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miha123on Microsoft Reorg, Keith Richards, and the rest of us

Microsoft needs Paul Graham

The advise is similar to tricks to train dogs

miha123on Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot

Miha A.

miha123on Death of the Pure IaaS Cloud: The impact on customers

People asked: "what do you mean by "pure" IaaS?" It is a legitimate question, as the bare iron needs an operating system, some utilities, in order to be usable. In reality "pure IaaS" is the absolute minimum PaaS required to set up a server or a cloud infrastructure.

How do we define the "minimum" PaaS? Some IaaS providers take themselves the decision -take it or leave it - on behalf of the customers. Very few IaaS providers, like CloudSigma, are offering customers the freedom to choose what they need, what it works for them, what they like.

miha123on Ask HN: How does this happen? Pandora Radio founder owns less than 3%

That is $3M for each $100M valuation. 100M was last year valuation.

See http://www.quora.com/What-was-Pandoras-valuation-in-the-last...

There is also a rumor Google will buy it and here is the speculation Pandora may reach 500M value;

http://vator.tv/news/2010-07-07-why-pandora-may-end-up-acqui...

That $15M for the founder. Sure, very little I think Google (if they buy) will structure a special deal for the founder. Sequoia is known as ruthless for founders, and Google knows the original founders are important

miha123on Meditation on Hacker News: What are you guys experience with meditation?

Do hackers meditate? And if they do, what it is having to do to the condition of "hacker"? Maybe ask "do taxi drivers, meditate?" or "do traffic police meditate?"

miha123on [dead]

This an unique initiative in IaaS cloud providers, getting affiliates and make them earn $. Sharing and making friends

miha123on Amazon and the extinct dinosaurs

How $8M per year HPC cloud is way cheaper that a soon-to-be-dead Jurassic Supercomputer ($50M to $85M per year)

miha123on How Swiss Import CloudSigma Plans to Compete in US IaaS

Their background is Cambridge University, And yes, financial, manufacturing, real estate and software world

miha123on How Swiss Import CloudSigma Plans to Compete in US IaaS

4 points for inventing the word "astroturfing"? Are you a professional ? Or a heckler?

miha123on How Swiss Import CloudSigma Plans to Compete in US IaaS

Kindly explain Why do you say this platform has the same features with off the shelf features? Do other systems have the same ease of use? Do they do billing every 5 minutes (versus AWS 1 hour and Joyent 1 day?). Is the billing predictable, so one can have a budget? Etc.