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Re:Jenkins 2.0 is here on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:38PM (#11576339)
Concourse is pretty sweet. I enjoy it more than my experiences with Jenkins.

FD: I work at Pivotal (but not on Concourse), the makers of concourse.

Re:Why We Chose Kubernetes on Friday February 26, 2016 @11:41AM (#11182317)
Actually, Azure is fully supported! Microsoft wrote the CPI adapter themselves.

FD: I work on Cloud Foundry

That's one of the problems we're trying to solve with Ufora.

Because it's so much more difficult to write "high performance parallel simulations", we want to make it so you can write whatever code you want, and let the platform figure out how to make it fast, parallel, and distributed.

Glad to hear you like it! We think it's pretty cool ourselves :-)
PM @ Ufora here. Happy to answer any questions you might have!
Re:Apache Zeppelin – Interactive analytics on Spark on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:29PM (#9466787)
I find it concerning when project developers don't seem to know exactly WHY the product exists or how it compares to competition on the market.

If I'm spending a lot of time working on a product that has a clear competitor(s), I'd expect to know exactly why my product is going to be better than those competitors (ie. in which ways), and what their weaknesses are.

100% true on all counts.
So actually Hawaii has an incredibly high cost of living.

Turns out there are lots of people who are attracted to the allure, and a limited amount of space.

Re:Gigaom Closes Down on Monday March 09, 2015 @11:49PM (#9175906)
The metrics are often broken. Think about how you measure it...

Ideally, you want to pay the ad platform for sending you a user who will buy your product. So you say something like: "I'll pay you X for every user you send me who buys something".

Great, right?

Except now the ad can simply optimize for users who were GOING to buy your product anyway. So now you've spent money getting users who would have been there anyway.

What you really want is to pay for users "Who buy my product, but would NOT have bought it without the presence of the ad". And that's a much harder thing to measure.

Re:Deal forcing Microsoft to offer browser choices ends on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:02PM (#8769912)
And that attitude is why they have much more money than you.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine? on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @12:05PM (#8757980)
Indeed this was running on RHEL, though our client is a RHEL customer, and so far we aren't.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine? on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @11:54AM (#8757920)
Another great option. I'll try to get in touch with them today!
Re:Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine? on Monday December 15, 2014 @04:28PM (#8754572)
I can't figure out how they're "weird"... am I missing something?

EDIT: Yes, yes I am. Power8 architecture. Probably not best for attempting to reproduce client bugs :-)

Re:Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine? on Monday December 15, 2014 @03:03PM (#8754061)
That may be a winner! $150/week for a server that MIGHT get us a repro is a good place to start.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine? on Monday December 15, 2014 @01:43PM (#8753538)
Good idea! I'll check on that!
Re:Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine? on Monday December 15, 2014 @01:32PM (#8753474)
crossing machine boundaries doesn't seem to trigger the issue. We're specifically stuck looking for machines with lots of cores on a single box.

Ask HN: Where can I use a 40+ core machine?

When installing at a new client site, we (@UforaInc) found a bug that repro's on their 60 core machine that we have not be able to reproduce on 16 (32 HT) core machines from AWS.The bug is related to lock contention on many-core machines, and we're trying to find a machine where we reproduce the issue ourselves.AWS, GAE, Azure, etc don't seem to have anything this size. Does anyone know where...

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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what? on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @01:08PM (#8631560)
Why Betterment over Future Advisor? I really like the latter, but haven't really looked into Betterment all that much.
Re:Building Hater News on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:00AM (#8519478)
(he tried to originally, but(
@KevinMcAlear - can you share any details on the algo? :-)
commented the first time this made FP, not sure what happened. I still think this is a cool use of the HN API.
You've ruined the innocence of that phone forever.
This looks awesome. I can't wait for an API to plug into :-)
Another example of regulation being used to protect older, more established businesses from newer entrants that would supplant them.

Sigh.

Re:iMac with Retina 5K display on Friday October 17, 2014 @07:55AM (#8470456)
Well and it doesn't help that in the Win7-Win8 timeframe, Microsoft was pushing 1366x768 as THE resolution that machines should be using.

Walk through any best buy and that res will far and away be most common.

I for one welcome our new high-DPI overlords.

Re:Plastc Card on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @02:47PM (#8423106)
I think the real question is who is more likely to ship an actual product.
Re:Shutting down Uber in India was unwise on Monday August 25, 2014 @12:53PM (#8222587)
which is again, a very american-centric way of looking at things.
My particular favorite is "unicornfarts.com". :-)
Re:$99 ARM-based PC runs either Ubuntu or Android on Monday July 15, 2013 @09:29PM (#6049544)
I'd love to see if anyone could hack Windows RT into one of these. Could make quite the little desktop machine.

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