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spullara

10,231 karma · joined July 30, 2008

software engineer, founder, vc — life story here:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/02/sam-pullara/

spullara at gmail

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spullara··on eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
were they ever really in it?
spullara··on Tesla Roadster
this wasn't a promotional video, it was a live demonstration in front of hundreds of people.
spullara··on Tesla Roadster
The rocket version is also just cold gas thrusters, not carbon fuel based.
spullara··on Do dentists know what they're doing?
tons of fraud
spullara··on Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists
for the no added sugar or whatever, just look at the calories. they generally tell you the story.
spullara··on Our $445M Series D
btw congrats on the company. i was skeptical at the time but it was never because you wouldn't attract awesome talent and make great hires. your process looks great to me.
spullara··on Our $445M Series D
my first job at a startup (first engineer after the founders) consisted of 13 hours on the phone with the CTO over a few weeks and then an in person all day interview that included traveling from Chicago to SF and a couple of dinners with the founders. this was 1996. our typical interviews after joining were all day affairs and they people almost all people that were referred in or had worked with in the past (I wasn't).

interviews at twitter back in 2010 were 6 hours and that was true even for me when we had an agreement to acquire my company pending the success of those interviews. at the time they had a lot of ex-googlers and they were setup similarly.

spullara··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
I wish they would turn their entire IDE into a CLI that an agent could use to more efficiently do work.
spullara··on Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
They included someone who died on the way to Reno hospital this year.
spullara··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
Glad you are on the case before these companies foolishly waste their money sending datacenters to space.
spullara··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
he is trying to say that you didn't make Jev at all. you fine tuned a model for a particular domain while Jev works across all domains. seems different right?
spullara··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
it is legal if you can do it, doesn't mean they have to like it. keeping features for logged in seems super reasonable to me.
spullara··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
proof of not ai
spullara··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
i don't think there is a page on x that just gives you a login wall that a normal non-logged in user would go to. if you link to something like a tweet or a profile page it shows you them. these services are for scraping.
spullara··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
this entire thing is about people that aren't even users of the service.
spullara··on JetKVM Mini
JetKVM mini is ~$40 or ~$100 for 3.
spullara··on Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
All babies were exclusively breastfed in 3064 BCE.
spullara··on Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
I think graph being log makes it a little hard to understand that the median birth year was around 2000 years ago. On the graph that is in the flat part but the flat part was a really, really long time.
spullara··on Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL
Love seeing people experiment with stuff like YQL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Query_Language) taking advantage of all the AI stuff definitely increases the power.
spullara··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
based on every country that didn't adopt capitalism until recently, absolutely not. there are very few non-capitalist countries as all of them either failed or changed their economies.
spullara··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
i wouldn't characterize it as very expensive or even expensive. it is in fact super cheap. even in italy.
spullara··on Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
TikTok does this so they can reuse popular content to game engagement.
spullara··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
this is within 500m of the datacenter. this is a deeply unserious problem. parking lots are probably a bigger contributor.
spullara··on California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
the energy consumption of EVs is already massively below gas vehicles. also, as others have pointed out, their tires already are within the regulations.
spullara··on California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
since this is about fuel consumption I assume that it doesn't apply to EVs
spullara··on Degraded performance for multiple models
you are silly if you think this is limited to claude models
spullara··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
This custom prompt on claude.ai fixes it:

Use Simplified Technical English rather than being overly verbose.

spullara··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
You have direct control over whether he is in your feed.
spullara··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
No one produces a feed that purposefully delivers content or ads that you aren't interested in. Those are bugs. Go look at the published X algorithm. You won't find anything in there that would attempt to show you things that don't match your interests.
spullara··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
Algorithmic feeds are just search algorithms based on what the user is asking to see with their behavior.
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