Mountain View, CA

Maginatics Inc. is hiring: http://maginatics.com/jobs.html

We are currently in stealth but looking for smart, hands-on developers with a strong background in algorithms, distributed systems, storage systems, security, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) systems. If this sounds like it's up your alley, we would love to hear from you at jobs@maginatics.com.

In addition to what Vibhav said, Maginatics also hires/sponsors H1Bs.

We are also trying to get a great team together. You can check us out on LinkedIn or find most of us at http://twitter.com/#!/maginatics/team/members. Drop us a note or come meet us for coffee!

This title is incorrect and somewhat misleading. The link points to the homepage of an online book titled: "Small Memory Software - Patterns for systems with limited memory."

You're right, it should be changed.

However, if what you're really interested in is small data structures, Chapter 5 deals exclusively with this topic.

Clickable link: http://www.cix.co.uk/~smallmemory/5_DataStructuresChapter.pd...

...or did you find this chapter, and expect something different out of it?

see ch.5

This is only a 11-page (draft version?) forward to the book titled Birth of a Psychedelic Culture [1].

1. http://www.amazon.com/Birth-Psychedelic-Culture-Conversation...

Waiting to see what grellas has to say about this.

Here NEA refers to National Endowment for the Arts. Not, as I thought, the venture capital firm...

Maginatics, Inc.

Based in Mountain View, CA right next to the CalTrain station. (No remote.)

We are currently in stealth but looking for smart, hands-on developers with a strong background in algorithms, distributed systems, storage systems, security, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) systems.

If interested, shoot me email: vibhav [at] maginatics [dot] com.

I store sensitive data in Dropbox using an OS X encrypted disk image in my Dropbox directory. It's not an elegant solution, but it gets the job done. I mount the password-protected disk image when needed, access the data, and unmount when finished. Upon unmounting, Dropbox syncs the encrypted blocks to S3, other computers, etc.

(Encrypted disk-images can be fairly handy. I picked up the trick from a friend and colleague who used them to protect email and other sensitive documents on his laptop. E.g. he sym-linked Mail.app's mail directory, ~/Library/Mail, to the disk image.)

Doesn't this prevent backup/syncing while the image is open?

Sure, but in practice for a single-user dropbox account it's not a big deal, IF you unmount the volume when you're done with it.

I do the same thing that the GP does - mount the disk image, work with the files, then unmount. It's been working great for me for a while, though as the GP says it's not very elegant.

They forgot group buying.

Actually I think they talked about that too "it eventually plans to offer businesses a self-serve platform for running deals"

No wonder they invested $41 million… It's the perfect app…

Tangent: So I'll be honest -- I was curious as to who the "jackass VC" was. After a little digging around, I think it's Ted Schlein: http://www.kpcb.com/team/schlein.

"Ted was the founding CEO of Fortify Software" doesn't mesh with "lifetime middle manager from Symantec who had never started a company"

But his winery seems to fit ... http://www.schleinvineyard.com/content/family_2.php

I bet there's quite a few successful VCs (and entrepreneurs) who own wineries

This is not cool.

FWIW when I pitched him at KP in 2004 or 2005 he seemed like a decent guy.

FWIW I thought the whole aside about the VC guy felt off-topic. It didn't add value to the article and its only purpose was to make the writer look cooler than the strawman he constructed.

Frankly, I was turned off by the distraction and skimmed the rest of the article.

The name is a little too close to ZenDesk, isn't it? Especially since the two companies are in the same market.

Why downvote? I feel the comparison is inevitable.