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Coding Horror: My Scaling Hero
- alecco 18y agoReason given for mostly static or unimportant to be slightly out-of-date content. Plus incremental content. No cookie.
- petercooper 18y agoJust wondering.. did you use a Markov chain to write your comment? It doesn't parse.
- cousin_it 18y agoNot surprisingly. Generating parseable strings, e.g. balanced sequences of parentheses, requires more than a Markov chain.
- petercooper 18y agoMarkus Frind is not just a scaling hero, but a hero of the 2nd highest order (beneath Jesus, Scoble and Calacanis). He's not just the king of scaling, but a king of business. Who wouldn't want to earn millions of dollars while not having to deal with "employees" or "investors"? I say, listen to this man! The inequities ladled out by the contemptuous few against the lone entrepreneur are deftly countered by the resplendence of Frind's encompassments.
- staunch 18y agoMarkus said as early as 2006 that he was spending "hundreds of thousands" to build out his servers/storage. He's been scaling up instead of out. Which is cheaper up to a certain point and then it becomes a lot more expensive. The image of some guy running this site off a couple of servers tucked under his desk is pretty far from reality with PlentyOfFish. He's probably spent $1 million+ dollars on his "few" servers by now. Still impressive to be sure, but nothing like the way it's portrayed.