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by ghc 7y ago
If I'm not mistaken the VC emails are for sale.
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by ghc 7y ago
I believe they are actually selling the emails, though it doesn't say so explicitly.
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by ghc 7y ago
Venture Capital doesn't work the way founders and startup employees think it does. 1. A VC's job isn't to "pick" startups like you might pick stocks on the public market. It's almost besides the point, which is
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by ghc 7y ago
For any founder who thinks this list is comprehensive or worth paying for: It's laughably incomplete, even in major VC markets. From a cursory scan I'd guess at least 50% of VC firms I've done deals with in Boston, SF and LA
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by ghc 7y ago
I’ll admit that doppler radar, noise canceling headphones, RSA cryptography and GPS might all be “trendy”, but they’re only a few of the many, many inventions that came out of MIT, mostly bankrolled by military funding.
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by ghc 7y ago
Excellent enumeration of the things Slack gets wrong. I’m not sure all of them can be fixed, either. I have more faith in Microsoft getting it right.
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by ghc 7y ago
Underrated idea. Never seen this, but I would kill for the ability to add comments to configuration settings or even log changes with commit messages.
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by ghc 7y ago
You're referring to invention, not innovation. From Webster: > Innovation, for its part, can refer to something new or to a change made to an existing product, idea, or field. One might say that the first telephone was an invention,
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by ghc 7y ago
Python's actual competitors are Ruby, Perl, R, Shell, Visual Basic, Javascript, PHP, and Matlab. Nobody's going to bother out OCaml or Lisp for web development, data science, or OS scripting where Python is most often used.
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by ghc 7y ago
All great examples of Apple taking others' innovations, polishing obsessively to appeal to a broader market. Iteration is much more valuable than innovation when it comes to sales.
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by ghc 7y ago
I remember the weekly shopping cadence growing up in a relatively rural new england town, but there was still always the inevitable "milk run" when you ran out of something unexpectedly. With smallish high rise condos it's ha
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by ghc 7y ago
I think maybe urban stores might skew the stats a bit. There's so much demand for groceries within a short walk of all the local condo buildings that my local Walgreens has set up a fresh sushi counter. The cheaper, giant grocery store
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by ghc 7y ago
Sentenai | Boston | On-site | https://sentenai.com Are you passionate about distributed systems, functional programming and machine learning? Sentenai is looking for experienced engineers to join our team. In particular, we&#x27
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by ghc 7y ago
“Don’t you understand anything? Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That’s how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Le
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by ghc 7y ago
The argument here boils down to: I haven't seen it work in places where I've been employed so it must not work. Reality check: I've worked on multiple large research teams that successfully developed DSLs still in use by doma
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by ghc 8y ago
I would call Sargent a great artist by any standard, and in multiple mediums. He may have made his money in portraiture, but even then he generated pieces like The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit that are outstanding art. But outside or p
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by ghc 8y ago
I was drawing a comparison between the Kdb runtime and the Erlang runtime, because the OP seems to be conflating the ability to emulate relational features at the application level with first-class support for relational semantics as in a r
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by ghc 8y ago
I can't wait until we see Optane DIMMs come to market. It's no surprise that Optane doesn't perform great as an SSD when every part of the stack is so highly optimized to minimize the impact of SSD limitations.
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by ghc 8y ago
Over the past 10 years I've had the misfortune of working with most major historians in the field (Oracle's the biggest one I never encountered) and not a single one implemented process data storage on top of a relational database
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by ghc 8y ago
So Aurora isn't a historian, but is a complex event processing system. It's an entirely different beast that solves very specific problems around high-speed queries that could theoretically require scanning through all data stored
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by ghc 8y ago
My point was that the current relational features of Kdb didn't exist originally (they were grafted on later) so it's not "marketed" as a TSDB, but it is in fact a TSDB marketed as a relational DB. The definition of rela
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by ghc 8y ago
I agree! Vertica's temporal capabilities are marvelous and the engineers who worked on the planner optimizations for the time extensions are brilliant. There are of course trade-offs to the approach Vertica takes -- look at StreamBase
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by ghc 8y ago
> Distributed relational column-oriented databases are the best at large OLAP data volumes and queries. KDB+ is one of those, even though they call it a TSDB in marketing terminology because of its FinTech customer base. You're mist
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by ghc 8y ago
Relational databases represent a column/row-oriented architecture. Data historians are a specialized, non-relational, time -oriented architecture. Using time as a key in a relational index implies that only ordering is important, but
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by ghc 8y ago
While I understand your point, you are quite mistaken if you think that time is just another key. Dealing with time properly requires a concept of point distance, similar to GIS systems requiring 2d distance understanding. You cannot do joi
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by ghc 8y ago
It’s a bad situation in your typical enterprise, but it’s even worse where I’ve spent my career: working with realtime industrial data. I became convinced that building time series data pipipelines was a bad idea after many late nights in t
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by ghc 8y ago
Haskell-zre is pretty cool! I think I'll have some fun playing with it with some of our demo IoT setups. We're purely in the backend data infrastructure business so I don't do deployments any longer, but we'll probably h
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by ghc 8y ago
It really depends on your edge data model, but the enterprise network should always be considered hostile. At my previous company we ran SSH servers on our gateways for server->client pushes and it ran into the fewest problems with ente
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by ghc 8y ago
Unless you're targeting consumer you might want to be careful with tech like web-sockets. After a decade of using sensors in industrial facilities I've come to appreciate the value of on-device buffers and transactional logging sy
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by ghc 8y ago
Pretty much everyone is in the same boat. Even if you have an advanced degree, most of what businesses need is plugging together components and adding business rules to create a product. As a discipline, we're too young and our technol

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