throwaway1979

Some naive questions if you don't mind... (I'm really curious about RAC .. my only DB experience has been small MySQL and MS SQL Server clusters).

1) I thought the really high end DBs like to manage their own block storage. Your NFS comment suggests that the database data files were running on an NFS mount, and you had a 10 gig Ethernet connection to the file server.

2) What would you say is the average size of a RAC cluster in (your opinion)? Is 8 considered a small cluster in this realm?

3) DBs have stringent requirements when it comes to operations like sync. Can you actually get ACID in an NFS backed DB?

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity :)

So this is like boot2docker ... on Windows? You have a VM and you have containers inside it. This is not the same as containers on baremetal. But that is fine .. my confusion is the OS inside the VM. Is that Linux or Windows? Normally, I can run Ubuntu and Centos-based containers on my box. Can I run these as Hyper V containers? What about dot net? Can that be containerized.

I've done remote like this for the last little while. I was pleasantly surprised that my employer was okay with it. Turns out, if you are competent, employers usually don't want to lose you.

Bigger question ... do you want to work like this? I work a lot more/harder than I used to. I have to remember to take breaks. There are no water cooler chats in my life any more ... no chance to grab coffee with a work colleague. I try to go to meetups but it is not the same.

Suggestions: 1) Build a sweet work office. I was working with my laptop for ages and it was tough. Buy a nice printer, external monitor setup, get unlimited Internet.

2) Make sure you have buddies in the home office who can help you if something urgent comes up. VPN/connectivity issues can happen.

There are big questions I have around growth (salary, responsibility are the big ones; technical growth is okay since I put in many hours to study up).

Working from home - if you have a spouse, they need to understand you are working. Home office is best but a separate room may not be feasible.

Don't sweat talking to your boss. I did sweat - turns out it wasn't necessary. You can propose a 3-6 month trial run.

Best of luck

It is kind of silly ... in tech, we've got all these amazing tools that enable people to work remotely. I've seen people checkout even though they come in to the office, and people work like superstars while they are remote and working in the middle of nowhere. If you get on a plane once every month or so to hang out with the team, I can't see how it affects anything.

Same is true of investors. Not every great idea in tech comes from the valley.

Cool, commendable effort. One frustration I have is the (possibly soft) requirement for showing your work ala github profile or something else. I've noticed quite a few job postings where they ask you for a github profile. All my code belongs to my employer and I can't put stuff up on github. Not sure how people who are in this stupid situation deal with the new reality that github is your resume these days?

Thanks for sharing. I didn't discover electronics until I was much older. I did, however, discover a passion for software at a young age and that has been one of my true loves.

In software, I have deep interest and am decent at it. I can't say that for my electronics pursuits. I've been at it as a hobbyist for a few years now and am probably equivalent to someone 6 months into a Bachelors program. In the past, I tried to justify my electronics activities as something productive but a few weeks ago I had a minor Eureka - I just accepted I love electronics for the happiness that it gives me. I don't really care to invent something new or be productive with it.

I have a PhD in CS from a highly ranked school (systems) and work for an industrial lab (6 years out of school). I make the same as a fresh graduate from Waterloo from recent empirical evidence. It is just dressed up differently ... the fresh grad in question has a salary at the 100K mark salary with 25K-ish in guaranteed bonus for a few years (plus some stock options). I make that in guaranteed salary with no bonus or options. My work week just ended (easily 10 hours a day doing very cool stuff but not science). I'm juggling reading some papers out of true interest (deep belief nets), reviewing some crappy papers for some journal that were due two weeks ago, and spending time with my wife. Clearly I made some very bad career decisions.

The set I've been pining for is the Motorized Bulldozer[1]. My hope is that Lego will reissue it one day. That said, as a Lego fan, I've started getting pretty annoyed at the company for their "special parts" and limited edition print runs. Talk about creating artificial scarcity! I look forward to the day we can get a quality 3D printed construction system - with opensourced designs of course!

[1] http://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/technic/model/c...

Not sure why the pessimistic poster is being downvoted. Factoring for repeat viewers, it is sad how little society values scientific achievements. That said, I was up in the wee hours of the morning watching the LHSC start up and probably put more than 20 views on that song. Have ye hope :D

I had a nephew who got excited when he saw HR done on watches. We did some research into accuracy and were surprised to find that the light-based tech used in many devices does not give you accuracy when you are running or generally moving fast. No idea about the fitbit devices but I am vary.

So keeping containers from different users on the same host is a bad idea (think VPS setting)? Why? I thought unprivileged containers in the newer versions of Docker are pretty secure. Is there an issue giving root access in this case?

I wonder about the ethics of a related scenario ... get a remote person to login to machines to do installs and manage. In this case, the remote person gets paid in Rs but I guess that is okay since their cost of living is in Rs (not in the case of the story, obviously)?

