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by adamt 17y ago
I am not sure the TB/month figure quoted by others is a price that would scale to this level. As a new start-up without the ability/desire to commit for a year or any credit rating, you are likely to be paying about $6 per Mbps per month. A
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by adamt 17y ago
It looks really nice and I've been looking for a while for something like this. However, until it supports IE properly are things like this useful? IE (combined) is still 62% of browsers. Don't get me wrong - it's a great concept. But it
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by adamt 17y ago
Apple's history with the iPhone/iPod though is that the hardare is generally pretty good at launch and all bugs are in the software/firmware which can be fixed. It won't be a business critical tool for me - I will happily deal with some of
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by adamt 17y ago
I don't understand some of the negativity here. My credit card is already tingling in my pocket ready to pre-order at the first opportunity. The proof will be in the pudding - but a device with a decent screen size, with 10 hours battery li
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by adamt 17y ago
"The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million" I didn't realise people still spent $4M on what is basically a CMS. They could have bought a news focus and proven CMS like Ellington for less than a fraction of a percent of t
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by adamt 17y ago
I think this is one of the single most valuable lessons any startup can learn. Having been a founder of 3 or 4 startups, and learnt from successes and also from failures, I cannot emphasise enough how important product/market fit and timin
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by adamt 17y ago
Almost all modern web browsers will try multiple A records on a connection failure. You do though need to make sure the connection to the first fails quickly and doesn't time out for some reason.
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by adamt 17y ago
Somehow I don't think the target audience is hackers who with large collections of firefox plugins. I see them targeting netbooks and tablets for the average user as well as a lightweight browser centric OS for schools, libraries and users
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by adamt 17y ago
These all sound like a step in the wrong direction to me: The reason HTTP has been so successful has been it's simplicity. HTTP with it's human readable format is not the most efficient, but this makes this it simple. Things like header co
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by adamt 17y ago
If a user has an account (e.g. to log in) then surely you can make them consent to cookies to track their login your terms of service? Stil think it's a nonsense law though ..
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by adamt 17y ago
It's a subtle but important difference. Rather than MVC (Models, View, Controller), Django uses MTV - Models, Templates and Views. The M in both is pretty similar, and is typically an object representation of what is in the database. Django
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by adamt 17y ago
When looking at S&P 500 returns etc, I think you're missing the fact that GS's Fixed Income business is far larger than their equity business. Given the huge amount of government borrowing going on around the world etc, the bond market
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by adamt 17y ago
I like it. Sign-up nice and concept good. Couple of comments/bugs: 1) When you first record something and click 'run' it brings up a confusing dialog box with a textbox. I figured out eventually this is a save dialog box, but it isn't obvio
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by adamt 17y ago
It's been possible for quite some time. Someone I vaguely know set up a startup back in 2006 looking to do just this: http://undo-software.com/
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by adamt 17y ago
Be careful about reading to much into this - ApacheBench is a very limited (if convenient) benchmark that isn't very realistic of real world load.
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by adamt 17y ago
I'd be careful about believing any numbers, and just because some big market research company once said it doesn't mean it's true. Certain things spring up as being the truth after they are quoted enough, e.g. the Internet traffic doubling
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by adamt 17y ago
Even with SSL though, an eavesdropper would know: a) What site(s) you were accessing (the IP address is visible, and as it can't be a shared IP, a DNS lookup or SSL connect to that site should give them what site) and the length of time on
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by adamt 17y ago
Why though - would anyone want to browser a site like news.ycombinator.com over SSL? The vast majority of web data is public data so encryption is of little value, and due to the way SSL works, then there's arguably little value in SSL for
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by adamt 17y ago
Part of the drivers for eBay was that Skype was at the time (apparently) responsible for something like 90% of paypal signups (especially outside of established markets like the US). I think they were worried that if Skype had been purchase
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by adamt 17y ago
I agree completely. Several of my past businesses have gone through tranched rounds and each time I have found it to be significantly destructive. The VCs who think financially tend to like it for several reasons: * They are effectively onl
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by adamt 17y ago
I think this is a great move, and I know and can happily vouch for the people behind it. Neil has been a big fan of Y-Combinator and that is clearly part of the inspiration. As for their motives, I see part of it is about 'real-world karma'
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by adamt 17y ago
I can understand the natural scepticism and the 'no free lunch' viewpoint. But I know Neil and Simon and can happily vouch for them as people. In Red Gate they have bootstrapped (completely without any external investors) a profitable compa
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by adamt 17y ago
At various times I've profiled some CPU bound code and thought malloc is taking too much time. This has led me to read up on, and try and develop various usage-optimised allocators. The one lesson I've learnt is that in most cases the stan
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by adamt 17y ago
I don't buy into this. He talks about a world of $8 per gallon bringing on drastic behavioral and economic changes. A world where by school busses would have to stop running etc and private motoring is massively reduced and restricted to h
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by adamt 17y ago
Unfortunately this is becoming far too common. The marketing team thinks "hey we need to have a 'proper' name for this product" and they end up alienating and confusing their user-base. 99% of customers know they they want to register a do
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by adamt 17y ago
It does make you wonder about eBay's M&A team if they buy a company for $2.6Bn but still have to license the key bit of technology from the people they bought it from, AND with a license that the other side didn't have to renew. Should
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by adamt 18y ago
Am I missing something - why not simply use Django's built in caching layer. For the sake of setting a one line decorator and one setting in settings.py you'd get all the benefits, and more reliability. Rather than manually generating the
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by adamt 18y ago
It's actually quite clever marketing on behalf of Samsung, and impressive to seek them using 'geek marketing' in this way. However, given that a 64GB Samsung SSD drive goes for about $500, 24 of them (plus RAID card for that many) is still
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by adamt 18y ago
In that case you are well placed to give it a shot. There are few certainties in life, but you are not in a bad position. A few months ago I was in the same position as you, was procrastinating about quitting, and ended up getting made redu
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by adamt 18y ago
I think it depends if you can fund it yourself. If you're relying on external funding in the near future it might be hard. If you've got the cash to fund it yourself, then there is a case that it's a great time to start a business.

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