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by eldavido 12y ago
This article paints traditional media with too broad a brush. There's plenty of junk on TV, but plenty in the blogosphere, too. And I really love my weekly copy of the Economist, and doubt anything of its quality, depth, or rigor could
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by eldavido 12y ago
Chicago has a significant advantage: it's more "normal" in that it's more representative of the United States, than the Bay Area. This provides a fertile ground for new companies to emerge: - Childcare / anythin
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by eldavido 12y ago
Something I used to think about during my tenure as a graduate student in computer security: has anyone written the definitive book/study/dissertation on why security incidents happen? As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it&#x2
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by eldavido 12y ago
Ops engineer here. This is a particularly hard case because the problem involved an interaction of components across the network, and was scale-dependent. These kinds of problems are truly "emergent" in that they're enormousl
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by eldavido 12y ago
There's a meme that Bay Area engineers are overpaid, but I'm not so sure. I've worked in a few different cities and can say without reservation, engineering staff here (SF) is quite a lot more productive than in other places.
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by eldavido 12y ago
Maybe this is just the efficient market hypothesis at work - everyone has (thinks they have?) figured out the signals that lead to success? In any case, I wonder how companies with such massive escalation in their valuation will hire and ra
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by eldavido 12y ago
It's also worth realizing how profound YC and pg's influence has been on early-stage tech. Off the top of my head: startups being seen as a legitimate career path alongside BigCo/academia, greater founder control of boards (a
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by eldavido 12y ago
>What makes the perspective of someone in a position without power more authentic than the perspective of someone with it... General conservatism. People who have something to lose, be it money, fame, power, prestige, credibility, etc.,
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by eldavido 12y ago
This doesn't really pencil out..."your binary, and the libraries it uses" can easily get into the GB when you include components like the .NET framework or java base class library. I don't know exactly how large a fully-
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by eldavido 12y ago
It's more like a ping-pong. Things start off simply, but over time as the layers of abstraction pile up, things become brittle and unworkable. I view containers as more of a reworking of a key computational abstraction (VMs) than an ev
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by eldavido 12y ago
I think you're right. A bit of personal perspective: I'm a 30 year old, I earn well into six figures/yr, but I still live relatively far below my means. Concretely, this has required making some very tangible lifestyle choice
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by eldavido 12y ago
It's true. And for as much flak as "cultural fit" takes in the popular press, everyone's going to be happier if people get along. Look hard at this stuff when you're thinking about joining a company, you'll spe
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by eldavido 12y ago
A bit off-topic, but I hate that there's such a stigma in the American workplace around getting fired. Statistically, not every hire works out, not every job is great, some people and companies are better off without each other. Rather
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by eldavido 12y ago
Is anyone else's spam protection on par with Google Mail's? That's the GApps killer feature. The rest of their groupware suite, especially Writely/Document editing, is pretty mediocre, IMO.
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by eldavido 12y ago
Redis uses a reactive architecture using non-blocking I/O. They fork to get a point-in-time consistent snapshot that can be written to disk. The problem is that fork blocks, and while blocked, it stalls the event loop, subjecting incom
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by eldavido 12y ago
I think "userspace COW" is the wrong approach here. The entire idea of getting a point-in-time snapshot of something subject to rapid change is problematic. Your options boil down to (1) make a "snapshot" and save that (
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by eldavido 12y ago
This is a huge problem on wall street, where trades must have predictable latencies. Stop-the-world garbage collectors are another source of latency "catastrophes".
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by eldavido 12y ago
I talked to some Amazon product managers, they said the narrative was closer to "we had to learn how to scale to meet the holiday shopping season" than "we had a bunch of extra capacity laying around". It's not a bi
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by eldavido 12y ago
"We generated 91% of Google revenues from our advertisers in 2013." https://investor.google.com/pdf/20131231_google_10K.pdf
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by eldavido 12y ago
Google has only two billion-dollar businesses: Adwords and Adsense. They've been trying for the past 2-4 years to grow Apps/Docs/Drive platform into a third one, and have had reasonable success getting into some larger organi
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by eldavido 12y ago
Which makes you wonder, could you bolt a language like Python onto an interface builder a la Xcode IB, Visual Studio Forms designer, etc? I agree with you, I think the bigger picture here is how well the IDE, GUI, and code hang together as
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by eldavido 12y ago
I used to work at Microsoft (SQL Server). It goes without saying, but getting here is an intentional, conscious thing Microsoft spends billions of dollars to achieve. Working in SF in earlier-stage companies, I've never seen anything e
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by eldavido 12y ago
hey ben - david from dolores labs here I've wanted to build something kind of similar to this - evented simulation of "soundscapes" (coffeeshops, train stations, etc) programmable using a similar graph formalism to yours, exc
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by eldavido 12y ago
Amen to that. Living here in SF, the customer service aspect of cabs is appalling. I'm tired of getting dirty looks for paying with a credit card, having cabs with their light on and nobody in them drive right by me, playing the "
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by eldavido 12y ago
Not so fast. It seems clarity of focus and mission counts for a lot. When I look at a company like Sears, I don't get the sense of focus I get from a company like Apple. It's surprising how little clarity the rank-and-file of many
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by eldavido 12y ago
That wouldn't be a stop, it would be a buy/limit order with a price far below (20-30%) the current market price.
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by eldavido 12y ago
This is called a liquidity trap and it's well-studied in finance circles. Basically, in order to have a well-functioning market, you need a roughly balanced number of sellers and buyers at any point. If an external event triggers enoug
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by eldavido 12y ago
I think this got downvoted due to the way you describe it. My experience with HN is that it's a very hard-edged, no-shit crowd. People here expect things to be described with simple, crisp language, no jargon (especially not computer&#
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by eldavido 12y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, most people aren't entrepreneurs. Try convincing someone living in the Bay Area to walk from their 200K/yr plus stock units from FB/Google/etc. and you'll find out the reality: what real
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by eldavido 12y ago
Because learning skills takes time, and in tech, time is everything.

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