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by nlavezzo 14y ago
A FoundationDB database can scale "horizontally" by adding multiple machines to a cluster, and you can scale the cluster up by adding more machines. This is opposed to standard SQL databases which provide one or more databases per server, b
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
Hi - FoundationDB founder here. I'll point you to a comment thread from a previous HN discussion where my co-founder Dave Scherer addressed how we deal with partitions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4295770 Please let us know if you
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by nlavezzo 14y ago
Different FoundationDB founder here :) We'd be happy to give you information that would be helpful for your document - your offer to put something like that together is generous, helpful, and we'll definitely take you up on it. Why don't yo
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by nlavezzo 15y ago
Yes, this story is amazing. He came to speak at my university with some of the members of the tribe, one of whom was in LOVE with flying. He couldn't speak English, read, etc. but he was apparently a pretty good pilot. By the way, this same
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by nlavezzo 15y ago
I totally agree with what he's saying. At the beginning of this year, I weighed 236 pounds (6'1") and felt terrible about how I'd let my body get so out of shape. So, I made a commitment (mostly with myself, but let everyone else know) that
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
That is an awesome comic. I'm going to totally use that.
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Twitter by the Numbers - 460,000 New Accounts and 140 Million Tweets Per Day(highscalability.com)
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
Sweet! They need to add Quest for Glory I and II though - those were the best.
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
To those who would say "it'll be optional - you won't need one to search Google, check you email, etc." I point out that there are already huge efforts to track people across domains and build profiles of them. Private companies are ALREADY
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
Why exactly is this on Hacker News?
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
"Further, throughout this entire process, apparently I was accruing fees which were non-transparent to me until 6 months later when I received a check [I think he means bill] that was about 3 times what we had originally negotiated." A bill
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
I think most successful technology companies are going to have one (or all) of these types. The urgency of the issues at hand in a rapidly growing company and the relief a bad, but smart, employee can bring to those issues often makes it in
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
Abolishing the right to filibuster as the author proposes would truly make our democracy "two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner". Sorry Mr. Nutting, but there's no "tyranny of the minority"... Tyranny: "A government in which a
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
This piece is clearly talking about an enterprise sales model, and because of that I think his point about taking extremely low amounts of money for first customers requires a word of caution. In our experience at our last company, which wa
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
So we should round up most of the reporters in the US, and everyone that's talked about the leaked wires, and prosecute them? Doesn't matter how many times removed they are, right? The crime is the breaching of an agreement between a cleare
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
Did the same thing.
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
I started out at a huge professional services firm. I only spent a year there, but I am really glad for that year. It was an introduction to the harsh realities of the work world that most people deal with day to day. The startup that I wen
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
What type of development do you do? We're looking for strong systems developers.
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
I really love ancient western history - there are so many relevant lessons to be learned.
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
Looks interesting, and maybe something that's actually useful will come of it, but I don't think I'll be trading in my mouse anytime soon.
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
I think one of the main factors pushing the trend in the direction of more founders retaining control is the increased availability of angel money. If it came down to my cofounders and I having to give up control to raise a Series A (or any
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
Oh well... It's clear the USPTO isn't doing any reasonable homework in approving patents, but this issue in particular isn't that troubling because there is clearly prior art. Sounds like these companies are just wasting their money on some
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
FoundationDB is a Washington, DC Metro Area database software startup, which was founded by engineers with a prior >$50MM exit in the data analytics space. We are working on a distributed database with ACID transactions. We're looking f
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
Hi Conrad - glad to see this available now - I saw your preview at the DC HN Meetup. I love all the art!
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
>>;crediting an account of the first player with virtual currency, wherein the virtual currency is not redeemable for legal currency. Nope. Your money has gone into a black hole in the internet forever.
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
Wow, that was great. I think every entrepreneur even thinking about raising money should read this whole article. Twice. This distills the current situation (as I've spent months piecing together through various means) as well as could be d
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
>> Or even "angels"? ...Wait a minute, they're NOT supernatural beings? That awesome observation made me laugh out loud :)
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
2nd on this one. Great model.
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
Sweet! I was feeling lonely out here on the east coast. I'll do my best to get there!
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by nlavezzo 16y ago
Another reason you may want to delay pre-launch marketing is that if you plan on patenting your product you can invalidate your ability to do so in certain juristictions (including most of the EU) simply by "disclosing" your invention. If y

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