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Re: Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Amazon EFS file systems

toddsampson — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:54:35 -0000

For anyone else that has this issue, it turns out that you also need to open port 2049 inbound in the security group in the network interface and task definition.

Re: Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Amazon EFS file systems

toddsampson — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:02:29 -0000

Great article. I spent the better part of a day trying different configurations to make this work. I finally blew my cluster away and started over. Sadly, I'm still getting "ResourceInitializationError: failed to invoke EFS utils commands to set up EFS volumes: command failed with 32: failed to execute command to invoke EFS utils: mount.nfs4: Connection reset by peer" Any guesses as to what is causing the error?

Re: Why Does the Ethereum Ecosystem Use Gas?

toddsampson — Thu, 18 May 2017 15:23:34 -0000

At first I was skeptical of the use of gas in Ethereum, but I have become a fan. It keeps you from having issues like the following that is currently happening with NEM: NEM listed the price of a namespace at 5000 XEM, which was completely reasonable a few months ago. Now, with the surge in price of XEM, it costs the equivalent of $924 USD. Yes, a surging price of your token falls into the "problems we like to have camp" but it still causes strain on the network. Compare that to the price rise of ETH, multiple $10M+ USD ICOs on the network, and the launch of the Ethereum Name Service (which can get you the equivalent of cheaper namespace for a few dollars USD) that have all performed fine on Ethereum thanks to gas.

Re: 6 DOF IMU Shield

toddsampson — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:38:02 -0000

Was curious if this board would work with a 600 p/r quadrature wheel encoders?

Re: Cloudspace | Announcing The Crunchinator

toddsampson — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:35:17 -0000

Congrats on the launch guys! Great stuff.

Re: Cloudspace | The Benefits of Split Stack Development

toddsampson — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:03:08 -0000

Great post Tim.

I'm a huge fan of the move to split stack -- and not just because of the growing number of devices or the ability to find specialists in each area.

The biggest key for me is the ability to let the various engineers, developers, designers and product people focus on their specialities. The backend crew can continue to focus on scaling the service, data integrity, and security as they have always done on the web. But they can leave the interfaces to the front-end crews. These groups can focus on the user experience, design, and the iterative development needed to create not just great products.

This is compounded when you realize every new type of device connected to the net offers, not only new technical challenges, but new ways to engage with users; the ability to create entirely new experinces.

Re: Cloudspace | A Technical Introduction to the Crunchinator

toddsampson — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:05:31 -0000

Thanks Nick! Great stuff.

Re: A warm welcome to Mark, our new CEO, from our new Cambridge, MA Headquarters

toddsampson — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:44:33 -0000

Huge move. Congrats guys!

Re: One More Great Lesson From Steve Jobs: Innovation Begins As A Social Movement

toddsampson — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:28:45 -0000

Bruce, do you have any links for more information on your statement: India’s innovation and design consultancy Idiom has an 80% success rate in “designing out” new companies.

Re: BigDoor Announces Gamification Acquisition

toddsampson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:45:51 -0000

Thanks guys! Psyched to be onboard.

Re: BigDoor Acquires OneTrueFan

toddsampson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:42:12 -0000

Thanks Brad! Psyched to be part of the crew at BigDoor. I always knew I would end up at one of your portfolio companies; since you are always in on the startups I love. Looking forward to grabbing some sushi to celebrate next time I'm in Boulder.

Speaking of companies I love.... Do portfolio buddies get an inside track at MakerBot? As I tweeted a while back, we love our CupCake CNC with the upgraded Automated Build Platform. Feel free to offer me up as a lab rat for anything those guys are working on.

Cheers!

Re: MyBlogLog Memorial Screenshot Gallery

toddsampson — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:42:08 -0000

Awesome Ian... Thanks for putting this together my man. Can't wait to get you back to the States! :)

Re: Cloudspace Mockups

toddsampson — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:29:37 -0000

Great stuff! Love the launch early and grow model -- especially with open-source.

Re: Every Day I’m Versioning (Gem versioning is important)

toddsampson — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:20:02 -0000

Great stuff Josh. Thanks for the post!

Re: Two Years With Kiva

toddsampson — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:26:56 -0000

Love it guys... Great stuff!

Re: Beyond Foursquare: The Next Generation of Customer Loyalty

toddsampson — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:48:15 -0000

Totally agreed Umair. The like/dislike part is hard because we only check-in where we want to be seen. It is the reflected glory of associating ourselves with things that define us. This goes far beyond location -- the music we like (or admit to liking), the shows we watch, the websites we read, etc. -- and if used well can help shape behavior for the better.

We are taking a shot at doing just that for the virtual world with OneTrueFan (http://onetruefan.com) a service we launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last week.

Re: As an ex-Yahoo and a New-AOL’er, My Thoughts on One Portal to Rule Them All

toddsampson — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:26:04 -0000

Agreed. "Rip" is belittling the freedom you will feel after performing a Yahooectomy (TM) on your bag. You can hardly see the scar.

Re: Are you a Hacker or a Hustler?

toddsampson — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:54:09 -0000

Agreed... Can't believe we both missed this post when it first came out. Get back to the States!

Re: Yahoo unveils three-year plan to become cool again

toddsampson — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:10:22 -0000

Yahoo, "We're hip. We're with it. Duck-a duck-a, duck-a duck-a, duck-a duck-a.... Ooooohhh."

Re: Back to Blogging?

toddsampson — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:08:24 -0000

Love the post Ian. I think (and hope) you are correct.

Outside the technical hurdles discussed in the comments above, the biggest challenge with the "distributed comments" idea is that most shares and likes have almost 0 signal. You will get the occasional "awesome" or "this sucks" along with the link; but in most cases you only get a re-sliced page title. I don't know if distributed comments actually matter if the tools are only promoting discovery over depth of connection.

Re: Startups are the new R&D

toddsampson — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:55:33 -0000

Big companies only want to do things they think they know will be successful; since the costs of failure are much greater. They also feel the need to build every test to scale for all their users -- even if none of those users show up for the new service offering. (Which sadly happens far too often after the 18 months of lead time it takes to build a new product idea to scale.) While big companies don't really have to run this way, most don't realize it. And as such, it is much cheaper for startups to try new ideas.

Re: Threded conversations and platforms update

toddsampson — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:30:27 -0000

Very cool guys.... Congrats on the new launch. Can't wait to try out the threaded feature.

Re: Are You Retweetable?

toddsampson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:26:59 -0000

Not really... That seemed to be the most popular retweet formatting when I wrote the post. Lately I have seen a number of Twitter clients that built-in RT leave the colon out.

Thanks for bring that up.

Re: Web Applications and Society

toddsampson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:02:56 -0000

Thanks Saurabh. I am hopeful that a more connected world gives greater incentive to drive more businesses (and people) to adopt that mindset.

Re: Why Don’t Media Companies Get It??

toddsampson — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:54:18 -0000

Spot on Ian. That's a great way of looking at it.

The analogy continues to work when you look at the way teams almost always loose when they switch to defense to protect a lead in the 4th quarter.