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by snewman 9y ago
Scalyr | Backend, Agent, Customer Success Engineers | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say that Scalyr is my favorite so far. We're building an amazin
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by snewman 10y ago
Scalyr | Backend, Frontend, Devops, Customer Success Engineers | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say that Scalyr is my favorite so far. We're buildin
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by snewman 10y ago
I don't think this is a fair use of the word "normally". The service may have been working within SLA . Based on the data in this article, it was not working the way it works most of the time . I think most people would int
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by snewman 10y ago
They also probably have one or more test regions where they could perform a test like this. But it's presumably not at nearly the same scale as us-east-1, the region affected by this incident. And to a considerable extent the problem w
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by snewman 10y ago
> Failure at every level has to be simulated pretty often to understand how to handle it, and it is a really difficult problem to solve well. Exactly. It seems likely that Amazon tests the restart operation, but it would be hard to test
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by snewman 10y ago
I've found them to be very opaque in most contexts, but for major outages (which have been rare), they do have a history of solid postmortems.
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by snewman 10y ago
Sorry to hear that! I'll follow up with you offline to make sure we don't let something like this happen again. Thanks for letting me know. EDIT: we try hard to respond to every personalized message we receive. However, we get a l
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by snewman 10y ago
Scalyr | Backend, Frontend, Devops, Customer Success Engineers | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say that Scalyr is my favorite so far. We're buildin
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by snewman 10y ago
Good point: if you don't need any local storage at all, then r4s are a bit cheaper. Still, an extra $576 / year (the price difference between i3.xlarge and r4.xlarge) for 950 GB of SSD really seems quite cheap, especially as that&
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by snewman 10y ago
Wow. This is a massive price drop from the I2 instances... so massive that I question whether I'm reading it correctly: i2.xlarge: 4 vCPU / 14 ECU, 30.5 GB RAM, 1 x 800 SSD, $0.853 per Hour i3.xlarge: 4 vCPU / 13
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by snewman 10y ago
Scalyr | San Mateo, CA (ONSITE) Frontend Engineer: $135-170K, >=0.3% equity Agent Engineer | $135-170K, >=0.3% equity At Scalyr, we've built a log analysis and ops visibility tool that our users rave about, because it smashes exp
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by snewman 10y ago
Yes, from previous reports it was already pretty clear that the driver was asleep at the wheel (literally or otherwise). The car is not supposed to allow this; it's supposed to check for hands-on-steering-wheel and other indicators of
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by snewman 10y ago
Tesla comes off extremely well in this report. For one thing, the 40% statistic cited in the headline appears to be well supported by the NHTSA report (section 5.4) and actually manages to frame the incident in a very positive light: ODI a
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by snewman 10y ago
It's cash-neutral for us. Suppose a new hire gets 10,000 options with a strike price of $1.00. (These are not real numbers.) They will pay $10,000 up front to early-exercise the options. We give them a bonus of $10,000. Net cash impact
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by snewman 10y ago
This is exactly what we do at my startup: our options are early-exercisable, we pay a bonus equal to the strike price, and we set up the 83(b) paperwork for you. (We don't gross up the bonus, so you will owe taxes on the strike price,
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by snewman 10y ago
Scalyr | San Mateo, CA (ONSITE) Frontend Engineer: $125-160K, >=0.3% equity Agent Engineer | $125-160K, >=0.3% equity "Agent Engineer" sounds like something from Person Of Interest, but actually you'll own our lean, mea
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by snewman 10y ago
Scalyr | Agent Engineer | $125-160K, >=0.3% equity | San Mateo, CA (ONSITE) "Agent Engineer" sounds like something from Person Of Interest, but actually you'll own our lean, mean data collection agent. An ops visibility to
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The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own(nytimes.com)
67 points by snewman 10y ago|97 comments
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by snewman 10y ago
Scalyr | Agent Engineer | $110-160K, >=0.3% equity | San Mateo, CA (ONSITE) "Agent Engineer" sounds like something from Person Of Interest, but actually you'll own our lean, mean data collection agent. An ops visibility to
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by snewman 10y ago
Scalyr | Agent Engineer | $110-160K, >=0.3% equity | San Mateo, CA (ONSITE) "Agent Engineer" sounds like something from Person Of Interest, but actually you'll own our lean, mean data collection agent. An ops visibility to
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The “Why” in Wage Segregation(niskanencenter.org)
1 points by snewman 10y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 10y ago
Wait: seriously, a 1.5 hour multi-region GCE outage just last night? That would be huge, how is it that we haven't heard about this? The linked /16015 status report doesn't have much information.
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by snewman 10y ago
Scalyr | San Mateo, CA (ONSITE) Frontend Engineer: $110-160K, >=0.3% equity Integration Engineer: $110-160K, >=0.3% equity DevOps Evangelist: $130-180K, >=0.5% equity At Scalyr, we've built a log analysis and ops visibility to
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by snewman 10y ago
Scalyr | San Mateo, CA (ONSITE) Integration Engineer: $110-160K, >=0.3% equity Frontend Engineer: $110-160K, >=0.3% equity DevOps Evangelist: $130-180K, >=0.5% equity At Scalyr, we've built a log analysis and ops visibility to
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by snewman 10y ago
Scalyr | San Mateo, CA (ONSITE) Frontend Engineer: $110-160K, >=0.3% equity DevOps Evangelist: $130-180K, >=0.5% equity At Scalyr, we've built a log analysis and ops visibility tool that our users rave about, because it smashes e
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by snewman 10y ago
Sure, these are reasonable arguments, which are commonly used. Clearly this justifies holding on to some cash. But I question whether it justifies holding on to this much cash. At some point it has to reach diminishing returns.
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by snewman 10y ago
There's cash available for The Next Big Thing, and then there's $215B (Apple's current cash). They could buy, say, GM outright (market cap: $48B) and barely make a dent.
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by snewman 10y ago
A serious question: does anyone -- management, shareholders, analysts, anyone in the picture at all -- seriously think that these companies will actually find a way to invest a nontrivial portion of the cash piles they're sitting on? (
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by snewman 10y ago
Do you mean on-demand instances? The announcement says "Spot bidding is on the near-term roadmap." And $13 / hour is the on-demand price in US East.
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by snewman 10y ago
Yes, but only if you pay for three years up front. Spelling out all the options: * $117K / year on-demand * 81K / year for one-year commitment, nothing up front * 69K / year for one-year commitment, $34,285 up fro

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