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That's why the article is "Getting to Zero" not "Starting at Zero"; the target audience is teams where the opening quotes sound like something you'd overhear.
Not understanding the negativity. It was a reasonably well done little blog post, and if you're on, or responsible for, a team where that situation and attitude is occurring it provides some good concise guidelines on how to make life better.
As per the article:
-Expected exceptions get turned into metrics
If it's not a bug, mute it in your exception tracker and measure it.
It's it's own thing now, and still has a very nice looking high-end model:
They just launched their Surface Pro competitor in the US: http://us.vaio.com/
(Typing this on the final version of the Sony Vaio Z, eagerly looking for a Skylake based successor...)
It's a way to imply that the all of the fiddly little details don't suck.
Everyone's run into that library, SaaS product, or other bit of software where all of the features sound awesome, it appears to do exactly what you need ... and you'd rather debug a plugged in blender than actually use it.
cielo24 -- Santa Barbara, CA -- Fulltime Developer
cielo24 (www.cielo24.com) is a technology startup in the online media space located in downtown Santa Barbara. Leveraging automation and crowdsourcing, we create high quality media data including captions, timed transcripts, indexes and video intelligence for clients in the online education, enterprise and entertainment industries. We are developing the next generation media experience to help clients maximize the value of their media content.
Job Description: We're looking to expand capacity in a number of roles across the dev team; frontend engineers, backend engineers, QA managers, and UX designers are all welcome. You will play a pivotal role in developing our cloud based media data platform while while working with other highly skilled developers.
Minimum requirements: • Bachelor's Degree • Computer Science or related major • 5+ years professional coding experience, or significant projects of note • Experience in at least one of the following areas: HTML5 web applications, RESTful API development, workflow/queuing software, automated testing/build tools, video/audio encoding, and Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) • Good interpersonal and communication skills, with a strong attention to detail • A unique and much desired "just get things done right" mentality
Ideal candidate has experience with: • Working in a small team of developers • Knowledge of Python or JavaScript
Drop us a line at devs@cielo24.com
It's easy* to build a dramatically better performing and more efficient CPU than currently available if you don't have to restrict yourself to the code and compilers currently available.
The exciting thing to me is that between wider availability of open source compilers and code, and a larger amount of user level code being written in interpreted languages (so only the language runtime needs to be rebuilt), there might actually be a future in alternative architectures.
* As these things go...
Interesting from a biology/chemistry perspective, but also perhaps a really good example of missing secondary effects.
"The agencies do recommend using soap and water and scrubbing vigorously, for at least 20 seconds."
I spend a whole lot more time scrubbing when the water is nice and warm.
""You don't need hot water, you need soap, water, and friction," said Sack. He added that the Escambia County Health Department in Pensacola, Florida, decided to turn off the hot water heaters in its five clinics two years ago, after a review of the literature provided no evidence that hot water was better."
... and did turning off the hot water have impact on compliance with hand washing policy? That would be an interesting follow-up study.
It's a lot of fun, but it's also a bit of a trap in my experience. My previous startup was all custom, my current one is all as hands off as we can be infrastructure wise.
Unless going custom allows you to do something that you couldn't otherwise do (cases which are rare, but existent), it's just optimizing margin. And you can't margin your way to success. (To failure yes, to success no.)
As noted above, their hosting was a big number, but it wasn't a dominant cost. It's like Amdahl's law of money, it doesn't matter how little you spend in one area if that area isn't dominating your costs.
And all else being equal, it's usually the wrong choice; the best way to grow the bottom line is to grow the top line. If you can spend X weeks cutting costs by Y$, or X weeks increasing revenue by Y$, grow the top line. It's fuel, it gives you options.
The thing I miss the most about doing it our selves was the raw fun of it, and how efficient it felt. But in retrospect it was a lot of time spent on things that ultimately didn't change the outcome.
It's easier to fabricate a smaller panel.
Edit: And by easier I of course mean both less expensive, and more flexible in process.
I've a Dell 2000FP that's still getting 8+ hours of serious use a day, even as it's coming up on its 11th birthday in a few more months. (And still looking pretty great compared to a current gen budget monitor.)
There has been so little movement in mid-quality LCD systems, it's nice to see some change. (Even if the 24" is ... profoundly uninteresting to me at 1080p)
Edit: Not that this changes the original point, just that, as an early adopter, I've been burned a lot less by monitors than by ... everything else.
Santa Barbara, CA -- Cielo24 Inc (http://www.cielo24.com) Full-time Python or HTML/JS/CSS developer, on-site only.
Cielo24 delivers searchable captions for large media platform partners in the online education, enterprise, news and entertainment markets. Clients turn to us to improve their ROI for online media by extending reach, content discovery and equal access compliance.
