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by capkutay 8y ago
definitely interesting that google is taking a friendly approach to partners while AWS is simply forking their code and selling it themselves. It'll be interesting to see which strategy pays off. Still a decent gap between # of AWS and
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by capkutay 8y ago
STRIIM | UI/UX Designer, Data Platform Engineer | San Francisco - FULL TIME - ONSITE Striim is an enterprise-grade real-time, streaming analytics product deployed at some of the largest Fortune 100 companies, solving mission critical p
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by capkutay 8y ago
The biggest hypocrisy is when a company that's actively and aggressively trying to monetize the open source project, with ambitions to go public, shame companies like Amazon and Microsoft for doing the exact same thing. And they talk a
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by capkutay 8y ago
This just looks like Twitter acquiring vine 2.0. A big player acquiring an orthogonal product...most likely meaning they'll just kill it. I doubt hotels will partner with AirBnB on a booking service.
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I think ground-beef is easier to mimic with vegetarian substitute for whatever reason. Probably because fast food meat is already so weird and processed. Same with vegan sausage/hot dogs versus the meat-based sausage. Obviously if some
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by capkutay 8y ago
Honest question: is the unicorn valuation just a tool for VCs to inflate the value of their stock in the second market? Here's a scenario that happened recently. Investors X and Y invested a $30 million Series A in UnicornCompany. Lets
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by capkutay 8y ago
that's what happens when publicly elected lawyers and actors draw up complex infrastructure projects. something completely idiotic and infeasible must have been done in during the planning process.
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by capkutay 8y ago
> I wish to keep HN away from the masses as much as I'd like a broader perspective in the light of how things go with typical social networks Agreed. I downvote ferociously on HN when I see people attempt to be funny or meme on hack
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by capkutay 8y ago
yeah what you're describing is almost a textbook example of enterprise services/consulting that companies like Oracle/IBM/HP have been doing for decades. and what you're describing was also debunked as a scalable co
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by capkutay 8y ago
Sorry but this is bullshit. As others have mentioned, public transit beats uber/lyft when its actually the better, faster service (e.g. London, Tokyo). But when public transit is poorly planned, slow, dirty, crime-ridden like it often
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by capkutay 8y ago
> Children under the age of 10 taking the trains by themselves or with friends, even in Tokyo. that has a lot more to due with safe transit. I would NOT send a 10 year old kid to take BART or MUNI by themselves. In fact i literally know
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by capkutay 8y ago
It would still be funny to imagine California taking over electricity services. "State-wide power coverage is estimated to be completed by year 2035 after a 10 year Environmental Review and pending lawsuits from neighbors who don'
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by capkutay 8y ago
Not necessarily true. A lot of acquisitions are 'acquihires' meaning they were bought just for their talent capital.
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I used Chariot for about a year commuting from the Marina district of SF to Caltrain. It was basically an adult version of a soccer mom taking the neighborhood kids to practice in a mini van. It's definitely an improvement over taking
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by capkutay 8y ago
also the areas south and east of san jose are far more affordable. if you actually want to buy a home in the bay area, your best shot is somewhere just outside of Milipitas.
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by capkutay 8y ago
It was PRIVATE land, zoned for OFFICES, owned by SALEFORCE, then sold to the Warriors. And 50% of the land is still being used for corporate offices (Uber HQ will occupy it). Not sure what closed doors you're talking about. The Warrior
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by capkutay 8y ago
Chase Center is a pretty sorry scapegoat for SF housing problems. It's 100% financed by the team and was welcomed by residents. You can instead blame the thousands of acres of property in SF zoned for single family residences and all t
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by capkutay 8y ago
should cities not have entertainment venues that are welcomed by local residents?
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Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
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It's worth noting that between 2012-2017 'open source' and 'enterprise software' were synonymous. I saw many examples where VCs refused to entertain any enterprise investments that weren't fully SaaS and/o
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by capkutay 8y ago
I can't wait for a company to raise $100 million Series A to sell 'Enterprise, Open Source MIPS', then come back in 4 years with a blog post about changing the license due to concerns that large companies are taking advantage
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by capkutay 8y ago
Sounds like she was using a neti-pot. I thought most of the neti-pot products made it pretty clear that you're supposed to use previously boiled or distilled bottled water. Maybe they need to make it more clear that the consequences of
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by capkutay 8y ago
The problem stems from companies that raise $100 million dollars to sell open source software after the project has already been popular for years. Then they complain all their free adoption/marketing from being open source isn't
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by capkutay 8y ago
I really hate the 'This startup's revenue grew at x%!' Like what does that actually mean? For all we know they went from $100k to $170k in revenue while raising $100 million dollars. It could either be very impressive or just
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by capkutay 8y ago
Because you have actors/lawyers planning a vast complex project with input from voters who have no clue how to build anything at this scale. if it wasn't political, then it would be feasible. But thats not the world we live in.
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by capkutay 8y ago
i never said it doesn't work well for end users. I just question the intentions when they do a huge PR campaign for an internal project...then the leader of that project leaves to start his own company shortly after. And no...more PR a
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by capkutay 8y ago
I'm curious if there's some conflicting, underlying motives from their senior level technology folks. They had a game changing tool in Apache Storm...once Nathan Marz (creator of Storm) left twitter, another senior engineer took o
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by capkutay 8y ago
This has to be a joke? This looks more like 'how to use a k-v store 101 for non programmers' I don't want to put more content under a terrible post, but the best resource for this material Jennifer Widom's MOOC. https:&
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by capkutay 8y ago
I really loved Google Wave back in 2009/10. Used it to collab on a college project and we thought it was buggy but pretty useful.
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by capkutay 8y ago
Sad that this is a highly upvoted comment on HN. Some of the best things that happened in my career spawned from networking at good conferences.

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