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by halbritt 7y ago
A great deal of their reputation is based on their ability to produce precise quartz movements, ostensibly resistant to temperature changes, etc.
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by halbritt 7y ago
I may be confusing the term with "disinterested curiosity". Wish I could fine the article if only to refer to again. Here's a bit of an explanation that seems to match my understanding of the concept: https://www
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by halbritt 7y ago
I get your point, but you keep supporting it with examples of products that are well outside the auspices of the GCP business unit. Yes, it's true that Google capriciously kills products for various business reasons without any regard
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by halbritt 7y ago
I read an article a while back that described one trait of the "10x" engineer as dispassionate curiosity. Setting aside the argument of what a "10x" engineer actually is, I'm sure those of us working in the field c
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by halbritt 7y ago
> If I created a startup tomorrow, I am confident that I could pull world-class engineers out of FAANG. This is easy. Offer relatively competitive TC with a real potential upside to the equity package and a work environment that's
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by halbritt 7y ago
The lack of ease with which one gets into and out of the cloud computing business will preclude Google from killing off the GCP products with the same wanton disregard for customers as they demonstrated with social and others. At worst, the
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by halbritt 7y ago
My experiences with GCP have been pretty good, most of those experiences were with GKE. In many ways, their products are superior to AWS. At the very least, they have a different approach to offering cloud services rather than simply atte
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by halbritt 7y ago
That's correct. Selling access to the Google maps API is wholly superfluous to Google's business model. Certainly, it doesn't clock anywhere near a billion in revenue. Prices have gone up because Google doesn't have any
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by halbritt 7y ago
On the other hand of what? Maps is a consumer facing service for which revenue is derived from the data collected and advertising. That business model is nothing like selling commodity compute services to enterprises. If anything, I think
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by halbritt 7y ago
I frequently see folks assert cloud vendor X is cheaper and present data comparing long-term reserved instances to on-demand.
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by halbritt 7y ago
> Alternatives: I don't trust Google services for anything critical In the case of GCP, the product is the product rather than the user, so there's a greater expectation that it'll not get shut down or that pricing will ch
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by halbritt 7y ago
Historically, AWS hasn't done this. They haven't lowered prices on RDS, Elasticsearch, etc. There are far superior options available. The lock-in on billing explains the adoption of these services, but there a tremendous number
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by halbritt 7y ago
Thanks for doing this. Many times in my career I've had to deal with long-standing assumptions about storage performance in cloud infrastructure without having done any testing. It's trivially easy to spin up an instance or three
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by halbritt 7y ago
I know plenty of pot smoking gays that drive pickup trucks. Not sure of they're communist, but likely they have a socialist bent.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Nah. If anything I get asked if I'm a contractor.
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by halbritt 7y ago
You can actually. Friends of mine rented one for a group camping trip a couple years back. Worked pretty well. A quick google search shows that Enterprise and Avis will both rent you one.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Not really. I'm a well-compensated white collar professional in the bay area. I drive a 23yo bigass diesel pickup that I use for offroading, towing, hauling, camping, etc. I don't get judged hard at all. Most folks thing it&#x27
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by halbritt 7y ago
I started to get an instance of diaspora going, but it was too icky and so I had to give up.
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by halbritt 7y ago
I suspect the community here is just too large for something like a mailing list. I mean, there are mailing list, but they're less generalized than I like.
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by halbritt 7y ago
I've contemplated hosting an instance of Mastodon. It doesn't quite have the features I'd like it to have.
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by halbritt 7y ago
I see your point and it's valid. Broadcast messages from people you care about are nice. So and so had a baby, or whatever else is going on in their life. It's why FB was useful for before it became a continuous stream of repost
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by halbritt 7y ago
I'll go out on a limb and say, "small".
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by halbritt 7y ago
In the bay area, I have hundreds of acquaintances that are burners, hippies, makers, etc. I've been keeping up with these folks for nearly two decades now and would like to continue to do so as they have enriched my life immeasurably.
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by halbritt 7y ago
I have a fairly large network of friends that existed before FB really had wide adoption. The platform they were on eventually died in favor of facebook. At this point, I'd like to preserve that network of friends independent of faceb
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by halbritt 7y ago
Too real.
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by halbritt 7y ago
https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
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by halbritt 7y ago
Typically data centers have compliance requirements like SSAE 16 specifies controls around physical access. Most any major retail data center would have that certification and others. One presumes that because of NordVPN's business, t
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by halbritt 7y ago
Check out BalenaCloud. It's a container orchestration service for edge devices.
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by halbritt 7y ago
No TV here, which means that if the kid wants to watch something it's part of their screen time.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Totally agreed.

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