Conventional wisdom is: Don’t raise money from a ton of angel investors because it’ll clutter the cap table and be a big administrative pain in the butt. I strongly disagree. For a certain type of angel, I advocate for the … Read more
In which there are limits to the CAP conjecture. 07 Oct 2010 I’ve seen a number of distributed databases recently describe themselves as being “CA” –that is, providing both consistency and availability while not providing partition-tolerance. To me, this indicates … Read more
(Or, Why You Can’t Buy a Thermapen on Amazon) You may have noticed there is a new header banner on the ThermoWorks website saying something about a “warning” (see above). We admit that it’s a pretty drastic step to add … Read more