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by zapita 9y ago
Account size and pricing are two different things. The question is: are the $800k customers getting good value for that subscription, or are they looking at projected costs and thinking "we better switch to a competitor before this get
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by zapita 9y ago
This is still the case. Even after enterprise discounts, the pricing is outrageously high. I know of at least one well-known enterprise customer where IT has mandated a company-wide "get off Pivotal" policy because TCO is just too
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by zapita 9y ago
I never thought I'd see the day when $200/month is considered "way too much" for a CDN... We've really come a long way. Personally I use Cloudflare's free tier for lots of projects, and it has a perfectly reaso
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by zapita 9y ago
Apple is not delegating cloud services to IBM. They are partnering with IBM for enterprise go-to-market, as they have done before. It just happens that cloud services is IBM's preferred method of selling enterprise software and service
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by zapita 9y ago
The MirageOS project has done this, they call it the "Bitcoin Piñata". It's still unclaimed I believe: http://ownme.ipredator.se
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by zapita 9y ago
But many people use Google Search, Maps, Mail, Analytics... And of course the endless tentacles of Adsense, Adwords, Recaptcha, Doubleclick. In my opinion the reach of Google, and therefore their ability to cause harm, is even greater than
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by zapita 9y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that Google is getting off easy? When it comes to 1) tracking people and 2) contributing to the perverse incentives which are transforming the media industry into an enemy of democracy, I think of Google and Fac
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by zapita 9y ago
> That really doesn't feel like it's inherent to Lambda at all. You could say the same thing about EC2. The major difference is that Lambda hooks into your developer tooling, and source code, in a way that EC2 doesn't. S
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by zapita 9y ago
Wouldn't it be ideal if Docker (and other independent platform vendors) added function support? In my mind "cloud functions" are easily implemented on top of containers. Then we would get the best of both worlds.
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by zapita 9y ago
Do you have online resources to recommend for a beginner looking to learn more about these topics, in order to make educated choices on future house projects?
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by zapita 9y ago
This reminds me of Holberton school ( https://holbertonschool.com ) which has the same "free until hired" business model. I'm very interested to see how both of these pan out.
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by zapita 9y ago
We could discuss violent deaths over the last 100 years... But that would be incredibly off topic given that we're discussing how surgeons in different countries have different exposure to gun trauma today...
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by zapita 9y ago
> to generalize that the violence in Chicago is endemic to the rest of the nation is pure fantasy. That wasn't the comment. The comment was that most surgeons in the Netherlands can wait decades before seeing a gunshot wound. If t
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by zapita 9y ago
Anecdote aside, it's established beyond a doubt that the US has much, much higher rates of gun violence than European countries, across every dimension: wounds, deaths, assault, self-harm, accidents... You name it, there's a stati
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by zapita 9y ago
For homeowners and building operators, there is a safety valve you can install that will shut off the gas line when it detects earthquake-like shaking. This reduces the risk of a fire or explosion in the aftermath of an earthquake. Also, re
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by zapita 9y ago
It's one thing to argue that an investment is a bad one. It's quite another to say that limited voting rights mean you're "getting nothing in exchange for your money". I don't think you've adressed that cl
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by zapita 9y ago
> I can't invest in a company that wants investors money but won't give them anything in exchange for it. Other than financial returns, you mean?
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by zapita 9y ago
Isn't Keybase a for-profit corporation? What does it mean for a non-profit to support a for-profit? An emtry in the FAQ explaining this would be appreciated.
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by zapita 9y ago
I didn't say it was.
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by zapita 9y ago
The zoning definitely is more restrictive than other major cities. And it's even worse in the Silicon Valley towns - Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc. The zoning restrictions there are absolutely bananas.
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by zapita 9y ago
I completely agree that the file access APIs in Beaker are extremely cool, and solve a real developer problem. From a security point of view, it does slightly expand the attack surface, since there could be a vulnerability in that code whic
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by zapita 9y ago
> 1) Someone accesses your "site" directly on your computer via ipfs/dat whatever it is. This is static content I guess? And it's like your computer is just running a static webserver (kinda/sorta? It's li
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by zapita 9y ago
But that was already true with words alone. Lives are already ruined every day by baseless claims with zero evidence, no video required. People who already research the source of words before forming an opinion will now research the source
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by zapita 9y ago
One of you is saying that valuations are meaningless because companies will accept punishing terms in exchange for a face-saving valuation. The other is saying that valuations are meaningless because investors are dumb and will throw money
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by zapita 9y ago
Was it a company valued at $100M, or a company generating $100M in revenue? My guess would be the former - usually if the founding team has figured out how to reach $100M revenue, they're smart enough to avoid hiring the kinds of idiot
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by zapita 9y ago
As a former hg user, I second that. The fact that git has so many users is a testament to our incredible adaptability as a species. If we can adapt to the git ui, surely we will have no problem colonizing alien planets.
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by zapita 9y ago
That's encouraging to hear. I will give it another go soon. The area that IMO needs the most work is the packaging experience, including the DSL itself... and the "I just want to build this source without having to become a black
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by zapita 9y ago
I didn't encounter any assholes (or rather I didn't encounter any more than usual... I have yet to find a completely asshole-free open-source project). Maybe "derision" was the wrong term. Nobody was rude or disrespectfu
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by zapita 9y ago
Nice, thank you.
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by zapita 9y ago
> Except that Docker et al are already that compromised solution. No need to replicate. I think you're right that Docker has embraced the "meet half-way" school of thought (maybe too much?). But that doesn't mean th

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