fiveguys94

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by fiveguys94 6y ago
That's marketing for you; a good proportion of Electric Imp are brits, and we generally don't get "really excited" by anything short of the prospect of a good curry and a nice pint. Having been through other chains of ac
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by fiveguys94 6y ago
Aww thanks! There may be argument about the BBS software being "definitive", but it was certainly used to run some of the most popular Acorn BBSes - there were installs with 16 dial-in modems in Hong Kong, for example. It has also
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by fiveguys94 6y ago
I picked up three Dell R900's for an average of $200 each, with 4x Xeon E7450 and 128GB of ECC RAM. No hyperthreading (2011!), it's 24 real cores. They're noisy and use lots of power, but you can't argue with the value f
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by fiveguys94 7y ago
We used to use an ELK cluster but it was always breaking - I'm sure this stuff can be reliable but we just wanted an easy way to search ~300GB of logs (10GB/day) Somehow I came across scalyr and it's just phenomenally fast -
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by fiveguys94 9y ago
You should probably look at our stuff - electricimp.com There are over a million commercial devices on our platform, which is essentially a mass production platform that's excessively well documented, tested, scalable, and free to prot
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by fiveguys94 11y ago
I never saw that at Apple. There were literally no budget restrictions on engineering as long as you got the job done. Was that back in pre-Apple days?
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by fiveguys94 11y ago
Yeah, I did. He did shout at Apple too, and people in his software teams (ie, non-iOS iPods) did work ridiculous hours 7 days a week for months before each iPod shipped. It was less of an issue because less things went wrong, though. IMO th