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by jasondc 12y ago
I agree, I've lived in DC my whole life and always told myself the startup scene was great there. Then I moved to NYC, and now Palo Alto. The startup scene in DC is horrible compared to similar sized cities (by contrast Portland has
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The House Always Wins(teslamotors.com)
135 points by jasondc 12y ago|54 comments
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by jasondc 12y ago
I think the problem AWS is seeing is how they are being commoditized (e.g. you can just run your database on the cheapest hosting provider), so profits will move towards 0. They will need to add more services like this (Aurora, DynamoDB, e
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by jasondc 12y ago
Link to actual S-1 document: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1448056/0001193125144...
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by jasondc 12y ago
This survey (which seems more thorough) has MySQL ahead of Postgres: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking Ranking methodology: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition Google trends also shows MySQ
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Nexus 6 Price Unveiled at $649(play.google.com)
1 points by jasondc 12y ago|0 comments
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by jasondc 12y ago
Despite the sentiment on HN, it's more popular than ever, and may become the 4th most popular database in the world soon: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking
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by jasondc 12y ago
The r.http command in RethinkDB is interesting, is there another database that has anything similar? I can't think of one.
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by jasondc 12y ago
What happened with unvested/vested shares in your situation?
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First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist(qz.com)
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by jasondc 12y ago
I found some shoes to buy from your site, great job! This also works for interior design, most people just want to find out where to buy the items they are looking at. Houzz is starting to do this, but on a limited basis.
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by jasondc 12y ago
For pricey real estate and offices, I think it comes back to the restrictive zoning policies in SV and SF. Ideally, developers would build very dense buildings next to public transportation, but this is more a dream than the reality here.
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Why I am leaving the best job I ever had(maxschireson.com)
257 points by jasondc 12y ago|53 comments
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by jasondc 12y ago
I'm assuming this acquisition (if it does occur) would be paid for mostly in Square stock. $100 million cash vs $100 million in Square stock have two different values, depending on how you feel about Square's current valuation an
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by jasondc 12y ago
In my experience building two very large CMS systems, it's been a perfect use case. Specifically, when you look at the variety of fields for a given article (say one article has a chart, another has an executive profile, etc).
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by jasondc 12y ago
Experimental MongoDB integration with (Facebook's) RocksDB storage engine: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/1c9a75094b829795c2b9...
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by jasondc 12y ago
The author fails to mention Uber is creating a new market, and shouldn't be valued at the size of the existing market it is disrupting. Aaron Levie had a good tweet about this: "Sizing the market for a disruptor based on an incumb
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by jasondc 12y ago
First "fully printed" rockets
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Gilt Founder Ryan: 'No Chance' of Tech Bubble(foxbusiness.com)
1 points by jasondc 12y ago|1 comments
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Aerial photos of Apple Campus 2 (update # 3)(appletoolbox.com)
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Obama cancels Y Combinator visit because of "security considerations"(blog.sfgate.com)
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by jasondc 13y ago
I wonder if the compression technology is as good as Pied Piper's.
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by jasondc 13y ago
An IPO is a fundraising event, companies usually go public to raise money (very few are profitable at IPO). If they are already profitable, what is the main benefit of going public, increased scrutiny, lawsuits, and quarterly expectations?
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by jasondc 13y ago
Interesting, could you describe how the errors occurred?
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by jasondc 13y ago
Sure, this post helps describe the design: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/17637/Bitemporal-Databas...
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by jasondc 13y ago
I've worked on a few large scale financial databases and none of the ones I've worked on use transactions (using Oracle). Most of them are insert only with bi-temporal data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitem
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How young tech millionaires invest(money.cnn.com)
7 points by jasondc 13y ago|0 comments
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by jasondc 13y ago
10% of these companies are from Y Combinator: Stripe, Airbnb, and Dropbox (out of 30 total)
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Open Source Is Way Whiter And Maler Than Proprietary Software(readwrite.com)
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The $11 million in bitcoins the Winklevoss brothers bought now worth $32 million(washingtonpost.com)
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