joshuaellinger

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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
And sometimes the good guys win! I expect that the fallout from this will also be that the current board of ISOC gets replaced. But maybe that's too much to hope for.
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
Yesterday, I didn't know what Snaps were. I'm returning to Linux from years in Microsoft land. Used to use Solaris back in the 90s. I'm running big servers in a coloc environment (not desktop) but I want nice things like,
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by joshuaellinger 6y ago
Very timely. Just tried to install 20.04 on LVM. It gets in to a completely broken state if you misconfigure the network due to an error in an exception handler in an Python error handling view in the UI. Doesn't exactly inspire conf
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
I just setup my own Jitsi server at Digital Ocean. It was easy and it works well. My only tip is that you really have to get the DNS name right. There is no easy way to change it post install. I had a typo on the first pass. Next step is
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
I really hate it when people use he said/she said type arguments to pretend that they are being objective and 'rigorous'. There is a reason that the courts have something called 'burden of proof'. When an individual
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
LEGAL LLCs are usually pretty simple. Usually, he has to get your agreement to do anything that dilutes you. Profits flow through as income to you. It is a bit annoying on the majority owner because (a) it is hard to raise capital and (b
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
Prior to the cloud, I ran at a coloc facility for 15 years. I break stuff much more often than having it actually fail. So... make yourself robust against human error first and you'll probably cover the hardware side as a side-effect
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
Gee... if only there was a service where you could spin up machines on demand. (joke) I kinda worked backwards from the cost. I ran the business for a year on Azure but each 'sample' of the resample took about 2 mins so it preclu
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
In Austin, DataFoundry is by far the best. It was overkill for me and went with something off the beaten path but they have an amazing facility. I wound up at a facility run by a fiber vendor because they'd sell me a fixed 250mbps pip
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
I just spent $50K on coloc hardware. I'm taking a $10K/mo Azure spend down to a $1K/mo hosting cost. But the real kicker is that I get x5 the cores, x20 RAM, x10 storage, and a couple of GPUs. I'm running last-generati
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
I recently played Gorogoa, first game that reminded me of Myst in ages. Although it was much easier than I remember Myst being, it has that artistic flair that I loved about Myst. http://gorogoa.com/
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
The headline doesn't match the article. The article ends with "And so economists dusted off Keynes. Countries that enthusiastically followed his advice and used public funds to stimulate demand came out of the recession much bette
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
Except for the MMT people. They mostly got it right but they don't count as 'real' economists to the WSJ.
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
Their site supports public comments and, for all the noise, I see all of three comments up there right now. Go comment.
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
Your legal options are really based on what your employment contract says and (to a lesser extent) what state you live in. If you signed an IP agreement, then they almost certainly have ownership. If you didn't, then they are in a we
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
I like this quote from a colleague. Talk from personal experience and just state what you did or saw done. Add a value judgement on the past -- like " It was very stable." -- if you want. The suggestion to use X here is builti
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
Austin Taxi Co-op is owned by the drivers. They have a decent app and are (slowly) working their way up to competing with Uber/Lyft. They've got the booking side down well enough but haven't tackled payment. It will be inte
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
upvote for learning stats. very valuable.
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
I'm curious how it works technically. I thought Apple did not allow Apps access to the phone functionality.
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
Microsoft overreached by giving away IE to killing Mozilla. That's what really caused the consent decree to get issued. I find it hard to believe that you would have gotten Amazon/Google/Facebook if Microsoft had a strangle
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
1. Spend some real time and energy learning how to debug: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/849 2. Learn how to decompose big problems into a set of little problems. I'm not sure where (if) they teach this i
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
BTW -- The author (Cathy O'Neil) is awesome. This particular problem has always existed in insurance. The best way to make a profit is to not insure sick people. I was hoping the cautionary tale was that it didn't work for the in
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by joshuaellinger 7y ago
Technically, it is very interesting -- it uses Roaring Bitmaps under the hood and builds a query engine on it. So an easy way to think about it is that it maps categorical data into a giant compressible distributed bitmap. I've been p
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by joshuaellinger 8y ago
If you actually want to understand why Tom Bombadil is in the story, read Christopher Tolkien series on the creation of the Lord of the Rings. It was originally envisioned as a sequel to the Hobbit with a slightly more grown up audience. W
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by joshuaellinger 8y ago
He missed a couple of points on the Austin side of things. 1. Uber/Lyft went to the state to get the regulations overturned in a bit of venue shopping. They don't have to do fingerprinting. Happens a lot around here. 2. He faile
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by joshuaellinger 8y ago
A friend of mine had a similar issue. Drug-related. No big company would hire him. Hell, my contract with a large company said I couldn't hire him even if I wanted to. Oddly enough, the way he got around it was to start his own cons
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by joshuaellinger 8y ago
Yes, I had a kid.
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by joshuaellinger 9y ago
Check out ATX-Coop. http://www.atxcooptaxi.net/ Owned by the drivers. Has about 1/2 the traditional taxi drivers in Austin after launching which Uber/Lyft left. They were trying to get an app built but without t
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by joshuaellinger 9y ago
Industry standard is 4 years vesting with a 1 year cliff. You are vesting, right? You should own 8.25% at a year and then 0.6875% for each month after that. Sometimes there are differences because different founders contributed different a
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by joshuaellinger 10y ago
No tech but Frankie was awesome. I was lucky enough to take some classes from him in the late 90s.

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