cmorelli

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by cmorelli 9y ago
Honest question: why would I want a distributed scale-out RDBMS based on SQLite when there are others based on more performant server-based solutions (see Citus for PostgreSQL, Galera for MySQL, etc) My understanding/recollection of SQ
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by cmorelli 9y ago
Agreed. If you look solely at my comment in response to the one I replied to, it probably seems like I missed the mark. However, take it in context with the OP's comments for the topic "I can see what is going on in my head, that
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by cmorelli 9y ago
Ok, sure, but the OP didn't qualify his/her statements that 90%+ of us are lying when we say we're anything other than financially motivated. I'm attacking the assertion that we simply can't be intrinsically motivat
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by cmorelli 9y ago
I said money itself is irrelevant. Saying we work for money is stupid, because we don't. We work for the things money could buy. It's an arguably arbitrary distinction, but in this case it's important, because it speaks to th
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by cmorelli 9y ago
"That I need money and this is my best choice. I would guess 90+% of people who say theres anything more to it than this are lying to you and probably themselves." I'm not sure how I'm misquoting you here - you very clea
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by cmorelli 9y ago
I have to strongly, strongly disagree with this. First, let's talk about your assertion - we're basically all just in this for the money. If you want to make that claim, you have to be able to answer why. Why is money important? W
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by cmorelli 9y ago
For better or worse, SV is home to a lot of incredibly high-risk investments, and a large of early startups. Startups with a lot of money on the line and no path to revenue will do crazy things that frequently lead to toxic work environme
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by cmorelli 9y ago
My observation is that this is far more a function of the business' product/market fit than it is the size or age of the business. When you're struggling to pay salaries and bills, and there's no end in sight, often the
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by cmorelli 9y ago
See aianus response for some examples, I would also add: - Windows Mobile (pre WP8): Customers may have asked for a mobile computer, but most did not actually want a weak version of their computer crammed onto a tiny screen. Apple and Googl
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by cmorelli 9y ago
This. There's also a difference between holding your customer's hand and building unsustainable expectations. The only expectation you've built by holding their hand through the onboarding process is that you care about your
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by cmorelli 9y ago
offering to build (tiny! like, 5-minute one-offs!) features _just for them_ sort of blows their minds It seems worth noting that this can also be a dangerous strategy. It's really easy to fall into the trap of giving each customer ex
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by cmorelli 11y ago
This reinforces the general problem that strings of characters are bad candidates for authentication. Users generally fit into two categories: those who will use the same password for everything, and those who won't. The latter half is
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by cmorelli 11y ago
I'll second this. I have built a lot of ideas and prototypes over the last year or two. I used to spend a lot of time focusing on the architecture design of these things, building in microservices using the latest technology wherever p