IANAL

Is there a translation?

I'm a schmo who bought a Google Glass and accept this was a bad purchase. I bought it for one app ... the ability to cast a video to my parents via Google hangouts. Google took this feature out after my 30 day return was over. Now, Glass is a paperweight for me. I know there are other apps out there that do video casting but I'm not going to force my parents to learn yet another app again (was hard teaching them hangouts the first time).

Nice. What framework are you using?

Why does the fig documentation emphasis development environments. Isn't fig a general orchestration tool for deploying containers on a single host?

I'm also a bit confused. Let me give you a specific scenario. I have a windows .net application that works with windows 8 (no gui - some server side stuff). Can I package this up as a container and run this on a linux machine that has docker?

Did you do a full time MBA or part time? What was your motivation for doing your degree?

I'm a bit confused. Typical office hours at YC are surely not public. I presume these were made public as an example. I recall PG did this and even accepted a startup into YC based on a short conversation. Why is this bad?

Heh ... it is the other mainstream "hot" language.

I was looking for a language to move to post-python. I love python but the 2.7->3 jump has been annoying. More than that, I felt I needed static typing for the next big system I did ... too much pain debugging python.

I looked at Scala since it had the JVM behind it. While the language seems decent, it seems too easy to write unreadable code. Multiple ways of doing the same thing ... yada yada.

Friends at Google had been espousing Go for a long time and I didn't bother. Seemed like a proprietary language with little adoption. Two things changed for me. I got some exposure to erlang via elixir. This made me think about the whole channel concept. Second, I had to read code in Docker (which is awesome). I learned a bit of the language and was surprised how small the language was. Really reminded me of C, which I love. There seems to be more adoption of Go .. e.g. Cloud Foundry and others. I like Go enough that I will be spending more time learning and investing in it.

Just by 2 cents.

Interesting question and response. I haven't used either but read about both systems independently. A bit more googling and I found:

http://www.slideshare.net/gschmutz/kafka-andstromeventproces...

Slides 42 and 43 describe an architecture with all three ... hadoop, storm and kafka. Seems like a beast and I don't have applications but pretty cool combo of technologies.

Are you sure? I used to live in MV 5 years ago. Was in a decent apartment 20 minute walk from the Google campus. The rent used to be around 1700. I checked the price for the same apartment complex a few days ago on a lark ... over 3K! 2 bedroom apartments in the same complex range from 3500 to 5K. I assure you ... Texas is cheaper than this.

Ha! We share quite a few lego models. I probably "invested" 2K on Legos so far but have recently slowed down purchases. Following instructions for building models seems to shut down a part of my brain and just destresses me. Not sure if I'm alone in that or not. Nice man cave though!

> I don't understand what Google's goal is with I/O attendance.

Excitement. Buzz around the Android developer experience.

It is a fun conference. But lets be honest, if they stopped the freebies, would it garner the same interest from non-tech folks?

P.S. my personal opinions. I attended it once and had a fun time.

Wise words. Institutions peak and trough. People get caught up in the storied history of past institutions (myself included). Rationally, what matters is the now. If you are at an institution that was once amazing but is now a shadow of its former self, you need to understand that. Leaders of such "fallen institutions" would like to do nothing better than confound the issue and tout how great their faculty/scientists once were. In the language of my old country there is a saying "mera baap badshah tha". This translates to "my father was a king". This phrase is meant to point out one cannot rest on the laurels of the past generation.

All this said, I still have a high regard for Berkeley CS. Their systems research program/faculty is world class. Also, kinda cool that they have special parking for nobel prize winners. When I saw that, I wondered if Turing award winners could park there :-p

People don't always optimize. I've known two people in this situation who left money on the table. Even if you quit on Jan 30'th, that's one month of money left on the table.

Blaming this on distressed babies is disgusting.

Wow ... this story reminds me of Marshall Brain's Manna story.

I don't understand how much money a company would lose if they changed the hours to 3 or 4 hours per person. Fine, they'd double or triple their workforce and have to deal with more HR/paperwork. But the costs don't increase. This makes me wonder if the reason is not cost but control. If company X is the only thing in your life, you will likely be a more "compliant" worker. This kind of stuff scares the heck out of me :(

Interesting point about using the MBA as a career break. I suspect this is not rare.

I had some initial hopes. Didn't really get into using Kinect much. I was most excited about the weight loss possibilities of the old Dance Dance Revolution game (back in the old days). I also bought a wiifit back in the day that never got much use.

One idea a friend tried that worked somewhat was playing normal video games while on an exercise bicycle. The two ideas I am currently trying to pursue is walk on a treadmill playing programming lectures and playing squash. The first one is working out really well since my workout room has wifi and the treadmill has a place to hold my iPad.