bkruse

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by bkruse 3mo ago
I used Waymo about 10 times in Austin - it was great. I wish they'd accelerate the rollout to other cities. I wonder what the major technical hurdles are for launching in a new city?
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by bkruse 8mo ago
You can absolutely walk into a showroom and buy one. Not a rare model but you could walk in with no relationship and buy a 296 now. I'd suspect many of them are - almost all go through new jersey if I remember correctly - with many goi
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by bkruse 4y ago
Lots of issues in us-east-2 for instances for us but also other regions when connecting to RDS
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by bkruse 4y ago
Yes - our service is down right now from connectivity issues (can’t reach RDS)
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by bkruse 4y ago
I worked with Kaz at Facebook - he's the reason I would want to work at Shopify.
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by bkruse 6y ago
Without doing the sales pitch, it's using comments as the medium for indicating purchase intent instead of clicking on a link "Oh, you like this item you see on your facebook feed? Comment sold and your size to order it"
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by bkruse 6y ago
Love Canny We use them at CommentSold for feature ideas, bug reports, and even top 1% feature ideas. The ability to tie it into our product and see the features voted on from an MRR aggregate not a vote-aggregate is phenomenal
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by bkruse 6y ago
Having used tiktok for a total of 10 hours now, I get programmer humor, car videos and funny animal videos - exactly what I want That's the whole point - the ability to curate content that you will like is phenomenal, especially given
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by bkruse 6y ago
"very fit" - not from a purely medical perspective. He had a pre-existing and related respiratory condition - asthma
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by bkruse 6y ago
This is entirely incorrect The ultra-rich will have a variable level of "decreased performance in their portfolio". They're still rich, especially if not over-levered. They are also well positioned to take advantage of any hy
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by bkruse 8y ago
It was a lot of fun watching the project and community evolve. I think you and the team did an excellent job. I remember a huge spike in users around when discovery.etcd.io launched. It was really a game changer for us building large-scale
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by bkruse 8y ago
"We want to buy Shopify but we can pay 1/10th of Shopify's valuation" I think Magento is "fairly priced" priced at ~10% of Shopify's valuation
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by bkruse 8y ago
Are you sure? They were adding 1 million users/day http://www.thefactspeak.com/whatsapp-adding-one-million-user... Even at $1/year - their 1.5 billion active users should be an equal amount of revenue. I'd sa
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by bkruse 9y ago
CommentSold ( https://commentsold.com ) | Lead UI/designer | Full-Time | Remote or Onsite | Huntsville, AL CommentSold is a social selling platform, where people order products through Facebook and Instagram via commenting &q
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by bkruse 9y ago
I'm surprised this comment isn't #1!
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by bkruse 9y ago
They should just do an ICO /troll
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by bkruse 9y ago
I mentioned this in the price reductions of S3 announcement People fail to realize the true cost of operating on S3, specifically when hundreds of TB of usable data is in play "By putting the "tax" on bandwidth, a lot of thes
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by bkruse 9y ago
This is a fantastic move for Amazon and I'll tell you why. The cost of long distance is nearing 0 and application providers are making bank. The pricing is also extremely disruptive. Most contact centers price minutes/DIDs just li
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by bkruse 9y ago
It's worth noting that, at that scale, you actually get PAID for inbound calls. At MagicJack, the cost of our went into the negative because of access fees. Even though Amazon is not a carrier (yet), they will likely work a deal to get
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by bkruse 10y ago
Openstack Swift - easy to get setup and reliable. Takes a little expertise but was well worth the investment in learning it!
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by bkruse 10y ago
This is one of the times that I am glad to be running my own distributed object storage. I'm sure it's not as robust as Amazon, but......
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by bkruse 10y ago
Yes, I run about 800 of them now. They have not been as reliable as the 6TB archive drives. I think this was related to a bad run that seagate had while manufacturing. Our numbers, overall (with 6,000+ drives now, if I remember correctly) a
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by bkruse 10y ago
(repost) Sorry for the delay - yes it's ploid.io - nothing up there yet. We've been in stealth mode while we've been building the system for our first client - HudsonAlpha institute for biotechnology Feel free to ping me at b
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by bkruse 10y ago
Sorry for the delay - yes it's ploid.io - nothing up there yet. We've been in stealth mode while we've been building the system for our first client - HudsonAlpha institute for biotechnology Feel free to ping me at brandon at
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by bkruse 10y ago
Yes - I think it directly applies to EC2 as well. Still an underlying commodity
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by bkruse 10y ago
That's exactly why I started Ploid. A consulting customer came to me a year ago, with a growth from 200TB/year in data production to over 6PB/year and their budget couldn't sustain that jump (or anywhere close to it) Hav
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by bkruse 10y ago
That's not true, the carriers are compensated through CABS (carrier access billing) based on number of minutes, not number of connected calls. Carriers have to accept traffic from other carriers, even if they have not paid their CABS b
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by bkruse 10y ago
The problem with the laws it that they are specific to the US. Many of these scams are coming from the Philippines.
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by bkruse 10y ago
You can set the CallerID name to whatever you want. We once had a customer that set their callerID name to "DEAD" to signal that the phone number was no longer in use. People thought they were issuing threads on their outbound cal
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by bkruse 10y ago
That's correct and could cause the opposite problem (where a legitimate callerID gets blocked). Smaller telcos restrict the outbound callerID to only CallerIDs (DIDs) that you own. This would be very difficult to enforce for a wholesal

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