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by dude_abides 12y ago
>> As a side note, bad board members are disastrous. This is too important a point to be left as a side note; I'm sure this is the primary reason founders prefer not to have external board members. "How to choose an external
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by dude_abides 12y ago
Does John Carmack (one of the true legends among great programmers) still write code? If yes, then it will be intriguing to find out how he manages to do that while being CTO at Oculus.
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by dude_abides 12y ago
Room for Fantasy Football Sit/Start Advice - http://i.imgur.com/OVOLbjP.png
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by dude_abides 12y ago
10 things statistics taught us about big data (talk by the same author, linked from the post): http://www.slideshare.net/jtleek/10-things-statistics-taught... Yeah the heading is buzzfeed-like, but the content is great
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by dude_abides 12y ago
No, it just means that YC's head is now a big-league VC. (This is his personal investment)
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by dude_abides 12y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the first time ever a Microsoft Research lab is being closed? It reflects a lot on how the new CEO Nadella views fundamental (academic) research in his priority list. Though this may
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by dude_abides 12y ago
Team FourSquare (if you're reading this), please ask yourself this question: If "x" is how much better Facebook was than MySpace, or how much better Google was than Yahoo search, then "x" is how much better you need
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by dude_abides 12y ago
Hard to imagine what's in it for Quora. - Network connections? Their CEO is the former CTO of Facebook. - Help with fundraising? They raised $80mm at $900mm valuation not more than a month ago. I strongly suspect Quora is planning a hu
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by dude_abides 13y ago
Sure, but Yahoo was in 2005 when Doug Cutting started working on Hadoop there.
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by dude_abides 13y ago
To be fair to big companies, it is quite possible for the brilliant engineer with an idea that he's passionate about, to change the world while working for a big company. Obvious examples that come to mind - Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat.
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by dude_abides 13y ago
200 million wow! When I think of Klout, I can only think of this brilliant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1057/
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by dude_abides 13y ago
Wow I would have thought he won it in the 80s or 90s!
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by dude_abides 13y ago
I wonder how many of the negative commenters on this thread are either citizens or permanent residents. I don't see why a techie who is not yet a citizen or permanent resident of US, and wants to be one, would be so negative about this
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by dude_abides 13y ago
Loved this comparison of 3 visionaries of our times by one of the 3: Gates praised Zuckerberg’s drive, but described him as “more of a product manager”, insisting that he was more of a coder starting with architecture where Zuckerberg “sta
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by dude_abides 13y ago
From the Q&A: Q: Will Nest customer data be shared with Google? A: We’ve always taken privacy seriously and this will not change. Clever play on words. "Taking privacy seriously" will not change, but "policy on custom
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by dude_abides 13y ago
We're using it as a replacement for our enterprise data warehouse. Total size so far ~1 TB compressed, daily delta ~10s of GB compressed. We're using a two XL node cluster. The best part is that you can increase the cluster size w
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by dude_abides 13y ago
Ah that makes sense! Looking at their results and how RedShift was so much faster in every scenario, it looked like something was amiss. Is Parquet Cloudera-only like Impala or is it available with vanilla Hadoop?
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by dude_abides 13y ago
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! Redshift looks to be order-of-magnitude faster than Impala or Shark in all the test. Does this mean that once RedShift supports user-defined functions, there is no competing solution that is any match?
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by dude_abides 13y ago
Will be very interesting if someone does a benchmark comparison of Presto with Cloudera Impala, Amazon RedShift and Apache Drill. Also, very curious to know (from any Googlers browsing HN) if Dremel is still the state-of-the-art within Goog
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Electrons and Atoms(blog.samaltman.com)
73 points by dude_abides 13y ago|26 comments
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by dude_abides 13y ago
Some context for those wondering: A few years back, Continental bought the Siemens VDO Automotive business unit from Siemens. Siemens had been powering the dashboard and computing units of several auto companies, which is now owned by Conti
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by dude_abides 13y ago
My field is data analytics, and the companies that come to mind are Vertica, Tokutek, Hadapt, Autonomy. Clearly Palo Alto has Cloudera, Hortonworks, Trifacta, and I'm sure countless others. I was generalizing incorrectly. The point I w
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by dude_abides 13y ago
CoreOS.com sounds super promising. I'm gonna be rooting for them. It's been a while since I last saw a real CS startup come out of Silicon Valley, much less YC. The action in this space seems to all be happening in Boston.
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by dude_abides 13y ago
Eg. http://www.trifacta.com/ founded by the guys who started DataWrangler :)
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by dude_abides 13y ago
This is great advice for YC-stage companies. For bigger companies, the biggest challenge is how to continue to focus on the “write code and talk to users” part, while having to deal with everything else, which unfortunately becomes harder t
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by dude_abides 13y ago
More accurately, Sarbox is keeping 96% of Americans away from some crazy volatility -- they are missing out on MSFTesque price appreciation as well as potential bankrupcy of countless new public companies.
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Facebook asks to share "complete picture of the government requests we receive"(newsroom.fb.com)
10 points by dude_abides 13y ago|2 comments
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by dude_abides 13y ago
MYO is one of those products that, if executed right, can be the harbinger of a new age of computing. Neuro is still at least a few years away, voice is dorky, vision is flaky. Now if only they had come up with a cooler name than MYO!
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by dude_abides 13y ago
I use gnump3d ( http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/ ) for this exact same purpose. It's quite an awesome piece of software and worth checking out.
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by dude_abides 13y ago
Some possible reasons are: - He's just too humble to want the fame. Gavin Andresen could then be a likely candidate. - Scared, maybe by what happened to Julian Assange. However, unlike WikiLeaks, it's hard to imagine what law Bitcoin breaks

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