thebyrd

I've made money on my ISOs at every startup I was an early employee of. The secondary markets are fairly liquid if you know how to navigate them. None of the companies were in the Bay Area either.

But it seems to get it right if you ask the same question in the opposite order https://www.google.com/search?q=Earth+Distance+from+Sun

You mentioned that you would write about how SV is different than what's happening at the seed stage everywhere else. What's the tl;dr of that upcoming post?

Palantir doesn't do any machine learning (or AI).

I think you're under estimating the number of people required to run your own infrastructure. You need people who can configure networking gear, people swapping out failed NICs/Drives at the datacenter, someone managing vendor relationships, and people doing capacity planning.

I think you could probably get the IO performance you're talking about in your blog post from AWS instances or Google Cloud's local NVMe drives, but if you truly need baremetal, I'd recommend Packet or Softlayer. Don't try to run your own infrastructure or in a year you'll be: https://imgflip.com/i/1fs7it

just out of curiosity, why did you choose to host this on bitbucket and not Github?

As founder of an early stage SaaS company, this is amazing. Thank you!

Nice project! The callbacks on event listeners reminds me a lot of javascript and can get messy. Go handles this with channels. Why did you decide not to use channels to emit events?

The squashed commits is pretty awesome. Here's what someone on our team found about the performance based against `docker pull` on quay using the same images for various scenarios:

Okay I was testing this squash pulling method, and here's the performance results I found.

Below, the tag only has VIM installed, the update installs Emacs.

First column is docker pull the next is the squash pull.

Latest pull w/o Ubuntu base downloaded: 38.1s | 19.4s

Latest pull w/ Ubuntu base downloaded: 32.8s | 18.8s

Tag pull w/o Latest downloaded: 38.3s | 21.4s

Tag pull w/ Latest downloaded: 5.7s | 20.8s

Tag pull(up to date): 2.2s | 20.1s

Tag pull(updated commit, old tag downloaded): 13s | 34.2s

Of course these values all depend on the things being installed but time differences for the tag pulls make this seem bad because it always has to download the entire commit tree.

what makes you think he doesn't

+1

webvan

"not too many people drive Ferraris or talk about their vacation homes" unless you're in Palo Alto, Atherton, Woodside, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Los Altos, etc.

That's probably why there's been a geographic shift to SF.

Obviously... most VC firms don't invest in competitors because it would be a conflict of interest.

no

Bowery.io does this and is already avaiable and free. https://laracasts.com/lessons/bowery-is-pretty-darn-insanely...

I'm so glad someone finally said this publically. Everyone always writes posts about how magical docker is, but the reality is that Docker more of a PR engine then a usable production virtualization solution.

You can configure your Bowery environment with whatever tool you use in production (chef, puppet, Ansible, etc) and then export the VMs to whatever production format you prefer.

The primary value add is that if your production system is too large to run on VMs on your computer now you can develop in your prod env

This is hot. Great approach to the same sorts of things we're working on at http://bowery.io and a logical next step for vagrant.