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by bjclark 17y ago
I actually think this is pretty cool. I know I tend to jump from cnn.com to bbc.co.uk to espn.com to velonews.com so it would be cool to have a quick way to do this.
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by bjclark 17y ago
My entry is http://twitabrew.com
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by bjclark 17y ago
I'd like to start a group for "Startup Types". Interested?
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by bjclark 17y ago
>> Does it get no love because it's commercial and (probably) expensive? Yes.
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by bjclark 17y ago
I found this article to be interesting, however completely un-useful. No one actually uses P-Store and I'm not sure why anyone would start?!? Why not just use BerkleyDB? I believe it has ruby bindings.
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by bjclark 17y ago
I don't know that being schemaless is fundamentally different. Instead of thinking that key/value stores are schemaless, I think of them as having a single rigid schema: key and value. The data you stick into a k/v db will still have essent
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by bjclark 17y ago
No, you're not. This point is made in the article.
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by bjclark 17y ago
To elaborate on qhoxie's statement, NoSQL is great for some things, but there is this idea out there that it's a panacea for scaling your webapp. And while all the things highlighted in the article are performant, few of them even scale, an
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by bjclark 17y ago
It's not a big deal when you do it the first time. It's a big deal when you need to start adding servers. What do you do?
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NoSQL: If only it was that easy(bjclark.me)
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by bjclark 17y ago
I'm currently in an engineering role at a startup, but I have a BFA in Fine Art, do design and user experience design.
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by bjclark 17y ago
Great tips. I've built a couple e-commerce sites for clients over the years and all of these ring true to me. I think the "Quality Photos" tip is the best. For certain products, allowing customers to submit photos is also great (think Threa
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by bjclark 17y ago
Architect
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by bjclark 17y ago
I highly recommend against glusterfs. We used to use it at my current employer and had nothing but trouble serving large files from it. It was fine until we starting putting large files in it, then healing would randomly bring the whole s
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by bjclark 17y ago
Yes, all rich people are alcoholics with trophy wives. You've nailed it.
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by bjclark 17y ago
Don't think of it as starting with the "usability" part. This is starting with the "user" part. What do your users want? What do they need? Choosing the users that you want to support and what features they need will drive what you need the
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by bjclark 17y ago
Is a comment here a Comment on Comments on Comments on Zeldman's XHTML WTF?
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by bjclark 17y ago
I've posted a reply to you on my blog (cause it's too long for here): http://bjclark.me/2009/07/03/how-do-you-redesign-something/ Excerpt: The biggest thing to manage in a redesign is risk. Risk you alienate your user base or do something
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by bjclark 17y ago
This is a great post. I think this new UCD focus for Agile is the best thing to happen to it since it's widespread adoption. If you're interested in this topic, Jeff Patton's blog is awesome too: http://agileproductdesign.com/blog/
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by bjclark 17y ago
One thing that I think 37s is great about (and I don't know this as a fact, but from the outside it seems this way) is that they definitely trust the people they hire to work for them. I'm not sure that many places would hire someone, and t
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by bjclark 17y ago
It's free? What a deal!
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by bjclark 17y ago
getsatisfaction
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by bjclark 17y ago
Hive is great, but it's noted that like most Hadoop things, it's alot better when you have 100 machines than when you have like, 2.
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by bjclark 17y ago
There's nothing stopping you from just running Map/Reduce scripts. Hive just compiles the SQL down to Map/Reduce.
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by bjclark 17y ago
We just launched a widget too and were surprised by how hard it was to stop the cascade. This is pretty useful.
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by bjclark 17y ago
I think you should launch as soon as your service provides enough value to someone that they should care. If no one cares, it doesn't provide enough value (for whatever reason). If people do care, then you know your on to something. If you
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by bjclark 17y ago
We use GlusterFS and hate it. It's healing seems to do more bad than good and we're looking at moving all of our files to S3 instead.
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by bjclark 17y ago
I'm liking RubyMine and 1.1 has support for Cucumber. It's not as polished as Textmate, but it has light years more functionality. Split window, basic refactoring, search that doesn't blow, etc.
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by bjclark 17y ago
Yup, Ward is my boss. He joined AboutUs over 2 years ago. Portland is a great startup town. There's a few VCs specializing in PDX startups (Voyager Capital from Seattle is one, they funded AboutUs in Dec). And we hired another news.yc membe
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by bjclark 17y ago
I'm famous on Twitter.

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