mrkurt

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by mrkurt 4y ago
One thing about antitrust is that it's a set of restrictions only applies to companies with a certain amount of market power. It's not a set of rules that are designed to be fair for everyone. So, yes, some other company could con
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You're not really making coherent points here. No one is arguing that vertical monopolization corners a market on components. When Apple bought Authentec, they increased their market power and reduced the market power of competitors. A
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Oh you're right.YouTube probably couldn't have been profitable. They could have gone out of business, however. Vimeo has reasonable unit margins, though, and has since the early days. What I'm mostly irked about is that there
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Ok, well, we're not talking about the same stuff here so I'm not sure it's worth going back and forth. We can just continue to be on different sides of the antitrust issue/
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by mrkurt 4y ago
You're arguing the semantics of a monopoly, but you should just mentally replace the word "monopoly" with "market power". When Apple buys components from a vendor, they have less market power. When they build their
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by mrkurt 4y ago
I don't mind startups failing. I would prefer that startups fail. I would prefer big companies fail. It's healthy for companies to die. Apple and Amazon are more of a vertical integration problem. They expand their market power by
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Price dumping is a bigger deal when it's a company in a monopoly position doing it. It's not necessarily anti competitive to sell at below cost. YouTube could have been profitable by charging for their services. Like Vimeo. They c
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by mrkurt 4y ago
That's not really a problem. It sounds like a problem, but enforcement has to start somewhere. The FTC is targeting a broad range of markets: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases Some of the pu
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by mrkurt 4y ago
YouTube is a tremendous antitrust fail. The very definition of price dumping. It could have been profitable earlier, but it would have been much smaller and faced stiff competition. That isn't what Google needed from it.
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The point of antitrust is to encourage that. That's competition. We want Facebook to build net new things. Facebook's not all that good at building new things, though. Most big companies aren't. Partially because they don&#x2
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by mrkurt 4y ago
It's often better than you'd expect, because the alternative is usually in memory caching. Disk is cheap, RAM is less cheap.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
This is generally untrue, depending on what you mean by "faster". The way most web apps use DBs, sqlite is incredibly fast. Because most web apps make multiple queries, often sequentially, and they're very sensitive to DB lat
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by mrkurt 4y ago
You can probably hack together with machines, though we're not a great fit for big bursts of compute. "fly machine run" is fun.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
I hope we're unbundling! RDS is fine, but it doesn't really offer me (as an app dev ... sometimes) much. PlanetScale is a better MySQL: https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-planetscale-boost
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by mrkurt 4y ago
The second case has experimental support already: https://fly.io/docs/reference/configuration/#the-processes-s... The first, we're not completely sure about yet. Probably someday, though.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Just provider bug fixes / developments. The APIs it use are pretty stable. The particular errors in those issues look like either badly formed API calls, or something weird with auth. It also probably needs an update to use api.machine
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by mrkurt 4y ago
I'm not completely averse (we've done this before!), it's just not how I think the world should work. If we hold out, and the future Fly cloud has a better-than-RDS Postgres option, it will be worth it. If we build our own ma
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by mrkurt 4y ago
No, ordinary Fly apps (what we call v1 apps) are managed by nomad. They don't scale to zero. You can create a machine based app and it'll scale to zero just fine, but you lose most of the magic of `fly deploy` right now.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
The Terraform provider was a one off project from the community. We haven't really focused on it in earnest yet, unfortunately. We ended up sponsoring it, but until we get Fly apps off Nomad I don't think we'll have the best
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by mrkurt 4y ago
You probably had a different community experience than recent folks. We've grown like 4x in the last 3 months and haven't kept up with community as well as I'd like (because hiring). And over holidays, we've had a diffic
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by mrkurt 4y ago
RDS works really well with Fly apps. We often see lower latency between Fly.io and us-east-1 in Ashburn than an app does spanning two availability zones in us-east-1. But, realistically, we'd like a managed Postgres provider on Fly.io
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Ah, thanks. We'll chase it down. We got a little behind over the holidays.
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We have our own hardware.
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I usually just go complain to network folks and they figure it out. I'm good at complaining! Routing issues like this are typically the result of some weird network provider politics. The fix is typically ti change how we announce IPs
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Did we diagnose the TLS certs expiring? This is most often something like a CAA record that fails invisibly. We're not very good at notifying you of these kinds of issues, but certs should always renew when the config remains good. Peo
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This is uncommon. When did it happen? We had some cross country routing issues a few weeks ago. We can generally fix these if you don't mind sending us traveroutes.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Yeah that's automated (and also, kind of angry at stolon right now). We have a bunch of tooling that makes postgres nice to use on our platform, but users still have to get in and do things in some scenarios. Most people expect managed
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by mrkurt 4y ago
We'll have managed postgres by april. I'm not sure we'll be perfect, but holy hell will we feel better about ourselves.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
If I'm reading the Gandi cart right to renew "fly.dev", yes they can pull these shenanigans. It's showing $780 to renew. I can't tell if that's one year or not.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
I'm not sure this is true? Scout funds always have generic names. So do the funds that founders actually run through things like AngelList. In my experience, no one actually cares what fund put a $10-50k check in to the seed round. I b

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