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Re:Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:39PM (#19629067)
I've made money on my ISOs at every startup I was an early employee of. The secondary markets are fairly liquid if you know how to navigate them. None of the companies were in the Bay Area either.
Re:Google thinks the sun is 15.81 light years from earth on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:20AM (#16211443)
But it seems to get it right if you ask the same question in the opposite order https://www.google.com/search?q=Earth+Distance+from+Sun
Re:The 2018 Seed Stage Reset on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:19AM (#16211435)
You mentioned that you would write about how SV is different than what's happening at the seed stage everywhere else. What's the tl;dr of that upcoming post?
Re:YC AI on Sunday March 19, 2017 @11:27PM (#13911459)
Palantir doesn't do any machine learning (or AI).
Re:Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com on Sunday December 11, 2016 @05:07PM (#13153644)
I think you're under estimating the number of people required to run your own infrastructure. You need people who can configure networking gear, people swapping out failed NICs/Drives at the datacenter, someone managing vendor relationships, and people doing capacity planning.

I think you could probably get the IO performance you're talking about in your blog post from AWS instances or Google Cloud's local NVMe drives, but if you truly need baremetal, I'd recommend Packet or Softlayer. Don't try to run your own infrastructure or in a year you'll be: https://imgflip.com/i/1fs7it

just out of curiosity, why did you choose to host this on bitbucket and not Github?
Re:YC Open-Source Sales Agreement on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @06:53PM (#9036490)
As founder of an early stage SaaS company, this is amazing. Thank you!
Re:Gotalk on Friday January 23, 2015 @10:33AM (#8935301)
Nice project! The callbacks on event listeners reminds me a lot of javascript and can get messy. Go handles this with channels. Why did you decide not to use channels to emit events?
Re:Quay.io New Features on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @04:25PM (#8853410)
The squashed commits is pretty awesome. Here's what someone on our team found about the performance based against `docker pull` on quay using the same images for various scenarios:

Okay I was testing this squash pulling method, and here's the performance results I found.

Below, the tag only has VIM installed, the update installs Emacs.

First column is docker pull the next is the squash pull.

Latest pull w/o Ubuntu base downloaded: 38.1s | 19.4s

Latest pull w/ Ubuntu base downloaded: 32.8s | 18.8s

Tag pull w/o Latest downloaded: 38.3s | 21.4s

Tag pull w/ Latest downloaded: 5.7s | 20.8s

Tag pull(up to date): 2.2s | 20.1s

Tag pull(updated commit, old tag downloaded): 13s | 34.2s

Of course these values all depend on the things being installed but time differences for the tag pulls make this seem bad because it always has to download the entire commit tree.

Re:The Other Money Problem on Friday December 12, 2014 @11:59AM (#8741193)
what makes you think he doesn't
Re:Docker extensions: the new Docker plugins model on Monday December 08, 2014 @02:20PM (#8718425)
+1
Re:Instacart Is Raising North of $100M at a $2B Valuation on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:20PM (#8708116)
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Re:Why Silicon Valley Works on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:39PM (#8552942)
"not too many people drive Ferraris or talk about their vacation homes" unless you're in Palo Alto, Atherton, Woodside, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Los Altos, etc.

That's probably why there's been a geographic shift to SF.

Re:Hailo says Uber blocked potential investors on Friday October 24, 2014 @03:59PM (#8505624)
Obviously... most VC firms don't invest in competitors because it would be a conflict of interest.
Re:Terraform on Monday July 28, 2014 @02:49PM (#8098623)
no

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