EC2 performance (and other virt performance) is absolutely abysmal compared to dedicated hardware, particularly with respect to I/O. It's trivial to get a ton of IOPs into your own hardware and expensive/hard to get…
I can't disagree more strongly with what you wrote. People have a right to report the things that happen to them. If they lie, I hope they get ruined in a defamation lawsuit, but honest personal testimony should not be…
I'm using a throwaway because so many HNers seem to be rejecting any posts that do something other than cast doubt on the alleged victim.
Even if you build something great, and give it away, it'll still take time, effort and money to let people know that it exists and that it exists, that they should care, and that they should be impressed. If you build…
I also tend to take it on face value, because my experience is that women are treated extremely poorly at these events, particularly if they're even a little bit attractive. Large numbers of men, many of whom have…
but with lack of proof (and that certainly seems to be the case by reading the blog post) it is a very slippery slope to name the person on your blog. Let me get this clear: it's your opinion that unless somebody…
For what it's worth, nearly every major firm I've worked with rolls their own metrics. Mixpanel and all these other metrics startups are cute, but at this point in time the risk with integrating MixPanel is almost…
EC2 performance (and other virt performance) is absolutely abysmal compared to dedicated hardware, particularly with respect to I/O. It's trivial to get a ton of IOPs into your own hardware and expensive/hard to get…
I can't disagree more strongly with what you wrote. People have a right to report the things that happen to them. If they lie, I hope they get ruined in a defamation lawsuit, but honest personal testimony should not be…
I'm using a throwaway because so many HNers seem to be rejecting any posts that do something other than cast doubt on the alleged victim.
Even if you build something great, and give it away, it'll still take time, effort and money to let people know that it exists and that it exists, that they should care, and that they should be impressed. If you build…
I also tend to take it on face value, because my experience is that women are treated extremely poorly at these events, particularly if they're even a little bit attractive. Large numbers of men, many of whom have…
but with lack of proof (and that certainly seems to be the case by reading the blog post) it is a very slippery slope to name the person on your blog. Let me get this clear: it's your opinion that unless somebody…
For what it's worth, nearly every major firm I've worked with rolls their own metrics. Mixpanel and all these other metrics startups are cute, but at this point in time the risk with integrating MixPanel is almost…