HackerNews often snuffs out the websites it links to -- the "hug of death". Damn it. Guess I'll come back in 20 minutes.
Au Revoir
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Re: Au Revoir
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why companies take on hosting their blog and marketing page (usually the homepage) when it isn't their core competency and a distraction for the engineering team to maintain. It looks like this is true for Docker which seems to be hosting it themselves instead of using Wordpress.com » nslookup blog.docker.com Server: 192.168.86.1 Address: 192.168.86.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: blog.docker.com ca…
When did that become so hard -_-
Because a blog at scale is still a complicated piece of software? You need to implement caching, DoS protection, security - something a hosted blog vendor might have experience in.
Re: Au Revoir
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why companies take on hosting their blog and marketing page (usually the homepage) when it isn't their core competency and a distraction for the engineering team to maintain. It looks like this is true for Docker which seems to be hosting it themselves instead of using Wordpress.com » nslookup blog.docker.com Server: 192.168.86.1 Address: 192.168.86.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: blog.docker.com ca…
well if a company which tries to sell solutions for high scale , high performance solutions and fast rollout and scaling. hosts their own blog (instead of using a hosted solution) AND can't scale it to their needs, than I would say their product failed. Either because they couldn't use it in this case (because too hard, etc, whatever) OR because it basically didn't worked.
They are a container company, not a scale your blog + scale your database + scale your cache + scale your security company.
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#204Four months ago on HN, an anonymous account posted "SHykes has left Docker" [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15650335
I remember that. I was one of the users asking for the source. I wonder who the OP of that post was.
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#205HackerNews often snuffs out the websites it links to -- the "hug of death". Damn it. Guess I'll come back in 20 minutes.
https://twitter.com/Docker/status/979059103128436736 twitter has a screenshot
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Running a company of 10 people is VERY different from running a company of 100, which is VERY VERY different from running a company of 1000 IMO thats a classist lie that keeps people in their place. Any reasonably smart CEO can learn his way from 10 - 10000. Yes, (s)he may not be capable of 10k on day one, but they can grow along the way.
What on earth makes it a “classist lie”?
Projecting, that's what.
All I read was that the needs and the skill-set to meet them vary with scale. There's no class-ism in that unless you project a lot of other stuff into it.
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#207I love the art made for the post. It's so emotional and powerful. The letter told the story, but the image made me feel the story. So simple, but yet so powerful. Also, @solomonstre has changed his Twitter profile picture. This is brilliant communication. He lets everyone know that he has moved on to other things, just from his profile picture. I think this is very interesting and clever.
I wonder a sandal like the one in the picture or a yacht instead would depict the situation better.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a reason why most startups don't go big - burning vision is not even close to being the right formula for success. Running a company of 10 people is VERY different from running a company of 100, which is VERY VERY different from running a company of 1000. Just like precious few individual contributors are comfortable with and able to contribute meaningfully in this wide range of environments, it doesn't make…
> Running a company of 10 people is VERY different from running a company of 100, which is VERY VERY different from running a company of 1000 IMO thats a classist lie that keeps people in their place. Any reasonably smart CEO can learn his way from 10 - 10000. Yes, (s)he may not be capable of 10k on day one, but they can grow along the way.
A lot of research has gone into describing this "classist lie". It is not simply something that the parent stated as a truism. Organizational theory seems to suggest that founders are, as a general rule, not the best CEOs for a maturing company.
See, for example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_life_cycle
and its sources.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the phrase you're looking for is "exceptions that prove the rule". For every CEO that took a company from nothing to 10k employees, there are so many more examples of the opposite that you can't even begin to name them. You're able to name the exceptions because there are so few exceptions.
That phrase is widely misused. The intended usage is where a rule is implied by the explicit stating of an exception. For example, a sign labeled "No Parking 9AM - 7PM" states an exception, and implies that parking is allowed outside of the time. The stating of the exception proves the existence of the more general rule. In this case, the appropriate term would be "survivorship bias". Those who survive are noticed an…
According to Wikipedia, there are multiple ways to use the phrase. The way I used it is listed under "loose rhetorical sense".