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110,926karma·51,750submissions·October 26, 2011
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Forward deployed scholar
"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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Our environment is self-managed and flexible, so I should be able to throw something together to run this. If I get it to work, I'll pass along whatever info I learn in the process.
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If only there was something like this for SQL Server =(
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I can short the end of the world; as long as there is enough time between when I profit and when I cash that profit out into something that will provide me with long term value (house, etc). For this …
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A Chicago suburbs resident here: You would think that as the system scales up, your cost per square mile would drop, as you're automating as much of a analysis and detection as possible.
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Being a graphic novel fan, I thought of The Avengers for the Internet
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So, today, I could run mission control out of any office park in the world with sufficient space and quality IP connectivity to either my own antenna farm or the Deep Space Network. This is indeed the…
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"But this is all getting off topic. What I was originally addressing was the OP's comment of "sorry, we lost your stuff, oh well". If you want that peace of mind, you're going to be paying for it." Ag…
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Fair enough; but you're still going to limit your liability. Assume your customer spends $10K/month with you; or $120K/year. Would you ever commit to compensating them $1MM+ in the event of an outage?…
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I've done hosting for over a decade; no provider with a brain is ever liable for anything more than what you've paid for.
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FOMO: Fear Of Missing Out http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/04/14/fomo-addict... …
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Popmoney is pathetic; three days to move money between accounts at the same bank (PNC Bank). I might as well go into a branch, withdrawal cash, and deposit it into the destination account, in which ca…
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Any chance you could build S3 support into Gmvault? So you could cron it on a linux box to connect to Google and push all the data into an S3 bucket? If money is an issue, I'd be interested in footing…
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I think 42Floors is going to get there first: http://42floors.com/
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"airbnb skunkworks? Yeah, they're three houses down"
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Here is the perl code that was used to scrape that data: http://pastebin.com/8RXXthXB
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Planes crash, yet people still get on them everyday. And they're still piloted by humans.
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Before my current startup, I worked at Fermi National Accelerator Lab on the CMS detector data taking team for the LHC. I spent a year there getting to admin the spinning storage (~5PB) on Nexsan Sata…
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Eventually you'll get to "Hey! Are you sure you still need Netflix? You haven't used it in weeks!" =)
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We have ~8PB of spinning storage that we built with the backblaze storage pods, and use Openstack's Swift Object Storage for the software layer. Works like a champ.
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Zuckerberg has majority ownership of Facebook shares; he has defacto control of whatever capital Facebook has available to it, whether it's "his" money or not. Was there not discusion that he didn't c…
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Zuck paid, what, a cool billion for Instagram? Elon spent $800 million, and has an orbital vehicle that can dock with the ISS. And SpaceX is actually profitable . So, yeah, you can be for-profit and …
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17557581
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And if you need even higher resolution (centimeter resolution), use use NOAA CORS sites (either with post-processing, or real time with their experimental datafeed) http://geodesy.noaa.gov/CORS/data.…
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Correct. The ground reference stations multiplex their data to the WAAS satellite, which then pushes the data on WAAS-specific channels (hence, why your GPS receiver specifically needs to be built to …
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I believe the proper metric should be "profitability delivered per # of hours". If I can be more profitable, in less time, that should be more valuable than how many hours as a whole I've worked.
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So, I'm going to be the one to say it. I love you after reading this. off to play with HelloFax
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Wut. I had NO IDEA you could do this. off to the Naperville Apple store
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Since when is providing advanced DDOS/DOS protection included with sub-$100/month hosting plans?
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Reasons why you don't need to be a millionaire in Europe (vs being a millionaire in the US): -- Guaranteed healthcare
-- A sane amount of mandated vacation/family leave time
-- A safety net for being …