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by burgreblast 10y ago
Ha. Love the mail server idea. It simply proves the point that it's not a terribly large problem that takes 10,000 times the equipment because of [search | many recipients | tags | etc]. It reminds me of that flickr architecture from
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by burgreblast 10y ago
100,000's of servers for 100,000,000 of messages/day ? I understand that half the servers aren't even doing messages, but, isn't WhatsApp doing 2 orders of magnitude more messages with 3 orders of magnitude (?) fewe
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by burgreblast 10y ago
The Israeli desalination plant "Sorek can produce a thousand liters (264 gal) of drinking water for 58 cents." And it can produce 624Km3/day or 150M m3 of water a year. That's 20% of Israeli domestic consumption. That&#
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by burgreblast 10y ago
> it settled on one that has since become a byword for failure: Edsel The Ford Edsel didn't fail because of the name. It was a hyped "advanced" product that also had build quality issues, and questionable styling. Mechani
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by burgreblast 10y ago
How do you guys deal with re-factoring code? Imagine a codebase that has been largely additive for 100 years. While the "+1 minus two guideline" has plenty of shortcomings in the long term, there is lots of low hanging fruit now,
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by burgreblast 10y ago
People LOVE being sold things/ideas they agree with. e.g. How many people tune into to Apple's product announcements? People don't like rasping attempts to change their mind. The key to selling is that it should never feel
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by burgreblast 10y ago
I would suggest the shared experiences and better relationships happen in real life when you commit 100%. We know that IRL we can be in physical proximity with one another, but perhaps it's the joint commitment to the experience that b
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by burgreblast 10y ago
Agreed. Can anyone see how this is a technology play? I get that a16z is looking for returns but is this really the space for them to "add value"? We haven't seen any good ideas lately and we can park a lot of cash here?
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by burgreblast 10y ago
Anecdata here, but...I live on this planet, have an awesome spouse, great kids, etc. It's seriously wonderful to be monogamous. For me, at least, marriage has _everything_ to do with it.
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by burgreblast 10y ago
Good for you! Self control turns out to be an advantage for many things in life. It's even better as you get older and begin to appreciate that enduring fidelity actually increases love. But I guess many here don't know that. St
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by burgreblast 10y ago
>there is no lower bound on what's considered "arrestable behavior" Really? I wouldn't throw in the towel. If there's corruption, that's still a crime. Why not figure out how to highlight it and stop it? W
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by burgreblast 10y ago
I'm struggling to find your solutions appealing. Your answer for addressing indoor drug dealing is to not arrest outdoor drug dealing when you see it? Allow stealing meat because somebody else got away with scamming? We disallow theft
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by burgreblast 10y ago
> they end up ticketing poor residents for a bunch of > "violations" that they would also find if they went > to the rich neighborhoods. I'm not sure what data you have to support this. But check out violent crime
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by burgreblast 10y ago
> petty offences (which practically everyone commits with > some non-zero frequency, This isn't Josef K in Kafka's Der Process. Most people don't have any trouble avoiding arrestable behavior. Lawlessness is not a vi
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by burgreblast 10y ago
Nice if it were that easy. But for business accounts you want to delete one (or more) licenses. Look at the form 2/3 of the way down and ask if this makes sense. https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/commun
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by burgreblast 10y ago
FWIW, Dropbox also points you to buttons that don't exist. When you delete an account, DB keeps charging you. There's a nice FAQ that explains to push a "review subscription" button and blah blah, but in reality that but
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by burgreblast 10y ago
When do people drive with Autopilot on? When the probability of accidents is lowest. The average number of kilometers per accident isn't the same across all kilometers driven; accident rate per kilometer is highly dependant on environm
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by burgreblast 11y ago
> manufacturers are trying really hard to make car-making as > hard & difficult & expensive as possible. I think you may be under-estimating the complexities market. In fact, the cheapest models in a give product are often th
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by burgreblast 11y ago
No this doesn't happen to a large degree. The examples you cite are where existing tooling is used to manufacture a complete product. The Mazda/Ford owned assembly line can be set up for either product. There are crazy hard barrie
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by burgreblast 11y ago
This is a great post from someone not in the industry. Car companies can't outsource production to Foxconn. Source: gesamtprojectintegrationleiter (complete project integration director) for a german car brand. After the car is "
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by burgreblast 11y ago
Super simple: enumerate your inventions and projects and ideas. If that's not easy to do there's a good chance they're ideas still germinating in your head. Fine, write those down too. Be general and land-grabby if you like.
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by burgreblast 11y ago
> Accepted fact Whoah. Be careful slinging around the F-bomb, bro. When talking about causation of events where there is no data, much less reproducible data, you certainly have room to disagree with some evidence and prefer others, but
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by burgreblast 11y ago
>Certainly descended from Also no. Yahweh is clearly at a level "above all gods", i.e. on his own level as omnipotent creator of all things. Angels and fallen angels (aka demons/ heavenly hosts and other "gods")
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by burgreblast 12y ago
Thanks, I missed that. Might be worth re-running the tests without the block so the graphs can line up better and we don't need to subtract the 200ms? As you well know, implications of latency or packet loss are hard to extrapolate on
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by burgreblast 12y ago
I'm not sure I'm reaching the same conclusion. - Chrome is taking 618ms to load / vs 412 ms on FF. - FF loads all the .css & .js at 320ms as well as first 8 imgs - CH loads all the .css & .js at ~600ms as well as firs
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by burgreblast 12y ago
>If they care about X, it's better if your don't work there. Not speaking about private repos per se, but whether it comes down to a close call between you and another candidate, or one person on the hiring team is looking to m
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by burgreblast 12y ago
Trying to think of what 55 person company sold for $4B. Was thinking Whatsapp but you would have had more like $19M pretax at 1%. edit: If vested. But after so short, only 25% vested. Congrats! Sounds like there's more upside for yo
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by burgreblast 12y ago
> If I wanted a coffee with lots of sugar and dairy added, > I would go to a place that specialized in such > concoctions, thanks! I don't necessarily disagree, but would you kill a $2B/yr product? In 2010, McDonald’s C
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by burgreblast 12y ago
This cannot be over emphasized: >Your biggest competition isn’t just other startups, perpetually licensed on-premise packages, homegrown solutions, or incumbent vendors. It’s inertia...the target company’s urge to do nothing. So how do y
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by burgreblast 12y ago
I'm the CEO of startup tackling this space. Hit me up hello at touchpoint dot io. You're right that this market is rife with garbage technology which represents a large opportunity, but the MVP to run someone's business is

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