My recollection is reverse engineering is legal, but it needs to be done carefully. Using staff that designed the "thing" you are trying to reverse engineer is not part of the doing it carefully bit...
while I'd love to see this, I think that is highly doubtful :(
Oh I know there are more than a few these days. My point was the majority of startups I'm aware of are still very hesitant to do this. From the conversations I've had its less that the founders of these firms are…
There was an effort last year to pass a bill to fix the AMT horror show with regards to options last year. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5719 I think ironically to the bubble many of us live in…
I'm not sure about "a lot of startups", I'm personally only aware of a very few that are doing this. Word on the street that I hear is that maaaaybe your current employer might do this for employees they like, but not…
So just as a FYI the reason that probably happened to you is that the underlying host was failing. I am assuming they wanted to give you a window to deal with it but the host croaked before then. I've been dealing w/…
This is not a scam. This is the real deal, with years of research and testing behind it. Disclaimer: I know one of the principals directly.
Operating Cassandra at the scale that Uber is going to require is going to be painful and as operationally draining as MySQL if not more. There are really not a large number of options here anymore with the departure of…
+1 to this as long as you are ok with an external vendor. A couple of caveats. If you are coming from Nagios, this is a different worldview on monitoring. Like many other solutions commented here this is all based…
One small data point, I've heard the same from my Pops who was involved with Air America at the time.
My recollection is reverse engineering is legal, but it needs to be done carefully. Using staff that designed the "thing" you are trying to reverse engineer is not part of the doing it carefully bit...
while I'd love to see this, I think that is highly doubtful :(
Oh I know there are more than a few these days. My point was the majority of startups I'm aware of are still very hesitant to do this. From the conversations I've had its less that the founders of these firms are…
There was an effort last year to pass a bill to fix the AMT horror show with regards to options last year. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5719 I think ironically to the bubble many of us live in…
I'm not sure about "a lot of startups", I'm personally only aware of a very few that are doing this. Word on the street that I hear is that maaaaybe your current employer might do this for employees they like, but not…
So just as a FYI the reason that probably happened to you is that the underlying host was failing. I am assuming they wanted to give you a window to deal with it but the host croaked before then. I've been dealing w/…
This is not a scam. This is the real deal, with years of research and testing behind it. Disclaimer: I know one of the principals directly.
Operating Cassandra at the scale that Uber is going to require is going to be painful and as operationally draining as MySQL if not more. There are really not a large number of options here anymore with the departure of…
+1 to this as long as you are ok with an external vendor. A couple of caveats. If you are coming from Nagios, this is a different worldview on monitoring. Like many other solutions commented here this is all based…
One small data point, I've heard the same from my Pops who was involved with Air America at the time.