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by heretohelp 14y ago
>How do you know grove.io was dropped for the new hot thing? Because that's what happened to her last six projects? Are you completely incapable of inductive reasoning or are you being obtuse so that you can make the total unaccountabil
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by heretohelp 14y ago
The track record of everyone else is very poor :)
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Hosted IRC is an awkward place to be. Those that don't give a fuck are using Campfire/HipChat. Those that do give a fuck are usually hosting their own IRC. Find a way to squeeze out both and you have a potentially nice business model. (Host
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by heretohelp 14y ago
>Sentry is also open source, but for very different reasons than what you describe. I treat it like part of the business value, but that also means that many people can simply run their own Then there's no issue in the hypothetical scen
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Only if they demand I make them my sole source of food and stop cooking for myself while I'm their customer.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Google is notoriously bad about this by now, though. There isn't much excuse anymore after the last 3-4 years.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
What's with the hagiography? Culver made things people came to depend on, then those things disappeared. I don't see how this is any different than picking up women and telling them you think they're serious girlfriend material in a context
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by heretohelp 14y ago
We should take bets on how far the, "we're gone, but here's our new thing!" chain will go.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
>If they open sourced it, they'd likely feel obligated to support it. That's their psychological bugaboo, not mine.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
The Google API I was using had a 6 month lead time, no recommendations for graceful transition, no offer of data dumps, and the final shutdown date was never communicated.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I don't demand anything of them, but they won't create a dependency where I previously had none and expect to be rewarded with money for it. I am making founders aware of this attitude so that they can 1. Realize that there's a problem 2. D
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by heretohelp 14y ago
>I really meant my point to be a counter to its parent. I don't believe I've ever seen you do anything else on HN. I know you to be a reliable person, no reason to think you'd suddenly get fickle and take something I said seriously. Do
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I already have IRC for our company.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
The fact that nobody's happy with a profitable, but modest bootstrapped company is causing them to abandon these smaller companies. The abandonment feeds into the consumer mistrust and makes it that much harder to bootstrap the next company
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I am in the middle of moving an API over from a Google one that got shutdown recently. This has cost me a substantial chunk of time, more than it likely has cost you. I'm viscerally aware of inverterate corporate capacity for volatility.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
This is why I refuse to use external services hosted by small/tiny companies that haven't open-sourced their tech. Even in this moment, they still don't seem to be bothering to open source any of it. There's a lesson to be learnt here in te
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I'm familiar with Ken Thompson, so I'm more puzzled than someone who isn't familiar with his work might be. What exactly is his unique insight? Do you know any specifics or are you just speaking on behalf of the fact that he's a famous prog
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by heretohelp 14y ago
>I think Hadoop really wants every compute node to be on the same LAN. Fucking a-right it does. You should see the labyrinthine depths people descend to in order to scale Hadoop. Sub-clusters of sub-clusters, rack-local clusters, Zookee
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by heretohelp 14y ago
He's got an angle, alright.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
*you're And I agree completely. Varnish is goddamn magical and a fascinating exercise in a principled approach to kernel-oriented memory management (a mindset I don't normally undertake).
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Analysis, research, work. The stuff you ostensibly do when you're not on HN.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
On that note, what are the viable alternatives? All I'm really aware of are Google Proprietary Magic™ (motherfuckers. I want colossus baaaaad), CFS from DataStax, Storm (sorta-not-really?), and Spark.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
The situation with Color was uniquely transparent that it was ridiculous. This wasn't some "oh the business idea seemed good, but the team just couldn't get their act together", or, "turned out they attacked the market opportunity from the
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I'm a lurker on Quora, but would like to state that I've really enjoyed your answers on Quora. You're the only person I've actually bothered to go through the history of on Quora before.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
I agree that the total lack of structure in Sinatra can be harmful at times, but don't blame a technology for your team problems. That's just the bad workman blaming his tools for the faults of the toolbags he works with.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Will you guys do motorcycles? If so, between you guys and Instacart, I'll be living like a Persian prince.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
ElasticSearch does everything (including config) in /usr/local/share/elasticsearch in the vanilla (not distribution specific) install. Reference: Personal agony.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
Erlang is Erlang. Go is Go, but golang is handy nickname.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
golang is the standard way to find things, Google understands how to search for programming related stuff too.
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by heretohelp 14y ago
CTO here: I'm with Spitfire. > I'm a young programmer and don't trust my own code as a matter of course This attitude gets you an instant interview at any company I work for.

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