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Kudos on a magnificent post, and of course commiserations.

One thing resonated strongly with me. When we started out many years ago someone said to me that the worst market you could go after was to target developers. Case in point - every developer who's ever put up a web site has built or thought about building a CMS. There must be thousands upon thousands of them, virtually all with a price of $0. Who would want to sell a CMS product?

We heeded that advice and I often reflect on it during the sales process when we have the "lets just run your offering past the IT team" meeting. So often, the line of questioning from the smartypants dudes in the room is all about tripping us up, finding our weak spot (I'm a techy so I get it - I think like this myself).

The best you can normally come out of that meeting with is grudging acceptance from IT that a SaaS solution should be OK, given that the business is in a rush and all, and given that IT has other priorities. (To be fair its much less like this these days, but a few years ago this was the norm).

By contrast, showing your product to a business person is a breath of fresh air. They don't want to build it themselves, they don't really care what's under the bonnet, they just want good, quick solutions to their actual problems, so they can go home at night and sit down to Netflix. HR people (our target market) are even nicer.

What's more those business people want to pay for your solution. A quick way to kill the deal is to joyously tell them "its free!". They need to understand how you get your buck at the end of the day. They'll never buy until they understand that. And the best (because its the simplest) answer is "we've got the best product, so we charge good money for it".
My eyes, the small text.
> “My client was maxed out,” Wang said. “He wanted to be self-sufficient: `I’m independent. I don’t want my parents to help me.’ But now he’s realized he’s got to have that conversation with his mother to borrow a couple of hundred thousand dollars, just in case that situation happens again.”

Must be nice to have parents who can just loan you ~$200k to make an offer on a 2 million dollar house in Sunnyvale of all places.

I can't get over how ridiculous the market in the bay area is right now.
> If you're open to edits, the $200k revenue/employee rule of thumb really doesn't make a lot of sense when you're comparing your three alternate business models

Sure, but for many venture funded companies and even large enterprises top-line is the top metric you're focused on. If you're in a growth industry it's about top line revenue, capturing market share, and cost of underlying bits will eventually come down.

> turns out to just not be true in practice. People pay us (Cloud SQL) and AWS (RDS) a surprising amount of money to run MySQL in a VM for them.

For infrastructure providers to "service-ize" you can set cost as a much smaller markup on the cost of the raw infrastructure. Most large organizations (AWS/GCE) have a model where they give some credit for the underlying infrastructure back to the team that servicized things. This is quite a bit different from a smaller startup that still needs to make some reasonable margin but has significant cost of goods of the infrastructure itself.

At the same time I fully agree with the notion that you should build and run a service, but if the marketing or even product perspective of such a thing is we installed a VM for you you're entirely missing the point. Having built an as-a-service product a few times over, there is a lot of engineering and product work that goes into it. Turn key backups, point in time recovery, high availability, performance monitoring are all not just installing a VM. And it's very different from building a core database engine. While there can be many benefits from collaborating on them, they are very different skill sets and the notion of focus shouldn't be underweighted.
Count me in. My LCD monitor gets hot with usage all day, and is next to my bed (very close to my pillow). I turn it off just before going to bed. In a few minutes, the monitor cools down, and the plastic makes a crackling sound. Boom. Flash of light.
Hmm, doesn't happen to me! I'm on version 55 fwiw.
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And I do not respect you for your heartlessness, illogic, intellectual dishonesty, and immorality ... what, you expect her to turn down a settlement offered by the landlord? No, you don't really, and you wouldn't yourself. The woman suffered through breast cancer while couch surfing during her eviction, for God's sake. Bad people disrespecting good people is the new world order. I'm done with you and will now bathe.
Best comment in here.
Cycled through many, came back to keeping the old fashioned Google Docs (Word) file. Just have a bookmarked link in the Chrome's toolbar. I envy those who've been using Word file to collect information for many years, well, since the beginning.
How well do you understand the kind of elementary algebra equation solving that is taught in high school? If you don't understand it well enough to write a program that can solve easier elementary algebra equations, then learning how to write a program like this is a great way to start learning how math works.

If you are interested in discussing this topic, feel free to contact me using the email address that is in my profile.
I was told (by their lead engineer) a few weeks before RethinkDB shut down that they did have an enterprise version of the software with features that are paid only. However, clearly, that product introduction was too little too late.
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I do find it truly sad how anti-intellectualism is pervading our industry and causing good products to die. Nowadays, a significant number of the hottest new technologies offer literally nothing of value beyond "low learning curve". It's my current belief that tech culture has lost nearly everything that once made us great.

