The majority of risk lies outside of Segment and they are damned serious about the risk they own

I am sure they do. We have great respect for segment. However, at some point/scale a company needs to take ownership of their their user-data.

Yes, some events may go to 3rd party vendors (analytics, advertising) but not everything goes and those often have PII removed. We want Rudder to be the point where you decide and enforce what goes where.

I just moved from San Francisco to Nashville, TN last week. For me, it was a combination of the cost of living and lack of family in the area. I'll always miss San Francisco, but our rent has halved, our square footage has doubled, and I no longer pay state income taxes. I'm still doing interesting work (remotely) for the same company, so I can't complain!

As you're getting connected in the local community, check out a little service I built: https://twitter.com/NashTechEvents

It's driven by ML using Meetup, Eventbrite, and a bunch of other data sources. And always open to feedback. Feel free to drop me a note. :)

Congrats on getting out of the bay! so many of us think of it, but with family and friends around here, it makes it much harder to leave.

Congrats on the move! How's the tech scene?

Does it look anything like https://github.com/dan-compton/ecsonnet

How are you managing the registration of service and task definitions?

Genius is a dynamic thing rendered via the lens of social value.

If scientific progress is our goal, then I would argue that forming cliques around a clique-governed definition of "most likely to elicit genius" is not only wrong, but dangerous. Heuristics can be ugly things.

Also, MENSA reminds me of church. Church is boring.

Time for a new keyboard and mouse. This combo: https://evoluent.com/products/vm4r/ http://www.typematrix.com/ in addition to smarter keystrokes in vim solved all of my issues. This keyboard is probably a better option: https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/

Bah, cats were never domesticated.

My intuition tells me that neuroplasticity is largely driven by genetics. Outliers in this space are likely caused by mutations related to neurofibromatosis. I also imagine that there is a huge memory component in some of these variants (for example, a person who can learn quickly but also forgets quickly).

Let the frustration flow through you.

Yup. Issues with docker on osx caused me to move to a debian VM 6 or 7 months ago (that I ssh into from iterm). The main reason I still use it is because it would take several hours to transition back to osx.

For me, the scenarios mentioned are too improbable to justify that amount of tinkering. If you need what that gives you (portability etc), it would not be a terrible way to go about it. You could also look into amazon workspaces or vagrant.

I'm not religious now, but grew up in an extremely religious (southern baptist) household. When I was young, my mother, family, and friends told me stories of demons and demonic possession -- and I was terrified. I sometimes prayed myself to sleep. As I grew older (into my teens), this fear was replaced with an unencouraged, autonomic disinterest in Christianity.

In short, my experiences have taught me that some people are not wired for religion. Perhaps some of those disinterested folk find it more advantageous to say "possessed by demons" than "not otherwise specified."