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by astrofinch 16y ago
"Delay any encrypted packet that is leaving more quickly than average?" You do realize that would very quickly cause your average to increase, right? Then your average would reach a fairly stable value where practically every packet was be
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by astrofinch 16y ago
"$24.2 billion pie for all of US internet advertising" Apparently Google made almost half of that money. Google's 2009 revenues were $23.7 billion. 47% of their revenues came from the US, and they say "Advertising revenues made up 99% of o
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by astrofinch 16y ago
It's amazing that the tech industry's three giants all do things totally differently and all make tons of cash.
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by astrofinch 16y ago
Obviously, the right choice depends on the situation. Companies should tend towards B if they already understand the needs of their customers or if they're in a slow-moving market where customers make big, infrequent purchases. Probably it
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by astrofinch 16y ago
Have you looked at this? http://www.loggly.com/
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by astrofinch 16y ago
I heard about PG at age 14 reading Slashdot over my dad's shoulder :) (The essay was What You'll Wish You'd Known, so it's no wonder I got hooked.)
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by astrofinch 16y ago
It's built on Node.js, which is supposed to make real-time web stuff easier.
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by astrofinch 16y ago
Both Node.js and Tornado seem to have scaled for real-time-web stuff in the past: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088699 http://friendfeed.com/ I think I'd try Tornado first myself because of Python's error tracebacks. In my opini
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by astrofinch 16y ago
Why is parsimony good? - Simpler principles make better mantras. - Occam's razor--all else equal, you should assume the world is simple. I can't think of anything else. Both of those considerations seem weak compared to other factors.
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by astrofinch 16y ago
I'm not trying to be mean, but right now my perception is that a guy with an MBA is probably not much more useful to a startup than a thoughtful guy who reads TechCrunch and gets microeconomics. Could anyone summarize the core insights they
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by astrofinch 16y ago
It should matter if he's curious what pool you've sampled yourself from.
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by astrofinch 16y ago
I disagree. My intuition is that if Mark was to focus on only one of his startups, it would only become about twice as successful. I think it makes sense to work on them all simultaneously if they all seem equally promising. Mentions of t