jwatte

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by jwatte 13y ago
Just like a founder is often not the best runtime CEO, a founder is often not the best programmer. "A few months" is short of the required experience for a senior software engineer by an order of magnitude. Engineers without exper
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by jwatte 13y ago
But the corporation allegedly removed the GPL license and put /only/ their own license on it. How is this not a Federal copyright offense?
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by jwatte 13y ago
Except the startup worker has a 1:20 chance of any pay-off, and much less chance of a meaningful event that compares to "the rest of your life."
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by jwatte 13y ago
That article has terrible fact checking. Braid being the first indie success? How about "Doom"? Games having questionable moral and artistic value? Would you ask the same thing about a TV show? The article at the same time got out
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by jwatte 13y ago
Why does the Linux kernel let the disk sit idle before the fsync? Why does fsync cause such a storm, if the kernel could write as it goes? Also, why does PostgreSQL do buffered writes instead of unbuffered? Seems like two wrongs make a wron
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by jwatte 13y ago
I think a combination between 2/ and 4/. Specifically, building a successful business is really hard . Looking at something that doesn't work, and pulling the plug, so that scarce resources can be better focused on other t
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by jwatte 13y ago
As the executive sponsor for this effort, I'd like to point out that we considered a wide variety of options. Java (and other JVM languages) as well as node.js, ruby, python, C++, and others. We also already had in-house Erlang experie
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by jwatte 13y ago
We used that for a long time, but it stopped scaling at some point. We ended up building IMVU istatd, the highest performance real time counter database we know of. Github.com:imvu-open/istatd Could be a back end for statd, or an alter
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by jwatte 13y ago
I've always seen this as "30,000 deaths and 120,000 permanent disabilities is the price we pay for allowing the sale of cars that can go faster than 25 mph."
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by jwatte 13y ago
Small correction: I believe it was a JA-37, not JAS.
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by jwatte 13y ago
We've developed and run a rather large erlang cluster (> 100k simultaneous users) for several years. It's pretty clear that OTP is not ready for that scale -- most of our big bugs have been in the libraries and OTP, not in our
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by jwatte 13y ago
At IMVU, we matrix "technical leadership" separate from "coaching and HR" separate from "product definition and projects." It lets different people focus on what they're best at.
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by jwatte 13y ago
Get an Arduino and a Bluetooth shield. <$100, let's you prototype away. Not the tiniest platform around, but still fits in a roomy pocket.
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by jwatte 13y ago
I've owned a leaf for 30 months now, driven almost 30,000 miles, and still like it. Also, it seems every second car in the HOV lane in the SF bay area it's a Leaf...
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by jwatte 13y ago
I'm in exactly the same boat. I'm >14000 wire feet from the xo, so dsl barely works, either. Net neutrality is needed as long as consumers don't have real, competitive choices.
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by jwatte 13y ago
But let's say you win the lottery, and a troll buys the cheap remains of the failed company. Now the troll can go after you.
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by jwatte 13y ago
Employees are supposed to give two weeks of notice before leaving, and employers have traditionally (?) Given two weeks severance. If that severance is now conditional, what is the converse that employees change? Btw: whenever there is a li
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by jwatte 13y ago
There are two scarce resources: human lifetime, and mineral resources. Money lets you assign the disposition of some of those.
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by jwatte 13y ago
I think you mean decades, not centuries of digitization.
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by jwatte 13y ago
Oooh! Shiny!
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by jwatte 13y ago
Looks great! I wish I could use it on my phone, which is an android (galaxy note ii.)
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by jwatte 13y ago
At end of day: svn revert -r
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by jwatte 13y ago
Thousands of families already have a Nielsen box on their tv. How is this that different? Add Kinect facial recognition if you don't want to code the data manually.
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by jwatte 13y ago
I remember actually understanding sendmail.cf syntax. Those were the days! The problem is not the daemons; those are easy. The problem is spam on the inbound and deliverability on the outbound. And I do /not/ want to fight that fi
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by jwatte 13y ago
From what I can tell, it's also the most popular car in bay area commuter lanes! (Really, you can't find an open charger these days, it's getting ridiculous.)
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by jwatte 13y ago
You didn't look at istatd? It does 150000 counters at three different retention intervals every ten seconds, with average, total, standard deviation, mom and max for all metrics. We looked at other options (including open tsdb and grap
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by jwatte 13y ago
Server side graphs didn't work out for all our monitoring use, so we don't use graphite. You should make a version that works with istatd :-) https://github.com/imvu-open/istatd
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by jwatte 13y ago
There's cost, and there's availability. You will literally have a very hard time finding offices-based real estate in the silicon valley for any reasonable size organization. Landlords don't build it. Let's say offices t
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by jwatte 13y ago
Intel tried exactly that with Larrabee. Didn't work out.
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by jwatte 13y ago
Isn't it the case that, for GPUs, the two biggest limitations are process improvement, and driver development? One I have a GPU shader core, I can copy and paste until I run out of power transistors, interconnects, and bus bandwidth. B

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