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by nlavezzo 3y ago
This is exactly it. On-prem deals were generally large perpetual license fees based on some quantity of software installed, and then a % of that as an annual "maintenance" fee which would provide access to support and software upd
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by nlavezzo 3y ago
I'm partial to my FoundationDB shirts :)
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by nlavezzo 3y ago
I think your characterization of "the public" outside of tech / academia (and I'd add medicine, finance, a few other professions) is pretty accurate in terms of academic knowledge. Swap the places though and send someone
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by nlavezzo 3y ago
That’s not how option pricing works. This is a private company, and it was raising money using preferred shares. The employee shares underlying the options would have been common stock. At least once a year the company would be required to
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by nlavezzo 3y ago
The 15" version of this pan is magic. It is super easy to season (apply some oil / butter, get it really hot a few times, wipe it off with a rag, repeat) and is very non stick with just a light coating of oil. Of course never clea
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by nlavezzo 3y ago
You can always just use an iPhone and turn on screen time, with tons of restrictions. You can "remove" the browser, adding apps, of course any app you want (including core ones like messaging), and keep a few useful ones like Goog
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by nlavezzo 3y ago
This is awesome!
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
I've spoken with some people there and this is basically their plan. Technology and experience in making significant genetic changes in large organisms likely ends up being valuable for lots of things less flashy than de-extincting fam
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
I think it's probably earlier (elementary, middle) schools that just don't provide opportunity for kids that are very advanced to pursue materials that are actually challenging or interesting to them.
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
Your neighbor doesn't currently have the right to do anything they want with their property though. They don't absolutely own it and have some kind of sovereign status. They can't turn it into a gas station or auto repair sho
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
> many others have pointed out how tunnel-vision you are being I'm not advocating for low density suburbs or for things to remain unchanged. My point was that the implication that some kind of nefarious prejudice was the main reason
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
I'm sure at town meetings there are plenty of unsavory things said, and people with prejudices show up in disproportionate numbers. It's just not accurate or OK to imply that all property owners seeking to keep their neighborhoods
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
> The answers are very uncomfortable. Are they? Isn't it possible that people who live in beautiful neighborhoods with mature trees, nice big yards, and low traffic streets that are safe for kids to play around, want to keep them th
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
> Then it's pretty reasonable for the state to go "you can't just never build houses. That's a decision that screws the rest of the state" and enforce that decision Totally agree. The state or larger city, etc. i
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
To be clear, my comment was more a reaction to what I perceived as the idea that any zoning of residential areas by the community that lives there is unacceptable and that you should be able to do literally anything that's not actively
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
> If you don't want to deal with living near other people, move to the country. The reverse could also be said - if you don't want to deal with people deciding together that they want their community to have certain guidelines,
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
I've done this in the past too and it works. Right now though I have it set so that I know the passcode to unlock it all, but that small amount of pain to go and unlock it is enough to make me pause and think about whether I actually d
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by nlavezzo 4y ago
I second the Capuchin crypt - it was very cool. I’ll add recommendations for good gelato - Frigidarium and Gelato del Teatro, both near Piazza Navova / Campo cello Fiori (areas worth a visit as the side streets there aren’t as insane a
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by nlavezzo 5y ago
I had really bad arm / wrist issues about 10 years ago due to overuse of crappy small keyboards on laptops, etc. Mechanical keyboards (after a bunch of physical therapy / massage) have been key to keep my arms healthy. After tryin
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by nlavezzo 6y ago
Just like jet plane rides, air conditioning, cell phones, etc. were only for the rich and powerful initially. Capitalism encourages efficiencies which drive prices down over time.
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by nlavezzo 7y ago
My wife (a former PS teacher) just literally created a microschool focused on project based collaborative learning and lots of outdoor activity so that we wouldn’t have to send our daughter to that system. We thought we might get 10 kids en
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by nlavezzo 8y ago
Does anyone here have any good science they can point to that would help us understand what the short and longer term effects of prolonged Calorie Deficit are on your Basal Metabolic Rate? I've heard a lot about the BMR going down sign
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by nlavezzo 8y ago
Now, how to explain this to my 3 year old... Man, I wish sleeping in was still an option.
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by nlavezzo 8y ago
For those asking about use in production, Wavefront just posted this: "Wavefront by VMware’s Ongoing Commitment to the FoundationDB Open Source Project" https://www.wavefront.com/wavefront-foundationdb-open-source.
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Wavefront by VMware’s Ongoing Commitment to the FoundationDB Open Source Project(wavefront.com)
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by nlavezzo 8y ago
FoundationDB was a company that existed in the market, licensing our database technology for quite a while. Licenses don't necessarily terminate upon acquisitions.
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by nlavezzo 8y ago
FoundationDB at its core is not a graph database. You could build a graph database on top of it, using FoundationDB as a very strong and feature rich storage engine, however you'd like. It would be much simpler to do than building a ne
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by nlavezzo 8y ago
The core product is a distributed, highly fault tolerant ordered Key Value store with true serializable ACID transactions. All of the layers (including document, graph) sit on top of that and inherit its ACID properties, scalability, fault
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by nlavezzo 8y ago
Wavefront's co-founder just tweeted this: https://twitter.com/panghy/status/987022825457266689 Finally it's out! @WavefrontHQ managaes petabyte scale clusters with #foundationdb today!
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by nlavezzo 8y ago
Well for one, Spanner is not available except as a service.

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