swingline-747's comments

Orwellian as some other companies' business models, but worse in some respects.

Yet another opportunity for yet another Sparrow or Inbox app. Thanks, Alphabet!

ProTip for casino-robbers in and out of movies: If you absolutely had to build a (directional) NNEMP impulse generator, an EPFCG would be the easiest, but loudest, way to power it... of course, it's obvious: don't anyone be anywhere near it when it goes off, as it would likely damage the cardiomyocytes and/or neurons of the sick, young and old at a minimum per Chinese research in this article about battlefield NNEMPs.

http://www.delhidefencereview.com/2017/08/01/a-short-note-on...

On the plus-side, that money has bought him the choice to build whatever, whenever, almost never having to beg for financing ever again and the choice to not sell.

DHH often talks like bootstrapping and not selling is The One True Way™ but, financing trades equity for time: accelerating traction or traction-ability that can beat someone else to market (T2M). It's a slower path, but it's not rushed either. Pluses and minuses to both, and it depend on the category and circumstances

Read the spec sheet...

6 channels per socket (2 controllers with 3 lanes each), 8 sockets, and 64 GB LR DIMMs.

128 DIMMs are $2-3k a pop.

192 sockets, 8 way, up to 24TB of ram w 128GB or 12TB with 64GB sticks:

https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-7088B...

If someone wants to throw more money on RAM to be slightly faster, that's a solution design-decision; it's doubtful Amazon would do that. If they are, great.

Isn't most vanillin created as a byproduct of the paper industry?

Also, I hope the prices of the real stuff goes down, at least for a few months.

Artificial sweetener anyone? How about some hair dye? (still allowed today in the US but not in Canada)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate

Sodium Pyrophosphate is also a "fun," somewhat toxic additive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrasodium_pyrophosphate

Retail price of the server components (no racks, PDUs, busbars, fibre drop, network switch, KVM, circuit-breaker, rack&stack, rack anti-tip bracing, artistic cabling, tech support):

CPU 8176M: $11,805.00 USD x 8 = $94,440.00

RAM 64GB: $866.23 x 192 = $166,316.16

Chassis + 2x 10 GbE NICs + SSD boot device: ~$8000

Total: ~$269k USD

AWS price: $803k

Under 150% gross profit margin (without electricity, fibre or real-state) over 3 years. I'd say the closer figure is ~ $300-400k per box for single company-scale servers, leading to a closer-to-net profit Amazon profit of around 100%

Although, it's possible to keep a server beyond its lifecycle and run it into the ground once it's already paid-for, as opposed to getting nothing at the end of the Amazon lease.

There's trade-offs for both cases; some people would rather pay more to not have to deal with quotes, vendors or shipping issues.

No, that's an misinformed, all-or-nothing, gross-mischaracterization.

Data management systems are a toolbox.

The core tenent, distilling ACID, of RDBMSes is referential integrity: that what a foreign key points to can't simply disappear and leave a dangling reference. If you have a database of customers and their orders, you want orders destroyed with that customer, and the referring customer can't simply vanish. There are several delete dependent policies, depending on the use-case.

Key-Value stores (NoSQL) typically make no such guarantees. KVSes and Document store are fantasic for less critical and more nondeterministic data like user profiles, likes and tags... things that don't matter as much, as say, bank accounts transactions. Only a fool would use eventual consistency where it could be gamed by making maximum simulateneous withdrawls of say a $1000 at multiple locations. This is where atomicity and consistency are very important.

Use the right underlying data guarantees for the task at hand... not like a consulting company whom tried to turn a DBMS into a NoSQL by having a single database table store everything. IIRC the columns looked like this:

     Key | Value | Type | Notes

Good luck indexing that pile of slow, and say hello to full-table scans for nearly every fetch.

This is bureaucratic nonsense. For 50 years, RC planes have been fine. This is a knee-jerk overreaction to take out their frustrations on convenient bystanders, eg hobbyists, when they can't defend against terrorists with flying bombs whom aren't going to register anything. Plus, how will it be enforced? Going to put FAA goons in park trees to catch those felonious dads shooting Estees model rockets and buzzing RC planes (aka "drones") around?

IANAL but I would ping WSGR, F&W, Orrick... and be sure first that they're not representing your current employer.

Definitely build things on your own equipment, using different technologies, on your own time and nowhere near said company.

In California, noncompetes are rarely enforceable... but again IANAL and do you own homework.

Been There, Done That, Bought The T-Shirt.

Solid core is generally for premise wiring (PVC jacketed in walls, PTFE-jacketed through ducts); stranded is typically for patch cables. If you try like the first place I worked at in the mid-90's trying to put stranded ends on solid-core wire, breaking of tools and unreliable cables will make.

There's cheapo Chinese cable tester kits on eBay, AliBaba and Amazon that do a good-enough impedance at GbE spectrum testing to not have to spring for a Fluke "will-survive-nuclear-winter" "official" tester. Backfilling connectors with epoxy is another idea to avoid corrosion... as long as it doesn't affect the impedance or dielectric values much. No-snag boots, axial aligned label zipties are also a big help. Barcode label and floorplan everything.

Finally, always test every cable with iperf3 (two laptops or one laptop w two ethernet ports) and reject for reworking/replacment any cable with abnormal latency or bandwidth figures.

PS: our head-office networking guy was awesome; worked 10% time just to keep benefits since his wife was GOOG's first admin.

That's a good problem to have, but be sure it's necessary to solve customer pain rather than to impress anyone or follow a "grand plan."

Talk to Triplebyte, get on Github jobs, go to related tech meetups... make it your mission to try out people and get more than you need, because some won't work out.

Always be hiring (at least long-cycle interviewing) so you won't be caught without some staff potentials whom are warmly interested, and able to speed up the process when scaling is needed.

Ask solid hires to recommend people they really want to work with because they'll be happier and it makes for faster interviewing.

You have to say "not right now" (rather than no) until you can deliver. Help them find suitable alternatives if you can't deliver in a reasonable timeframe.

It's cool but he probably got pinched for theft of service (ToS) by now, much like wiring up an extension cord to a street light.

To me, it comes across like a skewed, disproportionately-negative cognitive distortion, of what I won't speculate because I won't armchair/keyboard psychoanalyze.

Back the fatalism FUD truck up from going off the cliff with baseless, whiny negativity...

DDG is so good that I use GOOG maybe once a year as a secondary search engine. And I started with GS since it had a comically-terrible interface in 2000. I switched because they went evil and DDG was more than good enough being privacy-focused. The !bang searches are a big innovation and timesaver that sealed the deal.

Bing? Smh. No, no and hell no. DuckDuckGo all the way.

Firefox is a lot faster on startup and browsing than it used to be. It's now damn usable.

I'll keep Chrome around, like Opera, for browser testing.

Why is this person playing the victim here? Too bad if his fragile ego couldn't handle rejection, like that millions of others face everyday with grace. Giant ego, couldn't sell himself on what was useful or relevant, and instead sold himself on how "great" he was, no thanks.

And, he comes across to me like an individual who spends an inordinate amount of time around the water-cooler than working. Gossip behavior creates and spreads drama that's so unnecessary, it undermines the morale of everyone.

Two big signals of someone not worth hiring, even for free, because they signal being a massive liability. I consider this Mozilla un/intentionally dodging an exploding bullet.

I would wager fewer hours coding and more doing exercise, yoga, meditation, getting massages, sauna, etc. would lead to greater productivity per calendar unit time.