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by skuhn 10y ago
I'm sure you're right. Retail stores, and specialty watch shops in particular, will want more than 10%. Although I don't know if Pebble ever sold outside of places like Best Buy. I was thinking more of using their own sales c
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by skuhn 10y ago
Fittingly they have a terrible store too: https://shop.icio.us/
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That they kept going back on Kickstarter remains a mystery to me. Once you have to an extent established a brand and customer base, do you sufficiently benefit from Kickstarter to justify the 10% haircut on what you earn? Plus the overhead
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by skuhn 10y ago
But what if the babies become neo-nazis from all the cars x-raying them to avoid hitting them?
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by skuhn 10y ago
What if behind that wall are a ton more babies? Now we'll have to put x-ray machines in self-driving cars too.
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It's also pointless to worry about because the proposed dilemma greatly overestimates the ability of computer vision systems to determine what an object actually is. These systems are looking for obstacles and road contours. They don&#
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by skuhn 10y ago
Education (or teaching people how to think) will always be important. Curriculums which attempt to teach and certify specific things will always be of varying degrees of usefulness, but in order for them to become optional their importance
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by skuhn 10y ago
18.3% of the total population of the United States voted for the winner this time. In 2012 it was 20.9%. Doesn't seem like a huge uprising to me, but those numbers certainly have been disheartening all the same.
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by skuhn 10y ago
Without getting into the financials, I will say that the $/gflop wasn't bad. A Mac Pro rack was significantly cheaper per system than the next cheapest type of rack we deployed (using Supermicro FatTwin systems, for a different us
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by skuhn 10y ago
I'll expand a bit more on my point with the iron content of Soylent. I picked iron out of the list to focus on because it's not water soluble and that makes it more problematic. I bet there are issues across the board with the nut
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by skuhn 10y ago
> Terrible analogy. I think it's apt, but of course you're free to disagree. Both companies entered fields with a founding team that lacked any particular expertise -- dropping out of Stanford or a degree in electrical engineer
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Gotta check the latest release notes [1]. No more rice in Soylent Powder version 1.6. I find the concept of release notes for things I eat pretty discomforting. Not that I would ever put Soylent in my food hole. [1] http://files.
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by skuhn 10y ago
The name is derived [1] from the science fiction novel that the movie Soylent Green was loosely based on [2]. The book doesn't include the cannibalism aspect of the movie at all. However, one wonders how you could be familiar with th
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I think that Soylent will go down as a cautionary tale for anyone who looks at a field they know very little about and thinks "how hard could it be?". Along with Theranos. What Soylent should have built to be worth $100+ million i
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by skuhn 10y ago
I'm stating the fact that when I worked at Yahoo, one did not need to utilize the VPN to connect to production (which is where most staging / pre-prod environments existed as well). Someone whose job pertains to operations does th
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It wouldn't surprise me at all if the data Marissa looked at was skewed because the corporate Yahoo VPN was atrociously terrible. People who routinely worked outside of the office, or just wanted to be able to read their e-mail at home
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by skuhn 10y ago
It's gotten even worse since then. A quick trip down memory lane: 2003: 14 cases 2004: 59 cases 2006: 236 cases 2013: 1386 cases (24.5% of federal patent cases) 2015: 2540 cases (43.6% of federal patent cases) The majori
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by skuhn 10y ago
> If you talk to folks working with physical systems, that consumes their mindshare to the point that they're not focusing on their core product anymore. All I can say is, it isn't always the case and it doesn't have to be
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by skuhn 10y ago
Absolutely, there's a whole spectrum of options. "Building a datacenter" doesn't have to mean finding an empty field next to a river. Get a dedicated or shared cage, rent servers, do what fits your needs. It makes sense
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by skuhn 10y ago
Sure, that happens. If you can save millions of dollars a month and move your business from non-viable to viable, I think it's a good tradeoff. That's what I do for a living, so I see value in it. Not everyone should have to deal
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by skuhn 10y ago
I agree that there is no one right answer for all cases. Companies have definitely implemented their own datacenters poorly and been trapped as a result. You can avoid that fate, but you have to hire right and plan right. In my experience,
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by skuhn 10y ago
Agreed, there are different solutions that make sense for different businesses. The smaller your margins, the more important it can be to run your own stuff. Or maybe you just want to cut out a layer of someone else's profit from your
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by skuhn 10y ago
At the very beginning, when you're trying to figure out exactly what you're trying to do, there is a lot of value to building in an environment like AWS. After that point there's still some value, but in certain ways it is mu
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by skuhn 10y ago
A CDN doesn't have the in-house expertise to do this successfully, and the fundamental nature of file storage is at odds with how they operate. Every CDN is desperate to add other businesses to their portfolio, because vanilla CDN is c
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by skuhn 10y ago
I don't see it as direct payment for the job that she's doing, but rather paying to cover her downside risk. An engineer at Yahoo, if they're sufficiently good (and they do exist), can make it to a life raft and continue thei
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by skuhn 10y ago
Yahoo already indicated that they don't care about that product. It was their pick to get spun off along with the Alibaba stock as Aabaco: https://www.aabacosmallbusiness.com/ Since the actual spinoff seems to have fiz
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by skuhn 10y ago
Marissa is the 7th ever Yahoo CEO, not the fifth CEO in a one year window. There was a lot of turnover in the 2011-2012 period, but it's mostly down to Yahoo, and also eBay, failing to do their due diligence with Scott Thompson. 1.
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by skuhn 11y ago
In theory there is an arbitrage opportunity here, given that with enough users on the service Jare could be paying for most of the bandwidth at higher tiers ($0.06 - $0.02) and solo the users would likely be in the lower tiers ($0.085 - $0.
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by skuhn 11y ago
If you use their "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel", it's actually a totally different (and much newer) kernel version than the one that ships with the equivalent RHEL release. Interestingly, they also provide it across OEL vers
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by skuhn 11y ago
I have worked for more than one employer in Silicon Valley that expressly forbade me from considering candidates without bachelor degrees for my open reqs. This was over my objections, because I strongly believe a degree says nothing about

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