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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Even if all of that is true, I'd be surprised if Musk manages to make a positive return on his investment. +1. It's hard to see how the ROI works out here. The price was 50% overvalued if not more, and Twitter has had severe
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
As the previous commenter has already said, the author has been paid already in the first case. That's a material difference.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I submit my own materials regularly without disclosing. It's awkward to post after to submitting. Articles are either interesting or they are not. Readers on HN are pretty discerning and can make up their own minds. Your article is a n
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Sometimes 'contact us' for pricing is just a way to get potential customers to talk. My company has standard pricing for all offerings (including cloud operation and support services) but we have said 'Contact Us' for ye
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Perhaps a better analogy is that the CEO is captain of the ship. You get credit for things going well but if things go wrong you are responsible. It does not matter who screwed up. There's a wide range of ways to implement that model r
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Inspecting the source code is a condition of all deals I've been involved with. Most sensible people want to see what they buying, unless they are under pressure to close fast due to competition. It's a lot like buying a house.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Does anybody else have thoughts to share about this? Yes, a couple. 1. Put your software into a foundation before you take VC money. This will force you to adopt a business model that does not depend on establishing what amounts to a
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Please, God, I hope our customers don't see this. (I'm not upvoting it for that reason.) We support data warehouses and not trying things out in staging is root cause for many P0 cases. Especially on the weekend because a lot of c
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Some of what appear would have happened anyway. Social media also normalizes behavior (and weird beliefs) to the extent that they become destructive to the rest of society. QAnon is an example.
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Not flawlessly but they have worked. Rule of law has enabled major advances in the economic well-being of millions of people by ensuring protection of property and supporting operation of markets.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
The scenes from this article exceed any dystopian novel I've ever read. Humans have spent centuries building up social structures to eliminate our worst excesses. Social media is tearing those structures down again.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Socrates benefited from very good press from Plato (primarily) and others like Xenophon. His opponents were not so fortunate in this regard.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> You do not trust a consumer app with life and death decisions, ... What about an app that tells you how to pump gas while smoking a cigarette? That seems like pretty obvious negligent design. In California at least that opens you up to
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
MySQL, ClickHouse, and Kafka are all proven technologies. You can run them yourself or choose any of a number of excellent cloud services to run them for you. It's not that hard to combine them and let each part serve the purpose for w
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
It's worth noting that ClickHouse and MySQL work quite well together. Clickhouse has a similar SQL dialect and can read data directly from MySQL. (Awesome feature BTW; in some cases queries even run faster that way.) It's straight
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Sure, you can stitch together specialized stores to make your own accidental distributed database for your app, but the simpler, more straight-forward and lower-latency alternative available. Organizations like Facebook, Amazon, Netfli
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
IBM made the PC but others monetized it, most notably Microsoft followed by Compaq and Dell. [0] The PC architecture was not proprietary, and IBM didn't control the operating system. By contrast IBM made boatloads of money off mainfram
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
It happens. Data center computing is profitable, and Intel mastered the sales motion long ago. IBM never really got off mainframes for similar reasons. It's a variation of the Innovator's Dilemma.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
The big problem is filling the plane, not finding a suitable runway. That problem turned out not to be solvable.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
It's not just corruption. There are a bunch of people in Russia who are very unhappy about the current situation. Also, a lot of people just blab into their mobile phones.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I came here expecting to see something about the A380. Completely wrong but not disappointed! The Stipa Caproni is definitely in a class of its own! p.s., A380s are nice inside but the outside hardly makes the heart sing. They remind me of
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Well a few people realized what had happened. I was stationed on Ramstein AFB during Able Archer and saw the exercise while it was running. None of us had a clue that the Soviets had reacted as they did. I found out what happened about 20 y
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Yes. Our offering is quite differentiated--different pricing model, ability to run in user VPCs and private cloud, baked-in enterprise DBA support, and Altinity Stable builds with long-tail support are just a few examples. This is a large m
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
By that definition Amazon RDS is an off-brand MySQL (and PostgreSQL too). We're perfectly happy to be in their company.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
If you can run MySQL you can run ClickHouse. They are both about the same level of effort operationally. Your case sounds pretty simple and can be addressed with one or more single node systems. As far as whether it works on a single core,
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Use Named Collections to protect credentials. They are very handy. Here's an article that discusses use in the JDBC Bridge. https://altinity.com/blog/connecting-clickhouse-to-external-... Disclaime: I work for Al
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> I’m a little sad to see them embrace magic “insert unit” pricing, instead of taking the approach Altinity uses where you are renting an instance size that you can compare apples-to-apples with running your own cluster on ec2. Thanks fo
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Good point. If you just want to copy data far and away the easiest way to transfer data is using MySQLDatabaseEngine. You can even copy table definitions. Watch for issues with Decimal datatypes if you do this.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Check out the Altinity Sink Connector for ClickHouse [0]. This is advancing quite quickly and already has prod deployments. Please feel free to try it out. [0] https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-sink-connector
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Hi! Thank you for mentioning my company Altinity. We love ClickHouse and have been supporting customers on it for years. That said I would like to defend ClickHouse and their use of the logo. They acquired the IP and it's their right t

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