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by ahl 1mo ago
does this mean that you won't be killing anyone?
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by ahl 1mo ago
Elsewhere! We’re completing compliance testing to deliver to Europe.
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by ahl 1mo ago
The market is anyone who wants a private cloud but isn’t as big as an Amazon or Google who could build it themselves. Seems like a big enough TAM.
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by ahl 1mo ago
$400m of Simpsons references is undeniably a good use of VC.
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by ahl 1mo ago
We've shipped kind of a lot of hardware at this point!
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by ahl 1mo ago
Hit me up @oxidecomputer.com
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by ahl 7mo ago
So while most of the software is open source rather than proprietary, you still have a fair point that customers pay for support (as they do with most enterprise products). One could theoretically use the product without first-party softwar
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by ahl 8mo ago
Oxide uses illumos under the covers That's in no small part due to the composition of the early team--but we have benefitted tremendously from features (ZFS, SMF, FMA, Zones, bhyve, etc.) and observability infrastructure (DTrace, mdb,
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by ahl 1y ago
This implies that the goal of compensation transparency is to satisfy people's curiosity. I don't think that's the case. Regardless of how it's denominated, I think the goal of compensation transparency is ... uh... equi
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by ahl 1y ago
But the real hero was the person who walked 100 yards to home depot and back with the push broom!
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by ahl 1y ago
What makes you say that? We talk about salary compensation, yes, but there's also equity compensation.
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by ahl 1y ago
I can't speak for everyone at Oxide, but I'm practically certain that none of us wants to live in Sunnyvale.
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by ahl 1y ago
Several mistakes here, perhaps most egregious: Sun Microsystems might have made some people rich but that was looooong loooooong ago.
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by ahl 1y ago
Which is $167,202 in pre-pandemic, inflation-adjusted dollars.
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by ahl 1y ago
Equity is mentioned in the previous post: > Some will say that we should be talking about equity, not cash compensation. While it’s true that startup equity is important, it’s also true that startup equity doesn’t pay the orthodontist’s
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by ahl 1y ago
I didn't watch it in its entirety, but I'm familiar with Allan's work. There doesn't seem to be anything fundamental to the design of ZFS that his talk highlights as limiting, but there are many areas that have benefitte
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by ahl 1y ago
The claim is Collison directly to them: > Synadia CEO Derek Collison told Runtime Tuesday that the company intends to transfer the NATS trademark to the CNCF at some point in the future "because we just feel that the damage to the e
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Synadia backs down from CNCF trademark dispute(runtime.news)
3 points by ahl 1y ago|2 comments
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by ahl 1y ago
Embarrassed to say I had forgotten writing that and LOLed myself… no more reliable audience for your sense of humor than yourself!
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by ahl 1y ago
Maybe! Bryan and I were pretty close to the case and to the implementation of ZFS. But maybe Apple did detect some smoking gun of which somehow we were unaware. I (still) think Jonathan’s preannouncement was the catalyst for Apple changing
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by ahl 1y ago
Seems specious. Patents don't preclude one from overtly trying to compete; they protect specific mechanisms. In this case either ZFS didn't use the same mechanisms or the mechanisms themselves were found to have prior art.
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by ahl 1y ago
It was! And Apple seemed fine with including DTrace under the CDDL. I’m not sure why Apple wanted some additional arrangement but they did.
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by ahl 1y ago
I don’t recall that being the case. Bonwick had been thinking about ZFS for at least a couple of years. Matt Ahrens joined Sun (with me) in 2001. The Afara acquisition didn’t close until 2002. Niagara certainly was tantalizing but it wasn’t
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by ahl 1y ago
Certainly one would build something different starting in 2025 rather than 2001, but do you have specific examples of how ZFS’s design holds it back? I think it has been adapted extremely well for the changing ecosystem.
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by ahl 1y ago
ZFS was developed in Solaris, and at the time we were mostly selling SPARC systems. That changed rapidly and the biggest commercial push was in the form of the ZFS Storage Appliance that our team (known as Fishworks) built at Sun. Those sys
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by ahl 1y ago
Back in 2016, Ars Technica picked up this piece from my blog [1] as well as a longer piece reviewing the newly announced APFS [2] [3]. Glad it's still finding an audience! [1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016
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by ahl 1y ago
Sometimes data on disk and in memory are randomly corrupted. For a pretty amazing example, check out "bitsquatting"[1]--it's like domain name squatting, but instead of typos, you squat on domains that would bit looked up in t
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by ahl 1y ago
It's very amusing that this kind of legend has persisted! ZFS is notorious for *noticing* when bits flip, something APFS designers claimed was rare given the robustness of Apple hardware.[1][2] What would ZFS on iPhone have looked like
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by ahl 1y ago
Not sure how I fat-fingered Don's LinkedIn, but I'm updating that 9-year-old typo. Agreed that Don is a delight. In the years after this article I got to collaborate more with him, but left Delphix before he joined to work on ZFS.
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CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris [audio](youtube.com)
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