Hacker News: ALurchyBeast

New comment by ALurchyBeast in "IBM is splitting itself into two public companies"

ALurchyBeast — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 22:20:18 +0000

IBM tries to capture the 1% of the market that accounts for 99% of the revenue. You or I spinning up a micro instance is not who IBM wants.

New comment by ALurchyBeast in "Reverse Engineering the Logitech Harmony"

ALurchyBeast — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:12:18 +0000

Did Harmony ruin it, or did Logitech ruin Harmony?

New comment by ALurchyBeast in "Apple Fitness+"

ALurchyBeast — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:35:07 +0000

Before jumping at Google/Fitbit train, take a look at Withings watches. Their Healthmate app is solid. In my experience much better than Fitbit, and it isnt trying to sell me on any premium services.

I have a Steel HR & the battery life is measured in weeks.

New comment by ALurchyBeast in "Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM"

ALurchyBeast — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:45:36 +0000

Musk said "Tesla stock price is too high imo". This was a clue that the 1:5 stock split was coming.

Where did he ever say Tesla was overvalued?

New comment by ALurchyBeast in "IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties"

ALurchyBeast — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:12:13 +0000

Here is the 'fat lines' patent you mentioned: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6930686. It's more about efficiency of drawing a line than connecting four dots.

New comment by ALurchyBeast in "SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites"

ALurchyBeast — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:35:35 +0000

So whats your solution? Never put a bunch of satellites in space?

New comment by ALurchyBeast in "IBM’s Old Playbook"

ALurchyBeast — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:08:28 +0000

IBM bought SoftLayer 5 years ago, and was unable to capitalize on their niche (bare metal). Instead they decided to double down on provisioning VMs, which SoftLayer was never that great at. The set of features IBM's VM's provides compared to any other modern cloud is terrible (headed backwards in Gartner charts). It's barely getting any better, meanwhile Google/AWS/Azure are gobbing on features.

IBM effectively failed in their integration of SoftLayer. They bought SoftLayer but failed to modernize them. Why will RedHat be any different?

Take a look at what's left of SoftLayer today. Most folks who had the necessary skills to keep their ancient php platform relevant have left a long time ago.

I'm sure IBM is on their 5th iteration of their "next gen" VM provisioning system by now, due out any quarter...

New comment by ALurchyBeast in "Facebook lifts cryptocurrency ban amid rumours of Coinbase takeover"

ALurchyBeast — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:51:25 +0000

I wonder if this is Zuckerberg's way of saying "fuck you" to Winklevoss twins/Gemini.

New comment by ALurchyBeast in "Ask HN: Why are big companies so much less efficient?"

ALurchyBeast — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 20:04:04 +0000

I see the increase in policies and procedures as a big issue at larger companies. Take your standard CRUD app created at some large corporation. It will go through QA, security auditing, legal, and whatever other team has established a policy or procedure around some process. Each one of these elements takes some number of weeks or months, and each different silo is typically unapproachable (or has some procedure on how to approach them, too).

Smaller companies can achieve higher velocity because the employees dont necessarily need the policies and procedures, or they simply havent been created yet.