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It's the breaking the promise more than anything else that problematic, if the sources, presumably from these screwed companies, are accurate.

And with Thanksgiving, I'm not sure there's been enough time for it to further leak out.

On the other hand, it's a claim that Intel will do something that's both extraordinary and extraordinarily stupid for the long term, so we indeed need some more proof.

They'd over time lose the ecosystem advantages that an independent Intel offers. They'd probably also lose a lot of money since an in-house Intel would become much less competitive. Apple also doesn't need or want what Intel has to offer (highest performance but very much not the lowest cost to manufacture chips), unless my impression of Mac vs. iOS systems sales is way off.

It's hard to imagine Intel being in such dire straights they can let Google and Facebook blackmail them in such a market damaging way, although as noted by t0mas88 other big customers like AWS might be getting their own custom numbered parts. Or, who knows, might not need exactly these types of chips (I have no idea, not familiar with the market beyond what I buy, low/near lowest cost single chip Xeons for my personal workstation class computers).

But pissing off everyone else who buys these class chips, unless contrary to the article they do have a capacity issue, seems breathtakingly unwise, an inflection point indeed.

Totally disagree, especially since there can be great value in putting together a team of "great people", even if you do little else besides give them the tools they need to "get shit done", which is how he boils down the selection criteria.

I myself did that in starting up a student run computer center back in 1980, when computer resources were dear; I myself didn't have much time to contribute to it due to Real Life putting me in a full time job, but having procured everything (machine and peripherals, room, a few dollars for the needed electrical work) they did almost all the rest. Similarly I've saved at least one company by recognizing a "human resource" need and finding and selling the position to that person (LMI was the first example).

This stuff doesn't self-organize, especially since we're not talking about the domain of rent seeking.

And there's a whole technique of customer development that you evidently are not aware of that at least gives you a fighting chance to "succeed". Without following something like it, it's pure luck, often just being at the right place at the right time (think Jobs, SV and the dawn of more polished microcomputers, or, heck, Ken Olsen being a grad student working on a Whirlwind successor).

You say "do build it", but do you have any inkling "it" is anything anyone wants??? If it's something that requires more talent or time than you can devote to it, how do you get others to lend you their time and/or money to "build it", and if you have no idea if anyone wants it, how can you morally justify wasting the resources of others?

Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise (https://www.amazon.com/Walking-High-Tech-High-Wire-Entrepren...). Pretty cheap used.

Eh, that depends on your ability to generalize some of its lessons to the world you live in, which I'm sure it beyond a lot of people at the usual stages in their lives when they're starting up companies, especially giving the distractions of that process. But as the author emphasizes in his his very first point, your core team of people is the single most critical thing, and paraphrasing Paul Graham in one of his essays (which the author generally and perhaps specifically recommends), if you use average "stuff", you're likely to get an average result, and the average result for a startup is FAILURE!

Plenty of interpersonal things can be directly illuminated by The Art of War, lots of that involves threats subtle or more direct, the lesson about "death ground" is vital, etc. But you might as well add the roughly equally short The Prince by Machiavelli and no doubt other books, at least these two are short (and make sure you get a good translation of The Art of War, I wouldn't trust any that weren't done by a military officer, and therefore I recommend Samuel B. Griffiths' version: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195014766/).

More generally, how to you gain the wisdom to comprehend and put into place the lessons the author is teaching, especially if you're a callow youth? Reading (and rereading) "the classics" has long been a method for that, and one that works for me.

Emphasis on the re-reading, never stop learning, e.g. I'm on perhaps my 3rd pass of Churchill's The Gathering Storm, about the post-WWI period, it ends with him being appointed Prime Minister as the Nazi blitzkrieg falls upon the Low countries and France. First pass was in the '80s, 2nd I can't remember, and now I'm re-reading it about to turn 56 and learning even more from it, having, for example, learned a lot more about history, government and war all though the years.

Which then allowed them to compete on things like CPU design (pity they screwed up being able to make the VAX fast), whereas many companies that failed simply didn't produce machines their customers could use.

Hmmm, this is both a disruptive technology, and one where product-market fit was relatively easy.

But other advice might be "sketchy", a lot of companies, especially of the HN variety, won't necessarily benefit from documenting them as if you were going to franchise them. But maybe some? Ride sharing and Airbnb's business models?