Think about some examples.

MongoDB is nothing but the object databases of the 80's, rebranded. It's main selling point is "you don't need to learn SQL". Object databases failed and people at the time were willing to learn something new (SQL). Nowadays, who will do that?

Go's entire selling point is "faster than python, no need to learn anything new". In terms of language features it's again living in the 80's - Java got generics in 2004 and Java was way behind the times. In terms of speed it's worse than Java and Rust, maybe comparable to Haskell.

And NodeJS is nothing but "write server code, no need to learn a new language". Isomorphism simply didn't work. People think Node is fast because it can do async, but Java has been able to do threaded async for 15 years.

I wonder how much the industry could advance if we could simply persuade every developer to learn Java Postgres.
Good grief, Your friend actually said that with a straight face?
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Wow! its super fast and NO Javascript!!!

Where are you hosting it and do you plan to monetize?
It's really a shame that VCs don't seem to have figured out how to do DD on science based startups.

The same is probably somewhat true in tech generally, but VCs in this area don't seem capable of doing the DD. They invest based on personality, connection or business background.

That's all great, but really what these early stage companies need is a CEO with a strong scientific background and focus.

In my experience, those CEOs often don't come across as strong enough to investors who are generally more comfortable investing in tech, which is easier for them to understand.

So my hope is that high profile failures make VCs wake up, and assess scientific startups differently. However I think it's more likely that they'll just avoid them all together.
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Mods: Perhaps edit the title?
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Hosted db is the way to go. Just as a perspective - this is 2017. How many multi-AZ, failover tolerant, hosted postgresql offerings do you know of?

RDS, Heroku and Compose. Google and Azure still dont do hosted postgres.

So many people pay for Dynamodb. You could be an alternative.

The point is - rethinkdb still exists. you could still do it. via preorders on Kickstarter.
He was at center, and admitted to it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-19/apple-goo...

"“Like somehow we’re hurting some employees? We’re not,” Catmull said. “While I have responsibility for the payroll, I have responsibility for the long term also,” Catmull said. “I don’t apologize for this. This was bad stuff.”"

I can't find the other interview, but in a later interview he makes it clear his job is to worry about Disney's profitability.

I worked in visual effects for five years and loved every moment. People who choose that profession are fun, creative, passionate artistic, super energetic, crazy, smart, pull off the nearly impossible every project, out of the ordinary in every way, and crazy (listing that one twice). I miss the people. When I changed back to non-vfx development work my take home pay literally doubled. Obviously there is more to life than just pay! But the wage suppression has had a lasting effect... at the same time there are so many people who want into "the biz" it appears they that can/should? get away with it.
I am just getting started actually, so I will provide you more feedback as I complete part 1!

For starters, I found the pairing of the lecture, the code, AND the documentation to be particularly useful. The setup in anaconda really enables to you compare/understand inputs and outputs, which at least for me, is very helpful! Big fan of learning through practical application, which the aforementioned combo is well suited for, imo.

Kudos and thank you (and the team) very much for all of the hard work! I am not sure I'll be able to attend part 2 in person but I will be sure to follow along online. If I am ever in SF at the time of a course, I will certainly apply!

All the best.
Been using it for about a year, and like it. But switching off because it doesnt sync with anything and I cant use it on my Android.
Most if not all relatively modern clients support DHT and other peer locating methods. Just copy the info hash on the torrent results page & paste into your client. HTTP trackers help find peers who are more firewalled I believe, and also potentially speed up the start of downloads.
Unpaywalled summary: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/theranos-could-face-new-san...
Obvious counter examples flood my mind.
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Interesting idea, but perhaps it's also possible to look at it as the industry broadening. 40 years ago, you had to be pretty knowledgeable to get anything at all done with computers. These days, it's possible for more people to do things, and yet there's still a market for people who are deeply knowledgeable.

A lot of people don't care much about the tech, and just want to build something. If easier (for them) tech lets them, that's a win, no?

Of course... that's easy to say but harder to swallow when they end up building something, making some money, and then hiring a developer to clean up their hideous mess. I've been there too.
"She leaked the documents to Wikileaks, who decided to publish them uncensored. She had no control over what Wikileaks would do."

The first part of your sentence shows why the second part is nonsense. Manning dumped a bunch of classified information on a third party. Manning left the ethical decisions to that third party. That is certainly preventable as many others have prevented it. I've done so many times with confidential information that I make public in a selective way in my writing that protects sources or just details that must be private.

