dmarlow

When was this? East and East2 had a lot of quota constraints due to tax season. That should be diminishing now that tax season is over though.

Doesn't Tesla have an open patent philosophy? I've heard Musk say that if someone builds a better electric car and it causes the end of Tesla, he's fine with that.

Maybe he's counting decimal places too?

Plenty of people know who they are and have for quite a while.

This is just absurdly false. What basis do you have for this claim?

I'd be happy to talk to you more about this. I manage a cloud team, oversee a sizeable budget, and have a lot of experience optimizing cloud spend (along with startup/unicorn/mega corp experience).

The play is, like what others have said, it's your expertise and providing consulting services to others struggling with cloud spend.

hn handle @gmail.com

> You see the company hire friend after friend of execs, friends' kids as interns, friends' wives as Executive Directors, execs' girlfriends as "Chief of Staff" - and you realize you need to get something too, so you use company time to form your own startup.

They do this because no one wants to work at their startup. How do you see this being solved then?

How about two of the most cost impacting elements in home building, cost of labor and land?

This. I have one and I think it may outlive me. That thing has been working flawlessly for over a decade.

I thought the PIN was the issue. Can't op just do a pw reset, wipe the phone and log in again?

I absolutely love it! Thanks for making it so simple and clean.

Totally get it. If you're into it for a few k to install, that's one thing. To me, the total costs for this seem a bit high. Who knows, maybe with scale things get cheaper. I'm definitely not their target customer, despite wanting to be.

Same thought as well. I recently self installed an 18k BTU unit. The lines came pre-charged, but I wanted it to be run exactly to length. For someone to come and do just that part (cut, flare and vacuum/charge the lines) cost me just $150. I got the unit (a pioneer) for under $900. The rest of the world has heat pumps figured out, no need for a tesla-ish version charging a premium. Cost will be the biggest factor for adoption for ElectricAir, imo.

If anything, a sweaty startup offering just the install for a nominal fee would do really well here.

It would be an interesting way to cover a lot of ground and see the world. I don't think I'd personally would want to do this indefinitely though. Cost wise, it seems to be on par with bargain cruise costs (from what I remember). I'd hate to be stuck on a cruise ship when there's a malfunction or illness spreading.

I think you're going to find HN to be against most rent seeking forms of "investment". There's a lot of hate on landlords, for both good and bad reasons. HN isn't on the friendlier side of the spectrum.

I would welcome this, but won't skeptics say that remote work was also touted as a huge benefit and companies are now looking to go back to office? I can see the same thing happening with 4 day work week.

Maybe it should have been, 'Machine helps man beat machine at Go'.

I stopped getting cavities when I stopped rinsing all of the fluoride away after brushing my teeth. If you wish to rinse, do so after a few minutes. I told this to my dentist and he said he wished that was more common knowledge, yet he's never mentioned it to me. Go figure.

Thanks for sharing! I had no idea this was possible. I think this makes things much more interesting.

Would those "happy" customers lead to more word of mouth though?

Not everything has to be a gimmick, right?

I would argue that engineers should look to build some of those capabilities into the app itself. So many users want the ability to solve their own problems themselves. Obviously don't allow them to reboot servers, etc. But if it's gathering certain types of logs, clearing certain things from the cache, first see if that's something the user could/should want to do themselves. You may end up not just with a good admin tool, but also better user experience and fewer support calls too.

Also a note about the dangers of cracked software. There could be malware, viruses, etc. The value becomes much smaller to use something that could ransomware your system.

Then, cracked software becomes free advertising!

Ha, I'd say rearchitecting is fun and incident response is not fun.

I think there are parts of the process that people enjoy over others and that's based on many factors, personality, company culture, managers, coworkers, process and tooling, etc.

You don't have to enjoy every aspect of it. Just like enjoying cooking, and not enjoying doing the dishes.

The important part is being professional, doing what's asked, not being negative about it, and look for opportunities to improve that part of it.

How is testing done in kernels? Is there unit testing, integration, end to end? I'm unfamiliar, but curious.

I don't know why, but stuff like this (e.g. the Apollo moon lander assembly code) is really interesting to me. I think it's because I wish I had this kind of knowledge and skill. It seems daunting to wrap my head around it and become proficient.

The write up was super clear and easy to follow. Thanks for the insights, context, and explanations! Oh, and the technology is cool too.

> If you can afford a $7 latte, they argued, why are you bristling at a $1 tip that would help your server?

If I worked there, I would have more issue with a place charging $7 for a drink and not paying it's employees fairly.

Good find. Thanks! A lot of the other points made here also make much more sense. I stand corrected.

> In Haiti, a country with a population of more than 11 million, there have been 13,164 cases throughout the entire pandemic

I think there are a few things at okay here. First, probably not super accurate reporting on all levels; infections, deaths, etc. Second, there may be something where impoverished nations suffer less because their immunity maybe is stronger. I need to do some digging to see if there's some correlation at the very least.

Yup, absolutely useful. Also good for companies to know how they stack among peers in their industry.

Some are more difficult to figure out than others:

  - Cost per tenant/customer
  - Cost by environment
  - Cost of/by change (i.e., introducing changes to app or architecture)
  - Projecting costs into the future
  - Margins, once factoring in other OpEx costs (huge implications given fast rising cloud costs and companies market cap being reduced as a result of increased costs)
  - Pro forma capitalization can also be useful, if not required by some finance teams.

I could go on about this for days...