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by doh 10y ago
I answered this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13260805
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by doh 10y ago
There are many reasons why bare metal doesn't make much sense for us, at least at the moment. Here are couple: - we're very small team (13 people). We would never be able to manage this kind of infrastructure - we're growing
513.
by doh 10y ago
We were sharing the same office for over a year [geekdom]. You can find my email in of the discussion chains.
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by doh 10y ago
I played with lambda recently. It's further than Functions [0] but it has a lot of limitations. We like to have control over our infrastructure, at least some kind of control. [0] https://cloud.google.com/functions&#x2F
515.
by doh 10y ago
What do you mean? We use them for many sorts of tasks. We have only couple of fixed servers that are keeping the state of the whole infrastructure and databases that keep the data.
516.
by doh 10y ago
We don't do takedown. We do this https://blog.pex.com/the-daily-wars-of-online-video-platform...
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by doh 10y ago
Well, it's not small, but definitely not that crazy. We're running an immutable infrastructure and the majority of the servers are a "cattle". To be more specific, we redeploy servers from images instead of replacing jus
518.
by doh 10y ago
Number of servers
519.
by doh 10y ago
We couldn't even get them to approve 5k servers on AWS. We run everything in GCE.
520.
by doh 10y ago
Just checked, we're on two tickets a week. Sounds a lot but we push GCE to its limits. On gold support and P1 there is usually an engineer assigned to the ticket. In many occasions you're talking to the person fixing your problem.
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by doh 10y ago
We moved back and forth between AWS and GCE (based on who gave us free credits). Once we ran out, we chose GCE and never regretted it. GCE has many quirks, for instance the inconsistency between API and the UI, it misses the richness of the
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by doh 10y ago
Actually it's surprisingly good. We use them a lot and even when we were on the silver package (the cheapest) they were pretty quick (under 1 hour for P1 situations [production is impacted]).
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From near bankruptcy to profitability in 4 months(medium.com)
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by doh 10y ago
I don't know their story, but I imagine that they took similar route as others: - start on ESTA or B1/B2 - switch to E2 - once successful-ish go for O-1 Actually these days there are lawyers specialized on obtaining O-1 in a prett
525.
by doh 10y ago
Not anytime soon. Asked them about it just the other week. We would love to get the IPv6 support as Google is not very eager to allocate IPv4 to us in any larger quantities.
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by doh 10y ago
True to that. But ones opinion should be shaped by others, not acquired. My rule of thumb is to never turn more than 90° based on one single feedback/fact. It's far from perfect but helps with the overload of mis/informations
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by doh 10y ago
Hopefully people are intelligent enough to know not to take any advice, no matter if it comes from a book or a person, too literally. I read Welch's books and it was inspiring. Doesn't mean I ran back to my employees and enforced
528.
by doh 10y ago
So I'm not the only one. I wrote larger-ish project while using asyncio and it is pain. The syntax is very unfamiliar (especially in 3.5 with async/await), the documentation is confusing and it's very hard to debug it in gene
529.
by doh 10y ago
Seems to be down. Here is the source https://github.com/vjousse/vim-for-humans-book
530.
by doh 10y ago
We couldn't get any number of any servers. I asked for 10 servers that they are boosting to be up in 120s. Nope. I asked for 20 random servers in same range. Nope. After 4 days of back and forth we ended up nowhere. They stop respondin
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by doh 10y ago
We have no dedicated servers as we're running everything on GCE. Our use case is highly specific as we've a huge ingress network requirements, which we're getting free of charge. > "You can buy at least a dozen U for
532.
by doh 10y ago
Depends where are you based. OPS in the Bay Area is above 100k/year which need to be added to the price of servers. Also one person has a huge bus factor so you essentially need two people (if one is sick or on vacation). Now you'
533.
by doh 10y ago
I understand. But we couldn't get even 10. We got too spoiled by Google Cloud.
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by doh 10y ago
Great. If they figure out the ordering system, it could be interesting. Last time (3 months ago) to install 200 servers (that they claim to have up in 120sec) would take 9 weeks, even if with our long term commitment.
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by doh 10y ago
As you said, the difference is in scale. Machine learning at their scale is not only challenging, the scale prohibits any useful applications. BTW cool project.
536.
by doh 10y ago
They do a semi good job with related videos. But even those go south quickly when you go through couple of them.
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by doh 10y ago
a) That's the general problem. If you are being encapsulated by the algorithm, there is no way out of the bubble so it doesn't help at the end that they use collaborative filtering, because majority of people ends up watching the
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by doh 10y ago
There are, I believe, three main reasons why the recommendations are so poor on YouTube: a) YouTube doesn't know anything about the content itself, can only use metadata b) The algorithm itself is biased towards creators that post ofte
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by doh 10y ago
Actually a significant portion of the tech team (for instance Content ID) is based in Zurich, not in San Bruno. Check out their jobs page [0]. You don't need a friend to recommend you, but it would be great if you find somebody on a te
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by doh 10y ago
Many hedge funds spent time analyzing the effect on a stock price after breach disclosure. From what I read overall, the only negative effect comes if the breach is repeated over longer period of time in media. But as Elena Kvochko put it,

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