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Ask HN: Cloudfront vs. Google Page Speed Service
1 points by beachgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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by beachgeek 15y ago
I had an interview back in 2009 where the CTO of the startup asked me a question, I answered it, after which he very confidently corrected me with the wrong answer(!) Needless to say I didn't join them. The startup also went belly up about
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by beachgeek 15y ago
The OP's question got me thinking about the expense/cost breakdown. I had calculated this earlier but figured I'd share the numbers in case its of any help. For my project, I bought a new server ~3 years ago which I used for development and
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by beachgeek 15y ago
My strategy: Have a bare minimum of servers (darn things are ridiculously cheap anyway) hosted somewhere reliable near where I live. Any NEW stuff goes into the cloud. So if I decide I need to service European customers I might rent an EC2
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Depending on where you are there may be roving sysadmins already. I'm in the SFBA and have supported myself in "lean times" (ahem between jobs) by sysadmin consulting.
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by beachgeek 15y ago
MSCS+H1=Green Card = Mukti. I am actually more hopeful and bullish about India today than my cynical posts might seem to indicate.
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by beachgeek 15y ago
This is one of my favorite topics, discussing poverty in India and the US. In India (maybe every developing country), as you mentioned, poverty is lack of stuff. You literally don't have enough to eat. In US (maybe every developed country),
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Its difficult to understand if you haven't lived it. I did,thankfully for a short time before I escaped. So let me try to explain. Facebook had to incorporate so they could pay taxes etc and be "legal". This is a LICENSE to operate. OK. But
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Its called an H1 visa in the United States.
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Thanks all. @abbasmehdi I should have mentioned we've had various iterations of the product already where we got feedback from customers: that's what I meant by being perfectionists, not that we're sitting in a vacuum somewhere all by ourse
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Ownership for business cofounder
6 points by beachgeek 15y ago|5 comments