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by hkarthik 13y ago
The OP worked for Google for some period starting in 2006 and then went to a funded startup called RedBeacon at some point after they were founded in 2009. RedBeacon had an exit through an acquisition by Home Depot in early 2012. So to reca
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> Generally speaking, once it was up and running, it was pretty low overhead and easy to automate. This unfortunately has not been my experience with off-the-shelf CI solutions (open source or otherwise). Of course in all instances, we w
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by hkarthik 13y ago
For us it has just become extremely fragile. We often lose executors and the Jenkins processes tend to leak memory. In general we probably restart executor machines quite often just due to the above issues alone. Also our Devops folks have
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by hkarthik 13y ago
>> Roth 401k or IRA - Post tax money. Pay tax now, and none later (you suspect your taxes will go up) This is a really good point. I pretty much expect taxes will go up for everyone at some point so it seems like it's a no-brain
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It makes a lot of sense. I'm currently working on a large Rails app and we've felt a lot of pain with an off the shelf CI System (Jenkins) and the idea of writing our own CI has been mentioned a few times. For Team City, here&#x27
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That rumor actually makes sense. I recently heard of a startup that is disrupting the valet industry by helping them get rid of their cash boxes (which apparently are prone to theft) and use mobile payments. They're lining up customers
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Right now Surface refers to a model line. I suspect they'll go a step further and create a whole brand called Surface. If they're smart, they'll consider spinning it out of Microsoft completely (while still holding a majority
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My guess is they will create a whole new brand for their mobile devices and shed the Microsoft name completely for anything but their software businesses.
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> In 2006, at the height of the real estate boom, some of our 600+ real estate advertisers were closing 6-8 transactions per month that could be directly attributed to LakePlace.com leads. If you multiply that number out, the top agents
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I remember using IE when they started bundling it with Windows and it was a FAR better experience with instant loading instead of waiting Netscape to load. Everyone likes to blame the bundling of IE as causing Netscape to fail, but in reali
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Cloud, Mobile, Social, Dead: Will Tech Startups Survive the Next Recession?(minyanville.com)
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Sounds like one of the reasons I was instructed to use Firehol by my system admin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireHOL
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Yup. $100/sqft is what you pay in the weaker school districts and for older homes. In the newer homes with better schools, it's closer to $120-130/sqft. Houses sell really quick too. If the current trend continues for anothe
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If you were to look at how much money these products make, it's a pittance. Most of the money is made on Windows Server licenses and many of these things get thrown in.
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I hope they find the right leader to take over, and avoid a fate similar to what happened to HP over the past decade.
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Move away from the Bay Area ('back home', or elsewhere) I work remotely for an SF-based company from Dallas, and I actually observe this happening. Every month or so, we get an email about some departure from one of the Bay Area
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I feel like this is the minimum set of skills to be a founder (tech or non-tech) in any startup. Doing this for a founder doesn't really help them come up with the insights needed to iterate on their idea. Coaching them through the mec
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I agree 100% with this. It takes a lot more than style and price to sell an app. You need to understand the customer base a bit more. The best pricing and the most style may not be enough of a differentiator for many of the potential custom
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by hkarthik 13y ago
Well I wasn't surprised that there were technical reasons they could do it, but I was surprised at the number of companies that were found to be complacent in the monitoring. It ran deeper than I ever expected.
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While there is some truth to this article about the change in work culture, there is a fundamental piece which isn't being addressed that makes me think the government will be able to prevent leaks quickly. Each successive post war gen
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I've gone through periods where I'm not working on a startup. A lot of it had to do with having new babies and simply not having the energy to hold down a six figure day job and a work on something else after hours.
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In my decade long career, I've come across this situation a few times and it's always been due to a leadership gap. Somewhere in the chain, management is not doing their job. Without a solid technical lead with a management mandat
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Probably worse. They'll often go after family members (siblings, parents, extended family) and their businesses until you comply.
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This is the difference between having your own company and working for someone else's company.
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If they could find a way to drop the monthly cost of this to around $500, this could potentially make working in the Bay Area more viable for a lot of people. If you could shave $500 off your monthly rent or mortgage by living in a coastal
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by hkarthik 13y ago
The cognitive load needed to be a frontend developer is starting to explode a little bit. Pretty soon you'll need to know HTML/CSS/Visual Design, one high level JS-compiled language (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Dart), and one J
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by hkarthik 13y ago
Part of me wonders if in the future, few people will know how to do all of this stuff aside from those who work for cloud providers.
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At what price point does it make sense to go through this clearly painful process to colocate? I feel like there's a logical progression from PaaS/VPS => Managed dedicated hosting => colo facility. But I would love to know w
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Simply put, because Microsoft lost two generations of progammers; first to the web and then to mobile. These are the platforms of choice for most startups today. A programmer in his/her early 20s back in 2007 might have cut their teeth
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I have my reservations about this, because it feels like B2B SaaS is now going upmarket by reaching for the familiar Enterprise, high-touch sales process. We've all been through this, and we know where it leads. You have to bring on de

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