We are modestly funded, launched, and seeing substantial monthly revenue and significant month on month growth.
We are looking for skilled software engineers at all levels of experience with a focus on:
Python backend developer(s) (Django/RabbitMQ/Celery/Postgres stack), building workflow management systems, including operational dashboards and analytics, and backend ASR and machine learning based text recommendation systems.
Web frontend developer(s) for basic HTML5/JQuery/Bootstrap type sites, and more advanced HTML5/JS, mostly Backbone based, custom tools (for example, our video caption editor).
Those are our core needs, but all talented individuals will be considered, regardless of directly applicable experience. There's plenty of work to do beyond the above!
E-mail: jobs@cielo24.com
Cielo24, Santa Barbara, California. Office in downtown Santa Barbara.
We build crowd/machine hybrid systems, currently focusing on media captioning solutions and seeing significant penetration and revenue in the online education vertical. You've never heard of us, but you've probably seen our work if you've looked at online education media.
We're looking for: Python backend developer(s) (Django/RabbitMQ/Celery/Postgres stack), building both workflow management systems, including operational dashboards and analytics, and backend ASR and machine learning based text recommendation systems.
Web frontend developer(s) for basic HTML5/JQuery/Bootstrap type sites, and custom HTML5 based work tools (for example, our video caption editor).
INTERN: Dev internet with strong enthusiasm for python or web frontend development. Analytics intern who would like to help develop quality metrics, and analyze output quality from various workflows, ASR engines, and other partners.
Email: jobs@cielo24.com
One of the key benefits I get form a dashboard is being able to recognize that something's wrong, even when it's entirely different than anything I've seen on that dashboard before.
I'm not convinced a feed would allow me to do that.
Cielo24, Santa Barbara, California. Office in downtown Santa Barbara.
We build crowd/machine hybrid systems, currently focusing on media captioning solutions and seeing significant penetration and revenue in the online education vertical. You've never heard of us, but you've probably seen our work if you've looked at online education.
We're looking for: Python backend developer(s) (Django/RabbitMQ/Celery/Postgres stack), building both workflow management systems, including operational dashboards and analytics, and backend ASR and machine learning based text recommendation systems.
Web frontend developer(s) for basic HTML5/JQuery/Bootstrap type sites, and custom HTML5 based work tools (for example, a video caption editor).
INTERN: Dev internet with strong enthusiasm for python or web frontend development. Analytics intern who would like to help develop quality metrics, and analyze output quality from various workflows, ASR engines, and other partners.
We have a very small online presence currently, only a minimal retail site at www.oneclicktocaption.com, but are doing significant monthly revenue through direct b2b channels. Revenue is growing as fast as dev can build out scale and capabilities to support it.
Email: jobs@cielo24.com
The audio version gives a bit more context. It sounded like the reporter was there already doing another story, and the NASA folks were very distracted by this but wouldn't yet say more than what's quoted in the story.
Could be that it wasn't much of a calculated PR stunt by either side, but rather just human nature at work. If you're the NASA people, and you're getting exciting data, you're going to be excited about it. If you're a reporter, and everyone's excited, you're going to write about it even if you have no good details.
That's being explicit, the problem is with wrapper scripts that omit that, assuming a sh compatible shell.
Still running fish on one of my systems, excited to see new development work as it was getting past the point where I was comfortable using it on anything new.
Few notes from someone who's built way to many home, and other, servers.
You made the right call on the drive, low end hard disk prices hit a wall pretty hard which leaves them looking a bit silly.
You're vastly overestimating the amount of power required to run the disk arrays, even at peak spin-up loads. The only way you could fit enough hardware into that chassis to come near using that PSU is multiple high-end GPUs.
If you're going to build a home server it's almost always worth investing in an AC power meter if you don't already have one.
Nearly every PSU operates most efficiently somewhere in the middle of it's power range, operating a high power PSU at 20% capacity will use notably more power than a correctly sized one. Take a look at any PSU review over at silentpcreview.com, they do good efficiency testing.
Like I said, it's more abandoned than anything else at this point. Drop us a note.
I'll see if he feels like digging it up and tossing it on github or something.
One of my co-founders hacked something similar together in JS using an different technique a few years ago, but never got around to going anywhere with it: http://www.zettabytestorage.com/gloam/
I don't think it's been touched since sometime in 2008, but it's still fun. (Though notably more primitive)
Edit: The website for it is rather sparse and stale, but drop us a note at 'support' at the above domain name and it'll get to the original author of the code.
