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by axiom 16y ago
Just so it's clear what I'm trying to say: when you're trying to decide whether to do x or to do y, you should always chose the one that maximizes the odds your company will succeed (whether that means exiting or becoming profitable...) So
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by axiom 16y ago
As much as it's fun to think about how much you personally stand to gain in an exit, it's all just pie in the sky silliness. Your number one goal should be to maximize your odds of success without constraining yourself to any arbitrary para
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by axiom 16y ago
Yeah we've been freaking out about this. We have our app used in the classroom, and have had several sessions disrupted because of this. Needless to say our customers were pissed. We're in the process of doing an emergency move over to EC2
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by axiom 16y ago
Of course it goes without saying that the specific number is very location dependent - so 500k in the valley won't take you very far, but elsewhere it can last you for years. That being said, it seems a good target to shoot for is to always
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by axiom 16y ago
If you're interested in more gory details feel free to email me at mike at tophatmonocle dot com. For what it's worth, we're an angel funded startup with some extremely bright hackers and we were signing praises about the App Engine until a
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by axiom 16y ago
Another issue we're running into now (as a result of having a growing number of users) is that we're noticing that downtime on the App Engine is shockingly bad, and getting worse. Over the last few weeks, we've seen periods of downtime pret
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by axiom 16y ago
Well, maybe you're right, but I'll say the following: 1. Unless I'm missing something here the entity group thing is a red herring. Only if the authors of the paper explicitly setup all entities in the datastore as having the same root enti
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by axiom 16y ago
If you're thinking of using the App Engine read this first: http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/26/end-to-end-perform...
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by axiom 16y ago
Yeah, in retrospect I should have just kept my mouth shut. By the way the virtual machine analogy is really cool - I hadn't thought of it that way before.
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by axiom 16y ago
Dude, that's exactly my point. I'm saying the anti-flash hysteria is foolish.
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by axiom 16y ago
This is totally unimpressive. You could totally do this with canvas and HTML5. In just 4-5 short years WebGL will be implemented in all browsers, so flash is totally useless here. And it uses like 50% of my CPU, which is stupid. Flash is st
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End-To-End Performance Study of Cloud Services(highscalability.com)
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by axiom 16y ago
COGS + shipping + logistics Also, founders' time, which is probably the most costly part.
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by axiom 16y ago
Well, Desire2Learn managed to beat them off with a stick, and is doing quite well these days actually. But yeah, they're pretty evil in general.
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by axiom 16y ago
Grades, and almost any student info in general. Come on, if you've spent any amount of time in the education industry you know this.
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by axiom 16y ago
I was excited for a second. This thing is extremely limited, and wouldn't get adopted by an institution for about 74 distinct reasons (e.g. data is stored in the cloud, which is illegal...) Blackboard is a terrible terrible service, and a
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by axiom 16y ago
I really hope so. I guess there's no SLA so they're not obligated to provide any particular level of service. Anyway, I believe the phone support is a much more serious liability.
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by axiom 16y ago
Off topic: if you look at the kickstarter page for Diaspora http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-p... Notice how for anyone who donates more than $5 they need to send them a CD with Diaspora on it. $25 gets them a t-
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by axiom 16y ago
Things like conservation are about optimizing the last 5%, which in the long run (unfortunately) doesn't matter too much. Technological development is more of a punctuated equilibrium than a gradual upward slope. So really the best thing to
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by axiom 16y ago
As horrifying as this disaster is, I think painting oil as some minor convenience that spoiled fat Americans narcissistically demand is disingenuous. People forget that the alternative to oil was either whale blubber or armies of horses tha
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by axiom 16y ago
I thought this was going to be about Django-nonrel http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/django-nonrel
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by axiom 16y ago
This assumes that some artificial organism we construct would be more robust and efficient at self-replication than run-of-the-mill single celled organisms.
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by axiom 16y ago
Personally I find Godel incompleteness to be a far more disturbing discovery than any of the things listed in the article. Something about a fundamental limitation on deductive systems just scares the hell out of me.
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by axiom 16y ago
The moment flash was announced for the Android I realized that my next phone won't be an iPhone, but a nexus one. Sad. History is repeating itself.
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by axiom 16y ago
Wow, this is really well done. Everyone should go read this now! Kalman filtering is one of these techniques that's used everywhere and yet most engineers/developers don't even know it exists (let alone the math behind it, which is fairly
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by axiom 16y ago
Dear god. I just realized that Mark Zuckerberg is the new Bill Gates. I give it another week before trolls all over the web start writing referring to Facebook as Fa$ebook.
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by axiom 17y ago
Ah! but it doesn't have the fancy scroll bars that google wave does!
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by axiom 17y ago
Look, if you're running a basically static site that serves a few 100k page views per day, then the app engine is fine and a great choice. Hell, a $20/month linode instance would do just as well. Get two $20 instances and you can handle all
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by axiom 17y ago
If you're getting 3ms memcached access then you must be using a different app engine than I am. And it's 100ms reads not writes. Writes are slower. Much slower.
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by axiom 17y ago
We use it too. That's why I can make that statement. A DB request takes over 100ms on the datastore. That's insane and unusable for about 90% of applications. Even their implementation of memcached is several orders of magnitude slower th

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