Truth is Manning's mind was messed up due to internal struggles, she also saw messed up stuff in military, and simultaneously was blindly trusting third parties to make the right decisions. The combination led to a damaging, criminal decision to turn all of that over to Wikileaks rather than pure whistleblowing of combing for corruption to selectively leak and/or redact. This is what she was rightly punished for although how the punishment was delivered was cruel and should've been illegal.

Glad Manning is to be released soon but she set it in motion with foolish decisions that had alternatives. It certainly wasn't an inevitable set of cause and effect.
On the other hand, I understand why most developers wouldn't pay "even the price of a Starbucks coffee" for the product: because paying anything as a developer is hard. It requires making the case for why you need it to other people in the company. Developers aren't usually in a position to make financial decisions on a whim, especially those where the cost will probably grow in the future.
No, we DONOT have any plans to monetize. NO javscript was a design feature for security focused users. We also DONOT place any cookies (and donot track). We wanted users to experience a fastest experience possible without worry about adblocks, noscripts etc.
Decent search engine. I'll keep this in mind if torrentz2.eu goes down.

Maybe consider supporting an alternate way to access your website as a Tor onion service too?
Try Warp Browser for Android too,

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.em.warp.br...

It includes ad blocking, Do Not Track, and other privacy features. It's based off Chromium and is just as fast and reliable as stock Chrome is on my Pixel.
>medicine is often like debugging a large complicated messy system...

A system, that you didn't write and don't have access to the source, Now, try fixing a large and complex software system only by observing inputs and outputs only.

This is not even going into the fact that how every one will be running a slight different version, which might also be influenced by a million factors such as environment, food habits and past and current medications....

It is virtually impossible, even for moderately large software, even without considering the latter..
I admit that this sort of individual is particularly hard hit. There are programs that can help with different aspects of that situation, but no guarantee all will work with enough synchronicity to facilitate a full college education. That said, people who have it that rough also have nothing to lose. That's exactly the sort of person who could tolerate temporary homelessness if it means a better future. If the baseline goal is to improve their financial station, they should be going after trade skills, not full college. Trade skills could get them a stable career, a car, and solid resume. After that, they can consider going further, but there is definitely a path.
We have "only the word" of everyone with security clearance that they are not leaking secrets to foreign agents.

You don't have to be physically present in Russia to provide the Russians with intelligence.

I don't know why it makes any sense to assume that Snowden is leaking any more than what he gave to the journalists. His entire mission was out of loyalty to the American public, he did not intend to end up in Russia, and he wants to return to the US. America is keeping him out because they will not guarantee him a trial that meets his criteria of fairness/openness.
On behalf of all NoScript users, I thank you :)
>"the median home value is $961,600, according to Zillow."

Being from the Midwest, this is such a foreign concept to me. Looking at Des Moines, $955,000 will get you a 5 bedroom with 3 full and 2 half bathrooms, 1.26 acres, 7037 square feet, and a 5 car garage. And that house has a really nice interior too!

That house in the first picture of the article would probably be $100,000 or so based on its size.

I understand larger cities offer a higher salary, and that the salary can more than offset the cost of living increase, but it would pain me to think about spending that much money on housing (whether renting or buying).

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/15-Greenwood-Ter-Des-Moine...
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Is there an alpha or beta program for the android app?
What gpderetta said, and also Teresa May pushed aggressively for RIPA, and has spoken about getting out of the jurisdiction of the ECHR.
Is this news? I could buy a Ferrari before I could buy a house here.
I just sent an email to the mods about those comments. And yes, i acknowledge that they are newer than your last post to me. I see how my comment implied otherwise, and i apologize for that. I am really, really appalled at those comments and i was uncareful in writing about it.
I guess this is you missing the point.

> Why did you dishonestly call it a nitpick, rather than the essential point that it is?

You should understand the point being discussed before accusing people of dishonesty. The point buttresses my point, if read using any definition of basic reading comprehension you'd chose to use.

> The landlord quite reasonably expected to pay more if he were to go to court.

And my point is that the unlawful eviction of somebody, even with punitive damages, shouldn't rise to even the same order of magnitude of 400k, let alone a huge amount higher. That's enough to buy a new house in much of the rest of the country.

The punitive damages should be something to do with the total lawyer fees in the case, as well as the expenses to move, as well as a deterrent amount.

