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It looks a bit more complicated, in that the announcement mentions the open sourcing of some proprietary tech. So it looks like there was some IP bought, along with the hires.

But it does look to be a 90% "company hires maintainer of code it uses."

Not OPA-based , but Kyverno-based. Kyverno is also CNCF, basically an overlap of OPA functionality (with some give and take.)

Nirmata provides commercial/enterprise options around Kyverno.

The shop (Styra) did get closed. A few of the most senior maintainers were hired by Apple. Many - including anyone not directly involved in engineering of the OSS product - are now looking for jobs.

Capitalism is ruthless.

From the post, I'm pretty sure Apple didn't buy Styra. Sounds like Apple hired the maintainers who worked at Styra (including Tim, Teemu and Torin). I'm guessing that Styra is just shutting down.

Carnivores tend to sleep longer than omnivores, who tend to sleep longer than herbivores. For a hunting carnivore, energy comes in big bursts, so it makes sense that they would be active for a short period of time, and hoard energy when they didn't need to be active. For a cud-chewing herbivore, time spent not chewing is time spent not creating energy. Obviously, this is a broad generalization - feeding habits, day/night cycles, predator/prey behaviors all factor into a particular animal. But it probably explains why your cat, like the panther at the zoo, spends most of its time asleep.

In 2018, Unilever announced that they would soon stop using plastics in their teabags. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/pg-tips-...

They've since reformulated the bags - can't find any statement about the new flat bags.

They do, in fact, have humans who check to make sure that everyone starts behind the starting line. And both humans and computers which check to make sure that nobody starts early. Two notes on "starts early." One - start is any visible bodily movement, not the crossing of the start-line. So any flinch, whether in the direction of the start-line or not, is a false start. Two - if you start inside of 0.1 seconds of the start-gun, it is declared a false start, since the assumption is that no human can react faster than that. The precision at the start is quite high!

I am an author. While 99% of "ordinary people" are not authors, 99% of authors are "ordinary people".

Under your moral logic, everyone should just be free to pirate/steal any creative work, as why shouldn't the un-talented (or un-trained, or un-dedicated) have equal rights to the works.

All this leads to a case where there is no longer an incentive to create and popularize creative work, and suddenly all that is available are AI rehashes of AI summaries. I, for one, don't look forward to such a marketplace of non-ideas.

Hi PeterCorless! (We're friends IRL - it's Greg)

While we're putting in plugs for open source alternatives, I'll recommend looking at StarRocks. https://www.starrocks.io/

I share Peter's sentiment for wishing everyone an easy transition, whatever you choose.

First, your work day is almost completely sedentary. Second, you are not near friends, gyms, fields, or other systems which promote healthy activity outside of work. While diet is important for all of us, it is especially important in this circumstance.

"Healthy foods" are going to be largely inaccessible through long sparsely-populated stretches of the country. Even where they are available - in markets, fruit stands, etc. pulling your huge truck off the road to park is expensive (in terms of time) and difficult (in terms of space). Truck stops have the infrastructure for your truck. But their food selection is mostly junk.

There's also this pretty detailed article on StarRocks' query optimizer. (StarRocks is open source - focused on OLAP)

https://medium.com/starrocks-engineering/starrocks-inside-sc...

Atlassian, famously, got to very significant revenue before hiring Sales. But even they, eventually, got to a size and complexity where Sales was required. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-18/this-5-bi...

The Bloomberg article makes the point that this could be a trend. It was not. I know of no other B-to-B Enterprise Software product which got close to that kind of revenue without hiring Sales.

There are several examples of successful companies who tried this model, and then moved to a Sales model - usually at $30 or $50 million. https://www.saastr.com/eventually-everyone-has-a-sales-team/.

Of course, there's no easy way of knowing how many companies tried this model and failed. But I don't think it was successful too often, because I hardly ever see this model any longer.

I've written four books. Each book is the result of thousands of hours of experience and hundreds of hours of work. My books are all over these sites, and have been used to train AI. Without my consent.

I didn't write books to make money - I've made the national bestseller list and still get paid < minimum wage for my writing time. But it is disrepectful to my time and expertise to use such pirated sites. You probably make money with your mind and your fingers and your creativity. Why wouldn't you take some tiny part of the money you make and use it to allow me to do the same.

And for those who say "its the same as a library" - libraries buy books. And lend them on a limited basis. Sites like this are just simple theft.

I'm curious who these "companies selling exactly this service" are.

I get solicited by dozens of companies daily. And I've seen nobody who can provide this de-annonymization of website visitors.

From first-hand experience, B2B sellers do not get this information today. They typically get "signals" like "Company X is searching for product category Y" or "Company X is visiting your web site". And "Company X's CIO is John Smith - here's his phone number". But nobody that I've seen claims to offer individual names of web site visitors.

