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by mattzito 13y ago
And one of the reasons that software like Oracle is so complicated and expensive. Oracle spent years getting the OS kernels out of the way, partially for platform consistency/supportability sake and partially for performance. They
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by mattzito 13y ago
I think the issues arise partially on how "open" the open floor plan is. If it's just one big room, poorly designed, it seems like a disaster for productivity. If it's a series of pods or areas, with some effort made t
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by mattzito 13y ago
This would be disastrous for startups - for $100 you get a say in what we do? How deep does that go? Change of control events? That would basically mean that a startup would have to disclose that they were in negotiations for acquisition&
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by mattzito 13y ago
If I had to guess, it's designed as a threshold barrier so they don't have to deal with trying to track down thousands of "projects" where the developer is someone who had big plans to build a game but got bored a week i
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by mattzito 13y ago
I realize that in pure fact it's wholly Mt. Gox's disaster, but it feels a lot broader in terms of perception. As a theoretical parallel, imagine if a small island nation decided to reimagine themselves as a hub for internationa
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by mattzito 13y ago
VirtualIron was a huge disaster of a company - they pivoted multiple times without ever finding market fit, then pissed off potential acquirers with their attitude, after which they laid everyone off and sold the remains to Oracle for a pi
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by mattzito 13y ago
I realize the OS is only a small part of the datacenter, but it's most of RHT's business, so that's what I focused on. > I can't quite speak for HP-UX, but Solaris and AIX are definitely not dead platforms. My main cl
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by mattzito 13y ago
Tends to be the circles one runs in. For comparison, I don't have a single customer that I know personally that runs Ubuntu as a platform strategy, though I'm sure there's pockets of Ubuntu in many of them. Our customers are
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I'm not arguing it's a forever stable success, because the industry moves too fast for that. And yes, this is why RHT wants OpenStack and better diversification. But speaking as someone who literally based their whole business on
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by mattzito 13y ago
I think it's more that the economics of RHT are skewed compared with the marketshare that they've got. That is, Red Hat has basically won the enterprise datacenter Linux war. It's Red Hat Linux and Windows, at the cost of So
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by mattzito 13y ago
So - you are storing a copy of the user's data for indexing purposes? Because that is against the ToS of a lot of these cloud providers - they don't allow you to duplicate the data offsite for things like search and indexing, pres
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by mattzito 13y ago
I'd disagree. Software that is heavy on consulting is still considered high margin as long as the consulting is revenue neutral (not a cost center). So if you write software that requires lots of consulting that the customer pays fo
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by mattzito 13y ago
10x revenue is not irrational in a high-margin software business. It's high, but there's a lot of acquisitions, especially by big companies like IBM, HP, etc. that are at that multiple.
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by mattzito 13y ago
There are religious and cultural minorities that don't believe in men mingling with women who are not their wives or relatives - do we restrict women from attending for fear those minorities would be uncomfortable? I know a number of r
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by mattzito 13y ago
This was back in the mid-2000s. I think both of them did way more than 5 in-person interviews - it was probably 2 phone, 3 in-person NYC, 4-5 in-person in MTV. Both were relatively senior positions, so perhaps they're the exception, o
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by mattzito 13y ago
They may have streamlined, or it may be dependent on the type of position you're applying for, but in the case of a few of my friends it involved multiple days in mountain view from NYC, many in-person interviews in NYC, and so on. I t
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by mattzito 13y ago
I have family members who are (good) police officers and I've discussed this with them in great detail. Their concerns boil down to the following: - Some of the pro-camera advocates are in favor of gun cameras, which turn on when a gu
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by mattzito 13y ago
Great idea, except certain types of police work have a much higher likelihood of being accused of brutality or handling cases incorrectly. Work property crimes? No one will ever accuse you of abuse. Work narcotics or traffic stops in a r
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by mattzito 13y ago
And in fact, these are the sorts of things that M&A departments at large companies look for - companies with good market share, a product that drives value, but perhaps are not perfect on execution (sales, support, implementation), beca
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by mattzito 13y ago
I suspect that most general interest applications could generate revenue eventually with enough cash put in (the exception being fundamentally flawed business models - "let's sell bags of rocks over the internet to children!"
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by mattzito 13y ago
That's an interesting variant on, "The personal is political" - "The technical isn't political". Some technologies are by their nature effectively neutral - the knife can be used to cut food, shave your face, k
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by mattzito 13y ago
It's not just the support agreements (though support agreements didn't hurt). It's that RHEL provided the sort of stable path for patches and upgrades that Linux traditionally did not, moving as quickly as it did. It allowed
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by mattzito 13y ago
Right, but - Virgin upper class if you're flying out of NYC, for example, can get you to....the UK. And a limited number of times a day. Private planes are absolutely awesome for getting between inconvenient points domestically. Ha
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by mattzito 13y ago
Domain expertise is definitely a challenge, but it depends very much on the type of application you're trying to build. Building something to help manage clinical trials of drugs? Heck, you better have a ton of specialized expertise i
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by mattzito 13y ago
Self-replying to add: The other thing to think about with on-premise enterprise software is that while it's a huge pain to sell, it's incredibly sticky. If you build up a sufficient volume of customers, you can basically fund op
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by mattzito 13y ago
Exactly - at my last startup, revenue "lumpiness" was the worst part of the whole thing. In the early days, we'd have $0 in bookings one month, and then next month, a check for $800k would come in. Building an enterprise sal
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by mattzito 13y ago
Though if we do put martian bacteria in reservations en masse, I call dibs on teaching them how craps works.
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by mattzito 13y ago
It seems like there's also an inverse application - if you have a competitor, post a bunch of spammy blog comments for them and watch as how google penalizes them.
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by mattzito 13y ago
GoldenGate is for multi-master replication and shares a lot of the challenges you'll find with any multi-master replication solution. No, I was referring to Oracle RAC, which does away the need for sharding. All of your nodes see a co
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Guh - every few months this comes up, and it's fairly hilarious to me how much anti-oracle dogma there is here. Oracle is the most feature-rich database in the industry, and the most expensive, and the most complicated. This comes wit

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