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> Amazon is winning that market using an open source stack http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/04/03/be-wary-of-geeks-bearing-gifts/ http://www.forbes.

> Amazon is winning that market using an open source stack http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/04/03/be-wary-of-geeks-bearing-gifts/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/04/03/be-wary-of... Leaving that here...(Ignore the article, read the single comment below by Jim Plamondon.)

mbreese 14y ago
If you need more incentive to read the comment, this phrase might help: Cloud Zombie Apocalypse
ajross 14y ago
I think you'll need to elaborate a little. None of that stuff competes with VMWare software. I was talking about Xen.
- unimpressive 14y ago
  I was talking about the "open source" bit in the quotation. I couldn't care less about what VMware does. EDIT: Oh, just reread your comment, sorry I thought "open source stack" was referring to AWS.
dm8 14y ago
On a side note, Forbes website has terrible UX. First I'm presented with page-takeover ad. Then page is full of flash based ads. Page loading was terribly slow. Looking at web inspector, it made ~ 266 requests for ~ 187 KB of data. And it took 14 seconds to load it (even though I'm on fast corporate n/w). On top of that, I can't find single comment on the article. Then I see "Expand comments" in small font. In confusion, I click the link and then I saw the comment by Jim. What is tech team doing at Forbes? Imagine if I'm accessing it on mobile device.
- onedev 14y ago
  Yeah it's pretty bad. I don't know if they realize that or not.
- deleted 14y ago
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- mst 14y ago
  Whenever I'm faced with something like this, I remind myself of the essential question to ask when deciding how to prioritise work on a content site: How will this affect advertising revenue? Having a design HN hates may correlate with losing significant numbers of users and therefore revenue over time ... but then again it may not, and there's always the opportunity cost quesstion when deciding how to calibrate "significant numbers".

mbreese 14y ago

If you need more incentive to read the comment, this phrase might help: Cloud Zombie Apocalypse

ajross 14y ago

I think you'll need to elaborate a little. None of that stuff competes with VMWare software. I was talking about Xen.

unimpressive 14y ago
I was talking about the "open source" bit in the quotation. I couldn't care less about what VMware does. EDIT: Oh, just reread your comment, sorry I thought "open source stack" was referring to AWS.

dm8 14y ago

On a side note, Forbes website has terrible UX. First I'm presented with page-takeover ad. Then page is full of flash based ads. Page loading was terribly slow. Looking at web inspector, it made ~ 266 requests for ~ 187 KB of data. And it took 14 seconds to load it (even though I'm on fast corporate n/w). On top of that, I can't find single comment on the article. Then I see "Expand comments" in small font. In confusion, I click the link and then I saw the comment by Jim. What is tech team doing at Forbes? Imagine if I'm accessing it on mobile device.

onedev 14y ago
Yeah it's pretty bad. I don't know if they realize that or not.
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mst 14y ago
Whenever I'm faced with something like this, I remind myself of the essential question to ask when deciding how to prioritise work on a content site: How will this affect advertising revenue? Having a design HN hates may correlate with losing significant numbers of users and therefore revenue over time ... but then again it may not, and there's always the opportunity cost quesstion when deciding how to calibrate "significant numbers".