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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
I'd take his argument more seriously if he were talking about doing something about climate change. Risk to the species from climate change in the next 100 years dwarfs the risk of an astroid in the next million. A small colony on Mar
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I'm in a similar boat except that I think I can keep the good (C# / .Net) and leave the bad (Microsoft Analysis Server). We are looking at scaled DB backend using column stores, multiple compute instances feed through message queu
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
I always thought the best system would be to tell people what their boss makes, including options and other non-salary compensation. This eliminates the problem of people comparing themselves to their nominal peers on incomplete information
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
As a person who has employed remote workers both successfully and unsuccessfully, I'd say that it is really important to have a good understanding of deliverables and time estimates. I was really pissed when one guy would blow 5-10 hou
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
As a C# dev without a real project for the iPhone, I couldn't get past how cluttered the same code looked. It would be nice to hear how the class library compared to VCL.
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
For me, I'd like a Square-enabled loyalty program.
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Square API -- what would you build if it existed?(medium.com)
1 points by joshuaellinger 13y ago|1 comments
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
I keep thinking of Ben Horowitz's article about Peacetime verse Wartime CEO ( http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/15/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo ) Larry Page took over when Google went to war with Facebook. A lot o
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
it would be a lot more interesting if they showed a couple of distributions and filtered by year.
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Interesting but the performance numbers on his new work (Badger) don't really make sense. 5mm record rollups on narrow tables in SQL Server on fast. I'd assume that PostGRES would be about equivalent.
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Maybe she's getting ready to apply to be CEO of Microsoft...
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First computer I ever wrote a program for...
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My uncle Turk has taken to building schools in Kenya ( http://nobelity.org/building-hope-2011/ ). The interesting things I have heard from that experience are that (1) raising money/awareness is incrediblely hard an
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
It seems a more powerful approach would be along defensive pooling IP across a board range of organizations and solving the discovery costs issues. Something like: 1. Have a IP company that indemnifies your company from all IP suits up to a
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
I was considering trying Elance until I read this. Not I am thinking I cannot afford it because of the demand it would place on my time to manage and because I can't trust that a 5 star rating correlates with quality. Sheesh... I would
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Eyeballs = money? Where have I heard that before?
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Ah... that is a really good point. It is so easy to get blinded by being in the US. Thank you for the clarification. However, at those salaries, I could hire you and 2 of your friends, pay for the tools, and still come out at $100K. I&#x27
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
I was in the bay area recently and got stuck on 101 driving from Google to GoodData in downtown SF.... It made me think that the place to start is the car pool lanes on 101. Just close them off to humans. Instead, make them available to dr
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
There seems to be a lot of attention on cost of the tools and almost nothing on developer productivity. Assume I have to buy the expensive $10K Visual Studio license then pay $3K/year after that. Put developer cost at $100K per year.
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
I had missed this in my numerics class many years ago. Could have saved me a lot of pain.
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
You are making me love my little enterprise startup. 10 years, no funding -> $750K/year. Of course, that one company is AT&T. We help send about 1/3% of all direct mail advertising in the U.S. (Sorry about that -- we are
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
What a nice bunch of kids... I hope they find a business model someday. All snark aside -- If I were a NYC Ruby guy, my main reservation is that it feels like a road to nowhere. If you want me to join a cult, give me something more than &
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TechStars Austin Demo Day(venturebeat.com)
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Silver Car rocks. They have had a low key presence in Austin, TX for a while now. The story understates how good the experience is. They know they are selling a premium experience and they deliver.
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Consumer awareness on many health issues is not an incentive problem. Do you really think that someone wrecks their body with a poor diet over 20 years is going to change behavior based on how much they pay for health care? I really wish
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
The mighty Curt Monash reads HackerNews? Who knew? Howdy. I like how you hold no punches on your blog but normally you are good about backing them up with data. I hope to meet you some day. The precise quote from my client that uses Tera
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Some HP Vertica and some Actian Vectorwise. Vertica scales to multiple nodes better and HP is a much more accepted vendor. I've got friends who are doing a lot of Redshift (which is repackaged ParAccel). Start with Redshift if you a
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
You should read PG's column about doing things that don't scale. Yeah, this will never be practical. But most of the building blocks that go into it are thinks you would need to automate farming. And it is interesting that someo
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
In order to be motivated enough to kill other people, you have to get your head into a pretty weird place. Religion is one path there. The religion that happens to dominate countries full of desperate people is... Islam. I think Christian
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Replace the word "Islamic" with "Poor and Black/Brown" and you've selected the same group of people. Imagine being in Northern Ireland 20 years ago and stating the fact that all of the terrorist attackers were

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