Edit: Also, not trying to steal your thunder or anything, what you're doing is different and new, what I linked is quite unmaintained. Just pointing out some similar work who's author I know well, and who might be fun to have chat with about it.
Higher FPS = reduced delta between frames = better compression as compared to the raw footage.
Doubling the framerate will not double the bitrate. (Though it will increase it somewhat, probably not as much as you'd expect) Modern video codecs are getting pretty smart.
> I kind of want to see what other hackers think of this 'heuristic of conversational originalism'.
It's a threaded comment system, rather than a flat comment system. To me this implies that the search for context should begin with the most tightly bound scope. By default I assume a comment is a direct reply to its parent, as the writer of the comment made a deliberate choice to place it there.
While the larger context informs the tone and examples which will be used, it's the background scenery, not the subject.
> In a sustained conversation it's unreasonable to expect readers to perform a context-shift every time someone says something
Maybe I'm reading this too strongly, but how else can you have a conversation? Every statement is, most immediately, in the context of the directly preceding statement, that's what a dialog is.
> especially when the in-context reading (particularly the murder comment) is more natural than the out-of-context reading.
Again, maybe I'm completely misreading you here. But what exactly do you mean by the 'in-context' reading in this case? The subject as I read it was: "Humans will always be underemployed from some perspective ("Oh but she could be doing X"). Penalizing them for not operating in a way that is consistent with your (or anyone's) world view is far more sinister."
With a larger context of the validity of 'wasting time' as a criticism, the implication that what constitutes a waste of time is purely subjective, and the background example given being HFT vs. Ad revenue. (The choice of HFT as an example being the result of the overall context of the article)
As requested, that's what this hacker thinks.
> has named a liquidator to start divesting its assets.
So you could say that they've Died In A Fire Sale. That's pretty close to what many people seem to have been wishing they would do...
How does "as users lost money, they just dropped off." followed by "filed for bankruptcy", mean "Smart? Definitely yes."?
I guess they did make money for a while, so it's wasn't terrible, but having a business model that makes your customers leave? I'll pass on calling that 'Smart'.
>I'm not even sexist
... and yet in reply to a completely neutral comment proposing that the article might be relevant because one of the two people in it was just featured in a very highly rated article last week, you create a one-off account and go on a full paragraph gender rant ...
Edit: I agree with the top poster, I was expecting more in-depth analysis when I hit the link. But voting up a follow-up story to someone who was just highly featured in the community is not exactly an inexplicable response.
If you've ever done field tech work, freelance or otherwise, you'd know that mere physical incompatibility isn't going to stop some people from plugging nearly any connector into nearly any port.
Please tell me that you don't actually believe this and were just speaking for effect, as it isn't even remotely close to the truth.
The iPad was a revolution in exactly the same way the iPod was a revolution. It had a more accessible UI and made trade-offs to be a bit slicker than what was out there, but they were the right trade-offs which were needed to take it to mass appeal. It's a good product, and it will revolutionize tablet use, but not because it's a massive technical improvement.
> I don't understand 9-5 either, why start so late? I do 7:30 to 4, and get out in time to...
Woah there Mr. Personal Responsibility Man[1]! Clearly the reasonable solution is to capaciously adjust our definition of what time it is twice a year so that we can have "more daylight".
[1] Or woman, of course. Curse our lack of fully developed gender neutral language. (Ohh, sure, Person, but what about the Mr. bit? Bah.)
> my university
Emphasis added. Ensuring that students have a sound grounding in the basics and can then focus on the new material in later classes seems far more relevant to the goal of teaching computer science.
Universities focusing on throughput and employability is the problem, not the solution. It shouldn't be 4 more years of high school ...
I did not mean to suggest that they would deviate significantly from the norm of any other group of people presented with unexplainable phenomena throughout the remainder of human history. Given the variance in how smoothly minor points of difference in mythology have gone down in the rest of history, it was not intended to indicate any additional fragility over baseline humanity.
Suggesting that it damages anything is a significant value judgment. To suggest that notable, repeated, unexplained phenomena would have no impact at all whatsoever is sufficiently at odds with the entirety of human history, culture, and the general body of human mythology, that I'd like to see a stronger citation than the paragraph on their website if you find one.
I would expect that it would do what every other unexplainable but repeated phenomena did in pre-scientific cultures, become part of the mythology. See: Weather.
But my only anthropology was a few GE classes in undergrad, so maybe someone with actual knowledge can chime in?
Hopefully future history books (or niche Ph.D. theses more likely ...) won't include a section about the bloody war between the plane-ists and the aplane-ists, over the deep theological issue of gods made manifest and physically watching over you... [See discussion below, not meant as a dig about this specific video or this specific group of people]