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by blantonl 7y ago
When you get to a point where you need to start sharding your database, congratulate yourselves for the enormous success and toast the night to come. The next morning you can embark upon the engineering effort to start the sharding re-archi
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by blantonl 7y ago
I'm not going to lie, but this article left me absolutely hanging off a huge cliff with no one to rescue me. The actual bug was not fixed!!
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by blantonl 7y ago
It’s got some of the most ridiculous margins and price gouging of any business out there. You and enterprise software should get together and have a introductory meeting...
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by blantonl 7y ago
Yup, and I guarantee you foreign states send nosey-nellies to all these venues to do nothing but snoop on this stuff.
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by blantonl 7y ago
CIA agents are trained to be perfectly just like "one of us" leading apparently normal lives. There are most likely CIA agents among us here on Hacker News... functioning as technology executives, sales people, engineers, develope
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by blantonl 7y ago
It seems like there is a lot of opportunity for technology, in this case GPS Asset tracking, to be of real use here. These are really crimes of opportunity, and time is of the essence for criminals in these cases. Sweeping a load for GPS t
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by blantonl 7y ago
I'm almost certain that Watson was a series of Python and Prolog "scripts" that were packaged together with big black boxes, blue lights, tagged as AI, and run through the IBM sales and marketing machine. The result was huge
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by blantonl 7y ago
very few companies have the billions of development dollars the above handful of companies have to throw at the problem to try to make it tractable. 95% of "enterprise software" is typically a small developer team of 5-10 people
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by blantonl 7y ago
The '70%' regime was then reinvesting all those profits right back into their businesses to avoid those taxes, which spurred job growth and R&D innovation. The simple reality is that today's "regime" simply stoc
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by blantonl 7y ago
I agree. In those cases, sell those customer separate products and expectations and price it accordingly.
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by blantonl 7y ago
The architectural decision to deploy each customer on their own segmented components to make sure that "no one user’s data to mingle with another" seems to me like a solution in search of a problem. First, the deployment was on AW
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by blantonl 7y ago
That is definitely not true. Sensitive VHF radio receivers, tuned to transmitters that are located beyond line of site, can very easily detect VHF communications reflected off of a very small airborne target. I can sit in my office with a s
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by blantonl 7y ago
very fair - my apologies :)
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by blantonl 7y ago
I think you meant bimmer
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by blantonl 7y ago
An Mac Mini works perfectly for your use case, either older or newer. It has a really small profile, and runs Ubuntu well, and runs headless super quiet. You could pickup a pretty decent one for a few hundred bucks and attach an external
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by blantonl 7y ago
Not in his recent roles. His focus was on execution at Rackspace, plain and simple.
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by blantonl 7y ago
For my organization, Lambda has been instrumental in allowing us to take some highly trafficked, small API services, and migrate them from NodeJS based servers that we manage to Lambda and Application Load Balancer that just works with no i
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by blantonl 7y ago
He’s quoted as saying he wants to be “President of the World” and live forever. This guy isn’t riding off into the sunset.
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by blantonl 7y ago
I don't know - but I'm not deploying infrastructure on $5 virtual servers that are marketed and designed to support a personal blog. Paying 200-300/month for 100TB of data transfer on a dedicated host is where I'm at wit
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by blantonl 7y ago
I think the part in this article where John Antioco is perceived as arrogant is a little misguided. It's important to remember that a natural gas pipeline company based in Houston was vying to put Blockbuster out of business with thei
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by blantonl 7y ago
I own and operate Broadcastify.com, which is arguably the largest icecast implementation in the world. We've been using 100TB.com for our audio streaming infrastructure, which is a softlayer reseller. I've been unable to find any
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by blantonl 7y ago
WeWTF worked pretty well in part one :)
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by blantonl 7y ago
My bets here are the Russians probably were tracking the encrypted simplex (short range unit to unit) communications of the FBI's counterintelligence teams. I believe even in 2012 those would have been simplex Project-25 (P25) digital
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by blantonl 7y ago
It seems to me that some of the darkest patterns in the technology field are related to domain name registrars.
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by blantonl 7y ago
Exactly. The benefits of the cloud allow you almost unlimited computing resources spread across enormous swaths of geography, power, and internet access. Therefore, if you were impacted, its your fault, not AWS. Sorry.
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by blantonl 7y ago
barefoot with a brush hand saw Oh man that made me cringe. I’ve spent a lot of time on Texas Hill Country land (Kerville etc) and between rattlesnakes and chiggers you are one brave soul.
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by blantonl 7y ago
Are you worried about the size of your market then? Because organizations that would qualify for enterprise pricing plans for a lot of these SaaS providers are probably pretty limited - Capiche? In all seriousness, a LOT of Enterprise Soft
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by blantonl 7y ago
The new breed of SaaS providers seem to be providing pretty good transparency in pricing. Most, if not all, provide pricing directly on their pricing pages. The only difference might be in bulk or large users pricing, but mostly pricing in
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by blantonl 7y ago
but seemingly part of the frustration is that the average consumer feels powerless The average consumer could care less. They want to make phone calls, send text messages (over iMessage), surf Facebook, and take back to school pictures o
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by blantonl 7y ago
1B valuation for a clearinghouse marketplace for sneakers. Jeeze... Is this our generation's cabbage patch kids and beanie babies hype enabled with a little less friction due to technology? Because if it walks like a duck, and quacks

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