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by bjclark 17y ago
But if that's a problem, then he'd never open source it and just says stuff like "I pushed for open sourcing it" to excite the geeks (which is what I assume is actually true).
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by bjclark 17y ago
If Arrington wasn't completely full of shit, he'd actually open source some or all of it instead of just "pushing" for it. I mean, it's a dead project right? If it's dead, then release what you've got to the community and watch someone else
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by bjclark 17y ago
In other words, if you come on HN spouting bullshit about what OS you host on while asking for help finding a designer, you're probably doing it wrong.
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by bjclark 17y ago
Just to add to what QHoxie said (I worked with him on this project), the site is doing Alexa top 750 traffic. Every page view would hit the db atleast a few times. And it's not that the site just couldn't run off EBS volumes, but we would s
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by bjclark 17y ago
There's lots of types of NoSQL dbs, where would you like to start? Are you looking for a DocumentDB or a Key/Value store or a Graph DB or a column oriented db? Do you have a preference on what language an example app or tutorial is in?
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UX Fail: Colorblindness(bjclark.me)
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by bjclark 17y ago
I've noticed it. Especially the anti-37signals comments. I got -4 for saying I agreed with DHH about something.
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by bjclark 17y ago
>> After all, everyone around the tech forums just want you to launch early because they want to see if you have a good idea that's not flushed out enough yet so they can copy it quickly and build it out faster and better than you.
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by bjclark 17y ago
You can say what you want about DHH, but he's 100% correct here.
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by bjclark 17y ago
Inbelieve meebo offers a widget that does just what you want.
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by bjclark 17y ago
Meet people. Lots and lots of people. And find a co-founder.
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by bjclark 17y ago
Redis is almost perfect for a queue because of it's lists and atomic operations. And, most of all, because it's persistent. It's amazing how many queues aren't persistent. I'm glad someone finally did this, it could be a great solution. I'm
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by bjclark 17y ago
I'm one of the developers from Chargify. Are you in our private beta? Can I help you with anything?
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by bjclark 17y ago
Most of the "backup services" (jungledisk, mozy, etc.) do either free or really cheap "personal" backup, but have expensive "business" plans. RubyMine is free for "Open Source".
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by bjclark 17y ago
The more and more I learn about Kanban and Kaizen, the more right on it feels.
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by bjclark 17y ago
Hey, that's the company I work for.
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by bjclark 17y ago
This is great an all, but it's too bad they didn't just decide to do away with gems and everyone switch to rip. But since they didn't, I'm glad they have decided to effectively move hosting to S3 (which is essentially what this change is ab
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by bjclark 17y ago
Well, they released it to some more users, but I'm not sure you can say they "began the rollout". Atleast that's not how one of their dev puts it. http://twitter.com/nk/status/4900447414
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by bjclark 17y ago
I thought google just bought dropbox.com? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=857101
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by bjclark 17y ago
"A single finger manipulates items inside of an application. <insert finger painting>" Ding. Ding. Ding. We have #fail. It's pretty cool and all, but this isn't going to change anyone's life. The best idea here is just putting a big
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by bjclark 17y ago
This is possibly the sleaziest way to describe what most people would describe as a great paper prototyping session. Everyone should be doing this, it's super easy, you don't even need to photoshop anything, just draw out your interface on
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by bjclark 17y ago
There's no point at which you could be distracted. You write a test, you make it pass. You don't do anything until it passes. As soon as it passes, you write another test. If I want to take a break, I make a test pass, then write the next o
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by bjclark 17y ago
What would I be surprised about? I know the conversation on the mailing list that spawned it. I've met the guy. It's satire.
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by bjclark 17y ago
I lived in Nob Hill for a year and it's a great area, except that walking to SOMA you might go through a couple pretty rough blocks and walking home you go up some of the steepest hills in SF.
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by bjclark 17y ago
First I write a test. Then I write just enough code to make that test past. Then I refactor my code so that it meets the 4 rules of simplicity. Then I write another test.
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by bjclark 17y ago
He's not trying to sound profound. It is satire.
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by bjclark 17y ago
I can't stand Quicksilver. I've found it to be a giant memory leak (routinely using 500mb - 1gig of ram!), and will randomly freak out and try to re-index my whole disk causing it to thrash and slow everything down. Spotlight seems to do al
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by bjclark 17y ago
In other words, just because you might get 10000000000gigs of "free" inbound, doesn't mean you can actually get that much inbound out of the pipe.
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by bjclark 17y ago
Hire a reputable company, not a random guy. Hire someone that has a portfolio, references, contracts, an office, a business phone number, an address, etc. Oh, and be prepared to actually pay an appropriate amount of money. You do get what y
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by bjclark 17y ago
It seems like no one ever asks for enough money. Last week there was a woman on that had invested $100k of her own money into the business and was asking for $50k more. It seems like if she would have asked for $500k or $2mil, or something

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