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by carpal 19y ago
Huge red flag.
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by carpal 19y ago
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by carpal 19y ago
I use hulu a lot too. A pretty good resource, all in all.
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by carpal 19y ago
Not really. I cancelled cable about 6 months ago, and I haven't looked back. The writer's strike helped a bunch, though. I'll tune in to broadcast TV to occasionally watch Jeopardy while eating dinner, or to catch a new episode of House (
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by carpal 19y ago
P/E ignores a lot of things, too. Old-line manufacturing businesses usually have a ton of assets (machinery, land, etc) that boost their valuations. I doubt HotOrNot has much more than the brand name and domain, as far as assets are concer
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by carpal 19y ago
3x revenue is pretty standard for businesses that aren't really growing anymore. Seems like a pretty solid deal to me.
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by carpal 19y ago
It is also one of the most common ideas proposed at Startup Weekend.
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by carpal 19y ago
I did pretty well on a 256 meg slice. I outgrew it after awhile, and I'm currently running 8 mongrels on a 512 slice, and I'm pretty much hitting the top. RAM is by far the biggest bottleneck for me. Overall, Slicehost is great. I just wi
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by carpal 19y ago
His idea of a complex web application is completely misguided. He sees a "complex web application" as a "desktop application that runs in the browser." That's wrong, and it is no wonder why such "complex web applications" run better on th
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by carpal 19y ago
It depends on what your bottleneck is. RAM? Processor? Bandwidth? If it is RAM, you'd be better off getting fewer servers with more RAM on each. If it is CPU, you'd be better off trying some software configuration options before scaling ho
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by carpal 19y ago
BBA in CIS from Georgia State University
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by carpal 19y ago
Good god. Pizdaus links on yc news? Say it ain't so.
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by carpal 19y ago
Yes, it is. Browser-based, so that you don't run into sharing issues (common in small companies), or platform issues (common with cutting-edge companies).
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by carpal 19y ago
That's exactly the problem I'm solving. Glad to hear there's a market for it.
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by carpal 19y ago
That's a silly reason for a startup to die. Design is rather unimportant to the success of a site. Heck, look at Craigslist, or News.yc.
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by carpal 19y ago
Slowly whittling away at an online accounting suite for small businesses. Stubbed out the underpinnings, and just did the first major design iteration. Should show it to the first potential users in a month or two.
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by carpal 19y ago
"Jan 22, 2005 12:47:00 AM"
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by carpal 19y ago
I think you might be confused between Ruby and Rails. Ruby's current version is 1.8.6, while 1.9 is nearing an official release and 2.0 is still very experimental at this point. Rails' current version is 2.0.2, but the last release on the
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by carpal 19y ago
The requirement of an email address makes this a non-starter for me. I think you should be able to search and add without an email address. The reminder feature should be optional. An OS X dashboard widget would be very useful, as well.
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by carpal 19y ago
I really doubt this will have much of an impact on domain tasting at all. At worst, they will make slightly less money because they'll have to use an ad service that won't target ads as well as Google. Domain tasting will be alive and well
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by carpal 19y ago
<80k household income as lower class? That's insane. Maybe in the upscale districts of the biggest cities, but everywhere else 60k/year is solidly middle class. In the rural areas of Florida, 60k/year might even be considered Upper C
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by carpal 19y ago
This is mostly bullshit. The guy is trying to do things in Rails the wrong way and complaining about it failing. He does have a few legitimate points, but I guess I'll go at it point by point, because it is fucking long: -AR find works
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by carpal 19y ago
I don't mean to be an ass, but you are not going to have 1k simultaneous users. If you did, you would be able to pay someone who had a better understanding of how webservers work. One decent machine running 10 mongrels on a reasonably well
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by carpal 19y ago
1) I've never gotten much utility out of Rails books. I've generally gotten much more use out of the API docs and blogs. That said, the Agile Web Development with Rails book is pretty much standard, and Rails Recipes is good for code exam
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by carpal 19y ago
Eating my own dog food.
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by carpal 19y ago
Sitting in the San Francisco airport because it is snowing in Atlanta.
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by carpal 19y ago
I've scientifically confirmed that The Talking Heads made the best hacking music known to man. Aside from that, I listen to a lot of Of Montreal, other indie pop, some electronic and movie soundtracks (There Will Be Blood and The Fountain O
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by carpal 19y ago
I find it funny that the 31 lines of code in the example can be easily reduced to 8: def merge(a, b) c = [] c << (a[0] > b[0] ? b.shift : a.shift) until a.empty? || b.empty? return c+a+b end def mergesort(a)
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by carpal 19y ago
Excellent. Thank you!
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by carpal 19y ago
Awesome. Can you add the same thing to each user's comments page, too?

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