mattzito

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by mattzito 12y ago
Most of the provisioning capabilities in tools like Chef, Puppet, etc. are pretty rudimentary from the perspective of thinking about infrastructure as composable services. So, for example, a "knife ec2 server create" or a "pu
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...but he lied. If they had said, "Hey, why do you want this?" and he said, "I think I've got a system for beating baccarat", and they went ahead anyway, they're idiots. But they asked and he said that he was
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by mattzito 12y ago
> Read about Phil Ivey, who used a similar "hack" to advantage play in Baccarat. So - the slight difference there, and I'm curious whether people see this as a difference without a distinction, but Phil Ivey requested the
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by mattzito 12y ago
Oh man - government agencies, in many cases, the least equipped to "hire a dozen open source devs". Think about how many local governments and school districts they are - they couldn't possibly hire developers and manage th
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by mattzito 12y ago
Hoovers and D&B numbers are incredibly inaccurate for new and privately held companies. I've seen them show $20m/year companies as $1m/year and vice-versa. They don't actually know, they estimate or allow companies
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by mattzito 12y ago
Community management by defintion includes "PR" in that it includes "Public Relations", but a good community manager is much more. They're often there to help facilitate conversations, user group meetings, keep the
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by mattzito 12y ago
This is such a non-event that it seems not even worth posting about, being in the same vein as: - gasp "Sometimes corporate-sponsored open-source developers have their corporate employers' interests at heart" - gasp &quot
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by mattzito 12y ago
I haven't had a bad experience, per se, but after running through almost all of my initial loans and not opting to reinvest in more, it seems like a relatively decent but not great way of investing your money. I think if I were will
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This is a cool concept, but one note - typically if a retained employee is involuntarily removed from the company, their financial benefits accelerate (other than in cases of "for cause" termination). This is generally good for th
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First: docker is not going to make VMs obsolete. Docker has their use cases: lightweight! PaaS! incremental push! 12-factor apps! VMs have their use cases: Strong isolation! online migration! completely portable! consolidation for traditio
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They sold their dotCloud business so they could focus on core Docker.
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Well, the origins were far more benign than "borderline fraud" - my original role was doing product research in distributed database design and performance. I gave a lot of talks and wrote a couple of (non-acaddemic) papers on ho
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by mattzito 12y ago
A lot of that was an artifact of how we got started - it wasn't quite clear who would be doing what, and so other than CEO, everyone's responsibilities were pretty amorphous. I got saddled with "chief scientist", but pra
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by mattzito 12y ago
Yeah, so - I/we started GridApp when I was 23. I didn't have any grand dreams about being a 20-something entrepreneur, I just came to the (accurate, as it turns out) conclusion that it was never going to be easier to completely u
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by mattzito 12y ago
There's two ways to look at this that I'll suggest, since I have a certain amount of familiarity with this. 1) You're 25 years old, and already have one acqui-hire under your belt. That's pretty impressive. Considering
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Supermarket is exactly that - right now it's used for the public cookbook repository, but the goal is to make it usable for private repos as well.
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by mattzito 12y ago
Thanks, will do.
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Ask HN: Who consults on tech content/documentation architecture?
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Yeah, this is a few years back, but as I recall, they originally claimed we owed ~$20k - and we disputed and negotiated and got supporting evidence, etc. and ended up with 3k. I was more commenting that it seemed like a lot of effort on th
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by mattzito 12y ago
We got hit with a sales tax audit in NYC here, which apparently is pretty common. Turned into a multi-week process of providing documentation, justifying why some of our deals were non-taxed, justifying some of the work we did, and a littl
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by mattzito 12y ago
I think for general-purpose workloads, it's not relevant. However, some of the IB-specific capabilities like RDMA are extremely interesting for clustering use cases. You can dramatically reduce the overhead of moving data around betw
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by mattzito 12y ago
Oh, hey, listen, I'm not throwing stones. I've done similar things myself when I had a press release opportunity timed with a trade show or a feature piece or something - but the product wasn't yet ready to ship. So you anno
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by mattzito 12y ago
Well, the cynic in me says that when something is in closed beta to a nonspecific limited pool of individuals, it might not be as fully baked as a blog post might suggest. I'm not suggesting malice, of course, but perhaps Uber heard th
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by mattzito 12y ago
Is this just a response to UberPool? Or vice-versa? It just seems curious to me that within 48 hours the two biggest car-sharing providers launch the same feature. Or did they hear the other was working on it and rushed it out the door?
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I actually requested that some of my friends endorse me for "Sandwiches". Partially to highlight the ridiculousness of endorsements, but also because I make really good sandwiches.
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Except that they're explicitly international - they have boards with international representation, they move their meetings around to different countries to try to be equal, and in general don't specifically advance a US-specific
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ICANN is not "American" necessarily, other than it's incorporated in America. Transition of ICANN from the US government to a fully private organization happened years ago.
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There's a secondary goal here in that it benefits them to have a pool of skilled individuals out in the market who are familiar/expert on the Google platforms/technology. So if they get a few hundred startups to use Google, m
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It's actually an attempt to try to be smart about letting people go. Sure, yes, they could come up with a master list and just pull the trigger today. But the odds of sweeping up a huge number of "false positives" grow consi
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That is a big, huge question and issue to try to tackle in a comment. From my perspective, it's not so much that there is an anti-meritocracy trend in America, as that America has classically had a popular culture of "if you work

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