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Probably not necessarily on topic - but I really want to give a shout out to Mr. Fowler. It’s really hard to find anyone in contemporary and practical software engineering who has …

It should not be about feeling bad or better presentation. The only filter that should be applied is whether the information is scientifically valid and relevant. This is usually a…

A few years back Rancher Labs was considered a disruptor in the PaaS space. Was it acquired?

I think OPs goal was to evoke reaction to his post On HN and looks like he was pretty successful at that.

The only way to be successful with EVs is to have substantial scale and that scale needs 10’s of billions of dollars, which means public markets or huge private rounds which also m…

I have been following Tesla closely for the last 5 years. The amount of FUD has been astounding considering no other car manufacturer has managed to launch a mass market electric c…

I went through some loss(dad) recently and I realized that I had an inherent need to communicate my feelings to my wife to make sense of it. I discussed why I was feeling what I wa…

Double woosh

Sugar industry mirrors the approach that the oil industry has taken. Both should be addressed aggressively by introducing real education, researching and developing worthwhile alte…

How much of this success is because of Elon?

Considering the privacy focus that Apple brings, Duck Duck Go could be an interesting play to reduce Google’s presence from the Apple ecosystem.

Have you heard of EDS? How about HP global? They were selling to enterprises and still became obsolete..

Doesn’t this call for an OSS vehicle platform that can be reviewed by thousands of contributors to avoid these type of issues?

I think storage should be decentralized with towns/cities working to store locally and forward as required.

Congratulations Alex & co for a great exit. I think the price is great considering that it is pretty much impossible to survive as an independent company in the infra space.

I want to become a bank robber now.

http://tuneofthetimes.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-dream-of-jetson... Wrote about this exactly several years ago, nothing has changed really

I doubt it's that simple. There are things you should just quit - things that mess with your mental stability. Then there are things that exercise the right muscles but is downrigh…

Email marketing is such a thankless process, with really low conversion of any sorts and irritation the usual emotion associated with it. Having sent several cold campaigns and rep…

Toronto is a great choice although doubt amazon will get the same incentives as an US city

I completely agree with this premise. Nowhere is it more obvious than in OSS companies. There is no open source business model that cannot be disrupted by the cloud bigs which also…

With the American election debacle and not being around during Nixon, I have realized the outsized role press has to play. Blogs, citizen journalism do not do it. You need dedicate…

PG makes it all look so neat and tight, however he fails to mention the number of serendipitous instances that drive insights and new ideas.