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by blader 17y ago
Why not? Whether they know it or not, most people already buy virtual goods. Every time you buy $150 sneakers, you're buying $120 worth of virtual goods. Bottle service at a club. $450 worth of virtual goods, $50 worth of alcohol. An engage
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by blader 18y ago
Congratulations Kenshi and Wilkins!
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by blader 18y ago
I was speaking as a Facebook application developer responding to the comment about "applications can no longer be viral". I have no idea whether it's working out for Facebook as a whole, but for our own purposes it's looking very good acros
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by blader 18y ago
The implicit news feed stories were never really a strong source of virality. Our current data is showing that the new stream is performing quite a bit better for us, but YMMV.
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by blader 18y ago
Right now we're estimating that our Rails premium = 4X the salary of a San Francisco engineer. But we do have a lot of servers.
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by blader 18y ago
Rails scales just fine - the problem is that it's just really expensive to do it. Here's some of our learnings: 1. Use query_trace to trace your DB calls and query_analyzer to automatically run EXPLAIN on each call: http://github.com/ntalb
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by blader 18y ago
"5. If you're a serious startup, use Engine Yard, they're life savers." - If you're a serious startup that doesn't monetize off of display ads, use Engine Yard. Otherwise, you can't afford them.
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Facebook is now competing with Disqus (et. al)(developers.facebook.com)
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by blader 18y ago
About 15% less than they had before this round.
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by blader 18y ago
Hoover's First Real Threat? Shamwow.
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by blader 18y ago
What's communist at all about the modern Chinese economic system?
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by blader 18y ago
Because the vast majority of users out there can barely click a mouse, much less write code to define sorting functions.
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by blader 18y ago
So are there going to be more people saying Facebook's "just a fad" now or less?
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by blader 18y ago
This is brilliant.
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by blader 18y ago
We run 32 GB on our DB servers ... may be going to 64 GB soon.
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by blader 18y ago
They are good for some type of applications that are similar to document based (e.g facebook, flickr, HN news), but for others, web apps are terrible (twitter, photo editing, making phone calls). I'd like to know why you think this is true.
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by blader 18y ago
All the millionaires were in porn in 2000; all the people who started startups did it for a different reason. Two things. 1. The people who started startups wanted to make money just as badly, they just didn't want to tell mom th
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by blader 18y ago
Reg, shot you an email yesterday about a job. Still on the market? =)
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by blader 18y ago
geuis: My social games company is always on the lookout for good engineers. Why don't you shoot me an email at siqi[at the domain]seriousbusiness.com. We're a pretty small team of < 20 guys, two technical co-founders (I was in YC for a
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by blader 18y ago
Ahahaha. Touche.
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by blader 18y ago
No offense taken at all. Different strokes for different folks.
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by blader 18y ago
Making something people want?
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by blader 18y ago
You can get frustrated or you can get better at the skill. Human emotion has played a part in our decision making since the dawn of time and I don't think it's going to go out of fashion any time soon. We are predictably irrational beings a
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by blader 18y ago
Does it scale dynamically via EC2? I need a version of this that runs on BigTable in case I run in to scaling issues. Please help.
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by blader 18y ago
I don't have one, but news.ycer and my ex-coworker KirinDave has one called Fuzed. Yeah, FUzed, http://github.com/KirinDave/fuzed/tree/master
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by blader 18y ago
"This is like Facebook apps but with real monetization." http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/23/virtual-goods-starting-to-... And it's not even a top app.
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by blader 18y ago
Welcome to capitalism, where the market rewards you for making stuff people want.
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by blader 18y ago
It's funny that he cites the Chinese Room paper, because that's probably one of the best examples of the kind of shoddy linguistic games that Paul pointed out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Speed.2C_complexit...
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by blader 18y ago
Big ups to chatterous, we can't live without it at my company.
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by blader 18y ago
Scalability has nothing to do with your choice of framework or language. In terms of scalability, Cake, Django, and RoR are more or less equivalent (the first two are RoR clones after all).

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