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by alexro 14y ago
The difference between NoSql and RDBMS is getting thinner and thinner with each progressive development. For most of the businesses Spanner is already covering all their needs. Going forward I'm anticipating db management systems to just ha
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by alexro 14y ago
I think that herd mentality is what needs to be changed, but day-after-day we go in the other direction.
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It always saddens me to think that our world isn't capable of keeping up many great but small products.
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by alexro 14y ago
Minimal Viable Experience is what I took away. I think it serves better than MVP in the early days of the product.
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by alexro 14y ago
The general point still stands - scaling up is often a preferred solution and life proves it every day. Not so many companies enjoy facebook style grows, and even aren't viral at all.
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by alexro 14y ago
It really depends on the case at hands, sometimes it's more practical to scale up, especially if there is no indefinite grows anticipated. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/scaling-up-vs-scali...
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by alexro 14y ago
Not really. Facebook and other social sites nowadays all rely on one true personal identity. On forums on the other hand you can be whatever, multiple times, and have a discussion with yourself (even a meaningful one).
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by alexro 14y ago
I also thought the same thing. A glass can be half full or half empty, depending on your attitude.
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by alexro 14y ago
Is it at all legal for Amazon to selectively disable it's services for no real reason? I'm surprised that it looks like this.
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by alexro 14y ago
Use this to be safe: "a multi-user, on-demand, sharded relational database"
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by alexro 14y ago
I agree with @cynicalmood that if you don't know what it takes to pull this thing through, don't trick the users into believing you're have got solid plans. Experimenting is always fine as long as everybody involved is on the same page.
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by alexro 14y ago
Is this the new era for start-ups with investments becoming a real commodity? Interesting times indeed.
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by alexro 14y ago
Did you try Productivity Power Tools with Tab Well UI?
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by alexro 14y ago
We have special terms for different family members, like mother-in-law. Why not keep it straight - equal sex partner should be just that: partner. And children should be not made believe their father (mother) didn't exist. Also, if three pe
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by alexro 14y ago
Seedcamp's missing
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SustainedLowLatency is a killer for many types of scenarios. One is when you create many objects that you don't intent to GC throughout the life of the app, dictionaries for example. Memory is cheap, being able to use it to increase perform
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by alexro 14y ago
"Upload pitch" isn't working for me in Chrome. I think you can benefit by simply providing a link on top of page for the start-ups to apply.
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by alexro 14y ago
There is a difference when YC wants you to live in SV for YOUR success and other accelerators wanting you to live somewhere for THEIR benefit, right?
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by alexro 14y ago
The capital used to be in Bonn. Berlin was separated by the Berlin Wall for about 45 years so it's still in the process of resurrection.
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I think the selling point here is ability to find tech talent and meet investors and prospective customers. For the moment money are in the UK, but all things considered they can move to Germany. And the action will follow along.
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by alexro 14y ago
"HackFwd takes 27% equity in exchange ..." And it's pre-seed money. Thanks but no thanks.
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by alexro 14y ago
In the UK there is no consent among the investors where the action should go. I was quite surprised to learn than basically every credible accelerator has it's own view of where my start-up should be based. Oxygen - Birmingham Ignite100 - N
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Ask HN: a solution to the patent mess
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The second one - even before the first one - is MySpace :)
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Can somebody more experienced in the matter attest there are no seed money in the UK? I was under impression that Launch48, Seedcamp and others do a great job here.
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by alexro 14y ago
indeed, kids are good at adapting ... the only thing that saddens me when I have to miss them is that I won't get this opportunity again to see them at this particular moment of their life. giving them just 5 mins a day ... what a miserable
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by alexro 14y ago
He started off as a developer and worked his way up to create a company and become the CEO. Why on earth should he had been versed in the things other than development? And isn't it unfair to pretend changing the world when all you want is
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by alexro 14y ago
While there are no kids that ask their mom "where's daddy?" - meaning you - there is little to worry about. I totally wasted several years of my youth and that was the best time ever. And this guy was creating something, so +1 for that.
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How about this attempt to be nicely critical and help the guy out: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/how-i-almost-killed...
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I wouldn't call it a solid advice. Others on the thread have already noted that the problem isn't really in not driving the conversation. It's how you differentiate and make it easy to grasp what you do. I find both advices in the end of OP

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