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by mattzito 12y ago
Which is how I've done it in the past - I'm sure these days there's utilities that will do it for you, but I had a bunch of perl code that would fork off N threads out of a queue and as one exited successfully, kick off anoth
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by mattzito 12y ago
It seems to me that, in fact, your original idea was, in fact, the correct one - rsync probably would have been the best way to do this (and separately, a truck full of disks probably would have been the other best way). First, rsync took t
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by mattzito 12y ago
Google's most recent quarterly report has the following info: " As of December 31, 2014, we had 53,600 full-time employees: 20,832 in research and development, 17,621 in sales and marketing, 7,510 in general and administrative fun
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by mattzito 12y ago
It's not that uncommon - I had a meeting with wal-mart's data team once where they talked about how there are certain pairs of purchases that are highly correlated with male shoppers - beer and diapers was one I remembered.
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by mattzito 12y ago
There was another article that suggested they were manufactured specifically to amazon's standards for things like cooling and power stability. Instead of having to run in a wide range of environments, they can be designed to run in j
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by mattzito 12y ago
As I feel obligated to do whenever there's a related posting, an HN-level-of-detail book about power and the development of NYC, I have to throw a shout-out to the Power Broker: http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Broker-Ro
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by mattzito 12y ago
I didn't say "die", I just said "trough of disillusionment". It's not the OS support, it's all the surrounding tools. How do you monitor running Docker containers? How do you handle placement (i.e. let&#
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by mattzito 12y ago
Containerization is indeed better, for those applications that work well in containers . Many applications don't always behave well in containers, and the container model requires not only that your app work in container environments
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by mattzito 12y ago
My big prediction is Docker hits the trough of disillusionment this year. It's just moving too fast, with too many immaturities for the enterprise. Everyone will kick off pilots, figure out everything is a mess, run back to VMware un
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by mattzito 12y ago
There's a broad spectrum of opinions on this. Personally, I think that founders should draw enough of a salary to live on in the early days - that's going to differ from person to person, but I don't think it's reasonab
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by mattzito 12y ago
> Google SREs by last count were 1 engineer to 1000 machines That number does not seem particularly impressive, if it is accurate. Even "traditional" well-run enterprise IT organizations are often in the 1 admin/SRE to 60
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by mattzito 12y ago
The default shell in freebsd is probably still sh, which does not have tab completion. The Linuxes long ago moved to bash, which does. However, in the FreeBSD ports tree, I guarantee you there is a bash package you can install, and then yo
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by mattzito 12y ago
> You can keep things "warm" without keeping them under lights - a lower heat ( < 100F ) can keep beef and pork plenty moist. Unfortunately, maintaining meat at that temperature is going to be a non-starter pretty much anywh
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by mattzito 12y ago
> Through retention packages and revesting, most of the price is typically paid over 3 or 4 years. I'd be very careful with "Typically". It's not at all uncommon for acquirers to write a check, and then tack on reten
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by mattzito 12y ago
Yeah, the picture comes into focus. I think this is one of the reasons why a big chunk of the companies that pivot post-series A do so. You raise some money, and you don't see that revenue growth arc improve (or it flattens). Now, a
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by mattzito 12y ago
Depends on what their definition of "thorough" is - it's very standard to have architectural and design discussions pre-term sheet. However, you defer any deep dive into code or structure or "secret sauce" until a
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by mattzito 12y ago
Multiples are a convenient way of benchmarking deal performance, and it tends to work out very well for typical deals. Successful series B startup with a consistent growth rate? ~10x trailing 12 months revenue. High-growth series A startu
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by mattzito 12y ago
The upside potential is exactly why they offered 14x revenue - they had to sweeten the pot and make sure that they incentivize you to move now as opposed to later. They are willing to pay a little more now in exchange for insuring that t
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by mattzito 12y ago
I found myself on the receiving end of this product recently, and I felt like I was in a weird pseudo-uncanny valley. What would this AI understand? Would a person read it if it was unparseable by the current system? What if I wanted a l
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by mattzito 12y ago
I think the distribution of ride lengths might partially have something to do with the nature of cab hails in NYC vs. other cities. I travel a lot, and in most cities, uber is my go-to cab service, because I don't know the local cab s
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by mattzito 12y ago
> That's not true. You're stretching a line between two distant things in hopes of having a nice neat world of bigots on one side, and everyone else on the other. "You're either with us, or you're with the bigots
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by mattzito 12y ago
Tim Cook expressing his beliefs does not deprive me of access to my rights as an individual. People are certainly free to not believe in gay marriage, but when they start donating money to groups dedicated to preventing gay people from ge
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by mattzito 12y ago
That seems like a difference without a distinction - if he believes that only marriage between a man and a woman should be valid or recognized in California, then by extension he believes that a marriage between two men, or two women, shoul
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by mattzito 12y ago
I think it's a use case question - obviously you'd never want to use a backblaze storage pod for scenarios where you'd be using only one or two pods, or for anything with high random I/O requirements, for all the reasons
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by mattzito 12y ago
Do you have any documentation or links on this? I am in no way doubting you, but this is such a common occurrence I hear about that I'd like to have a few links in my pocket to give people who either a) think this is a good idea, or b)
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by mattzito 12y ago
Isn't the same true of firebase as a company as well? Even pre-acquisition, all you need is for them to bring in an outside CEO who wants to monetize their userbase to screw things up.
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by mattzito 12y ago
I agree in theory, but remember that many of these options have unintended consequences that may not be clear. So, for example, the navigation bar disappears - how do you get it back? Where did it go? Or disabling image loading, maybe it
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by mattzito 12y ago
I think there's a bit of nuance here - the point isn't entirely that you shouldn't have these options, it's more that it's extremely user unfriendly to have options in a primary preferences panel or menu that can be
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by mattzito 12y ago
Sorry for not responding sooner, I'm actually at my employer's user conference, so I was lured away by the prospect of food and booze. a) No! Though this is actually a conversation I've had here with a couple of customers -
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by mattzito 12y ago
So - I have no idea, I've never used Terraform, I just spend a lot of time thinking about infrastructure automation theory. I think that would be a good feature if it doesn't exist, though.

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