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by trjordan 11y ago
Optimizely ain't cheap, dude, and scaling doesn't work the way you want it to at a lot of volumes. I worked at a company where we paid $400 / month for Optimizely, based on having ~20k uniques. That seemed fair. If you take t
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The main reason is: this is their homepage after they just released a MASSIVE new product and raised a pile of money. The majority of relevant traffic to their homepage either knows who optimizely is or is already a customer. Their original
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1) Operating is not the same as building, especially if you have to figure things out. 2) Twitter reported half a billion in revenue last quarter.
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There's an outside company that was working on this: Neon Labs ( https://www.neon-lab.com/ ). Their insight is that not only are there images that are "high-quality", but also images that are positive. Positive
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by trjordan 11y ago
The way it works for founders is that you get actual stock, and vesting is implemented with a repurchase right. The IRS considers the stock to be an "asset at risk", meaning that you don't actually realize the value as income
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Haha, hey, good to hear from you! My take is that people are doing it piecemeal. The datacenter guys got a mandate to make everything cloudy because of the obvious benefits (scale, provisioning time, lower TCO), but the data / applicat
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I know it's happening, but I'm so surprised to see them cater to technologies like SAP HANA. 3 years ago, there was basically no overlap between people who wanted to run products from SAP/Oracle and people who influenced prod
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by trjordan 11y ago
Macports never worked for me. I'm not sure if I'm not smart enough to make it work, but there was always something where updates would fail, or some package was broken. Homebrew just worked, and when it breaks, brew doctor is typi
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by trjordan 11y ago
Log data should always be centralized if the machines they're stored on are ephemeral.
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Specifically, I'm not sure these characteristics are the perfect set for all interviews. I only spent 5 minutes reading the article, after all :) But, I like that these are all personality traits with no easy answer. I get the feeling
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Most systems never found a good way to encrypt data at rest. You either have to let the user manage the keys / passphrase, giving up things like search and password recovery, or you have to manage the keys in a service, which doesn&#x2
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The hierarchy at the bottom is interesting, because going down the hierarchy doesn't get you a bunch. Why do I want gift cards? Or your shitty voucher? Mostly, I don't, though airline points are interesting because I can get them
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Would this open the door to preventing Uber drivers from operating multiple services at once? I've seen plenty of drivers with multiple phones up running both apps.
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He did mention trying most of the standard techniques for that. From an individual perspective, I think that's a reasonably well-explored space. If the problem statement is "interruptions cause me to be unproductive for some time
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I really like this. In my experience, the moment that creates the greatest amount of legacy code is when you have a team who's project grows large enough that the team splits. At that point, many modules and projects are divided, but a
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by trjordan 11y ago
Cool, thanks for the thoughts. I'm going to go with Flask: my 24-hours-in opinion is that I can work with this, and it's got enough community support to make the easy things easy. I haven't done logins or much more with sqlal
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Yeah, I don't think I can go Django. The ORM works well enough, but SQLAlchemy is my jam.
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Interesting to hear about Pyramid. I'd always gotten the feeling that Flask was a bit lighter-weight. I think I'm going to steer clear of Pyramid because 1) I worked with it before, and want to try something new-ish and 2) I ended
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Cool, glad to hear I'm not crazy. Thanks!
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I'm not 100% this is true, but with multiple antennas, you can do beam-forming. The basic idea is that you can use interference to point the wifi signal at devices that are using it heavily at the moment, boosting their signal and thus
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by trjordan 11y ago
This is my favorite question! My answer is always something that ties together my entire career. That changes over time (obviously), but my current answer is something like this: "I like telling stories. I'm an engineer, for sure:
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Ask HN: What's the state of Python web frameworks in 2015?
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You should talk to people who have done this IRL, not on HN. This is a difficult thing to pull off, and like any complex decision, there's a lot of trade-offs. Without knowing your specific situation, it's fair to say that volume
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by trjordan 11y ago
"...strong, rational and tangible reasons why an employee needs to be based on-site, rather than intangibles like culture, narrative or norms." What. This sentiment is exactly what's wrong with trying to push for more remote
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Not this weekend, you can't!
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I like the control. I wouldn't use it. Why? The CEO of PhoneJanitor is no longer reachable by a bunch of people in ways that I find useful. The associated at the VC firm that wants to follow up on funding this company? Denied. The CVS
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At some point, yes, there is a monetary value to human life. During the early days of space flight, it was something like $1 million per astronaut. These days, it's up to something more like $50 million per astronaut (inflation would p
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by trjordan 11y ago
Typo in GP: it's fatpeoplehate that was banned. They posted pictures of fat people or food and made fun of people that were fat. You can't get to it anymore, because it's banned.
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I disagree that I/O can be totally decoupled. The API that I/O functions generally adhere to is too weak for your application: on error, what do you want to happen? This pushes "I/O" functionality back into your log
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Another complication is that the way people perceive themselves may not be a "true" read on their behavior. If a person acts anxious in stressful situations, it makes sense to cut them some slack. But what if a person is always in

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