lmeyerov

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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Different things. - Hard to scale a celebrity fashion business in practice and as a story. A family friend started a successful jewelry company popular w/ Hollywood types and it's growing great, just nothing like Splunk, Notion, S
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation Product-led growth for deep tech category creation sounds like a new thing, but there's almost a century of quantitative social science on pretty much that. The book is a super easy & enjoyable
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
No, it is, how hard is it to hire 3 elixer devs at given quality and do an elastic sprint as 6.. 3 years from now. And what is the chance the dependency chain hasn't rotted. The million means you arent scrambling . Hiring in niche stuf
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Missing two of the biggest: - hireability: large community of developers to hire from today + years from now - low risk of abandonment: long history of development, stable funding, and ideally many users+contributors from diff orgs using in
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
That's true yet still feels rosy ;-) There's a lot of waiting tables, and if lucky, teaching gigs. Paid performance gigs are rarer and not that rosy either, eg, boring wedding music or sporadic & low-paid pop-ified club gigs.
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Yep I'd feel 100% differently about this stuff if the NSA or some other cybersecurity gov arm making these rules used their massive cybersecurity budgets to provide free MFA, TLS, encrypted DNS, etc., whether US gov hosted or via non-p
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
As someone who did it for 10 years... Python is fine, PHP and arguably Go are the annoying ones :) PL is like art theory & art criticism... You think more about individual aspects, and as long as something's happening, great. Ex: c
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
We are seeing a boom as cloud and data spend is going up as internal IT struggles to go without it, which in turn makes a virtuous cycle for even more. Likewise, once you start doing things like GPUs for graph neural nets and visualization,
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
"Know" vs "willing to write", esp. OSS for making someone else rich Nowadays, probably something like python then rust/go, just for community, and especially aligned on apache arrow. OSS async python / HTTP, wi
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Less "what" and more "who" The jurisdiction decides, and you play by their rules... or leave
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Yep, hetero multigpu fleet mixing high ram GPUs (40-80GB each on each A100) as multigpus w smaller (ex: ~12-16 GB T4s) nodes, w crazy interconnects locally (nvlink) and across nodes. And storage gets fun as well, like parallel SSD arrays fo
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
... Also: Congressional accounts are generally managed, often by multiple people and with automation tools. They don't post like normal people. Half of them being flagged for inauthentic behavior is arguably NOT a false positive. I dou
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Section 3.2: the 10%+ of already-deleted accounts were removed. You can often actually infer why an account was removed, but they didn't. Furthermore, it is questionable to me to know 10% were already confirmed removed and then state t
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
The math on Apple, AWS, Microsoft, and Facebook are not that easy. They are now multi-LOB of companies, with significant revenue coming in from BU's created and run by people who aren't the original founders. Ex: AWS appears to be
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
"All" is an ambitious claim. They show some papers use a bad bot detector with even worse (and unrecommended) settings. Worse, they explicitly skip bot accounts that twitter confirmed , and thus evaluate on accounts twitter didn
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
No, during the time windows of media manipulations, the accounts are controlled by the puppet master, not the account owner. The puppet master picks a message and a rolling schedule, and as in a malware botnet, the bot-side software is list
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
This article is good to see but frustrating as similarly weak in execution due to cherry picking and selection bias. People will mistake the review's sloppiness and issues with some papers with "social bots don't exist and de
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Extreme take: Numbers-wise, that should probably be the default ;-) In particular, the world runs on power laws, and I'm betting most server apps are boring occasional internal stuff at the not-even-1-qps level. Long tails add up to
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Edit: Looks like OpenCL in WSL2 is still very much TBD -- https://github.com/microsoft/OpenCLOn12/issues/32 --- Interesting, thanks: * OpenCL 1.2 -> DX12 coverage seems to be passing the repo's tests
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Did this a few weeks ago as part of the ~annual check to see if we finally support non-linux local dev for graphistry folks. Super promising, some tweaks: - WSL2. Kernel virtualization feels as native as advertised, e.g., docker in wsl2&#x2
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
The crew here already bootstrapped to (small) revenue, which means revenue-based loans are possible ( https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revenuebased-financing.... ). I haven't been following this space recen
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
For big cloud markets, being #2 or #3 is a win: - #2, #3, even maybe #4/#5 are big revenue. Cloud is unusually big and still growing insanely. - crazy margins when they don't have to invent the core concept, go through core produc
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Important for others: Some loans do not extend this way and thus company bankruptcy (US) can protect you, so just opportunity cost. But the terms are generally bad, and why firms like tinyseed exist, esp. once revenue starts growing (though
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
It's dire for companies and their staff who have been raising big rounds. Their next round risks being a flat/down round, and especially as many big ones are disconnected from revenue and efficiency. Each round assumes a following
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
If it worked for AWS bills.. :)
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Graph viz is admirably powerful, even here. The main techniques seem to be invisible objects and custom code, in case that helps. The cassowary solver group in Australia (I'm blanking on the university, Monash?) goes further via custom
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Yes agreed.. except move from relying exclusively on just MS npm employees for shepherding OSS packages to the much larger JS community, and esp those tied to any specific project. MS is richer stewardship than when npm was a struggling VC
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Those both have their own scaling issues, so not as clear of a step forward. Ex: We pin & package lock our versions, but it's harder for libraries to (they should do ranges), including ones we release. Likewise, for our apps (non-l
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
Yep, so build in adversarial controls like thresholding. The status quo is already beyond what gh/npm are managing: they already need the mods they aren't hiring. Scanners are helping, but a big part of GH is community tools, so w
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by lmeyerov 5y ago
It seems npm and GitHub do take action in cases like leftpad and colors.. and people don't like them (Microsoft) doing so unilaterally. Maybe part of the 0-day fix is go multiparty: allow weighted votes by dependents to take over the n

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