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   by tsmith 16y ago

   Whoa... what's with the title edit? That's a far cry from "[refusing] to upvote". This is borderline admin abuse. </rant> People on HN are likely to have heard of the Anybot due to its connection to YC (one of AB's founders being a
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   by tsmith 16y ago

   This is the same guy that made the awesome wiimote 3d goggles (TED talk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.h... ) EDIT: Added TED talk link.
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   by tsmith 16y ago

   Good point, though not quite contradicting that of the grandparent post.
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   by tsmith 16y ago

   Why not start a few days (at least) before you start coding? "Sell before you build" is my new mantra.
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   by tsmith 16y ago

   It was the same talk, but re-given yesterday at Toronto DemoCamp #27. Fred mentioned that he had given it a few months back in NYC.
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   by tsmith 16y ago

   I wonder how long this took to set up? And why they don't run their production servers as VMs as well? Edit: I think it's an awesome idea, btw, and something we try to push to web service shops at GridCentric.
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   Testing Mincemeat.py MapReduce Scalability using GridCentric(blog.gridcentriclabs.com)

   16 points by tsmith 16y ago|3 comments
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   by tsmith 16y ago

   Go low-tech: stand outside a waterslide park. Supply and demand.
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   by tsmith 16y ago

   er, Asch experiment rather.
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    Good point - OpenVZ is quite good for userspace virtualization. One thing Copper (what this demo is running on - http://www.gridcentriclabs.com/copper ) can do that OpenVZ can't do is VM clone / page sharing across multiple physical server
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    Also of possible interest - things we've done with the current (1.1) version of our platform: Howto: Build and scale a Cassandra cluster in five minutes - http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/08/howto-build-and-scal... Howto: Build a Hado
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    This is such a great idea - I find that it's very easy to rationalize myself out of the goals I set, but as soon as another person is involved it makes it 10x harder to back out... it's sort of like the inverse of the Milgram experiment.
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    Virtualization and over-subscription: breaking the 100% utilization barrier(blog.gridcentriclabs.com)

    23 points by tsmith 16y ago|5 comments
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    Thanks! Tell your friends! We're giving away fully-functional 60-day trial licenses and there are a growing number of interesting use cases for VM clone: http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/search/label/recipes
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    This is an elaboration on Dave's earlier post here: http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/07/elastic-build-system...
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    GridCentric (fork() for VMs) + Hudson = Elastic Build System(blog.gridcentriclabs.com)

    20 points by tsmith 16y ago|8 comments
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    Thanks! The low-effort VM clone (essentially fork() for Xen VMs, and only takes 1-2 seconds even for dozens of clones) makes deploying a bunch of almost-identical machines extremely easy. We've also toyed around with other cluster-scale pla
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    Part of a series: memcached - http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/07/how-to-build-10-core... Hadoop - http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/07/howto-build-hadoop-c... An early take on Hudson / Continuous Integration - http://blog.gridc
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    Howto: Build and scale a Cassandra cluster in five minutes(blog.gridcentriclabs.com)

    33 points by tsmith 16y ago|4 comments
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    ""Scott has got to find somebody who knows someone," the grandfather said, "someone who can get him to the head of the line." Is this Russia?" Hah. Best quote from the article. Between the baby boom, rising life expectancies, and the 30-60%
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    Howto: Build a ten node memcached cluster in 5 minutes(blog.gridcentriclabs.com)

    5 points by tsmith 16y ago|0 comments
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    Thanks! Yeah, the "VM fork" thing is something we have trouble getting across to the general population. That probably should have been the title of this post though.
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    Hi all, We were inspired by our friends at AeroFS to do a little show-and-tell and solicit some feedback. Specifically, we'd like to know: - Is it apparent what we are actually selling? - Is it apparent how it is different from other cloud
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    Show HN: GridCentric - High Performance Cloud Computing(gridcentriclabs.com)

    10 points by tsmith 16y ago|3 comments
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    Way cool guys, and way to represent the Toronto startup scene! BTW, loved the reference to HN karma in the screenshot!
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    by tsmith 16y ago

    Having spent the last two years cutting my teeth in the Toronto tech entrepreneur scene, I've come to experience a lot of what I call a "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" mentality, which tends to discount visionary thinking. Specifically,