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by kelp 6y ago
I recently worked at a single digit billion dollar valuation SaaS provider and we had to run everything on AWS, GCP and Azure, to be where the customers were. Total cloud spend was in 2 digit millions per year. Many hundreds of k8s clusters
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by kelp 6y ago
I'm sorry you've had this experience on the corporate side. I see in one of your other comments that you work for yourself now, so this unsolicited advice probably doesn't apply to you. But I'll leave it here anyway. I&#
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by kelp 6y ago
> Sharing knowledge in the business world, never. That's a great way to lose a job. If you're working at a functional organization that rewards growth, never sharing knowledge will ensure you put quite a low ceiling on your adv
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by kelp 6y ago
Yeah, and it's particularly hard when you're still ultimately responsible for the result, but others are doing the work. That certainly brings some amount of stress. But also the money gets bigger and bigger.
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by kelp 6y ago
I think this is the better advice here, and fits with some comments I left elsewhere in this thread about people I know working at MSFT and putting in only a handful of hours a week and still getting raises and promotions. It's easy to
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by kelp 6y ago
This is totally 2nd hand anecdote, but I've heard stories from several people who worked at MSFT (all 10 plus years ago, so maybe it's changed) who put in a handful of hours of work per week. Still got promoted. Spent most of thei
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by kelp 6y ago
I've only worked at tech companies, and mostly the kind that you want to work at. But basically every company I've worked at has some clause in the employment contract about outside activities. And typically having another full ti
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by kelp 6y ago
This reminds me of advice I got from the VP of Eng at my first real full time tech job. This was back around late 1999 / early 2000. Peak of the dot com era. He told me what most people think of as job security is totally wrong. If you
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by kelp 6y ago
You are not the only person. I would be super happy if we just stopped this thing once and for all. It was kind of funny 20 years ago. It's not anymore.
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by kelp 6y ago
I have some understanding of your view. However, it often makes me think of living in a museum. Wanting to make the whole city like a museum. But museums are full of dead things.
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by kelp 6y ago
Sprawl is probably worse for the environment overall. More driving, more land taken over. More density also reduces that.
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by kelp 6y ago
For me the cloud is a selling point. Though one that I'm now reconsidering after all this news. I have been a Ubiquiti customer and proponent for a few reasons: 1. I have two houses, and the cloud feature lets me easily connect to and
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by kelp 6y ago
At least for San Francisco, the seeds of the current shortage started as early as 1912 with the establishment of the planning commission. See this amazing twitter thread with images of historical news paper clippings. https://twi
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by kelp 6y ago
Not a YC company, but Square was also founded on Ruby. There was a pretty large monolithic Rails app that AFIK, may still exist. Though we hired a bunch of people from Google, who brought Java, and we went hard towards SOA. Around 2013 ther
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by kelp 6y ago
I was on the boat in 2010. I got off it early when I decided the whole thing was a speculative bubble. I don't really have a lot of regrets about that though. I have more regrets about selling other things too early, like stock positio
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by kelp 6y ago
Yes, and that doesn't really address the issue of proof of work blockchains wasting energy. With BTC specifically, the incentives are there to waste as much energy as possible as the difficulty and price goes up. Yes, you try to do mor
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by kelp 6y ago
You regulate exchanges like Coinbase and Gemini, so there are no legitimate ways to trade your proof of work cryptocurrency for USD (or your local gov backed currency). Then the demand for the crypto currency plummets. In 2010-2011, I trade
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by kelp 6y ago
Yeah, when it comes to policy, I think you're right. I'd prefer a tax on the externalities than an outright ban.
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by kelp 6y ago
Yeah, you're right on the definition.
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by kelp 6y ago
A lot of datacenters provide substantial utility to others. Like the customers of the services that are hosted in those datacenters. BTC mining makes the miners more wealthy. In service of the BTC network, which has what utility? There are
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by kelp 6y ago
Proof of work blockchains should be banned by various governments for this reason alone. At this point BTC is a speculative bubble that benefits a very small group to the detriment of the rest of us. I also have a lot of personal frustratio
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by kelp 6y ago
This is what floored me when he wrote that essay. For years, a16z has been poring millions into pointless crypto related companies. And they just keep doing it. Yet Andreessen has the audacity to tell us all to build while he chases the dec
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by kelp 6y ago
I’d imagine the pro would have a better screen. Intended for professional creative work.
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Fry’s Electronics going out of business(arstechnica.com)
26 points by kelp 6y ago|11 comments
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by kelp 6y ago
Your 3rd point also jumped out at me as I read the post. Seemed like a classic case of someone arguing that a coming disruptor was too low end to be a competitive threat.
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by kelp 6y ago
In California they are legally required to tell you the range if you ask.
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by kelp 6y ago
A few things about this. Looking at your second link, I like Joe Fitz as a person, and I know he means well. He is a bit of a "progressive" partisan in SF politics. The "Progressive" camp (I use quotes because their poli
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by kelp 6y ago
The most compelling argument I’ve heard in favor of continuing prop 13, from a good policy perspective is that it lets people stay in their homes. But couldn’t we achieve the same thing by means testing property taxes? As it is now, the tax
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by kelp 6y ago
For better or for worse (I think to some degree, worse) I've found Slack has eliminated about 90% of my email use at work. My work email is almost all automated emails, communications with people external to the company, and a small pe
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by kelp 6y ago
Yeah, those are pretty crazy. However, that whole product line is clearly not intended for normal consumers. It’s for video editing, where most products are insanely expensive and that $1000 monitor stand is lost in the noise of all the oth

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