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by blantonl 14y ago
I have a very unique strong password on LinkedIn, and it is on the list. Given that, this is no hoax.
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by blantonl 14y ago
nephrologist = branch of internal medicine and pediatrics dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney.[1] [1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrology
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by blantonl 14y ago
We use node.js as an API/ajax delivery server. It fits well in this realm for us.
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by blantonl 14y ago
Why would you ask this question? Because maybe he is looking to develop a chat system that can scale to 100,000 users? There are many instances where someone is tasked to look at a technology and understand how it scales. Frankly, it wou
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by blantonl 14y ago
To be fair, Meg Whitman is not a technology person, she is a classic business executive. The article makes some fair points that are right on target. There is a significant disparity between the number of "hacker" types with regards to gen
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by blantonl 14y ago
If you rent servers, you are in the cloud.
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by blantonl 14y ago
The term "Cloud" can meet a number of different functional definitions. In this article's case, this was a PAAS model where you upload your code, choose the supporting services, and expect a given service level in return. For some, this w
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by blantonl 14y ago
Am I the only one that struggles with the name "DuckDuckGo?" You know, there is a company called "Yahoo!" which did OK for a while.
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by blantonl 14y ago
Ok, so how does DuckDuckGo generate revenue?
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by blantonl 14y ago
One thing I've learned about the app ecosystem is that when your app gets attention and becomes popular, the copycats come out in full force - relentlessly, shamelessly, and often fraudulently. My organization doesn't develop mobile apps, b
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by blantonl 14y ago
well, I just added $6.96 ($9.95 - 30%) to your revenue numbers for today. I had no idea about this application but it looks great and solves a pain point for me. Some successful Hackernews marketing in action I suppose. Good luck on future
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by blantonl 14y ago
It will be even cooler when we see companies reach 1 billion USD net-income with 12 employees.
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by blantonl 14y ago
You know in our case, we see node as something that is a little lower level and bare bones. That actually sped us up a bit. You get this, and if you want that - npm this. You can extend to your heart's content with node on functionality -
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by blantonl 14y ago
I cannot say enough about the express module. It brings a simple, yet powerful framework for Web and API development. If you are doing any serious API or Web delivery using Node, you will, at the least, be evaluating express.
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Facebook a HFT's dream in the final 15 minutes of trading
13 points by blantonl 14y ago|1 comments
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by blantonl 14y ago
First trade at 11:30:09 CST 2000 Shares at $42.05 (SELL)
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by blantonl 14y ago
In our case, it isn't a large system. Our node production environment serves up a smallish set of API/Ajax requests that are heavily used. With that, we've been able to eliminate more than a few Web servers that otherwise had to load the
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by blantonl 14y ago
I'm using cluster, crypto, express, memcached, mysql, and mysql-pool in production and they have worked flawlessly for a node deployment that serves a pretty busy JSON API (200-300 reqs a sec on average).
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by blantonl 14y ago
I consider myself a pretty conservative developer when it comes to the tools that I use, and mainly stick to the core LAMP stack for my deployments - MySQL, Apache, PHP etc. I've ventured down the path with MongoDB and currently use it for
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by blantonl 14y ago
The legal precedence is in the Feist Publications vs. Rural Telephone Service supreme court case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
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by blantonl 14y ago
I wholehearted agree, but.. I'm pretty sure this would last about five seconds in front of a judge This whole issue would probably cost 50k just to get in front of a judge.
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by blantonl 15y ago
I suppose this a positive, but I'm skeptical when companies use marketing events and cheeky blog posts to trumpet funding events. Especially when they don't disclose the reason why they needed to source funding the first place. Or they ne
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by blantonl 15y ago
the rules actually are different when you're selling something with zero marginal cost. I don't think there is any business that sells something with zero marginal cost. Even if LinkedIn grows significantly without any marketing and sale
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by blantonl 15y ago
Consider a company with $100M in revenue, $1M in profit, and a market cap of $1B. PE is 1000. Now say this company has a shot at doubling revenue in the next few years without incurring additional cost. They will then have $200M in revenue
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by blantonl 15y ago
The most important part of this story is that he educated himself as a high schooler on the concept of arbitrage. Unfortunately, he succumbed to the concept of leverage.
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by blantonl 15y ago
Now this is a cloud application.
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by blantonl 15y ago
It just a fancy PR way of saying: "When someone buys it, it is theirs"
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by blantonl 15y ago
First off, how did the person who found this come about this? They must have been tipped off. Second, this could be (is?) a great way to covertly transmit information. Wow! Finally, where are the patents on this? :)
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Tango steps it up to compete against Microsoft/Skype, raises $40m(bloomberg.com)
1 points by blantonl 15y ago|0 comments
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by blantonl 15y ago
Having a customer have to create an account to create a paying account on your service would be disastrous.

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