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by kelp 6y ago
When Apple releases a new product and it’s not understood why people would buy it, I’m always reminded of this quote from former Palm CEO Ed Colligan when the iPhone was launched: “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring o
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by kelp 6y ago
Clearly it's years of policy at the state and local level that got us here. I've read big chunks of the Environmental Impact Report for the major downsize that happened in SF in the late 70s. That EIR specifically called out that
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by kelp 6y ago
I another problem is this can also lead to not being involved in the local community. In San Francisco, the collective "tech industry" has long been demonized for various things. IMO, some fair, some not. "Google Buses"
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by kelp 6y ago
This has never been a problem for me. But when I'm running Debian I mostly run testing anyway. Also rarely a problem there. On Arch I run sudo pacman -Syu almost every day. You could run something like this to get a warning if there is
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by kelp 6y ago
I first started using Debian with 1.3 and even admined a substantial number (hundreds) of Debian systems in the early part of my career. I still find it very comfortable. Up until a few years ago I'd never even looked at Arch, when I g
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by kelp 6y ago
I'd originally posted this here: https://lobste.rs/s/surdxc/is_billion_dollar_worth_server_ly... But cross posting in case it's interesting to this audience. Over the past few years of my career, I was r
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by kelp 6y ago
I led that team for a couple of years. A couple of the strongest and most prolific engineers I’ve ever worked with. Who comes back from a 3 day weekend with a 5k line diff to review, that adds dramatic improvements to the core system? Well,
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by kelp 6y ago
And San Francisco also legally limits the square footage of office space that can be built. Prop M passed in 1986 by the voters. Thank Sue Hestor for this.
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by kelp 6y ago
This summer I bought a house in Tahoe (Carnelian Bay) and am now going through some mostly DIY renovations, with a little local contractor help here and there. We also still have a place in San Francisco, but we're spending 70-80% of o
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by kelp 6y ago
And try to build higher than 4 stories in already built up places like San Francisco. Local groups will do everything to stop you. The heart breaking thing is Bay Area environmental groups like the Sierra Club are aligned with the anti-deve
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by kelp 6y ago
If I remember correctly, I got hundreds of pages of disclosures when I bought my condo in San Francisco. Recently bought in Tahoe and less disclosures than San Francisco, but certainly quite clear about fire danger.
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by kelp 6y ago
Gnome and KDE are in the ports tree and kept very up to date. Everything there basically works. Most supported hardware just works out of the box with very little tinkering. Of course there is less hardware supported than Linux and support
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by kelp 6y ago
I still kind of miss the CD releases. I bought every release from 2.3 to somewhere in the 4.x series, and had them all in a closet until a few years ago. Unfortunately I got rid of them in a fit of cleaning. I regret it now. Since then I’ve
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by kelp 6y ago
I badly want this, but with Topre keys. I have a couple of Topre FC660Cs and absolutely love the feel, durability and quality of the keyboard. A split would be really nice though.
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by kelp 6y ago
In many cases, like say the intel WiFi drivers on Linux, the driver is written by Intel employees. The BSDs don’t have the critical mass to get this vendor support. For example, much of the intel WiFi work on OpenBSD is done by one person,
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by kelp 6y ago
This sounds about right to me. The last time I was doing that kind of work it was at slightly large scale than that, and it always modeled out cheaper to stay with our on gear, in colocation space.
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by kelp 6y ago
Yeah, this is really where they get you. For context, if you were to buy 10Gbps of dedicated internet transit, he.net is currently advertising that for $900/month. If we convert that to GB per month it's 3,240,000GB, so we can cal
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by kelp 6y ago
Yeah, this is correct. You usually buy these in minimum sizes of about 1MW.
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by kelp 6y ago
Yeah, you can see the Direct Connect locations here: https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/features/ Those mean AWS has networking gear in those locations. You order a cross connect and plug into one of their switc
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by kelp 6y ago
When they say "running a datacenter" they almost certainly mean "buying servers to put into rented colocation space". Just about anyone who has significant network connectivity has a footprint in an Equinix datacenter. I
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by kelp 6y ago
I’m what would be considered a major donor to the YIMBY effort and I’ve donated in the low 5 figures. It’s generally grass roots though I know some wealthy individuals have donated much more of the total funds. The progressive camp of SF po
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by kelp 7y ago
Total not an expert in this area or really qualified to comment. But I think if they can get the known case load low enough, and continue aggressive testing and contact tracing, they may be able to lift the lockdown. Then aggressively isola
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by kelp 7y ago
I worked at Go2Net when they acquired Dogpile. I was directly involved in migrating it’s systems to our data centers after the acquisition closed. I don’t really remember the tech stack, but it was something like 10-15 web servers, probably
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by kelp 7y ago
Look at the track record of the SF Group of the Sierra Club. They consistent try to block dense urban development in the name is environmentalism. I went to their executive committee meetings for months, and even ran a failed campaign to un
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by kelp 7y ago
Yes, and San Francisco is mostly zoned for no more than 4 stories in height. It would never be as cheap as Huston because it can't sprawl. But there is a ton of opportunity to build up. The San Francisco height / bulk map is prett
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by kelp 7y ago
This is one of the rare cases where I agree with the Trump administration. California does deserve all this criticism for years of policies that over-regulated housing, leading to a severe shortage. And the California solution continues to
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by kelp 7y ago
I started my career at the peak of dot com, and remember one of my co-workers leaving. He’d been early at Wizards of the Coast. Someone else said he was “calling in rich”.
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by kelp 7y ago
I have a radical idea that I’d like to see put into practice. Hopefully do it myself at some point. We tell a story about risk and innovation that justifies founders and early employees getting massively more value (equity) than later emplo
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by kelp 7y ago
This. The bulk of the returns and growth now happens pre-IPO. Then the price at IPO is disconnected from public market expectations. But you’re also at the top of the growth S curve so growth is decelerating.
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by kelp 7y ago
Artificiality high because HRC and similar organizations stop new housing at every turn...

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