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by pcsanwald 9y ago
The devil is always in the details: - You'd have to go through through a ton of red tape to sell your software to various govt agencies, in terms of getting approved as a vendor. - Deployment complexity for various intelligence organiz
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
that might be true, but my experience is that generally, these kind of software deployments are really actually on-prem and aren't using AWS (or similar) under the covers. This was the certainly the case for my last employer, that sold
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
Some of the wording in the article, like "data trove", implies that Palantir has a central repo for all their data. From what I know, this isn't the case; a lot of government contracts mandate on-prem deployments, often on ai
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
it can mean a variety of things, including that they don't want to realize a loss on the current valuation.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
It's not clear that investors _can_ fire Holmes.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
There isn't an interim CEO and the company is currently managed by committee. The board is waffling around and doesn't seem committed to finding a replacement, even interim. I'd say that Travis K isn't the only one plann
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
My experience: I worked part time (3.5 days/week) for a startup early in my career. The reason was so I could go to school part-time also (for jazz performance). I've since employed many folks part-time and a lot more full time. F
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
I also reached my limit on iTunes after it started giving me an error message when I tried to play a song with wifi off. I've been using Swinsian, and am really, really happy with it. I also want to try this out, but for something simi
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
There are a bunch of variants for B2B as well: "We see you have X reference clients, and usually like to see X+2 reference clients" "We'd like to see you get a little further along in terms of product/market fit, an
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
I am asking the question about hardware, not software. if it's so easy to copy hardware, how do you explain apple's dominance with the iPod for such a long period?
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
in the case of the iPod I'm not sure that was true. remember, these were the days of everyone having a bunch of mp3s on their hard drive. The actual iPod software was extremely rudimentary, and basically barely integrated with iTunes.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
honest question: why then did no one copy the iPod, and no one has copied the iPhone with any success? as soon as the iPod came out way back in the day, the criticism was that it would soon be copied. No one ever did, and I worked in the
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
I'm a musician who's planning on releasing an album through bandcamp, and I've been a fan of soundcloud since I discovered it. bandcamp has a very different business model from soundcloud. it's set up to cater to artists
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
I'll also be coy, but will make an observation: you described what you saw . but, you didn't describe everything that actually happened .
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
your comment is a bit confusing: both Solr and ElasticSearch are built on top of Lucene. Algolia is _not_ built on top of lucene at all.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
the lucene standard tokenizer doesn't offer support for tokenizing emojis: it strips them out. I'm not aware of any lucene tokenizer that does support emojis tokenization. This isn't a huge deal, as lucene is open source and
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
plus, from the reading I did, the founders have been working in the search space for a long time and really seem to know what they're doing. Lucene is great, but, it does have limitations: tough to embed in non-JVM applications and poo
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
I wouldn't trade my time working as a busboy -> dishwasher -> line cook as a teenager for anything. I definitely recognize it may just be a lot harder to get these kinds of jobs these days as a young person.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
wow, the latimes site is just unusable. endless popups, scrolling is seemingly broken, ugh.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
for whatever reason, I have a mental hang up about just checking once every few days or something. I'm incapable ofjust ignoring communications that I get. De-activating is much, much simpler for me.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
this has been my experience almost exactly. It's not my nature to be part of an online community where I don't actively participate, so the idea of having a facebook account which I "never check" wasn't appealing to
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
I think his career is very unlikely to be over, assuming he stays out of jail.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
Something no one has mentioned directly: For startups selling software to fortune 500 companies, they generally have to be very open about the architecture of their software, how it all works, etc. Sales are always a "build vs buy&quot
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
This is a public comment, how else would you expect them to respond as a company? It doesn't mean Levandowski is actually being thrown under the bus.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
sorry to be pedantic, but Rob Kalin founded Etsy. pretty sure the departing CEO and CTO weren't founders.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
Bireli Lagrene, Scott Hamilton and George Benson have all said they don't really read music. It's definitely true that most jazz musicians can read passably, but my original point was that it's an aural tradition. no one lear
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
Wes Montgomery, Erroll Garner, Django Reinhart and obviously Roland Kirk are probably the most well known that couldn't read at all . There are many, many more jazz musicians that were/are very poor sight readers.
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
Agree 100% with all this. Modern drum notation is probably the easiest case to look at with regards to evolution of "western notation", with jazz chord symbols being another. Some other reasons why musical notation prevails: - The
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
VP Eng at a small fitness startup (< 10 people). I also work as a professional musician. 6:45 - wake up, walk dog, make coffee 7:10 - practice double bass technique for 30 minutes 7:45 - run 5 miles to work, stopping for breakfast + coff
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by pcsanwald 9y ago
Talk to your manager about it. There's always a lot of options for dealing with this kind of problem, but when you are unmotivated and maybe feeling down, these options aren't apparent, which makes the situation seem hopeless. - t

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