econner

I don't understand why you're calling out "people who think they aren't sexist". Why is that point important? (Besides to belittle me?) I'm not claiming to be free from bias here. Everyone has biases both conscious and unconscious.

And can you please explain how it is sexist? (I have not studied sexism..and am curious to learn.) Your hint gives no justification except your assertion again that it is sexist without explanation.

I have no sympathy for the "boys will be boys" side of this argument. I am a male in my early 20's so am familiar with the mindset. Sure maybe zero tolerance is a bit far, but every woman I know has a story like this. Every one has had to deflect some strange workplace advance or some uncomfortable proposition by a superior. The problem is magnified 10 fold when the workplace is so heavily skewed male (as it is in tech). Retroactive sensitivity training isn't going to fix this problem.

This is a fair point. Thanks.

Not sure where you're getting the "think they are not sexist" from. Everyone has unconscious biases (men and women). Some are more aware of them than others. This problem is not sexist in and of itself. It would be equally inappropriate for a woman to put a man in this position in the work place or for a man to put another man in this position, or woman to put another woman etc.

Why will firing him worsen the problem? I would fire this guy immediately.

> Men and women need to learn to interact at work.

Men should not need sensitivity training to interact with women at work.

> The Valley has yet to prove that it can build sustainable companies.

I was with you until this line. The valley has been producing sustainable companies for decades. Some companies fail. This is the way things go.

> Other interesting proposal by Eliezer Yudkowsky made in "Three Worlds Collide" novella was legalising rape.

Ohhh. It is satire. You had me ಠ_ಠ for a moment.

Success anxiety is a great way to put it. As I've started my career in tech I've noticed that everyone seems to be looking somewhere else. Mid stage engineers look at early engineers thinking if only. Early engineers look at founders thinking if only. Founders look at other founders thinking if only. etc etc. No one is happy with where they currently are.

Why 36?

CS109: Introduction to Probability for Computer Scientists http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs109/

also a great resource.

Fwiw I grew up in Colorado and love it so much but live in Bay Area now. I too am trying to get to back to Denver. If you want to start a company there let me know! :-)

Journalists continue to inflate it. I actually think folks are coming around more and more to work with tech vs. categorically fighting against it. I think people have begun to see the systemic problems and work together on those.

Then again I did encounter a guy riding his bike around Market St. the other day screaming "Kill the Techies." But that's once in 5 years.

Correct. It is a landing page test. I won't deny that, but I'm also not going to build a product before I know whether it's something people want.

Good feedback on the value prop. I will make that clearer.

Really? Do you remember any of the names of the previous attempts? Or what went wrong?

Thanks for the feedback! Right now I am just hoping to see if there's any kind of desire for a product like this.

Shhhhhh. Don't let the secret get out.

I just like the last point: "There's still going to be major entrepreneurship going. Google itself was counter to the trend of the original dotcom bust."

Why would they price it at such a low multiple of revenue? Massive liabilities or something?

I don't follow. Can you explain in more detail?

You're saying help small businesses build presence on Shopify?

These were probably given as options and at the current market price rather than Jack's super low strike price.

How do you make something valuable? Convince others it has value, and do it with only 20% of your stake.

If they exercised their options and paid tax then potentially a significant portion relative to their net worth.

Is MapReduce faster for any cases? A quick glance at the paper seems to suggest that Spark is always at least as good or better than traditional MR.

Should I ever use traditional MR over Spark?

Dynamo is very complex, beyond consistent hashing. It also uses (or used) gossip and lots of tricks (hacks) to gracefully handle adding and removing nodes and distributing data to new nodes, etc. This uses a simple partitioning scheme albeit it does have its own consistency issues.

The mapping tables are used to store relationships between objects, not to define shard locations. The shard mapping is encoded in the object id.

In any case, I would have a knee jerk reaction to not trust any database system that hit 1.0 a month before I wanted to start using it, especially for mission critical core data.

These are bit shift operations with a bitmask. Basically the ids are 64-bit and sections are reserved to identify the shard, type, and local id.

Yes.

Cassandra was immature when this work was started (late 2011). The team was also much more familiar with the ins and outs of operating mysql.

It's very possible to retire within 10 years if you're frugal.

Essentially if you save 65% of your after tax income you can retire in ~11 years assuming you do not increase spending in retirement.

This model assumes a safe portfolio withdrawal rate of 4%.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...

Are you a programmer as well?