Paul Dix

@pauldix

CTO of (YC W13), organizer of NYC Machine Learning, series editor for Addison Wesley's Data & Analytics, author of Service Oriented Design with Ruby.

New York City, NY
influxdata.com
Joined February 2008
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  1. 42 minutes ago

    OH: just remember that when you rearrange the letters of the word “HOPE” it spells “NOVEMBER 6”

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  2. Aug 28

    I decided to go with the more tame title, but I still expect some programmers to get angry and yell at me. Here's "Learning Flux () is about as difficult as learning an API:" cc

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    Aug 26

    I did a long form post on my thoughts surrounding the Redis Labs license change announcement from last week. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

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  4. Aug 27

    Thinking about starting another programmer holy war tomorrow. Always the question: to clickbait title the blog post or not?

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  5. Aug 27

    Sad I'm not making it to Denver for this year. I'll just observe via Twitter until vacation starts on Wednesday.

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  6. Aug 26

    Mainly there are some C++ libs that I want to play around with, but I don't want to get into that whole thing. Thinking that doing it through Rust might be interesting.

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  7. Aug 26

    Seriously considering learning Rust. Haven't done any "just messing around programming" in a long time and that feels like a good way to do it.

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    Aug 24

    New blog post: “Redis is not open core” ->

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    Jul 9

    An overview of LocustDB, a new and extremely fast open-source analytics database built in Rust

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    Aug 23

    Re Commons Clause and more, I wrote a blog post about why a license that requires consultants and service providers to buy a license might be a good thing for getting more open source in the wild, and keeping more open source from turning into open core -

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    Aug 23

    We worked with to analyze their distributed graph database, and found 23 issues, including crashes, deadlocks, consistency anomalies, and data loss. Dgraph has addressed almost all of these in recent releases, though some problems remain.

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  12. Aug 23

    Definitely yes to this!

    We're starting to develop Arrow-optimized interfaces to native database protocols in . If you feel like you've been drinking a data milkshake through too small a straw, we'd love to hear from you:
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  13. Aug 22

    Dang, you try to stoke the OSS drama flames with a click-baity title and the moderators on HN taketh away...

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  14. Aug 22

    I wrote some thoughts about the licensing drama. I think it's overblown so here's my argument in defense of and . It's time for the open source community to get real:

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  15. Aug 22

    I feel like there's still more to be said about OSS licensing and businesses and, more importantly, how software developers think about these things. I think some realism and pragmatism is required. Might try to distill some more thoughts into a post...

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  16. Aug 22

    And here's clarifying that Redis is still BSD. I don't get people's outrage. There may have been some confusion, but that's because they didn't read. The posting was clear that Redis is still BSD. Guessing there will still be outrage.

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  17. Aug 21

    And the obligatory HN thread where they get torn to shreds:

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  18. Aug 21

    Commercializing OSS ain’t easy. The version:

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    Aug 19

    PCRE2 is coming to ripgrep

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    Aug 17

    The FASTER key-value store () alpha version library is now open source! This is the original C# version, as well as a C++ port (for Windows and Linux!). Check it out at . Meet us at the VLDB 2018 demo in Rio as well!

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