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ddispaltro

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Co-founder of Goodcover, www.goodcover.com

Co-founder of Cloudkick

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dan.dispaltro at gmail dot com

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ddispaltro··on Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires
Randomly, I also notice sometimes I have to edit a contact's phone number then save again for it to register as a number that hangouts recognizes.

Edit: I have Google Fi

ddispaltro··on Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires
This is my single biggest problem with the whole g+ thing. Very frustrating, never mess with contacts.
ddispaltro··on Google Jibe: Better carrier messaging for everyone
It's fixed for me but I definitely had the issue when I was onboarded. It's because I came from T-Mobile, so they had to "reset" the account and then everything was good to go.
ddispaltro··on Super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux
This is pretty helpful and what I've used.

https://github.com/anapsix/docker-alpine-java

ddispaltro··on Startup NASA
They could even implement a policy even going forward if it would mess with their budget too much.
ddispaltro··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)
Impart | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Jr or Sr Dev/Designer on the Frontend

We are building a web/mobile replay and analytics platform giving you very granular insights to understand the broader "happy path" of customers. There's a ton of data and potential insights we can glean and we are looking for someone to help expose these insights.

* Backend is written in Scala, with Akka and Slick.

* Frontend is mostly written in Angular w/ Typescript.

* We are funded but have not released a product yet.

* We are looking for someone hungry who is either a designer looking to get some development under his/her belt or a junior developer with a design eye.

Currently limited to on-site in SF, CA for now, contact me if you aren’t in SF but are still interested, maybe we can figure something out long term. Either email dan@impart.co or jobs@impart.co, thanks!

ddispaltro··on Sangria – Scala GraphQL Implementation
GraphQL (and falcor) was created for exactly this reason, combining data from disparate sources, making it easy to get what you want from the frontend.
ddispaltro··on Show HN: KafkaLite – A simple message broker inspired by Kafka
Definitely seems like something to replace leveldb with vs kafka. Or maybe more akin to http://chronicle.software/products/chronicle-queue/ minus the TCP replication
ddispaltro··on Happy Birthday Monkey Island
I still to this day think Guybrush Threepwood is the greatest character name.
ddispaltro··on “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”
performance improvement plan
ddispaltro··on “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”
That's exactly what the pip has turned into, it's justification and legal air cover for a decision you've already made.
ddispaltro··on Markhor (YC S15) Takes the Middleman Out of Designer Shoemaking
I got my shoes hand delivered to my house in SF, that was quite the surprise. The craftsmanship is excellent
ddispaltro··on Niantic Labs splitting from Google
A number of reasons but usually focus. It's amazing how distracting even moneymakers that aren't core to the business are to big businesses.
ddispaltro··on The Teflon Toxin
Literally the only they tell you not to do with non-stick pans is stick it in the dishwasher.
ddispaltro··on The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town
Side note, living in a concentrated city is better for the environment since there's less human sprawl.
ddispaltro··on Goldman Sachs Tells Interns to End the Late, Late Show
I have no experience but I always figured it was similar to training in the armed forces. Put people through stressful situations to see how they perform under pressure, lack of sleep, etc.
ddispaltro··on Optimizing an Important Atom Primitive
It's amazing how true this is, huge files work fine, but one long line... I wish I knew more about editors to help fix it.
ddispaltro··on FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over US cities
It's kind of fun to read a story with tweets intertwined. It's like tweets are the new bold.

Anyways, great to see this stuff still so accessible even if hidden at first glance.

ddispaltro··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
Impart Co | Dev | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-Time | Visa Transfer | Scala; Akka; Spark; Mesos

We are building a web/mobile replay and analytics platform giving you very granular insights to understand the broader "happy path" of customers.

Impart is looking for a seasoned backend development dev. We are looking for Scala, Akka, Spark and/or general backend developers to help us create some of the early code to manage a highly data centric application at scale.

We are also looking for critical iOS/Android mobile engineers to lead the development of the mobile agent/library to give the same excellent experience to mobile customers.

We are funded but haven't released a product yet. Email me dan@impart.co

Currently limited to on-site in SF, CA for now, contact me if you aren’t in SF but are still interested, maybe we can figure something out long term.

ddispaltro··on Apache Drill 1.0 – Schema-Free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop and NoSQL
I'd be interested to know this too. I know they are using the Calcite[1] query planner which uses statistics to modify a query plan, it's pretty sophisticated. But I am curious about the actual execution time on this stuff.
ddispaltro··on Please stop calling databases CP or AP
It's natural to reduce things to simple terms. I think CAP theorem caught on because previously people didn't know how to characterize distributed systems in an easy way and this gave them a framework and vocabulary to do it.

It's the same reason why companies create some index in their product (like New Relic AppDex), to take something complex and simplify it so it can be compared.

ddispaltro··on Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable
Right now it's a subset of HBase, but the basic operations are unlikely to change. HBase adheres pretty well to the BigTable paper.

You are intentionally forgoing things like coprocessors, and other advanced stuff listed here[1]

[1] https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/hbase-differences

ddispaltro··on Zenefits (YC W13) Just Raised $500M at a $4.5B Valuation
Yeah I agree on both points. Nothing really substitutes knowing (and hearing) someone is in your corner.
ddispaltro··on Zenefits (YC W13) Just Raised $500M at a $4.5B Valuation
I don't think so, basically the HN crew wants to see the nuts and bolts, and he's giving a real reason why problems happen on the platform. I personally find it refreshing when someone from a B2B company helps me understand their internals, it helps me trust them more because either their sound or not.
ddispaltro··on After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
Regarding the pot question, they came to my college and gave a group interview and someone asked the pot question and they told a story about a girl who had applied and passed, but they found pot in the last year, even though she passed the polygraph. They figured out she was sauced at a party and smoked, and were unable to let her in. Granted this was 10 years ago, so something might have changed.
ddispaltro··on Apple Acquires FoundationDB
I am aware of that. My comment isn't about physical contracts, it's about expectations of a database company.
ddispaltro··on Apple Acquires FoundationDB
This is actually kinda ridiculous. I feel so bad for companies that have invested in this product. Just pulling the downloads like that... wow. I'm hoping that paying customers at least got some heads up, data migration is the hardest thing to get right.

Good luck to all the former FDB'ers.

ddispaltro··on How to build a Debian package
Related but I've found this[1] to work really well for jvm based packaging.

[1] https://github.com/sbt/sbt-native-packager

ddispaltro··on Non-profit produced MDMA 'ecstasy' and psychedelics
I actually interpreted it as the parent comment. For instance if you have a really bad poison oak they prescribe prednisone ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prednisone )
ddispaltro··on Poor Kids of Silicon Valley
The left and right arrow keys worked fine for me.
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