisions at all -- remember that Niagara was really only doing on a single socket what we had already done on large SMP machines (e.g., Starfire/Starcat). What did shape design decisions -- or at least i
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by bcantrill 1y ago
Belated response here (and certainly not trying to talk you into Oxide!), but just for anyone who happens upon this, we do solve exactly the problem you describe. We have a true root-of-trust[0], a proper service processor in lieu of the la
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by bcantrill 2y ago
Wow, this has been submitted exactly twice: today -- and 17 years ago.[0] (No comments then either, probably because there isn't too much to say? Even the work itself draws pretty tepid conclusions.) [0] https://news.yco
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by bcantrill 2y ago
There's a bunch of detail in this story that we haven't seen elsewhere. Some of it isn't surprising (e.g., that Broadcom and NVIDIA are exploring Intel Foundry Services) -- but (to me, anyway) that AMD is evaluating Intel as
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Intel's new CEO plots overhaul of manufacturing and AI operations(reuters.com)
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