Disqus - Friends of rjhintz

Re: 21 Headphone Salute

Aneel — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:12:08 -0000

That's fantastic.

Re: Yahoo! Bathroom! from! Hell!

Aneel — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:19:38 -0000

There's a part in Amelie where Amelie pulls a fast one on a nasty corner grocer while he's out. He wakes up the next day to find that nothing works quite as it should or seems quite like it's supposed to. Satisfying revengeful hilarity ensues. :)

Re: This is Data Leakage; I'm Bob Edwards

Aneel — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:04:18 -0000

I contributed to my local NPR (NYC) station *once*; I've been receiving spam from Ted Kennedy, the Sierra Club, the ACLU, and on and on--ever since.

Re: A Taste of Sripraphai in Woodside

Aneel — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:53:41 -0000

Sripraphai is fantastic! As a former Woodside resident and ardent lover of thai food (I was born with high-flavor, high-spice genes), I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Re: Books I've read lately

Aneel — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:49:42 -0000

You should take a look at The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplastiity and the Power of Mental Force .

Jeffrey Schwartz goes through the history of research surrounding neuroplasticity and covers his own research into helping OCD patients cope with their problems through conscious direction. I'm not through the whole book, yet, but he's contending that the consciously-directed, reshaping of the physical structure of the brain shows the causal efficacy of the mind. There was a hint earlier (I'm about half-way through) that he will broach quantum mechanics to find the actual phsyical forces involved.

It would be interesting to read what you think of A Mind So Rare, once you're done.

Re: Street Eats: Hallo Berlin

Aneel — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:40:09 -0000

I've been workin' down the street from this cart for a while and couldn't agree more. Hallo Berlin is lunchtime cheap-eats, sausage-lovin' heaven.

Re: Contest Alert: Woo-Hoo! Simpsons Movie Stuff!

Aneel — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:32:06 -0000

Maggie! Maggie's the smartest, toughest, most badass thing in a onesie there ever was.

Re: System and Organizational Scaling - Continuations

Aneel — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:27:17 -0000

The problem is no different for many large, established enterprises. Having never figured out how to scale, they developed as fiefdoms of incompatible services, layers, processes, etc. The solution, I think, is the same--a services-api. Let them do wtf they want to internally as long as they conform to the apis. Then you can have a common language for interconnecting bits of your disintegrated enterprise in novel/innovative ways.

Re: Claiming a comment

Aneel — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:52:49 -0000

Figured I'd just add to the thread.. I can't claim a comment/profile, either. Here it is: http://disqus.com/people/8e...

Re: Doriot Quote Of The Day

Aneel — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:33:14 -0000

Another vote to keep'em coming.

Re: Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out

Aneel — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:46:54 -0000

If these free services go two-way.. and give up those eyeballs, don't they shut off a possible monetization avenue (via advertising) because they cease to become a destination of any kind?

Re: Watch out for Cisco, kids!

Aneel — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:08:47 -0000

Brocade is going down the same road--though they obviously think storage is the center of the universe and spend a lot less time talking about network virtualization, vm portability, orchestration and a few other things than they should.

Re: Porchetta

Aneel — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:20:50 -0000

Nice. :)

Re: Cisco's Nexus 1000v and the Cloud: Is it really a big deal?

Aneel — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:01:55 -0000

VN-Link is just the capacity to support persistent network services for a VM which can be achieved with either an nx5k or the nx1000v according to this Cisco VN-Link intro. Actual stacking capacity is still an open question--but the data sheet you link implies there is some ability to have the nx1000v span physical boxes (at least 2) and that that would be a prereq for maintaining network state after a vMotion move.

Re: Fibre Channel over Ethernet or Infiniband: a Response

Aneel — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:18:17 -0000

A couple of thoughts:

Re IB performance: Duh. However--CEE at 10Gb, and especially at 40 & 100Gb, should change that. The economics of that will be interesting to see.

Re the overhead of 3 separate fabrics: IMHO if you're already already dealing with 1/10GbE & FC, then it isn't particularly onerous to collapse the two into FCoE at the access layer. You're still managing GbE & FC. If the FCoE works as the standards in dev say it should, then the added management overhead of 1 (not 3) additional fabric that works in ways similar to the existing ones isn't going to be significantly more. Of course, it won't work the way it should--that's where you'll suffer.

Re moving IB out from HPC into the rest of the network: now that would be interesting.

Re: hi

Aneel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:26:23 -0000

testing disqus<->tumblr integration

Re: the googling of infrastructure again

Aneel — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:56:57 -0000

A couple of thoughts about that..

- Although googley architecture does virtualize (at least I think it does) at the app level, that doesn't mean their [hardware] infrastructure platform couldn't be used otherwise.

- There are enterprises who build dynamic, statistically data-driven and managed, etc., infrastructures that provide cloud-like characteristics to their end-users doing things very similar to the way that google does them.. they just don't like to talk about it. :-)

- Totally agree on the HPC point. Where do you think all the networking vendors are getting their ideas for building fast, huge-scaling, non-blocking fabrics?

Re: irq

Aneel — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:38:39 -0000

As it so happens, I disagree with both Maritz's view and Ruben's.. and well, with most everyone's definition of 'private'.

I think 'private' would be best defined as a cloud to which only "trusted users" (as Hoff would say) have access. Whether it's located on your premises or a host's premises, on shared or dedicated infrastructure, managed by you or someone else, owned by you or someone else, on your stack or someone else's--is besides the point.

But that's just me.

I made a silly deck that spells it out.

Re: irq

Aneel — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:11:46 -0000

:) I didn't say "silly" for nothin'.

Re: IDs, Vanity URLs and YOUR NAME

Aneel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:01:27 -0000

I agree with trying to maintain name consistency.. but you can't always be first to grab a handle. What I do is maintain profile & link consistency. E.g. all my profiles point back to either my twitter handle, linked in profile, or tumblog--all of which point to each other.

On the move to a more bloggy blog front, I actually went the other direction: from a wordpress blog on my own domain hosted by joyent to a tumblog, because I wanted to separate out tech/work stuff from the rest of my life. And enough of that tech/work stuff was just light commentary that a blog platform to maintain seemed like overkill.

Re: irq

Aneel — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:43:41 -0000

I don't think they're any harder to acquire. I think it's more that managers who can't make promote sanctuaries of management-heaviness within large organizations.

Re: Transition to the Cloud

Aneel — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:41:17 -0000

Congrats Dave!

Re: brooklyner curatorial — The 50 best foods in the world and where to eat them | Life and style | The Observer

Aneel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:20:55 -0000

I'll have to add those to the list!

Re: representing non-linearity in project execution

Aneel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:05:02 -0000

Typically, yeah. But I contend that they shouldn't be so separate. Project management often fails because it can't consume, regurgitate, represent, or process (ha!) the impact of the actual process of what must go on.

And process management fails because it's willfully ignorant of time.

Re: representing non-linearity in project execution

Aneel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:07:32 -0000

Huh.. that's an interesting approach. Very systems-y.

So here proj mgmt is an 1) orchestration facility btwn objects and 2) the message queue owner. Yeah?