morgante

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by morgante 10y ago
That's possibly the most bullshit argument I've ever heard. Any founder will tell you employees are more important than investors. It's possible to build a successful company without VC—it's impossible to build one witho
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by morgante 10y ago
This mentality is dangerous and pernicious. We have vesting schedules for a reason. They'd be reaping the rewards of their past work, not other people's future work.
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by morgante 10y ago
There are lots of incubators which do this, Betaworks being one of the better known.
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by morgante 10y ago
Having a separate FROM image doesn't help that situation either, since you have to rebuild it.
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by morgante 10y ago
A lot of them rely heavily on feature flags and gradual rollouts.
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by morgante 10y ago
The title is a bit clickybaity, a better one would be: rolling back changes isn't as straightforward as just changing your git hash. In addition to the strategies mentioned, having backward-and-forward migrations for all database chang
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by morgante 10y ago
Most money is already digital.
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by morgante 10y ago
It's a basic right to engage in economic transactions without being tracked, but I don't agree you necessarily have the right to "spend money" (as in government currency) without being tracked. If you want to engage in t
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by morgante 10y ago
If you can treat your instances as ephemeral, it's a lot easier to manage them.
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by morgante 10y ago
Sure, and that's precisely the operational efficiency which comes from cloud providers.
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by morgante 10y ago
Because I do fully believe that the cloud is the superior solution for most businesses, especially those employing sysadmins. I've seen way too many companies with full-time sysadmins maintaining only a few dozen servers. The signifi
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm not sure, but I am sure that someone internally is doing those calculations.
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by morgante 10y ago
I have not once said that cloud is the only option. You're arguing with a straw man. If you're spending millions on infrastructure, you should absolutely do a rigorous analysis of whether the cloud is better or worse.
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by morgante 10y ago
I thought the value of social networks was mostly in following your friends?
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by morgante 10y ago
Heck, I'm 24 and have a lot of trouble understanding the appeal of Snapchat. Despite lots of friends trying to get me to use it I've never figured out how to get value from it.
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by morgante 10y ago
> I figured the larger server would be a costsavings over many smaller ones. Nope, you pay more for a single large machine than multiple small ones. If your service is truly so stable that you only need to spend 10 hours a year maintaini
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by morgante 10y ago
You're not including the time costs of operating that server. Also, most businesses don't have demand that steady. Nor is it advisable in a cloud architecture to rely on a single large server.
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by morgante 10y ago
I know Netflix runs their own edge nodes, which is precisely why OP sounds incompetent and uninformed. Netflix has spent lots of time and effort into analyzing and building the architecture which is optimized for them. > Or do you think
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by morgante 10y ago
That's an entirely different statement than your original one. Saying "the costs of cloud service are zooming up" disingenuously makes it sound like the price of cloud services are going up.
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by morgante 10y ago
Your opinion isn't really that original. There are plenty of old-school sysadmins who will insist that the cloud is a hoax. They'll fight tooth and nail to avoid it. Eventually, someone fires them and moves to the cloud with signi
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by morgante 10y ago
> Running on rented hardware is the equivalent of a traditional product company renting all of their factories. Correct. Traditional product companies very rarely own all their own factories. Do you honestly think Netflix management is i
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by morgante 10y ago
Yes, cloud bandwidth is expensive. I don't disagree with that. But it's not increasing in price. Obviously if you're growing your costs will grow, but that's basically a tautology. Bare metal costs also rise as you gro
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by morgante 10y ago
> and the costs of cloud service are zooming up, potentially leaving you without the margin to invest. What do you mean by this, because it sounds like a straight up lie? Amazon and Google are in an ongoing price war and cut costs regu
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by morgante 10y ago
I'm sorry, but your comments in this thread are incredibly out of touch. It's absolutely hard to run your own hardware. There's a reason that companies which run their own hardware have entire teams devoted to it. You seem to
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by morgante 10y ago
So maybe "some people" is actually most people. In fact, I'd say Travis is 100% correct. Most people out there would rather blame someone else for their problems than take personal responsibility.
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by morgante 10y ago
Seriously, I'm not sure how they can even pretend to have reached that conclusion. It would require interviewing random LinkedIn users without endorsements (including ones with no technical ability at all ) and then rating them. I c
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by morgante 10y ago
It's probably time to revive my HN blocklist extension. [0] Banning is potentially going too far, but there are certain accounts which continue to not debate in good faith and contribute negatively to the discussion. [0] https:/&
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by morgante 10y ago
Literally my second sentence was "I don't think Trump is directly responsible for this" and then you go and accuse me of insinuating secret executive orders. You should be banned for an argument that disingenuous.
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by morgante 10y ago
I think the reasons Trump won and the message he's sending in office are, in fact, different things. There were a whole lot of unhappy Trump voters (people voting for him despite lots of reservations about his policies and demeanor) an
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by morgante 10y ago
Did you read my comment at all? I literally said Trump is not directly responsible for this. And no, I do not think any or even most programmers should be expected to know how to balance a binary tree on demand.

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