josh2600

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by josh2600 13y ago
But you hardly provide tissue samples as you age. Your point has little to do with my argument :/. Registration at birth is a choice we made because of the social values of planning. It's unlikely that those same people, as adults
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by josh2600 13y ago
Hey I've got an idea! Why don't we all register with the government at birth and provide tissue samples each year to verify our identity. Better yet, let's all wear ankle tracking devices or even better still just embed them
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Lessons from Amazon(citizentekk.com)
4 points by josh2600 13y ago|0 comments
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by josh2600 13y ago
*Edit: nevermind.
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by josh2600 13y ago
Uhh try going to a VC to raise money with the Jeff Bezos story today: "We're going to lose money for five years and then operate at absurdly low margins for eternity". Look, Amazon may win in the long run, but asking why more companies aren
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by josh2600 13y ago
I want freedompop to succeed, but I have trouble seeing their vision in a world without lightsquared. A lot of us in the Telecom industry had high hopes for low-orbit satellite but it wasn't meant to be. Even though Freedompop has had to go
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by josh2600 13y ago
Merrill is buying top of the line Cisco gear. Google is making its own switches and routers because of costs. Cisco is expensive because the median time to failure is so high. Google and Amazon own their datacenters, but they're playing the
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by josh2600 13y ago
I don't see it. Sure Apple could do it, but usurping all of the companies that are filling its pockets right now with media payments would not necessarily be the best course of action. I don't know how a company like Apple could do this and
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by josh2600 13y ago
Perhaps it was facetious to say that IBM can't build clouds. A more realistic viewpoint is that they don't have significant expertise building large commodity infrastructures. There are definitely places where IBM plays well, but commodity
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Are you still going to use SoftLayer after the acquisition?
5 points by josh2600 13y ago|1 comments
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by josh2600 13y ago
IBM can't build a cloud of their own or they wouldn't have needed to buy SoftLayer. Since they don't have this expertise, they pay a ton of money for a company that their perceive as knowing "the cloud". This is doubly ironic because its IB
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by josh2600 13y ago
If you take a worldview of the last five minutes, this is true, but if you look at silicon valley over time, it is demonstrable that many companies in the Bay Area have built holistic and scalable enterprises. Look no further than box.com f
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by josh2600 13y ago
IBM is buying SoftLayer to try to go head up with AWS. It's not going to work. Personally I won't buy an IBM product because I know it's just like Oracle: software entrapment. Nothing wrong with that business model it's just not one I want
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by josh2600 13y ago
Still down for me.
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Twitter is hard down.(dev.twitter.com)
9 points by josh2600 13y ago|4 comments
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by josh2600 13y ago
They'd turn into a ghetto-AWS.
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by josh2600 13y ago
Not only food, but office supplies. Very true. But it's important that the Variation is indicative. Like if you get baller snacks for a year and lame snacks start coming in, that's a very bad sign. But if you've always had lame snacks that'
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by josh2600 13y ago
That was so classy. I remember when that happened and then I remembered that RIMM just changed to BBRY... Research in Motion to Blackberry... HMMMMM. I'm just saying.
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by josh2600 13y ago
You know what the problem here is? There is no material difference between a 10 person game studio and a 3000 person game studio. Zynga likes to pretend that their Z-Cloud gives them an advantage over their competitors. Maybe it does in ter
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Thank You HN: Lessons from 3 years of Bootstrapping
6 points by josh2600 13y ago|0 comments
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How Squirrels Break Datacenters and other Database Conjectures(blog.2600hz.com)
3 points by josh2600 13y ago|0 comments
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by josh2600 13y ago
To be honest, I spend more time on HackerNews than I do on Facebook. I feel like I go to Facebook to see what people from Highschool and College are doing and to keep tabs on my local area, but if I want intellectual stimulation, it's too m
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by josh2600 13y ago
Thanks! I'll see what I can do :).
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by josh2600 13y ago
Lying is a bit of a strong word. I think calling anything a single 9 service should be taken in jest. It's pretty hard to be down almost 40 days and still be in business. Also, technically something with 98.9999% uptime would still be a sin
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Thank you HN: 3 years of bootstrapping
43 points by josh2600 13y ago|7 comments
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by josh2600 13y ago
Hey, are you seriously defending 3 9's of uptime? That's abysmal. Github, if they're honest about their 12 month uptime levels would be lucky to be a single 9 service. Their uptime is Terrible with a capital T. But you know what? Until ther
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by josh2600 13y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't this mean Reddit has to register as a money transmitter (I.E. what Mt. Gox didn't do)?
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by josh2600 13y ago
Jesus, Gartner as a deity. That brings back some memories. It never ceases to amaze me how much money folks are willing to pay analysts. A Gartner seat is over $50k now per annum (assuming non-volume pricing) and the number of organizations
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by josh2600 13y ago
Both pieces feel hackish to me. In the valley, the monoculture here suggests that this man in the QA environment did not do enough to succeed. In other cultures, it might be said that he wasn't given an opportunity to succeed. I suspect the
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by josh2600 13y ago
Joe Sullivan, Director of Security at Facebook said publicly during the SF New Tech Security event this Wednesday that Facebook purchased the Java 0Day run in their training exercise[1]. I guarantee that 0Day was more than $5000. [1] http:/

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