Hacker News: alexweberk

New comment by alexweberk in "Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams"

alexweberk — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:52:08 +0000

Waymo aside, it's sad to hear that some parts of the world still have blackouts. Which third-world country does "SF" belong to?

New comment by alexweberk in "I Quit Google Search for AI–and I'm Not Going Back"

alexweberk — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:52:57 +0000

People quit Google Search to avoid "search-optimized junk" just to use AIs that answer using "Search" lol. Look closer at the sources your AI answers give you. They're not always pretty.

How FlyData Can Make Data Recovery for Your Business Easy Even in an AWS Outage

alexweberk — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 01:01:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flydata.com/blog/how-flydata-can-make-data-recovery-easy-in-aws-outage-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10249855

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

As people spend more time on social media, advertisers are following them

alexweberk — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 05:33:22 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21662543-people-spend-more-time-social-media-advertisers-are-following-them-brand-new-game

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10142354

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexweberk in "Are Japanese Intestines Longer?"

alexweberk — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:46:06 +0000

I feel betrayed. I want a clear answer!

Replicate Amazon Aurora to Amazon Redshift

alexweberk — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:09:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flydata.com/blog/aurora-to-redshift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10111344

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Amazon Redshift DISTKEY and SORTKEY

alexweberk — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:07:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flydata.com/blog/amazon-redshift-distkey-sortkey/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10086494

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Optimal WLM Settings for Redshift

alexweberk — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:58:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flydata.com/blog/optimal-wlm-settings-redshift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9981766

Points: 1

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Querying Free Disk Space on Redshift

alexweberk — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:05:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flydata.com/blog/querying-free-disk-space-on-redshift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9853537

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexweberk in "How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management"

alexweberk — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:09:01 +0000

So Google is a relatively "Flatt" organization.

New comment by alexweberk in "At Harvard, Wharton, Columbia, MBA startup fever takes hold"

alexweberk — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:52:57 +0000

I wonder how they're going to repay their MBA tuition. Typically a tenure in consulting or high finance would pay for this. Perhaps some don't have this burden, but for many I assume tuition is paid in large part via student debt.

Are they planning to pay themselves large salaries from the get-go? Quite a culture to start a business on...

New comment by alexweberk in "Material UI"

alexweberk — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:31:52 +0000

I hope they do away with the flare effect on button clicks. Just weird...

Elon Musk’s a straight shooter, and that’s why investors love him

alexweberk — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:45:33 +0000

Article URL: http://qz.com/292453/elon-musk-is-the-worlds-most-daring-ceo-and-here-are-the-quotes-that-prove-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8571349

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Fast, Easy, Free Data Sync from RDS MySQL to Amazon Redshift

alexweberk — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:06:56 +0000

Article URL: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/fast-easy-free-sync-rds-to-redshift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8484201

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexweberk in "Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012)"

alexweberk — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 05:37:01 +0000

Having thought about this idea in the past, I can say that one of the difficulty lies in the fact that the market "seems" really large, when in fact, you can only address a limited portion of it. People have different tastes and goals in what they want to accomplish in a "trip", and because the market seems so vast and large, the idea tends to gravitate towards the middle ground. You might satisfy a wide array of people, but none of them will really "love" your product. So rather than daily usage, I think the problem is of segmentation first (and competition, etc following...).

New comment by alexweberk in "Startup CEOs who gave up fortunes to turn employees into millionaires"

alexweberk — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:42:15 +0000

It comes down to trust, really. What goes around comes around.

New comment by alexweberk in "With Amazon Redshift SSD, querying a TB of data took less than 10 seconds"

alexweberk — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:00:32 +0000

That is a good point. There's definitely more value provided with SSD.