smoodles

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by smoodles 9y ago
My recollection is reverse engineering is legal, but it needs to be done carefully. Using staff that designed the "thing" you are trying to reverse engineer is not part of the doing it carefully bit...
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by smoodles 9y ago
while I'd love to see this, I think that is highly doubtful :(
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by smoodles 10y ago
Oh I know there are more than a few these days. My point was the majority of startups I'm aware of are still very hesitant to do this. From the conversations I've had its less that the founders of these firms are morally opposed
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by smoodles 10y ago
There was an effort last year to pass a bill to fix the AMT horror show with regards to options last year. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5719 I think ironically to the bubble many of
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by smoodles 10y ago
I'm not sure about "a lot of startups", I'm personally only aware of a very few that are doing this. Word on the street that I hear is that maaaaybe your current employer might do this for employees they like, but n
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by smoodles 10y ago
So just as a FYI the reason that probably happened to you is that the underlying host was failing. I am assuming they wanted to give you a window to deal with it but the host croaked before then. I've been dealing w/ AWS for a l
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by smoodles 10y ago
This is not a scam. This is the real deal, with years of research and testing behind it. Disclaimer: I know one of the principals directly.
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by smoodles 10y ago
Operating Cassandra at the scale that Uber is going to require is going to be painful and as operationally draining as MySQL if not more. There are really not a large number of options here anymore with the departure of FoundationDB from th
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by smoodles 10y ago
+1 to this as long as you are ok with an external vendor. A couple of caveats. If you are coming from Nagios, this is a different worldview on monitoring. Like many other solutions commented here this is all based around metrics and their
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by smoodles 10y ago
One small data point, I've heard the same from my Pops who was involved with Air America at the time.