secorp

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by secorp 17y ago
If you want to know anything more about this system, we are having a get together at PyCon tonight at 10pm in Room F (thanks warner!) and then presenting at the RSA Conference at the beginning of March (search the agenda for "tahoe").
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by secorp 17y ago
RSSCloud is similar to this - http://rsscloud.org/walkthrough.html
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by secorp 18y ago
Python, Linux (Ubuntu), darcs (source code control), apache, mysql, php, subscriptions to MSDN and Apple Dev. (allmydata.org)
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by secorp 18y ago
I mis-read this as "French" CS graduate wages down 20 percent :)
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by secorp 18y ago
We have an open source project http://allmydata.org that has been doing this for quite awhile. I'm also involved in the commercial side which does online storage and we've been running a business on a P2P backend (nice low costs) with non
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by secorp 18y ago
We run a small specialized storage company and the things that seem to matter most are: storage capacity, availability, reliability, transfer rates for both current data usage and new data addition. 40Tb can be handled pretty well by S3 and
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by secorp 18y ago
We decided to write our new architecture from scratch as an open source project to support our commercial business offering (online storage and backup). There are several factors to consider, roughly in order of importance (according to me)
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by secorp 18y ago
I do this already in the Bay Area in California. There are several carpool pickup points in the East Bay (Oakland/Berkeley) that drop off in downtown San Francisco. I either pick up people here or hitch a ride every morning. The advantage i
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by secorp 18y ago
We are using ADP TotalSource for payroll and PEO functions. Though it is nice to have everything in more or less one place, the response time and customer service is extra-medium. By that I mean that most of the time if there is a problem w
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by secorp 19y ago
I would first determine if your source code really warrants the effort needed to keep it secure from prying eyes. We've evaluated several factors including the source code, the service built leveraging that codebase, the people involved in
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by secorp 19y ago
Tahoe is aimed at the issues that arise after you buy your 1TB drive which provides local storage quite well. We try to provide data reliability and availability that can survive colocation outages, computer and hard disk crashes, complete
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by secorp 19y ago
Yes, Brian presented at PyCon a couple weeks ago. Tahoe is the open-source project that we are working on together along with a few other guys. We also are involved in the commercial entity Allmydata.com which uses Tahoe as a back-end. We s
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by secorp 19y ago
The acquisitions I've seen typically have the following components to the compensation package to negotiate before closing: * Salary (should be market for your new skills and position) * Retention bonus (usually paid out over 1-2 years) * C
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by secorp 19y ago
Startup pros: * great people, unique culture * influence a wide range of issues from tech to office location * great experience for founding a company later Note that I didn't include "huge potential financial gain" in that list. A non-foun
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by secorp 19y ago
I should add that we are not focusing on file-sharing. Our commercial model (.com) is based upon managed backup services. When we looked at the possibility of file-sharing as a service, we were quickly dissuaded by the amount of potential l
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by secorp 19y ago
We're working on an open-source distributed storage system that can also be used to easily share files. It also has p2p streaming download which is kind of fun to use. http://allmydata.org
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by secorp 19y ago
I would second this. We currently run an open-source project (distributed storage) and commercial venture based upon it, but the open-source was the driver done because we thought that it was an important problem to solve and that it would
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by secorp 19y ago
The main thing I gleaned from undergraduate university (applied math) was how to collect and structure data in such a way that useful information can be derived from it. This has helped me in writing software for image processing programs t
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by secorp 19y ago
We've had success outsourcing some of our non-core activities in our shop (4 p2p hackers working on distributed storage). For example, we've outsourced our website implementation and our Facebook app. Though any one of us could do them, it
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by secorp 19y ago
BA UC Berkeley in Mathematics '93, MBA NYU Stern '06, run a small startup and still get to hack
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by secorp 19y ago
Easiest ways that we found are to buy AdWords (or equivalent) and try out a few campaigns and to buy users from an existing source. Be mindful of the quality of these users because they may not match the exact demographic that you are looki
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by secorp 19y ago
Currently all word-of-mouth. For our commercial product we will be doing some standard key-word advertising and an interview round about the company and project. One thing I meant to mention earlier, we are self-funded so far.
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by secorp 19y ago
I keep copies of all of my files online using a distributed storage grid that we've created. (bias alert: I'm deeply involved in the project I'm about to mention) A few years ago I realized that I'd either lost data due to hard-drive crashe
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by secorp 19y ago
We are doing online backup and storage. We have an open source project ( http://allmydata.org ) that we are building a commercial product ( http://allmydata.com ) on top of. We have a fair amount of beta users (10K) and have our new archite
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by secorp 19y ago
Ah, didn't realize you needed to be that close to Silicon Valley. Some other people have mentioned downtown Mountain View around Castro Street (try Dana Street Cafe) which is pretty cool and close to a lot of software and hardware shops. Th
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by secorp 19y ago
If you get a chance, you might want to check out the Rockridge neighborhood in the East Bay. It's on the border of Oakland and Berkeley, very nice places, cool walking, shops, and stores like Trader Joe's, Whole Wallet, etc. There is a BART