It's a prank. Meant to be funny. Best when signing up for something which might be construed as embarrassing.

I've also done this where I've donated $25 to U of California in the name of my friend who went to Stanford (rival universities). He's likely still getting calls.

TIL that books3 includes the text of three of my books. Which I spent thousands of hours (and thousands of dollars) researching and writing. And which were now stolen for other's profits.

I don't care about your personal financial ruin or liberty - I trust that you are honest in that you were just hacking away with some sort of misguided "information should be free" ethic. But the companies which raise money (and maybe even make money) on the back of my labor should be sold for parts.

I'm pretty upset about this.

Every DB company - from giants like Oracle and MS to newcomers like Scylla and Cockroach - is pushing Cloud Service as their primary revenue model. At least for the growth of their business.

It's shocking to see them shut down the Cloud Service in favor of selling plain old on-prem Enterprise Support contracts. Hard to understand.

Anyone here a user of the cloud service? Was it just unable to compete against RDS, Aurora and the like? Too commodity?

Not "that anonymous user." In my experience, avoiding Join statements is a common best practice for Clickhouse users seeking performant queries on large datasets. A couple examples... https://medium.com/datadenys/optimizing-star-schema-queries-... https://posthog.com/blog/secrets-of-posthog-query-performanc...

There's a difference between "supports the syntax for joins" and "does joins efficiently enough that they are useful."

My experience with Clickhouse is that its joins are not performant enough to be useful. So the best practice in most cases is to denormalize. I should have been more specific in my earlier comment.

StarRocks handles latency and concurrency as well as Clickhouse but also does joins. Less denormalization, and you can use the same platform for traditional BI/ad-hoc queries.

An ad for what?

With the caveat that I know nothing about mailgun, so may have misunderstood parts of the conversation, it sounds, to me, like the salesman did a few very helpful things... 1. Pointed out that the user had been spending money on a service which was not actually being provided. Presumably, mailgun would correct this error. 2. Exposed that the "mail success rate" which the user was seeing might not be the full story. 3. Showed the user that he was paying for suppressed emails, so could (presumably) save some coin by cleaning up his list. (Note that the cost of cleaning might be higher than the extra payments, but good to know that there's a cost to suppressed emails so that the user can make a judgement.)

This rep was honest ("it was a template"), gave a specific agenda when asked, and gave useful information. Complaining that your rep has access to your data when that's his entire job is ridiculous. Data security best practices are that data should be provided on a "need to know" basis. In order to provide the above 3 values, the rep needs access to that data.

Price should be based on value to the user - not cost to you. So ask yourself this question - if you have 2 customers, each with 25,000 profiles. Customer 1 has average monthly sends of 1,000. Customer 2 has average monthly sends of 10,000. Is customer 2 getting 10x more value?

If they make revenue per message sent, then the answer is "yes". Customer 2 is getting 10x the value, so you can charge them 10x the price. Your current model maps with value.

If this is the case, you have a "fire bad customers" case. That is, if you are a car insurance company, you make more money by causing your worst drivers to stop being your customers! You can simply tell them that you aren't interested in working with them any longer. Or you can set incentives which will select against them. (Minimum charge per month?)

But if Customer 1 typically has more value per message sent because of the selections which your system is using, then there is value which you are not capturing.

A new system could try to capture that value any number of ways. $x per 10,000 profiles, plus $y per message sent, would be straightforward.

So an open exchange of ideas, and some free assistance. Sounds like it was a good outcome for you. :)

Scylla, for one. Which is mentioned as a possible "next step" in the article.

Glommio was created by Glauber Costa, one of the early contributors to Seastar (and Scylla). The resemblance between the two is not coincidence. https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/c-vs-rust-an-async-thr...

Full report is posted here with no registration wall: https://www.scylladb.com/2021/01/21/cockroachdb-vs-scylla-be... And they admit that it's an odd comparison. "Obviously, the comparison is of the apples and oranges type..."

Agreed that it sucks when a few bad actors create the need for general restrictions. But that's certainly the case for why we have airport security. Or, in fact any security - anywhere. I look forward to living in your world where either everyone acts well, or we all just tolerate the minor inconvenience of the "bad actors" running wild.

Several airlines have cut alcohol service because their employees were being abused. They continued to serve alcohol through the height of Covid, so blaming "covid culture" is counter factual. Airport bars exist. If you can't manage to make it through the horrible travail of 2.5 hours without alcohol, feel free to drink up before boarding. Or bring some on the plane with you. Or pop a Xanax. Finally, $500 to safely fly from one city to another is not expensive. Planes cost >$100 million to buy. Pilots are well trained and expensive. Ground crews, maintenance, flight plans, etc. If you don't like flying - please take the train. Nobody is stopping you. But if you do fly, you'll be happier (and the people around you will be happier) if you stop complaining.