I post links to my blog post from time to time. Although none of them made a buzz here in HN but a few of you have contacted me in the past looking at my posts/blog. I have worked as a contractor for some of them and it has been wonderful working with them. Not to mention, you get paid a lot as a contractor.
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
He resigned due to having sex with his wife? In some marriages it may be an unusual occurrence, but I’m not sure why you’d have to resign because of it.
It was worded to be funny. He had had an affair with his now wife at a time when she was quasi? (Iirc) under him in the chain of command, which was against company policy, so yeah a firable offense, if, uh, a bit late. I think that it is not unreasonable to speculate that was the reason they gave and not the "real" reason for firing.
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#173Like many other folks like the founders of CockroachDB and CoreOS, we read a Google research paper posted to HN. I think this is the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20132520 We left Red Hat a year later and joined YC to start a company based on the Zanzibar paper. Out of that, the open source SpiceDB[0] was born. [0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
Hi.
Do you think SpiceDb is a good solution when massive distribution is not a requirement?
I need the flexibility to defined policies based on accessing object and accessed object criteria, but can be a centralized non globally replicated (in a single cluster) solution.
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#174Haven't made me any money yet, but it pushed me in the right direction and it happened yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335165#32335750 Started a weekly newsletter for remote working parents, dabbled on it a bit and saw a great post on HN that my newsletter fit in fine. Definitely got the spike of motivation to make it happen. I'm in the email marketing game for 5 years and sent hundreds of millions…
Bummer, because now the link is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335165&p=2#32335750
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
How much money did you turn into 500k? Predicting the consequences of a once in a lifetime black swan event is surely very lucky. But fortune favours the brave as they. You will never win a lottery if you dont buy the goddamn ticket!
Initially I put about €65k into put options. The crash came so fast that it turned into a lot more very quickly. If your bet turns green instantly, you don’t see the risk. I couldn’t do the same thing again. I was very naive, but it helped me to hold with conviction.
Glad you seemed to have learned that you were playing with fire, since that could have easily left you with 65k in the red.
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#176This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953 Patrick's rant about all the things he would change in Tarsnap continues to be responsible for the largest spike in new accounts in Tarsnap history.
Haha, wonderful!
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#177I've made well over $1M over the years just off the "Who's Hiring"/"Who's Freelancing" threads. People give this place a lot of flack and some of the users can be pretty verbose and pedantic, but overall this community has been one of the best in my 25 years.
How does anyone make $1M+ off a hiring thread?
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#178I got my current robotics job, in a field I at the time had no experience in, because of this blog post I wrote: https://biotinker.dev/posts/seismograph.html It didn't get a ton of traction when I posted it on HN at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24138014 But something only needs to be seen by the one correct person to make a difference, and in my case it was.
Would you consider adding an RSS feed for your blog? I wanted to subscribe but couldn't find any.
Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
#179Like many other folks like the founders of CockroachDB and CoreOS, we read a Google research paper posted to HN. I think this is the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20132520 We left Red Hat a year later and joined YC to start a company based on the Zanzibar paper. Out of that, the open source SpiceDB[0] was born. [0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
Hi. Do you think SpiceDb is a good solution when massive distribution is not a requirement? I need the flexibility to defined policies based on accessing object and accessed object criteria, but can be a centralized non globally replicated (in a single cluster) solution.
It absolutely works great for single cluster/region. Most users actually do run it this way.
While this list is not comprehensive, we see SpiceDB being considered often for the following uses cases:
- Projects with microservices
- Projects with multi-region/cloud scale
- Projects with sensitive or complex domains (e.g. health care, finance)
- Projects that want tooling to ensure safety as they iterate on their designs
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#180The infamous top comment from the HN Launch of Dropbox [1] which has been widely discussed and dismissed over the years. This is the comment that got me onto thinking: "how awesome would it be to have a software capable of decoupling the UI from the actual storage" so you wouldn't be tied to one vendor and do so by implementing a simple programming interface [2] I did open source my solution [3] and have refined it o…
Sounds awesome! I was about to share your post to encourage someone live streaming their recreation of the same thing, but it turn's out they're shooting for :unicorn-face-emoji: status:
https://twitter.com/jamiepine/status/1537433922891415553
(as seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31186313 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31170815)