1 month ago • Comments on a post

Been married for 20 years almost…we never fight. We both do things that aren’t optimal, but we give each other the benefit of the doubt, we talk about everything, we don’t step on each other’s areas of responsibility, we don’t speak harshly to each other and we are best friends. I can’t ever imagine being in a the situation described above. I mean all the individual things happen to us leaving dishes, muddy whatever (we have 5 kids…so the noise alone), but so what? It’s all in how you both handle everything. We’ve never found it hard to exist together.

I think the biggest thing is we never speak harshly to each other. If we aren’t exactly kind we apologize, but we never speak to each other or our children in ways I hear others do all the time. That is the love killer.

1 month ago • Comments on a post

I don’t find these arguments convincing for AGI to appear. Saying scale is not the answer isn’t not argument for AGI.

Saying the ball is “rolling” and that AI will design AGI just isn’t convincing. We don’t understand how biological machines learn and especially not our own brain. And admittedly our AI is unrelated to how human intelligence is created which is our gold standard for AGI…

So why would anyone think the singularity is close? When I read this is still seems impossibly far away.

4 months ago • Comments on a post

Using number of patents as a measure makes this whole premise dubious.

4 months ago • Comments on a post

You just have to find technical people that can do both to some level that is good enough to prove your mvp has legs. After you raise money as long as you can stick to all technical people do it…as long as you can.

4 months ago • Comments on a post

I guess it would depend on what it is, but I would think anything I would be interested in would need more than one technical person from the beginning…everything I’ve ever started has.

5 months ago • Comments on a post

Based on what?

5 months ago • Comments on a post

It’s amazing to me anyone uses crypto. If banks or exchanges were this bad at holding on to your money, no one would use them…ever.

5 months ago • Comments on a post

Nothing by Alastair Reynolds?

6 months ago • Comments on a post

I’ve started companies and done some pretty cool technical things, but stuff like wrote a game like that in assembly does the same thing to me, in terms of feeling less than. I don’t find making a game as much of a “higher calling” so it doesn’t bother me in the sense of worthiness, but in terms of technical skill…it’s humbling, but that’s ok.

6 months ago • Comments on a post

The world is so different now and a lot of that change was spurred on or created directly by YC. super thankful, raising money still sucks, but it really sucked back then.

7 months ago • Comments on a post

https://tractoraddict.com/tractor-tires-filled-with-water/

Beet juice is interesting! lol

7 months ago • Comments on a post

While anecdotal, we see a lot of development environments for a lot of companies and the amount using github vs gitlab is like 5 or 6x to 1. So, in that sense I get what the CTO of github is saying.

7 months ago • Comments on a post

We are super excited about partnering with CRV to bring Environments as a Service (EaaS) to every development team out there. We have been working super hard to make something useful, that people want. If you have any questions or want to know more about Release hit us up! We are hiring too: engineering, product, marketing, sales, almost everything!

7 months ago • Created a post

Releasehub.com (YC W20) – Announcing $20M Series A Led by CRV

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7 months ago • Comments on a post

Yeah, no.

10 months ago • Comments on a post

It’s too late IMO. I left that cesspool of Facebook a long time ago. If people haven’t left yet, I don’t know what would convince them.

11 months ago • Comments on a post

I felt the same way. I never buy it when people say they remember anything when they were two. I have 5 kids, one is only 2, but none of the other 4 remember anything from when they were two. I guess people can be different but I have a hard time believing it.

1 year ago • Comments on a post

I’m not an expert in platform.sh, but when looking at this https://docs.platform.sh/languages/ruby.html It looks like platform.sh has to add support for specific kinds of languages and frameworks. Release doesn’t work like that.

Ours is all based on K8s and containers. We use buildx to build just about anything and we then orchestrate the deployment of multiple services into our customers cloud accounts. We have a full Ci/cd platform from build to production to even managing on-prem deployments following our customers business rules. Our goal is to “virtualize” your entire environment to be cloud agnostic over time. We have customers now that have chosen to have their ephemeral environments and production in different cloud providers and that is something we enable.

We have a workflow engine that allows you to run terraform, migrations, tests, anything you can think of as part of your deployments. You can customize the config for every environment from replicas to liveness probes to adjusting memory for every pod, or you can ignore all of that and just deploy away!

Hopefully that helps. Sorry I’m not to knowledgeable on their platform.

1 year ago • Comments on a post

You can use heroku, but as your app grows in complexity, (say static javascript frontend, backend, queue, and maybe a few AWS or GCP native services) you have to stitch something together with heroku + vercel + ?? + can't use RDS, but wish i could. :)

Heroku review apps are analogous to our ephemeral environments, but we can deal with much more complicated environments, which reduces complexity in your CI/CD platform, production deployments or on-premise deployments if needed.

1 year ago • Comments on a post

We used docker-compose as a starting point because we were thinking along the same lines. In order to orchestrate the deployment of a complicated app, docker-compose became a much smaller part of solution; docker-compose is helpful for getting some partial service definitions created, but there is so much more to deploying environments.

We are a full CI/CD platform with the ability to do static javascript builds, build-x builds, installing in our customers clusters, installing in their customers clusters, dealing with routing for ephemeral environments, creating pools of resources for ephemeral environments to attach to, deploying and monitoring production environments, a workflow engine and we are just getting started!

We do run into objections along the way like, "can't a couple of people do this pretty easily", but depending on what you want to do, it grows in complexity quickly. A lot of time teams don't realize that until they are way down the path of trying to create a system like this.

If you have any specific questions about how ReleaseHub works let me know, happy to answer anything!