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by ericb 10y ago
Can't he be both? He says he spends 50% of his time on engineering. Spacex launches and lands rockets. Standing up. On a Barge. In the ocean. Seems like an engineering achievement to me.
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by ericb 10y ago
Seems pretty unlikely. Back in the early 2000's the freelance sites often had prices that were 1/10 or 1/20th of US rates. Unless these places are getting cheaper--and they're not, because the rates in a location mainly
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by ericb 10y ago
> a societal construct that has persisted for milenia across vast swathes of the globe is not your typical societal construct. For sure, but until now, gold has not faced an alternative that beat it on a number of objective measures (por
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by ericb 10y ago
Most of the "value" of gold is by arbitrary societal agreement--there is very low natural use-driven demand compared to the froth from people using it as a store of value. That agreement, in a game theory sense, comes from the ori
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by ericb 10y ago
This thing is really awesome! Bookmarked! Modeling growth acceleration (and number of net adds expected at n% growth) would be very cool. I am also playing around with adding salaries and when, not sure how to add it in this UI, but that&#x
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by ericb 10y ago
> Specifically they don't subtract R&D costs from their margins. R&D costs should not be subtracted in order to calculate gross margin. They are a part of net margin only. Payroll is not part of gross margin either. Here&#x2
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by ericb 10y ago
Monero is a more likely candidate for the winner in this category.
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by ericb 10y ago
Fashion? Fashion is a terrible way to make a technical decision. I'll take a Rails stack over the JS framework(s) of the millisecond any day.
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by ericb 10y ago
-Elon Musk -Jason Cohen CEO of WPEngine -Gail Goodman, former CEO of Constant Contact -Jason Lemkin of Saastr -Peter Thiel -Author of TensorFlow (apparently terrytangyuan@gmail.com) -David Skok of Matrix Partners
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by ericb 10y ago
Compassion is good, but projecting human ideas of suffering onto robots is the sort of thinking that gets you knitting sweaters for poor freezing penguins .
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by ericb 10y ago
In interviews, Elon has stated he spends around 80% of his time on engineering. So it is his vision, his money, his company, AND his engineering. There are other makers, too, but he did make them.
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by ericb 10y ago
Elon, a private individual, has made rockets, something most governments haven't achieved. His rockets fly to space. Then they land standing up. On a barge. In the ocean. Not sure what it takes to impress you, but when something
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by ericb 10y ago
What an unbelievably negative group of drive-by comments for something I think is pretty impressive.
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The antibody aducanumab reduces amyloid beta plaques in Alzheimer’s disease(nature.com)
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by ericb 10y ago
I never understand the thermodynamics argument in terms of weight gain. Surely you acknowledge that some solar cells and mechanical engines are more efficient than others? Additionally, do you acknowledge that some drives are more irresisti
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by ericb 11y ago
We're open to paying once we're rolling. It's more that you've so far only said "basic is $400" and it isn't clear what that means or what will drive people to "more than basic." It's hard t
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by ericb 11y ago
Potentially, however, it won't meet our initial design objectives. One is that we would have a single point of failure. Another issue is that we can't count on it being expandable space-wise going forward past the single machine l
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by ericb 11y ago
I see you've never bootstrapped a startup before. The clustering was (accidentally) bait and switched and led us to choose this product when we would have made other decisions.
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by ericb 11y ago
A pricing model that scaled with usage and was more inexpensive at the low-end would, in my opinion, better serve your company and customers. That way you pull more people into the product and increase the overall size of the pie.
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by ericb 11y ago
Ugh, we are a startup, we invested in influxdb on faith that it would "get there", developed around it, and now we can't afford what they want to charge for the scalable version. Maybe we can avoid clustering with some workar
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by ericb 11y ago
Thanks!
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by ericb 11y ago
Our hosted load testing service which uses real browsers, driven by javascript, ruby or java code the same way you'd write your usual selenium/webdriver tests. It is awesome because it will make load test script creation/main
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by ericb 11y ago
* Methods to Effectively Spread Rationality A scientific approach to spreading rational thinking could be world-changing. If rational thinking became more prevalent, you'd have more allies--more people asking questions like this about
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by ericb 11y ago
It seems like one thing that CRISPR brings to the table is find and replace, or find and delete. As a layman, this would seem ideal for treating any sort of cancer... Just find the distinct sequences and delete? What bad news do I not (yet)
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by ericb 11y ago
I wrote a ruby gem that wraps the HTML tidy executable for local HTML validation. Disclaimer: It is vetted with the HTML 5 compatible tidy version, but I haven't tried it out with this new version yet. Pull requests welcome. https:&#x
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by ericb 11y ago
A saas performance testing tool that lets you run real-browser load tests and reuse your functional tests for load testing. http://browserup.com/signup The idea is that machine-hours are cheaper than man-hours, and the hard
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by ericb 11y ago
Can you detail, or point me to a blog post which details this stuff? As someone who is about to invest a lot of time in researching use of influxdb at scale, I'm interested in doc of the performance problems, and even moreso if the per
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by ericb 11y ago
I have no idea what makes a diesel die. Can you give me details on diesel death and what the other problems not related to the drivetrain that one would expect are.
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by ericb 11y ago
Honestly, if it was useful, I would probably use this my side project which is commercial, but in no way competes with what you're doing (load testing). I might make changes or improvements, and I would generally contribute those back.
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by ericb 11y ago
I sent an email to your email address at nirvdrum with what I've been looking at.

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