The lessons about how incumbents are constitutionally unable to complete against this also, if sufficiently true, ought to help tamp down some the rampant paranoia I've seen so much of in startups.

Well, it does give you a number of "don't do this!" or "watch out for this sort of person" or developments lessons, and the bit on laws for a society at our level of "development" is priceless:

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age of beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one 'makes' them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted-and you create a nation of law-breakers and then you cash in on the guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

But, yeah, little positive that'll tell you what to do, the "invent a much better mousetrap" and, ahem, connect up with a market that needs it would seem to be a lesson is so obvious it hardly needs to be taught. But it does, as the author emphasizes, and there are many many books now that are really focusing on that.

You might be right, although the one known invention of it spread around pretty well, seeing as the Phoenicians primarily got around by sea. And I'm not sure it's always needed: while I'm not familiar with Cherokee, to the extent I understand Japanese, at the lowest levels it's encoded as a syllabary because that's the way their language works, and the ideographs they borrowed from China known as kanji in part help to distinguish between the many homonyms that are inherent in such a language, with the relatively few exceptions to strict use of syllables either easily encoded or a matter of spoken dialect.

But, no, we can't tell if a vendor commingles, we can only infer it in special cases like Anker as manyxcxi noted, or pick out vendors with high ratings and otherwise cross our fingers.

It's a colossal mess, and nowadays, if I'm not buying used books (where I go with < 95% rating and Very Good quality), I find a BS detector honed for decades, literally about 4 and half, is the single most useful tool in navigating their swamps. Which for me confirms they indeed have big problems, and that's not even counting their search engine, which as others have noted is bad; for me, by far the worst I regularly use, and like others I often use Google's instead.

All this implies to me that if AWS wasn't such a money machine, Amazon's stock holders ought to be very nervous. The company really need to get serious about these problems.

That most of the people who do have that experience, have, shall we say, shown such poor judgement that they should be automatically and firmly excluded from the process? Do you want people to whom the modern meaning of "neo-con" applies doing this? As Thiel himself noted, "A normal country doesn't fight five simultaneous undeclared wars."

This is one of Trump's biggest breaks from the GOPe(stablishment), after immigration. And unlike the latter, one I think most of us on the Right and Left support.

Note also there's little bench depth, so to speak, in Presidential transition processes when they've been happening at 8 year intervals since 1992 and switching between parties. Should Trump be emulating in any way W's transition process and methods of selecting people? I'm pretty sure that was the absolutely worst thing he was at as a President, that and his weird loyalty to the duds he'd selected, Trump at least fires fast....

His father was no prize as well, which means you'd have to reach back to 1980, and I'll bet most of the people on Reagan's transition team are dead or seriously retired.

Anyway, Team Trump is getting good advice from retired members of the professional military, but you definitely don't want to entirely depend on them.

Note also Trump is pretty good at picking people, he went through 3 campaign managers, and won because he did that, not in spite of it. Compare to, oh, Hillary's first in 2008, who lost her that nomination, apparently before Hillary realized it.

Also had to give up on Vanicream soap when I assume the company they contract with to make their stuff massively dosed two quite separated in time batches with perfume. Which also taught me to try 1 of every new batch of stuff I buy (I tend to buy stuff like that in April and October when the weather is mild, and increase my inventory to ~12 months so I have plenty of time to find a new brand or solution if the old one goes bad or is discontinued).

Hay, save the nose of the allergy sufferers in your life, get the perfume free stuff by default! At least if it doesn't cost any more to speak of....

And, yeah, I gather the whole shtick of Amazon Pantry is that you buy enough stuff to fill up one big box, no doubt by weight as well as size, which I assume they've worked out deals to ship cheaply. Haven't tried it yet since I've found WalMart.com to be so much cheaper, while there's some Pantry exclusive items, or, say, they're available in quantity 1 that way, I just haven't been able to come close to filling up a box. WalMart doesn't care, except in giving you a strong incentive to buy at least $50.01 of stuff at a time, which isn't hard.

Recent Real Life developments have resulted in logistics limiting me to cold stuff I can put in an insulated backpack with a ice pack, but, yeah, I could use this to get cold and frozen stuff without much hassle. Thanks!

Supermicro server or workstation motherboard that supports ECC.

