bjclark

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   by bjclark 18y ago

   Is this an objective recommendation or do you have some stake in the company?
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   by bjclark 18y ago

   "high friction" I like that, I'm stealing it. :)
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   by bjclark 18y ago

   Insert some slightly sexist comment hahaha, j/k ;) And people wonder why more women aren't in tech.
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   by bjclark 18y ago

   Yeah, I think there's a disconnect in our vocabulary here. I see them as User Generated News Sites which is a different mentality than Social Networking, which I assumed when I saw "social web app". So my comments probably don't apply as mu
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   by bjclark 18y ago

   There's a larger concept that I think you are overlooking. Real identity vs Hidden Identity (or Psuedo Identity). This is the fundamental difference between Facebook and Myspace. People tend to act very differently when they are using their
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   by bjclark 18y ago

   What?!? The "4k pocket full-of-gags web microframework" isn't the right choice for this financial transaction app I'm writing? I FEEL USED.
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   by bjclark 18y ago

   Most of the time you get non-scalable, unreadable, and/or untested code in a production system because you're not very good and you don't step back and look at interesting/different ways to do things. "Awesomer" isn't a good reason to do th
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   by bjclark 18y ago

   Totally agreed. Code must always be Enterprise Ready™. How could anyone possibly post about some different/interesting/witty way to do something?
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   by bjclark 18y ago

   It's pretty hard to get over reason #6.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    Hulu.com is making money hand over fist.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    I'm from the area that this concerns, and if anyone wants to know why the tree huggers are so upset check out google maps of the area: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38... If you look all up and down I-70 and al
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    Which will work for some things, but not say, a database server that needs 16gigs of in memory tables.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    What about all those shared hosting accounts that no one uses?
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    Killing the planet one search at a time(techcrunch.com)

    1 points by bjclark 18y ago|1 comments
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    Webdav + some simple scripting could do it on any server. That's basically what the "iDisk" for .Mac is.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    We use Pivotal Tracker at AboutUs.org. It's endorsed by our CTO Ward Cunningham (c2.com/wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham).
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    We're very excited about this and some cool stuff we're doing that is launching very soon.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    I'd say that if it isn't obvious why you would need AWS, then you don't need AWS and should go with a standard dedicated server provider. Configuration should be the least of the reasons to make the decision. The many other factors are much
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    Sphinx is definitely easier to get going than Solr, but tends to be slower and doesn't scale as easily as Solr(Search on Lucene with Replication). But these two are the best options, just depends on your needs/trade offs.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    And every car, every tv, every pair of jeans, every pet, etc.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    It's profoundly saddening to know that this, of all things, makes you profoundly sad.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    Are you still arguing that I said Amazon sharded their database? Because I've re-read what I said, and what you said like 4 times and I can't see where I said they shard.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    It's different for every site, db backend, etc. If it's just 1 column, and it doesn't store much data, then probably no. If it's a bunch of columns and it's taking up lots of disk, they they probably migrate what they need to a new table an
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    How is this contrary to what I said? I didn't say Amazon sharded. What/why would they shard? Clustering != sharding. They most definitely have multiple instances of the app running around the world, which synchronize data with each other, w
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    A regex of machines? Every odd machine in the first datacenter? Software load balancers? Uh, I'm guessing most places do it much more scientifically than that, and I would be very surprised if anyone in the top 100 sites is using a software
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    It's totally different for different types of sites. Facebook is different than Amazon is different than Yahoo is different than Flickr. In general, I'd say, most sites data is sharded or clustered. Amazon, I'm guessing, basically has many
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    This reminds me of the whole, "NASA spent $100k developing a pen for space and the Russians used pencils" story.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    Working on some super awesome blog software. Just like, uh, everyone else in the world.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

    I'd pay $.05 to get the them to up vote my site for certain search terms on Google's new "Search Wiki". See what happens.
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    by bjclark 18y ago

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