angelbob

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by angelbob 15y ago
Yeah. He's also assuming that fast file access equals fast databases, which is partly true and partly utterly wrong.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Both. JVM also allocates a lot of memory (relatively) for even its smallest objects (round sizes up, frequent boxing and copying of primitives, everybody gets an automatic mutex), and fragments significantly because it has good garbage col
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by angelbob 15y ago
You've pretty much nailed why JRuby catches on so well. It's still not fast for a JVM language, but it's blazing for Ruby - plus you can call through to Java where you need/want it.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Similarly, Google Analytics apparently needs a longer TTL for their JavaScript. It was a couple of days instead of 2+ weeks.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Don't worry. Apache isn't going anywhere any time soon. For that matter, older versions of NginX still work great .
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by angelbob 15y ago
Also Typhoeus and RestClient. Probably others.
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by angelbob 15y ago
From the article: "Don't: give frequent feedback." Really? Perhaps they mean, give frequent feedback on what but not on how? I'm not sure where they were going with this.
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by angelbob 15y ago
That's a very high-integrity way to handle this problem. Well done. If LinkedIn responds poorly after you did this, write about that :-)
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by angelbob 15y ago
Companies are kind of weird about what's public and what's private. In this case, the worry is that candidates will see common interview questions in advance. It's an open secret that most interviewers at most companies reuse interview que
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by angelbob 15y ago
Maybe. Bone marrow donation is debilitating and really painful. I suspect not everybody would want to duck out on labor gang for it.
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by angelbob 15y ago
If they raised $25 million while valued at $200 million, and earlier raised $10 million, presumably at a much lower valuation... That doesn't leave the company a huge amount of equity and control, does it?
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by angelbob 15y ago
I find myself hoping the iPod/aquarium story is true.
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by angelbob 15y ago
YC funds a number of single-founder efforts. I know Notifo and Greplin made it to demo day as one-man shows.
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by angelbob 15y ago
I'm not cwilson, but... all of those. The Bay Area has more hype for new startups, more investors, more software engineers, more acquiring companies, and more early adopters who will try your new site (and quite possibly pay for same).
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by angelbob 15y ago
It cost money to license Also the only decent-performance chips doing it were from Adobe, and they weren't cheap. At the time, this would have pretty much cut the low-end printer market to the ground. The high-end printer market, of cou
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by angelbob 15y ago
Youngster? Gee, thanks! I remember writing my first program on a Commodore Pet with 4K of RAM That thing he's talking about with non-sequential placement of bytes on the drum is well before that.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Often SLAs aren't given per full year, though. Think less of 20 days a year, and more of X hours per week if something goes severely wrong.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Talk about utilizing your monopoly position (in search) to take unfair advantage in other areas (browser) and you won't get a better example than this one. I can't tell if this is a joke. You know why IE user base is so high, right? Lik
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by angelbob 15y ago
Nope. Only a few specific new reports (says the article).
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by angelbob 15y ago
Of their premium users, sure. You still aren't paying them anything.
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by angelbob 15y ago
<i>It feels like RIM bet big that networks were always going to be slow and cpu's wouldn't be that fast and then came along the iphone.</i> Amazon is betting that slow hardware will stay cheaper than fast hardware. It's a g
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by angelbob 15y ago
Absolutely. Even if you only know what people are doing/buying in aggregate, that's still very valuable. And you can still correlate between various anonymized streams of data if you know how they correlate -- i.e. 32-year-old male manga
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by angelbob 15y ago
Part of the problem is that it overrides extremely low-level things like cd. That can get in your way pretty badly if there's a bug, or just a feature you don't understand.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Vlad's not bad. There's a similar project called Fezzik that I use extensively for non-Rails projects. Neither is as good as Capistrano if you're deploying a Rails project.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Capistrano is lacking, but has fewer good alternatives. What would you recommend over it?
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by angelbob 15y ago
This is true. But would the story get out if it happened? And it's not limited to appropriation. There are stories about, say, Assembla, and the terms of code storage changing dramatically. You could also have a company where the secu
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by angelbob 15y ago
Think conflict of interest. What if GitHub was bought be a competitor or other hostile entity? Now, can you guarantee they never will be?
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by angelbob 15y ago
I've worked at a long series of companies that deal with these at least every week or so. Maybe not daily. But I'm writing code where it matters most days. Maybe I'm unusually hardcore? I'm definitely not all about the algorithms, but I
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by angelbob 15y ago
Nice! I remember being surprised that .gitignore didn't do this.
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by angelbob 15y ago
The server implementations are significantly more difficult than the client implementations. And the client implementations aren't easy. Among other problems: * Need an SSL key, which means self-signing, $$, or a monthly update to keep you

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