NOT the ability to buy an entire new house, or an amount which might reasonably requiring the person being sued to sell the house. Now is the point clear to you?
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I've been using GIMP sparingly on my MBP and it's been working just fine, I know it's difficult to work with GTK apps in macOS, but installing it through homebrew cask was really smooth.
Agreed, but I don't see an option to update/edit the title. Do I need to have more karma points for that?
Buying a Ferrari is not a problem, it's the maintenance that gets you.
Instagram should have a native app for use on the mac that allows uploads. I'm really hoping they don't block this one from using their API.
To back you up on this, at the last place I worked we ran our own MySQL master and slaves for years, with moving to RDS always on the back burner. Finally completing that migration and shutting down our own servers was a big achievement. Never looked back, and were happy to be paying AWS to take care of the DBs for us.
This has been true in Manhattan for how long?
As a dev employee turned freelancer, the onboarding is still there but much different. Much more focused on learning just enough to work on specific tasks vs poking around for a week or two and figuring out the whole system. I'd say I spend 1/4 the time onboarding as a contractor vs as an employee.
>When that something is a "think tank", adults understand that what it produces is intellectual ammunition for increased privatization and reduced protections for consumers, employees and neighbors of business. In this case, very low-grade ammunition.

Only a mental child would believe in this caricature.

And authoritarian prohibitions against consenting adults engaging in voluntary interactions, like buying an experimental drug not approved by the FDA, or working a job that doesn't provide some mandated benefit like statutory holidays, do not "protect" consumers or workers. It restricts their rights and forces them to follow government preferences over their own.

Only a child would buy the socialist propaganda and believe that violating people's human rights by punishing those who don't abide by some intrusive mandate, is "protecting" them.

>Fact: on the basis of influence, there is no socialist or pro-cooperative-ownership analog to Mises or Manhattan Institute nor to any one of the dozens of pro-market / libertarian think tanks cranking out "science" that always finds in favor of capitalist boardrooms.

How delusional you are. There are a ton of statist and/or left wing think tanks and public policy research institutions.

The Economic Policy Institute, the Center for American Progress, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities are a few of many organizations that promote highly anti-libertarian policies.

The Hamilton Project, heavily funded by banks, supports a government backed central banking cartel that violates essential rights to free exchange, and numerous leftist programs designed to buy votes.

Massively funded academic institutions lean heavily leftist as well.
I too can make a rumbling sound at will since I was a child.

What is responsible for this?

I don't know how I discovered how to do this but it always seemed natural.
This will end up being what normalises remote working
What are all the people going to the bay area planning on doing long term? Was it never a long term place for most people? Just not thinking about it? Renting and living with roomates forever?
I made about 22,000 a year when I quit my full time job in retail, went back to school, and now I make far more. It's hard being poor, but much of the struggle is brought on by a lack of awareness. I know this because a huge portion of my sample were people that worked alongside me. There is a lot out there to help people get from the bottom up, they just have to look for it in the right places. With an income as low as mine, I paid essentially nothing for college and qualified for all sorts of assistance and tax breaks. It can be done, you just have to be willing to work hard at it and get the help that's already there.
You're right, there are differences - medicine is more rigorous (in a sense), processes are more regulated, there's more "standard procedure" which is more specifically taught and widely followed.

But doctors screw up all the time. Sometimes it's dumb mistakes like instruments left in the body after surgery, or the wrong limb operated on. (Like failing to check length when copying a buffer perhaps? Sometimes it's just a bit embarrasing, sometimes catastrophic.) More often, it's just not finding the real cause of the "bug", applying a "fix" or "cleanup" that doesn't fix it.
The article describes how a college with 2000 student email accounts couldn't get Google to unlock their administrator account. And it wasn't resolved by Google until the legal situation with the fired IT employee made the news. The college switched to another cloud provider. It sounds one-sided, but also believable.

From the article,

<quote>

School officials asked Google for help. Google, the college said, refused to grant access to anyone other than Williams, who was listed as the account's sole administrator.

...

About 12 hours after an IndyStar reporter contacted Google representatives on Friday, the college's attorney, Scott Preston, said the internet company unlocked the account and returned control of the emails and data to the school.

Before that resolution, Preston told IndyStar: "The college has done all it can to resolve this short of police intervention or suing Google."

</quote>
I wonder what the thought process of people buying $1MM+ houses in SV really is. I mean how much more are the prices going to go, so that's clearly not an investment. Even if the only job you could get was in SV, required you to stay close by _and_ paid enough, you are still paying a big chunk of it towards housing! Oh and you're going to live in a smaller house too!

It makes little financial sense. You'd be much better off earning less in the southeast or midwest and living big. Also wonder what the sweet spot is wrt city/jobs/salary/savings/housing.