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by hodgesrm 5y ago
It depends on your definition of the problem. The problem I would like to solve is ensuring that everyone perceives the market as fair, i.e., not tilted toward parties with access to privileged information.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
This sounds pretty believable.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
We have a really simple way to deal with this. When competitors sign up for our platform, we send them email asking them if they see an opportunity to partner and if so to join us for a call. It's a nice way to start an open-ended conv
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Perhaps your experience is different from mine but JSON string columns are very common in ClickHouse. A common schema idiom is to put the JSON in a string and then selectively materialize commonly queried properties into regular table colum
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> But in making the plea, Ukraine exposed a problem with the West. In the 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union — nearly my entire lifetime — liberalism has come to be taken for granted, the will to defend it withered. Three decade
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Specialized collections are not necessarily bad. ClickHouse has dozens of hash table implementations, each tuned to a specific use case. It's what you do when you need something to go very fast.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Conversely there are lot of things that are expensive and work very badly. "Designer anything" as for example, designer light fixtures. I've had terrible experiences with these.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Managed Kubernetes has really changed the economics of deployment. Kubernetes administration sucks about as much as vSphere or Open Stack. Which is to say: a lot. You can debate the details but you are talking highly trained people and pote
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
That's an excellent tip. I was not aware of that though some of our storage guys probably have. Thank you!!
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
We use Kubernetes for our cloud database platform, which we are extending to new environments. It's been quite successful. We were able to port from AWS to GCP in a matter of weeks. We don't try to share tenants within a single Ku
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> Except that state on kubernetes seems really hard to do well, and data is inherently state. This is changing. For databases the usual approach is to write an operator. Most databases these days typically have one (or more).
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Even databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL do scale out for HA reasons--they have multiple replicas. It's easy to set this up on in Kubernetes, especially for databases that have operators.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
I tripped over this early in the article and had to rush back to write a comment. > Interestingly, Linux was the platform upon which we built everything a decade or more ago. Linux is still ubiquitous, and part of our stack, but few deve
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
There's a great quote about being a parent that's often attributed to Mark Twain: > When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Why do you want to know? This is a serious question. I'm asking because I find the hobby-level interest in nuclear war kind of offensive. It trivializes a profound threat to humanity.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
You need to cite authoritative sources on that. Mental health is a significant contributor but not necessarily a root cause. Most studies I have seen show that housing costs are the determinative factor. [1] Treating people is the right thi
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
You are incorrect. We don't provide mentally ill people with even basic treatment, most particularly in cases where they are too sick to recognize the need themselves. Instead, we walk around people on the sidewalk as they suffer psych
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Altinity.Cloud is also not Russian software. We're a US company, all our services run out of US/EU locations, and our team is distributed across multiple nations, also including Ukraine. Like ClickHouse.com major investors are US-
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> That would be effectivly the same as launching nuclear missiles? Mutual destruction economically. No. Nuclear war potentially would kill many millions of people. Let's keep matters in perspective.
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3,800 Miles Across America on a Tandem Bike in Our 60s. Here’s What We Learned(wsj.com)
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
We are not confident that it will be possible to get money out of Ukrainian banks. (Due to attacks physical and virtual on infrastructure.) Edited: added sentence
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
I would have agreed with you 48 hours ago. Not so sure today.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Ideas: (1) Help them locate countries that they can travel to. (2) Arrange local accommodations in hotels/apartments so they have a place to stay when they arrive. (3) If you have not done so already, get a Brex virtual credit card in
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Please post notes if your company has solutions. Ukrainian citizens can travel to Schengen region countries in the EU without a visa for up to 90 days. [1] Regulations related to COVID are still evolving. This complicates travel for unvacci
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Ask HN: How are you helping employees affected by the war in Ukraine?
67 points by hodgesrm 5y ago|36 comments
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Did this site get the HN hug of death? It does not respond for me.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Testable hypothesis: People who don't like Kubernetes also didn't like VMware back in the day. It has the same massive complexity underneath, indeed even more than K8s in my opinion. It requires high level of training to operate.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> If you're paying through the nose for managed k8s, this is true. If not, you'll eventually need to login to a node and diagnose some issue, which means installing things on the node. Managed Kubernetes on Amazon (EKS) is quit
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Same offer as Troy. Contact me for more info. Our deal size was similar and we were also essentially bootstrapped. My email is in About. p.s., Yay Papertrail. We know you guys from ClickHouse. Great to get the backstory on the outcome. ;)
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> Deal structure can be worth ~20%+ of purchase price so don’t be myopic on focusing on price only. This. Asset sale vs. merger is a great example. If you do an asset sale you'll need to wind down the company, pay corporate taxes, p

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