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by hodgesrm 5y ago
We sold our company to VMware in 2014 with help from GrowthPoint Partners. Some learnings about the deal. * Find multiple firms and interview them carefully. They have to sync well with your board because you'll need a high level of tr
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Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse will require tech no one knows how to build(protocol.com)
9 points by hodgesrm 5y ago|7 comments
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> This is important for founders to understand IMO because so many of the recent Series A and Series B fund-raises have taken low $M ARR companies and given them valuations >$100M. This is also puzzling to me. Many founders are just n
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Yikes. Here in California in addition to size of the space, you really don't want to be there if the ground moves. (Which fortunately is very rare.)
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Somebody really needed to write this comment. The HN community thanks you.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Leaving aside problems with heat, it really helps to be small. One of our electricians was about 5' 2" and previously served on submarines in the US Navy. Another job where being of small stature is a benefit.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Hey! What's wrong with BMWs? We have two of them. Both diesels. The gas mileage is slightly below amazing. (Though my lawyer says you should always buy them used, never new. He's very good on life advice in general.)
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> The Tyrell Corporation building in Bladerunner too, I suppose. Thank you for pointing out the connection! What an excellent use of symbolism in a film rich with it. (And D'Oh. Why didn't I think of that?)
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
This. I would add that Google Sheets is even better. It's less feature-rich than Excel but makes up for it by being shared. It's the most powerful business management tool I've ever used.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
I believe the current rush to the cloud is a transient phenomenon and we will see a return to companies operating more of the applications themselves, especially for large data services with stable workloads. * Enterprises don't like b
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> Somewhat. Through effort I can take on a more objective perspective, but there is no platonic stranger I could pick out. Everyone has his own context and his own needs. What I try to do instead is visualize people I know who are not cl
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Seriously?? They diverted because of a reptile in an overhead bin? SOP should have been land normally, catch the little rascal, and fly it back home again.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> In a court hearing Wednesday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath ordered the annual theft numbers to be made public, siding with advocates for 220 people suing Hertz who argued that more details about Hertz’s internal anti-theft progra
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
This is an astonishing article. After reading this and following up with a few of the links it seems as if it's Hertz people who should be in jail.
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As Automakers Add Technology to Cars, Software Bugs Follow(nytimes.com)
4 points by hodgesrm 5y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Regarding Texas, this sounds kind of like the better work of Larry McMurtry. I loved 'Leaving Cheyenne.'
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Pretty tangled read. This seems to be an example of write-only code, but applied to essays. It appears the author is in favor of OOP but it's a little hard to tell.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
It's one of my favorite dance videos of all time. The bemused expression on his face as he's dancing is priceless. Not to mention a pretty decent track from Fatboy Slim. Christopher Walken worked in a number of Broadway shows so i
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
This seems like grounds for a class action lawsuit. Owners have been harmed by loss of car function and they are reasonably numerous.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Well, you could also say the same about seat belts and ABS. I very much prefer cars with cameras at this point.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
I have noticed a couple of things lately about Hacker News that go to mood. 1. There seem to be more political topics appearing, for example around handling of COVID or effects of social networks on society. The best comments on these topic
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Try ClickHouse. You can set it up on a laptop, in a VM, or get a trial on one of the cloud services. You didn't say which RDS database you are using but ClickHouse can read data directly from MySQL and PostgreSQL. Pull it into tables o
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Assuming you have sensible legal advice, non-competes related to company sale have a duration. 3 years is typical in California, which was presumably governing law for the MySQL purchase by Sun.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
You could also say it's a big market and there is room for multiple winners. Not everything is a monopoly.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Not so sure about that: https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/ . Enabling data collection from the rest of the solar system seems pretty cutting edge to me.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Are you saying AWS does not make money off the infrastructure Snowflake consumes? Snowflake consumes a lot of compute, plus there are lots of other SaaS services that integrate with it and also need compute, networking, etc. It's my un
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> AWS would be a far superior product if it trended toward being a dumb pipe. "Superior" by which measure? AWS is making money hand over fist. Companies use AWS because they think it's better than alternatives.
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> ClickHouse demonstrates this well - it is incredibly fast and powerful, but also very limited. Your examples are not entirely correct. ClickHouse introduced CTEs in early 2021. I use them constantly. ClickHouse SQL is turning into a su
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
> Snowflake is also technically going to always be far superior to Redshift, because AWS is a follower, not a leader. Redshift was the first cloud data warehouse-as-a-service in the Amazon cloud. Every data warehouse since then has built
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by hodgesrm 5y ago
Not necessarily. Let's say you want to build aggressively to $1B revenues with a $1B annual run rate. Let's further say you pretty much keep expenses and revenue directly in line, so you don't lose money but you don't ga

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