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Re: The Best Touchscreen Winter Gloves

lusciouspear — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:33:29 -0000

The Thermoballs are no longer sold or have doubled in price. Is there a new recco for cold weather gloves?

Re: GHOST Streaming Entire, Excellent New Album Meliora

lusciouspear — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 16:54:23 -0000

This is beyond glorious. A true triumph for Our Dark Saviour.

Truly, the nameless ones have taken psalms learned from Blue Oyster Cult and Sabbath and written a new liturgy for lost souls.

Re: VatorNews - Drawn to Scale raises nearly $1M to handle big data

lusciouspear — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:19:57 -0000

Cool article. Thank you so much!

Re: Froth or famine?

lusciouspear — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:05:40 -0000

I think there's definitely *not* a bubble in infrastructure these days, especially around Data. But that's my biased opinion. :)

Re: Founders Den: A Private Clubhouse For Entrepreneurs Opens In San Francisco

lusciouspear — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:42:14 -0000

This is kind of derp. I don't see how a "cool kids club" helps entrepreneurs other than surrounding them with people they already know.

Re: Founders Den: A Private Clubhouse For Entrepreneurs Opens In San Francisco

lusciouspear — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:41:51 -0000

This is kinda derp. I don't see how an invite only "cool kids club" helps anyone, except just surrounding yourself with like-minded people.

Re: Men and Women Entrepreneurs: Not That Different

lusciouspear — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:00:24 -0000

Wow, this is fantastic. I've been wanting to see stats like this for a long time. Really goes to show that non-"lifestyle" entrepreneurship is not just tech startups.

Re: Measuring Measures - blog - Startup Hypothesis Testing and Premature Execution

lusciouspear — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:10:23 -0000

Great post. At my startup, we follow Steve Blank's book religiously. And it works!

PG always says "Build something people want.", but Steve's book tells you HOW.

Re: Some Good Big Data Links

lusciouspear — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:06:13 -0000

Thanks for the shout-out :D

Re: Avoid Decision by Indecision

lusciouspear — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:21:03 -0000

I can't tell you how many companies I've been at where this is the norm -- even 40 person startups. I don't have a life to waste doing it. Two years to prototype something that's three months worth of code, because of all the indecision.

One of the folks I hired said, "You kind of piss off a lot of people here, but you're also the only one capable of making a decision."

He's now my co-founder :)

Re: Brown-Bag Lunches at Redfin

lusciouspear — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:10:48 -0000

Hook me up wit' 'dat, yo ^_^

Re: Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up

lusciouspear — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:05:16 -0000

Hostage capitalism. I love it :D

Though doesn't Zynga make more money than fb these days?

Re: Tech Startups vs Rock Bands

lusciouspear — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:59:13 -0000

Haha, damnit! I started 2 bands in college, and I wanted to write an article just like this. We were power metal :D

Fucking awesome writing!

Re: Not Everyone Using noSQL is a Rails-Lovin’ Ass-Clown

lusciouspear — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:19:23 -0000

Tasty, m3mnoch.

Re: Notes from NoSQL Live Boston 2010

lusciouspear — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:59:52 -0000

Thanks for the good notes on that scalability panel I moderated. Let me know if you have any questions!

Re: How to Ask for an Introduction

lusciouspear — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:17:32 -0000

Thanks -- I usually just try to be uber-smooth. This is much better advice.

I feel awkward about heaping on the social proof, but brute force is better than being un-noticed :)

Re: App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

lusciouspear — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:43:20 -0000

I agree with you -- our startup (Drawn to Scale) is very focused fact that more and more verticals (especially "Mobile", whatever that means) will be in "the cloud", and that companies are going to take a more "Cloudy" approach to their data.

The one key benefit of "Apps" is that you can fully utilize the sensors of your environment. If you're a true "webapp with mobile version", then you can only code for the least common denominator handset.

Maybe some future framework/ HTML5.5 will address this. Although I'm not sure how -- I'm not a front-end engineer :)

Re: SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution (And What To Use Instead)

lusciouspear — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:34:41 -0000

I can't believe I didn't see this article until now! You totally hit on the points I raise in my blog. Databases were built to solve problems of 40 years ago. Whether your have small, medium, or "big" data, the classic RDBMS is a pain to use, and a time sink. People spend more time building infrastructure than a business

Drawn to Scale (http://wwwdrawntoscalehq.com) was founded to provide an effortless, scalable alternative to the classic RDBMS, and build a processing and search ecosystem around it, to boot. We kinda call ourselves the "Heroku of Data". ;)

Re: Do Entrepreneurs Fall In Love With a Problem or Solution?

lusciouspear — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:51:34 -0000

Have you read Steven Gary Blank's "4 Steps to the Epiphany"? It goes over a very detailed process to help you interview customers and make sure you're building the right thing for the right problem. It's pretty cool :)

Re: I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND MEN

lusciouspear — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:42:40 -0000

Ew, Tarja. And I didn't know Anette had jigglyarms.

Still, people hate in others what they see in themselves ^_^

Re: YOU'RE SO VAIN, ANETTE. I BET YOU THINK THIS POST IS ABOUT YOU.

lusciouspear — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:57:24 -0000

Ugh, she looks *so bad* as a blonde. I like her voice much more than Tarja's, but it took time.

I HATE metal apparel because it never fits me. Why do only the emo kids get shirts that actually are trim?

Most metalchicks aren't that attractive, except for the fat that they're metal.

Oops, I meant fact.

Re: TOP 5 METAL DRUMMERS

lusciouspear — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:21:01 -0000

Although "Pickles" was pretty damn awesome when I saw him live. ^_^

Re: TOP 5 METAL DRUMMERS

lusciouspear — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:16:07 -0000

I call shenanigans. (Yes, it's an outdated meme, but that makes it more win).

Niko McBrain from Maiden is obviously an awesome progenitor -- I saw his solo 'band', and he really brings an A-game. Bobby Jazombek (he did a stint with Halford) does very innovative drumming for the 'True Metal' genre -- listen to the song 'Crucible'/'Park Manor

My favorite metal drummer is Mike Terranna from RAGE -- the best prog/power band you've never listened to. 'Soundchaser" and "Speak of the Dead".

Re: LET'S GET LITERAL

lusciouspear — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:15:53 -0000

You get props for mentioning 3IB. I think many of their songs could be about love ... like "Revenge Is a Vulture!"

Proposing at a metal should would only be awesome if it was Maiden. And you could do it in front of Eddie.

Re: Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel

lusciouspear — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:16:00 -0000

This is a pretty good intro to the Hadoop world! I like how you mention avoiding 'sharding' and the pains of RDBMSs.

I think you might like an article I wrote on the pitfalls of sharding and RDBMSs on my blog -- http://www.roadtofailure.com . Let me know what you think :)