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The first 18 months of a startup
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Re: The first 18 months of a startup
#82No opinion on the thread, but his current startup involves streaming a chrome instance from the cloud, which feels very "Internet in 2021"
Why would people want this? With the recent concerns of censorship and getting locked out of platforms this just feels like handing even more power to some central authority that can suddenly decide who can and cannot browse the web.
For most people that’s an implementation detail (that they are unaware of), combined with the overall lack of IT hygiene: I don’t see this being an issue (even if your points are very valid)
With web apps becoming more complex by the day, having the ability do all the heavy work on a remote server and stream the resulting “webpage” back to a weak receiver with little processing power will unlock new ways of doing things: one can imagine a very slim screen that, as mentioned in the thread already, is running the full Adobe Suite from this remote server.
Great battery life and responsiveness without needing an expensive GPU / CPU on the device itself.
Re: The first 18 months of a startup
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Showerthoughts: why not stream the entire OS at this point, with a dedicated storage? Like an EC2 with a desktop environment that you can access in a VNC-like way but with the resolution, FPS and input responsiveness similar to what Stadia/Mighty offers. Which will allow you to play Cyberpunk (Stadia) + browsing the web (Mighty) + do whatever else you want, like using After Effects (?).
At least a few banks have been running like this since 5+ years ago, and at least one collaborated with AWS which led to this: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-workspaces-desktop-c... .
AWS Workspaces got big during the pandemic. I know atleast one mega consultancy corp which rolled out like 20k workspace instances when their employees moved to WFH.
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#84> Rolling out of bed in my pajamas and getting back to work with things precisely as I left them was the most underestimated superpower that brought me joy, focus, and speed—I had forgotten how much goes into getting ready for work. There will be so much resistance to going back to the office.
It really depends on the person. The people who naturally focus and can ignore distractions excel at WFH. A second category of worker benefits from the rituals of getting ready in the morning, context switching to office mode, seeing their peers in person (however briefly), and sitting down at a separate workstation that is dedicated to work and nothing else. In my experience managing mixed on-site and remote teams,…
Also, people assume everyone in the world have a bare minimum workspace at home to work distraction free - a basement, or home office or at least a small nook. But there are so many wide variety of people in the world who don’t have such luxuries, live with extended families and had to WFH. I doubt they were productive as such.
Re: The first 18 months of a startup
#85> Rolling out of bed in my pajamas and getting back to work with things precisely as I left them was the most underestimated superpower that brought me joy, focus, and speed—I had forgotten how much goes into getting ready for work. There will be so much resistance to going back to the office.
While there is some benefit to a physical office space, I can't imagine the 9-6, 5 days a week grind will ever be back for most knowledge workers.
It's gonna be really hard though for many companies who have invested a lot of time, effort and prestige into new office buildings to show off their growth, if those buildinga are gonna stay mostly empty. I can't help but think that dynamic is going to play out in many places.
I also think there are some obvious benefits to physical office space, so I hope I'll be able to combine the two. Like every other week or something would work nicely.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
“It’s like Stadia but for Chrome”
Showerthoughts: why not stream the entire OS at this point, with a dedicated storage? Like an EC2 with a desktop environment that you can access in a VNC-like way but with the resolution, FPS and input responsiveness similar to what Stadia/Mighty offers. Which will allow you to play Cyberpunk (Stadia) + browsing the web (Mighty) + do whatever else you want, like using After Effects (?).
That's what Citrix were doing in the enterprise space back in the 1990s. And yes, it felt like magic back then, but it was expensive as hell. I think that's the reason it didn't become "mega" successful. The technology itself was great. I'd demo it to management, they'd get how it made my job easier and allow people to work remotely, but the $$ investment in licenses and servers would immediately shut the conversation down. They'd use it in certain places, like if they had a very old / very new / very hard to configure app, they could just stream it into regular Windows NT machines. They weren't brave enough to shift desktop budget to thin clients and repurpose the aging desktop fleet into dumb Linux terminals. (And actually, the whole Microsoft Client Licence made that almost as expensive as running Windows clients).
Some companies dipped their toes in the water, but I never found a single company that went all-in.
Re: The first 18 months of a startup
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone remember Thin Clients?
First thing I thought of was Sun Rays and the magic of taking your smartcard around with you and wherever you say down your desktop would follow you around. Magic!
Ah yes. Sun. A wonderful company. It was like knowing a guy who could write poetry in 15 languages, perform magic tricks, breakdance, recite Pi to a thousand digits, solve a rubix cube in 3s and yet couldn't find a job.
I worked with those guys on a large project. They were amazing. I loved their Sun Rays. But if you spoke to other people in the IT community they generally never heard about their tech. "Uh. Don't they sell servers that don't run Windows?"
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#88One of the most important lessons I learned as a founder is that everyone will give you advice, and the advice will often conflict with other advice, and that's OK. The trick is to look at the source of the advice and think about why that advice worked for them. What aspects of their situation are similar to yours? So all advice is good, provided you use it all as inputs to your decision making and consider the conte…
My approach in life is that all advice is bad. Exactly because of the same reason you write about. Someone giving advice usually does not have all needed context of your situation. At the same time they are not going to give you all the context they were in while taking similar decision. Even if you would deal with the same people as that person, those people might just not like you and they liked him/her. Where some…
I advise you to approach life as if all advice is bad?
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is literally what https://shadow.tech does I used it for about a year and it's fantastic if you have really fast (preferably wired) internet
That's sounds awesome and I'd be ready to pay alot for that. Can you use it as desktop replacement installing all applications etc.? Or is there an hour limit? The pricing of 14 € / month can't really provide an unlimited usage of 4 core/12GB/256GB SSD/GTX 1080? Also when i try to pre-order for Germany the ETA is Mach 29, 2022 ...
> Also when i try to pre-order for Germany the ETA is Mach 29, 2022
What are you complaining about, Mach 29 is really, really fast! That's 10 km/s, enough to achieve orbit.
Re: The first 18 months of a startup
#90I liked the thread a lot, but as with all things startup I feel a lot like this is trusting a very successful horse race gambler with his perfect method to track the form. I have a feeling with these things timing and luck is everything no matter how well you follow what worked before. I bet some startups do almost the opposite of this advice and still end up doing well just because the idea and timing were so good.
People who take the thread's advice to heart will be better positioned to benefit from luck.
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