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by ajessup 13y ago
AJ here, a PM on App Engine (and the guy who wrote the tutorial). The Batcache plugin (which caches to Memcache) works on GAE out of the box, and gives a predictable improvement to performance, especially when you've got a lot of DB-heavy p
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ASAS Foundation offers Kaggle prize to develop open source NLP for education(kaggle.com)
1 points by ajessup 14y ago|0 comments
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by ajessup 14y ago
I like Chris' writing, but putting aside from the (pretty > prowess)? argument, I don't feel he has correctly mapped cause to effect here. The reason that UX has become more critical for certain classes of software is because (a) cons
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by ajessup 14y ago
I'd be interested to hear any insights as to why Facebook hasn't yet pushed to build a display advertising network for third party publishers (a la DoubleClick). That way it could leverage the assets that it does have (behavioral profiles)
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Love and Mathematics(google.com)
1 points by ajessup 15y ago|0 comments
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Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy(expletiveinserted.com)
152 points by ajessup 15y ago|54 comments
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by ajessup 15y ago
Hadoop is not a cloud solution - most organizations deploy it on their own infrastructure. Some folks (eg. Amazon AWS) offer a "hosted" version.
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by ajessup 15y ago
I think any corporate data warehouse is an area that Hadoop+Pig/Hive could add a huge amount of value. Here's why. Conventional data warehouses are built from running ETL transforms against existing sources, where you are carefully selectin
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by ajessup 15y ago
No, most of these do. To build a search engine for example, you need to collect a massive amount of data (say, every web page on the internet), and perform a relatively trivial amount of computation on it (building a TF/IDF term index of ea
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by ajessup 15y ago
In distributed computing, which is the kind of computing that tends to go on in data centres, there are two types of problem - large amounts of CPU on relatively small amounts of data, or small amounts of CPU on a relatively large amount of
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by ajessup 15y ago
Depends what you're trying to keep concurrent, and your concurrency policy. OT is great for optimistic concurrency on complex structured documents, but probably overkill for simple models (like to-do items) with simple attributes (like titl
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by ajessup 15y ago
Hey I'm Andrew, co-founder of Noosbox ( http://noosbox.com ). We were one of the first batch of Startmate companies. Happy to share some insight and war stories. Reach me at ajessup _AT_ noosbox.com. We're based in Sydney @ Fishburners.
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by ajessup 15y ago
How would you use it in an IDE? For pair programming? Certainly can't imagine it would replace source control - it would be incredibly frustrating having other devs break your codebase all the time, you'd be debugging all their mistakes as
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by ajessup 15y ago
One would assume that since they got accepted into YC that they had a pretty good hypothesis of what their target market could be. But it's not clear from their website what it is (and it doesn't look like it's an IDE). The OT technology th
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by ajessup 15y ago
I'd love to see the pitch Stypi gave to get accepted into YC. It looks like a great product - but I'd be interested to know what market of users Stypi will be making happy that aren't already serviced by Google Docs, etherpad, Apache Wave e
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by ajessup 15y ago
Awesome writeup, thanks! Came across something similar a couple of days ago while browsing the source code of Marathon (one of the early games of Jason Jones and Bungie, later of Halo fame). At the time, Bungie were the Mac equivalent of id
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by ajessup 15y ago
Hey Jarred - since you're actually in a school, could you ask a couple of your teachers if they would actually pay for something out of their own pocket even if all it did would make their work life easier? And how much? And what would it t
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by ajessup 15y ago
The guy, who is clearly pretty passionate about his point was responding to a previous statement by Jobs that Java was superior to OpenDoc and hence why OpenDoc was junked. This 'troll' was just calling Steve on a bullshit claim, and rightl
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by ajessup 15y ago
I think Eric's point for a business like that would be given a choice between burning time and money scaling (ie. big launch and marketing on customer acquisition) spend it on a few more iterations of refining the product, AND seeing how a
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Ask HN: What's the best way to teach my kid to code?
12 points by ajessup 15y ago|5 comments
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by ajessup 15y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for providing this - it's already been helpful
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by ajessup 15y ago
Do you feel the 'group' method of sharing conversations (as presented in this app) is a better way of sharing information across a team than the Google Circles method? I would worry that in a workplace setting, people wouldn't be sufficient
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Show HN: Google+ for Google Apps / GMail(noosbox.com)
8 points by ajessup 15y ago|2 comments
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by ajessup 15y ago
Having a single e-mail address as a contact point is a great start, but you need more to solve the problem of fragmented communication, since customers inevitably end up having conversations directly with individuals in the company (and oft
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by ajessup 15y ago
Agreed, averages are meaningless for trying to figure out how long a startup will take. But it would be great to hear a few more case studies other than the "We hacked over the weekend, shipped on tuesday, were profitable in a month" hero-s
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Ask HN: How long before we're profitable?
10 points by ajessup 15y ago|5 comments
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by ajessup 15y ago
Since the early days of node there has been a proposal to dispatch tasks via the WebWorker API, with a callback - as is currently done for calls to OS subsystems. Sounds like that would be a great way of dispatching CPU intensive tasks with
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by ajessup 15y ago
What are the strengths/weaknesses of this vs. django-piston?
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by ajessup 15y ago
There's a number of ways to get data in and out of Google Docs to sync with enterprise services. Start with the Docs API and Google Apps Script API.
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by ajessup 15y ago
It means you can't hide behind excuses. If for example theres a problem with a vendor shipping components for a product line you're a VP for, it means you're responsible. It means the only acceptible answer is that you found a new supplier

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