geekinthecorner

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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
It's amusing how every article about Puppet gets trolled by the Chef group. Is there ever a useful technology that doesn't inspire holy wars?
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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
And please, just one e-mail. Don't let a rambunctious new marketing type decide "Hey, if we find our inactive users and email them two or three times a week from here on out we'll increase our user base". And make sure your unsubscribe feat
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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
Congratulations on shipping! I'm curious if after the setbacks, do you feel that YCombinator was the right model for a hardware start-up? I wonder if the exuberance and rapidity of the single web-app start-up lent itself towards overconfide
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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
Before you get to the point of scouting for deal you need to be able to show bank records proving you've grossed $200k/year (or $300k/year if you're married) for the previous two years, or have over $1m in assets. This is because our great
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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
Now if we could just get rid of Regulation D and make the accredited investors requirement sane enough that your average engineer could be allowed the opportunity to invest in the companies we believe in.
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Getting around Regulation D?
3 points by geekinthecorner 16y ago|1 comments
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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l...
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Clipper: Big Brother's Best Friend?(sfgate.com)
2 points by geekinthecorner 16y ago|1 comments
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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
We can quibble on how you use it, but in the end, the goal is to own as much of the application hosting market as they possibly can. At least, if the cloud pundits are right, and if there can be only 2 or 3 utility computing companies in th
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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
Because it's a war. A scrappy five year old company, Softlayer got bought out for $500m, merged with ThePlanet, and now SoftLayer is the first or second largest dedicated server company by sheer number of servers, and once all of TP is inte
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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
Rackspace is desperately in need of as much help as they can get. Whereas the rest of the industry (Softlayer, etc) spent the last five years building out automated infrastructure, Rackspace spent it mostly on sales. As a customer with doze
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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
Whenever I read a letter like the one Bartz wrote, I'm curious who the intended audience was, a board, or the employees. "Margins have expanded. Revenue growth has stabilized after a long period of decelerating trends. " That was definitely
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by geekinthecorner 16y ago
In the 9 or 10 years since I first heard about OpenBSD, it has never come up in conversation without the related scene drama also popping up.