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by axod 16y ago
Google showcased a ton of this at Google I/O. Android ties in really well to their webapps, Google TV (If that succeeds), etc. I remember one example was that you can go to maps.google.com and click on a phone icon, and it just sends it str
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by axod 16y ago
I disagree on that prediction. There were a load of online auction sites, then eBay won. You could wrongly say that people moved from auction site to auction site, but that wasn't the case. Maybe there will be the next facebook, the next eb
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by axod 16y ago
Dismissing webapps isn't really fair. Facebook succeeded in building an empire. They have a massive barrier to entry via the network effect.
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by axod 16y ago
huh? Reddit is pretty much the best example of this. No real technology, just a community, sold for $10m or whatever, and now struggling because it doesn't have a business model.
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by axod 16y ago
I much prefer this to posting a question on a forum/stackoverflow etc type site. Probably my own impatience, but I want an answer now . IRC is actually growing a load. It's pretty widely used. The fun thing is, I don't think anyone really
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by axod 16y ago
I don't really look to big corporations to decide what to use. That was the whole reason I started a company. Big corporations do things that make sense for big corps. One is to treat programmers like factory workers and have them all use s
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by axod 16y ago
Anecdotal again, but every worthwhile programmer I've known does not use an IDE. But then as I say, a lot of this is semantics. My terminal, and my brain, is my IDE.
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by axod 16y ago
These all look terrible to me. I guess you get used to OSX fonts...
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by axod 16y ago
I also hate debuggers. Tried them, don't like them. They're great for when you don't have the source code and need to reverse engineer something, but for finding bugs, I think they're terrible. Different people like different things though.
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by axod 16y ago
>> "when writing code for a large enterprise app, IDEs just can't be beaten." For that case, then yes you're probably right. Thank god I don't write 'enterprise apps'. IDE's are good for getting mediocre productivity out of bad prog
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by axod 16y ago
I do :) And I enjoy having nice neat tight code as a result. I don't need the completion, shortcuts etc, because I "know" the code base. Sometimes I need to grep etc, but knowing, and having a handle on the entire codebase is pretty useful
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by axod 16y ago
My IDE is the terminal. I don't want that in a text editor. I use a text editor to edit text, and a terminal to do everything else. As long as it can do syntax highlighting, copy paste, line numbering, can show files/dirs in a tree so you c
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by axod 16y ago
It sure can suck, but it's all choices. You don't have to get investment, don't have to hire employees. You can do consulting on the side so you're not poor. You can even take holidays if you plan for it. So a lot of it is just down to plan
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by axod 16y ago
I'd learn to think while you walk. Think through problems. Work out solutions. I find that driving/cycling/walking is really really valuable thinking time. I don't think trying to type at the same time would make it quite as useful. I think
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by axod 16y ago
textmate is ok enough :/ IMHO It 'works'.
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by axod 16y ago
Come on. The other guys are like 10% the cost of Amazon. Data center internal traffic is usually free. Are you talking about datacenter to other datacenter traffic? In any event. You're wasting money. Reddit could easily be hosted for $3k/m
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by axod 16y ago
They have a business model and revenue. It doesn't matter quite so much what they use. $1000 hosting costs vs $10k hosting costs for them is 'meh'. For startups, and Reddit, the difference does(should) matter.
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by axod 16y ago
>> "and the bandwidth is at a great price." http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/01/how-much-does-one-te... * Layered Tech: $169 (2 TB/month) * The Planet: $149 (1.5 TB/month) * Superb Hosting: $119 (2 TB/month) * Hostwa
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by axod 16y ago
Right. You need to set the tone for a community while it is growing.
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From elsewhere, only 10% of the cost is bandwidth. 90% is CPU?!!! Because Reddit is so computationally expensive apparently...
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by axod 16y ago
I think failure is looking more and more likely the more I read of their blog and details of how they run things. It's a very interesting case to analyze though - perhaps acquired too soon, never had enough pressure on monetization until it
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by axod 16y ago
If you look at the internet as a whole, the number of $ revenue from 'subscriptions' vs number of $ from advertising, then the % is probably far lower. <1%. Also my personal experience has been that it's far far easier to make money fro
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by axod 16y ago
I don't know what the "writing your app in Java" bit is about... Care to elaborate? Mibbit is written in Java (Custom written framework and server), and handles traffic just fine. Java is insanely efficient for network IO. It's an apples to
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by axod 16y ago
I can't understand how that would be the case. Did you run virtualization on the dedi servers so you had multiple 'machines' on them to play with? (If you need that sort of thing for your architecture) What was the limiting factor on dedica
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Hardware is cheap. Amazon hosting is not.
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A very lot.
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by axod 16y ago
Whitelisting solves nothing. It's still a 'bad' userbase. It's been cultivated to be anti consumerist anti advertising etc. Whitelisting on adblock will let through a tiny bit of CPM based revenue, but people won't click in the numbers that
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by axod 16y ago
That's ridiculous. Facebook have revenue, and profit. They can afford to buy more servers and have them sitting idle. Reddit, should be trying to run on an optimal number of servers. Firstly, cheap hosting (Which is NOT amazon), and secondl
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by axod 16y ago
Why not just get some dedicated servers? :/ I still don't understand why anyone with any amount of load or traffic would use the most expensive hosting available.
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Reddit gold will probably bring in 2% of what adsense would bring in (If the userbase was 'better')

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