michaelhalligan

Net impact analysis of outage: A bunch of socially awkward technophiles couldn't tell their friends that they were eating lunch.

Isn't that all charity?

I use them in production storage arrays for both read and write caching.

To me it means I'm going to have to keep a large supply of cocaine and cheap whisky around the office.

This is why geeks will never rule the world.

It's a super dump, but you can get a studio for $1k/month at Trinity Plaza on Market St. Expect to lose your deposit from what I'm told, but hey it has a pool, and plenty of meth dealers, and it's right at Market & 9th so it's central to everything.

But seriously, for $1k -> $1,200 you can actually find a decent studio on nob hill. I just helped my ex-girlfriend move into a beautiful and very well-laid out 450 square foot studio for $1,100/month at Clay & Leavenworth with all utilities included.

Very clear and indisputable impending global destruction with a short window before the event. (Think Asteroids or Aliens). Also, children who fall into wells or survive airliner crashes. Nothing else will work.

I had a phone interview with Marc sometime in 2007, I think just after TC40. During the interview they made me aware of Mint.com, so I spent the afternoon playing with Mint & Wesabe.

By the end of the afternoon I had begun using Mint to track all of my finances and had only managed to get Wesabe to recognize 1/3 of my accounts. Wesabe had a fantastic team, but Mint was the clear winner, so I decided not to go forward.

Could we get a new section for HackerNews that says "Social Media Drama"? Then we could filter this entire soap-opera out?

This seems like a good fit, certainly an equivalent quality of editorial content.

Same thing, but buying books.

A blockbuster employee once stole some dvds I returned, and destroyed my credit.

To this news, I sing, "We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn!".

Would it surprise you to learn that even Arrington's "Friends" don't necessarily want him around all the time?

$110k seems a tad low for someone with over a decade's experience in the bay area. I'd be looking for more around $150k/year in wage slavery as an overall comp package (bonuses and expected stock sale value added to base salary)

Slow news day.

Such is the danger of sharecropping.

Has anybody actually done their due diligence to see if there really is a lawsuit, or to see if there really is even a fusion garage? It seems to me like it has the potential for an especially lucrative hoax.

It's growing, quickly. Others are entering this space, their main obstacle (besides the cost of running fiber) is that so many buildings have signed exclusivity agreements with comcast which have questionable legality. The economics make it easier to do in a city.. pay $20k to run fiber to a building with 1100 units, sell 25% of those units at $35/month, you gross $120k/year from that building. You probably have another $10k-$12k in equipment costs per building as well, but this sort of a network is quite simple to run.

This sort of connectivity will never be feasible in the suburbs without massive government subsidies (something I had hoped our current administration would see the value in).

http://web-pass.com/ .. We actually found our apartment complex by calling up every building on their list of lit buildings and asking if they had any condos or apartments for rent. Turned out that there are at least 3 other geeks here I know!

My friend John has a similar offer in Seattle too, at http://condointernet.net/.

I pay $2,500/month for full use of a 1gbps circuit at one of my datacenters. 10 years ago I would have paid about $250k/month for that sort of capacity (and another $100k for a router/firewall that could handle it).

Bandwidth has definitely gotten significantly cheaper, which of course doesn't solve the broadband problem. If you live in the suburbs, or on a farm, then you've chosen a lifestyle which is inherently wasteful & inefficient, too much so to facilitate rapid infrastructure upgrades. Move to a city if this matters to you. Here in SF I pay $33/month for a synchronous 100mbps ethernet connection.

Or you could save your money, spend a bit more time searching, and not waste valuable real estate on books that get obsolete in a year.

Is anybody left at EngineYard?

Portland has most of the benefits of San Francisco with all of the drawbacks of Seattle. As gray as SF is, I don't understand how anybody lives in Seattle or Portland without committing suicide from the lack of sun.

If rent control went away along with the Ellis act, in 5 years the average rent in San Francisco would be 15% lower than what it is today. Rent control very severely distorts both the rental and the real estate market in many direct and indirect ways.

I stand by this statement. There is one pocket of the Mission around 16th & Mission that's really diverse, and then say between Potrero and Bryant is mostly hisanic between 14th & Cesar Chavez

The rest of the Mission is pretty freaking white, especially since Bernal tends to be grouped into the same "Mission" umbrella.

These guys spammed me (and another hundred or so HN members) this morning in a very annoying way.

By diversity, do you mean "lots of people of different races and ethnic heritages live here in harmony" or do you mean "lots of ethnic food to eat"? Because I would call hijinx on the former, this city is pretty white, at least all of SOMA/FiDi, North Beach, NOPA, The Sunset, most of the Mission, most of the excelsior, and at least 70% of every other neighborhood is white. Having been here a decade I feel this city is far more segregated than others I've lived in, and I've lived in 7 different neighborhoods now.

I did, and yes I hate the climate. I've stayed for a decade, and threatened to move back to New York quite consistently. There's nowhere else in the country to live for tech though, everything else really feels like amateur hour.

Fully agreed. The only reason I would find that type of shut-off acceptable would be if Rackspace were getting DDOS'd to a point that was costing them significant expenses by way of bandwidth, manpower, or downtime credits to other customers. In such a case, shutting them off for causing these damages while violating Terms Of Services would definitely be warranted.

If you're like me and a fat sysadmin, I'd recommend moving somewhere with a pool, and forcing yourself to swim 2 hours every morning. It does wonders for your productivity, body, and personal life