Xeon processor to support the ECC, either the near cheapest or the fastest one before the knee in the price/speed curve hits, each generation was getting me another 100Mhz for "free". Arctic Silver heat sink compound, stock CPU fans (which I'm not sure they're shipping anymore). Arctic fluid bearing fans in general, BTW, and I use a non-contact thermometer to make sure there's no hot spots on the steadily fewer chips on these motherboards.

Cheapest Intel enterprise SSD for the system (e.g. 80GB SATA, only 1/3 the capacity in writes for 5 years but that's enough; I expect my next motherboard will use a more serious PCIe one, though).

Seagate Constellation "Enterprise" SATA hard disk for media, distribution software and other "cool" or cold storage (that might buy you better firmware, it will buy you a 5 year warranty, which you will statistically end up using).

Seasonic higher quality power supply.

Cases, well, I really liked a Lian-Li model they don't sell any more, I bought a bunch of those for myself and my parents and just cycle through them for each new build.

For my development (and media watching) purposes, Intel's on chip GPU is entirely satisfactory, and as of late, Supermico has a line of what are clearly workstation motherboards, plenty of slots including 1-2 for GPUs, no IPMI management port, HDMI output which covers video and sound output (I use a Turtle Beach USB analog dongle for Skype), really very little is on the board anymore.

And the systems I've been building with these parameters for 2 decades, and always run on a power conditioner or since 1999 an APC Smart-UPS, have yet to die in service, besides some of the Seagate hard drives (and I used to build, and still have in service, 15K SAS drives before I trusted SSDs enough).

But that'll be put to the test now, since there's no major speedup available from a newer system besides e.g. PCIe SSD support which I don't need, and 32 GiB of Kingston memory (lifetime warranty, which I've had to use once for a stick on a non-ECC Mini-ITX board) "ought to be good enough for anyone" ^_^. Although I note that Ubuntu 14.04 + BackupPC full backups actually consume all and more of my DRAM....

Last time I priced such a system, it weighed in around 1,000 US$, note of course I'm recycling the case and external peripherals.

You'll pay local sales tax since they have stores everywhere. Wish I'd started using them when I recently bought a case of Sapporo Ichiban Miso Ramen, Amazon, which I think had a slightly lower price, was out, so I went with a 3rd party which a high rating, which had the brilliant idea of unpacking the case and stuffing it into a Medium size Priority Mail box, which can comfortably only hold half as many. As long as none of the soup base packets were punctured by this stunt I'll come out OK, but....

The greater point is that the CEO of a company with digital user assets, let me call them, can be thoroughly evil, while company policy and enforcement keeps his hands from directly tampering with those assets.

Silently changing someone's postings is one of the vilest betrayals of trust a platform can commit, the only worst I can think of is forging new ones out of whole cloth, and if that happens without major changes resulting in the company, that says a great deal about it as a whole, and whether you should have any dealings with it, especially seeing as such assets have been used to criminally convict people, and specifically one Rowan O'Connell for this company.

I'm not sure how you can say this for a company that's notorious for using closed allocation.

Worst horror story I've heard, here on HN, was an EE who was also good at Python. He sure thought he was hired to do hardware, but found himself stuck writing Python to test hardware. Not wanting to end his EE career, he of course had to resign.

And, yes, I know in theory you're able to quickly transfer out of that first position if it's not a good fit, but like the anecdote above, we've heard too many stories where that doesn't work in practice.

As others have noted, the whole thing for non-VIPs seems expressly tuned for new college graduates, who, in the case of this closed allocation policy, generally won't mind working on "whatever" for 18 months.

I suppose this changes if you create an account and log into it, but the prices are initially quoted in Euros (close the US$ right now), and shifted to dollars after I entered my address in the registration process.

They say free shipping to individuals world wide, and the physical book I bought is going to be printed on demand by Springer Customer Service Center LLC, with the usual delays. And of course the ebook I bought was immediately available; all very slick so far.

So it that's what actually happens (very hard to predict, especially if the Congress joins the game), their actions will harm body shops and their employees who directly replace American works like at Disney, and it's telling that that stunt was blatant and I'm told clear cut illegal, but not those who get a US degree or who are the world's "best and brightest".

In Sessons' 2015 law, he proposed to allocate the visas to the highest paying positions, which if actually enforced, and adjusted for cost of living, would go a long way towards fixing that problem (while still leaving a host of problems with this visa, although maybe some were addressed in the law as well).