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by aschobel 18y ago
I'm so incredibly sorry about that. The contract for InputStream.read is very clear, that was needlessly sloppy. New version is up. Also includes the unit test that should have been there in the first place. grumble http://3banana.com/pi
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by aschobel 18y ago
We have a trivial implementation that does a full backup and prepends the date/time stamp to the backed up filename. We call it from crontab to run once a day with the following: java -jar s3backup.jar /etc/iptables-save /etc/lighttpd/light
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by aschobel 18y ago
For customer data, we do daily automated encrypted backups to S3. We also do more frequent backups to an internal server during the day. Our code is in SVN, which is also backed up to S3. We have scripts that take a vanilla etch build and p
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by aschobel 18y ago
Looks good. Small thing, you want to put JavaScript on the bottom of your page so that the page gets displayed faster. YSlow is a great tool for this, http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ I also see that you are hosting prototype yourself. W
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by aschobel 18y ago
congrats sir!
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by aschobel 18y ago
I love IntelliJ IDEA, it kicks some serious ass: http://www.jetbrains.com/ The last time I used VS was with VC++ 6.0, so no clue how IntelliJ compares.
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by aschobel 18y ago
Just work on the product! It's way too easy to spend time on things that aren't core to your business. Don't worry about where to open a bank account, where to incorporate, etc. This can all be fixed later on, and won't prevent you from mak
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by aschobel 18y ago
I agree, that's why we extensively use FLOSS. It is nice being use the same innovations that power Google (Guice), Yahoo (Hadoop), Facebook (Thrift). I have a friend who does a lot of C# and he claims there are some really interesting thin
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by aschobel 18y ago
Technically you don't own FLOSS software either, never having to pay a license fee is very attractive. Free is nice, but we still pay for commercial software. We spend $600 for each license of IntelliJ because it woks better for us than Ecl
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by aschobel 18y ago
This seems like a no brainer for any startup since they give you a free MSDN Premium subscription, which means you get a copy of MS Office, Exchange and Dynamics. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite with MSDN Premium is usually $10,93
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by aschobel 18y ago
Thanks, we've looked at those before and they still seems a bit too complex. I do like their audio-text bridge. We are building something even simpler, a personal syslog synced across phone/web/command line.
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by aschobel 18y ago
I appreciate the opportunity, thank you. Fundamentally we view notes as a stream like a log file or Twitter. You will have one place to easily and quickly dump everything, then be able to grep out the relevant information, and then late bin
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by aschobel 18y ago
I hear that from all my friends with BB, we will have that very soon. All depends on my caffeine intake. =)
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by aschobel 18y ago
I wasn't happy with any of the solutions out there so we built our own. We treat notes as a stream and you categorize notes using hashcodes. We have an iPhone and Android client so you can easily include pictures in your notes. We aren't li
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by aschobel 18y ago
This is outrageously cool. Thanks for sharing
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Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider(dev.live.com)
2 points by aschobel 18y ago|0 comments
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by aschobel 18y ago
My understanding is that each module (Photos, Notes, etc) has its own feed which gets aggregated to create the main News feed. If each module is responsible for producing its own feed, it seems like this problem isn't too difficult to solve
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by aschobel 18y ago
Thrift seems to have a fair amount of activity: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/thrift/trunk/ What I would fault them for is poor documentation. Google does a much better job on this front.
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by aschobel 18y ago
I remember hearing about Scribe last year from a FB Thift lecture and am really excited that they finally got it open sourced. This definitely solves some design problems we have been having with news feeds. Facebook's Thrift: Scalable Cros
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BW: VCs to Entrepreneurs: Seed-Stage Startups OK. Others? Not So Much(businessweek.com)
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by aschobel 18y ago
Why did you only setup a single year of vesting? My understanding is that angels don't like it when you are vested more than 40% when you are seeking financing. Obviously looking backwards isn't going to solve the problem. Can both of you t
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by aschobel 18y ago
I've been working on my startup full time for almost a year in my room alone. If I feel antsy I hop on my bike and head over the bridge. =)
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STARTonomics: Frank Mashraqi, Scalability for Startups: How to Grow Up without Blowing Up(docstoc.com)
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Real-World Scala: Dependency Injection (jonasboner.com)
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by aschobel 18y ago
Yep. We looked at the BDB's RPC system but are probably going to end up going with Thrift for RPC. Other than the lack of documentation, Thrift seems pretty killer.
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by aschobel 18y ago
What do you use for your templating engine? We are use struts2 as our framework and found that OGNL and struts2 tags are two orders of magnitude slower than straight JSP. I'm thinking of ditching JSP and have PHP talking to our Java service
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by aschobel 18y ago
Excellent, lower costs for startups.
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by aschobel 18y ago
We are using BDB, dead simple and insanely fast. Relational database seems a bit overkill.
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Schwarzenegger signs law that computer professional with salary $75k+ can not get overtime(seyfarth.com)
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STARTonomics is streaming live with Ustream(twitter.com)
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