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by zapita 9y ago
I love the core concepts behind Nix, and have great respect for their engineering abilities. However I am skeptical of their ability to achieve broad adoption beyond their current community of passionate experts. There are two reasons for m
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by zapita 9y ago
Is CockroachDB ready for production? If so what's the largest known production deployment?
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by zapita 9y ago
I understand that it's fashionable to be cynical about ICOs. However the IPFS people have clearly been working their asses off writing solid software and giving it to us for free, for several years now. All along they've been talk
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by zapita 9y ago
That is an embarrassingly obvious answer, thank you. Someone had told me Satoshi was a made-up name without a clear gender, and I had never bothered to check that fact.
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by zapita 9y ago
I also like the keybase product. But when I see an ambitious, well-funded startup without a paid product or clear business model... that tells me I cannot yet trust their product, strategy or management team to endure. Next year they might
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by zapita 9y ago
Isn't keybase a for-profit startup leveraging advances in cryptography to build yet another social network?
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by zapita 9y ago
You can restrict access to content with on-disk encryption, and grant or revoke access with public key crypto. There is a lot of new tooling and infrastructure to create, but the crypto building blocks remain the same.
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by zapita 9y ago
I think we are saying the same thing. Which part of what I said do you disagree with?
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by zapita 9y ago
> Its probably too late though and people are moving off of it to the next javascript framework. But is there a viable alternative with the same level of features and ecosystem momentum? GraphQL and React Native, in particular, seem we
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by zapita 9y ago
> When Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin Whitepaper he defined it as a peer to peer electronic cash system. How do we know Satoshi is a he ?
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by zapita 9y ago
This is excellent. Hopefully other mainstream brands will follow suit. Once this issue hurts Google and Facebook enough that analysts start asking about it at earnings calls, we'll start to see some change. The only other avenue I see
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by zapita 9y ago
Here is a recent study of drug consumption room programs across Europe (including the one in Paris), and their impact so far. http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/topics/pods/drug-consumption-roo... Their analysis seems pr
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by zapita 9y ago
> Being forced to bow your head and meekly speak in just the right way is enough to make me want to vomit. And I don't know where this feeling is coming from. It's very strong, and it came on in the last 6 months or so. It doe
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by zapita 9y ago
It's surprising that our experiences were so different. Are you using CE or EE? And if it's CE, is it the upstream-supplied package or the distro-supplied one? In my experience those things can make a big difference.
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by zapita 9y ago
That's not lock-in, it's just a dependency. It would be lock-in if the vendor made it unreasonably difficult to remove the dependency.
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by zapita 9y ago
> I have senior relationships with at least a few major international banks with aggregate budgets in the billions, and they are betting on GCP If several banks are in fact betting on GCP as a primary provider, that would be encouragin
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by zapita 9y ago
Has anyone here used both IPFS and DAT in-depth? I am a happy IPFS user, and it seems that it has more traction than DAT. But on the other hand, the Beaker Browser project (which is based on DAT) is very interesting, and doesn't seem t
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by zapita 9y ago
Finally a modern shell that understands the importance of COMPATIBILITY! This gives it a realistic chance of getting real adoption. Shells like zsh and fish will never get mainstream adoption because they are not compatible with bash.
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by zapita 9y ago
I'm sure rkt is well engineered (overall CoreOS has good open-source engineering). It just doesn't have much usage, and whatever advantages it has, evidently it wasn't enough to convince a meaningful number of Docker users to
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by zapita 9y ago
There are definitely rules of thumb but there is a lot of margin of error. You can triangulate based on different variables. One variable is how much VC firms at a given stage typically need to own (below a certain ownership in the company,
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by zapita 9y ago
Didn't Docker announce Windows support years ago?
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by zapita 9y ago
> One could argue the same about AWS for a long time Yes, and it took them years to get it right. Which means Google is years behind, and doesn't have the benefit of a forgiving early market. > Google has gotten way better in
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by zapita 9y ago
I got the number the same way journalists get any funding number: by talking to some of the many people involved in the deal. Funding terms are notoriously hard to keep secret in Silicon Valley, because everybody talks.
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by zapita 9y ago
They want for the deal because, in spite of doing well on the community side, they did not go as well on the business side. Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Kubernetes are very crowded and difficult markets. Being popular with startups is a
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by zapita 9y ago
> Frankly, I'm not sure why Google would acquire RedHat, SAP or Oracle. Enterprise distribution. Without significant enterprise revenue, Google Cloud will never catch up to AWS and Azure. Nobody can beat Google on technology, but
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by zapita 9y ago
Take a look at Linuxkit by Docker: https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit . I didn't develop it, but I use it indirectly via Docker for Mac, which I use a lot. The latest version supports Kubernetes. This means Dock
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by zapita 9y ago
It's worse than that, their series B valuation was closer to $300M. Great for the founders, hopefully great for the team, solid for early investors. Disappointing for latest investors, but shit happens - and the best investors understa
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by zapita 9y ago
You are right. I was extrapolating future scenarios where Oracle or SAP trip up in their race to the Cloud, causing a major drop in their stock. Honestly it's a pretty realistic scenario, it's not a secret that the Dell, HPE, SAP
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by zapita 9y ago
> this is a good move by Red Hat to position themselves with rkt Red Hat does not give a damn about rkt. They care about Kubernetes, specifically establishing and consolidating a dominant position in upstream kubernetes development. Co
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by zapita 9y ago
Probably a mix. A lot of it depends on how they handle the sunsetting and migration. Assuming the industry norm, which is a botched sunsetting and incomplete migration, the majority of free CoreOS users would go looking elsewhere. And they

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