fjsousa's comments

not sure that will fly with the marketing team

I've been using spideroak and encryptr for a while and I'm assuming the data stored by them up until now is secure given that it was a zero knowledge service. Any opinions on this?

yeah, of course you can't blame tech itself, but the whole social democracy project is crumbling down. As an european visiting SF it was heart breaking, the disparity of living conditions. spending the first few days commuting from russian hill to the financial district vs visiting the tenderloin in my last few days. I simply can't understand how a city so socially minded accepts such a wealth gap. I mean, it was like visiting some parts of Brazil. I've found that everyone leaves SF a notch to the left of the political spectrum.

You can get away with treating your employees like that if they only need to do menial work. But still, I wonder how sustainable was the increase in productivity? Because one explanation for that increase could be the fact that the employees felt they were being punished and were afraid to lose their only source of income, thus having to show work. Otherwise they would have left immediately under those conditions.

Another question is, could your father had had the same increase in productivity, or even more, if he had used other strategies, like productivity bonuses for the team?

Being nice and respectful is not something that you try to do despite the relentless market competition. It's something that you must do precisely because of that competition. The reason being, unless you can have a good working culture, you'll end up with a group of desperate people that have no where else to go. Good luck trying to come up with any creative work or idea with a company full of desperate people.

I believe the intentions were good on both sides, but again, good intentions were not enough.

There needs to be great care addressing company culture. It may be clear what those values are when the team is small and made from people with similar backgrounds and life experiences. But how do you expect those values to be transmitted to others? If you don't clearly state your mission, vision and values, then you are going to have a hard time justifying any decisions based on company culture.

The model has lots of parameters, but you can only fiddle with three of them. Terrain and vegetation data is provided to the model by a database in a webservice. This is a function of the geographic location.

We compute in browsers using webworkers, which means that every javascript code we sent to a browser is managed in a different thread, without harming the user experience.

Indeed, this is not a sequencing demo, but an alignment demo. Thanks for pointing that out. .

You are using idle computing time to process the alignment so the costs are much lower. That said, we don't have exact figures to compare with an EC2 solution yet.