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by dewitt 7y ago
I'm not an expert, but regarding your last question, I believe it's an industry-standard practice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_shipping And something that Amazon does as well. If you're a third-
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by dewitt 7y ago
Hasn't Dropbox lost market value every quarter since they went public while growth has been flat and operating at a loss? I'm not saying the HN crowd didn't miss a $10B opportunity, but they also weren't exactly wrong.
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by dewitt 7y ago
Maybe the parent's point is that AAPL could buy QCOM outright three times over with cash on hand alone, so nothing could possibly move Apple's needle much anymore, except sales or lack thereof.
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by dewitt 7y ago
> Org-mode looks very similar to markdown. Almost so that I would call it pointlessly different. Just a minor note on this: Org-mode was created in 2003 (the syntax a bit earlier) and Markdown in 2004, so I think this was a case of par
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by dewitt 8y ago
Email me. : ) We're hiring. I'm dewitt@ all the obvious places.
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by dewitt 8y ago
Is this something like what you're looking for? https://github.com/knative/serving/blob/master/docs/spec/ove... Or a little higher-level: https://docs.google.com/presentati
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by dewitt 8y ago
Just to amplify jacques_chester's reply, yes, we do see products being built on Knative components. Google is doing that (serverless container support in GCF, serverless add-on in GKE), and you can see similar announcements being made
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by dewitt 8y ago
We have several days of keynotes at GCP Next and way more to share throughout the week. But for the curious, there's a serverless spotlight session at 1:55 today that will cover this, as well as a Knative-specific talk at 4:35. We deci
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by dewitt 8y ago
Indeed. Much of what we open sourced in Knative came from what we learned from running GAE and GCF. Which is important: this isn't a side project for us, this is based on real-world experience doing it at scale for huge customers. You
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by dewitt 8y ago
Huge thanks to Pivotal for being an amazing development partner. Pivotal's deep experience with enterprise customers and developing products like riff brought real-world knowledge and technical leadership to Knative early on. We'r
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by dewitt 8y ago
I'd love to see a PR that documents Knative on EKS!
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by dewitt 8y ago
One of the goals is to make the components loosely coupled at the top (so a product can choose among them as needed), and also pluggable at the bottom (so you can swap out implementations as needed, for example logging and monitoring). I ex
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by dewitt 8y ago
Thanks to everyone who played a part of this! The Google team is also watching this thread. Happy to answer any questions people have.
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by dewitt 8y ago
Point made. I think you're right. : )
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by dewitt 8y ago
Sure. I'd even put Gibson, Wallace, Stephenson, Asimov, and Martin on my own subjective list, just on pure influence and enjoyment. The other ones though are at least in the running by most objective criteria, I'd imagine.
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by dewitt 8y ago
I love Franzen. But not in a class by himself, at least not in a half-century.
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by dewitt 8y ago
Him too.
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by dewitt 8y ago
> "Donna Tartt, one of the best American novelists to emerge in the last 50 years, has published just three novels since 1992. Jonathan Franzen, the only American novelist who is her equal." Pynchon. DeLillo. McCarthy. Roth...
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by dewitt 9y ago
Yeah, I actually dislike it every time myself, though that's not hugely important to me, nor why I commented. There was some interesting commentary in this thread about cultural appropriation and whatnot, which seems to me to be beside
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by dewitt 9y ago
I'm not opposed to offending others. : ) Just be aware when you do, and why you're doing it. The parent post simply seemed blithely unaware of how deeply hurtful the phrase can be to people. (Imagine typing that phrase out every d
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by dewitt 9y ago
Well I don't really get Instagram or Snapchat either, but they created something that has made tens of millions of people happy, and turned a thousand other people into millionaires (or billionaires!) basically overnight. By that me
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by dewitt 9y ago
Yes. Imagine looking at a 2x2 brick [0] and a 2x4 brick [1] head on. [0] https://brickset.com/parts/design-3003 [1] https://brickset.com/parts/design-3001
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by dewitt 9y ago
Good point about ThinkPenguin's target demographic. I think you're right—I presumed too much about his business without looking first. (Sorry I upset you, btw.)
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by dewitt 9y ago
Seems incredibly ill-advised to be publicly discussing what is sure to result in legal action. Even as one-sided as this is, the best he can do is incriminate himself. The other side will wait until due process requires them to disclose the
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by dewitt 9y ago
Thanks!
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by dewitt 9y ago
But did they fix ctrl-space? [1] As an emacs user, this single issue has been the show-stopper that prevented me from investing in bash on windows, even though I would like to. [1] https://superuser.com/questions/108825
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by dewitt 10y ago
Here are the new Always Free usage limits: https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/always-free-usage-limits They are (IMO) quite generous. Definitely sufficient to get a good feel for the platform and run some persona
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by dewitt 10y ago
Yes, there is an entirely new Always Free Products tier. https://cloud.google.com/free/ "Use these products for free up to the specified usage limits during and past the free trial. These usage limits do not expir
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by dewitt 10y ago
Yes, it can be used for image compression: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/image-compression-wi... Here's the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05148 (No connection to the author
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by dewitt 10y ago
I don't think anyone would argue against the advantage of being there in person. The question to me is this: can we make it better for people who can't be there? (I.e., raise the foundation, not debate the ceiling.)

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