chadboyda

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by chadboyda 11y ago
The problem with autoscaling DynamoDB is that every time you scale up they shard your table into more partitions but they never merge them back when you scale down. You end up with less throughput per partition once you've scaled back
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by chadboyda 15y ago
Thinking of a house as an investment is foolish. Do you think of your car that way? No. Homes are commodities that like your car depreciate in value. Building homes has like anything manufactured at scale, come down significantly in cost. T
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by chadboyda 15y ago
Exactly. It's probably just more FUD to discredit WikiLeaks.
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by chadboyda 16y ago
I'm sure this has a lot more to do with "anchoring" than "random".
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Breaks back button, very frustrating. I don't get it, needs at least a short explanation on the front page.
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Seconded!
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing that observation! What a gem of insight into how easy it is to cross that gray line of usability. Just a week ago I was watching the Berkely course videos from SIMS 141 on YouTube. This one http://www.youtube.com/wa
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Haha, too true! That made me laugh, thanks for sharing ;-) Life must be good at the top!
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by chadboyda 19y ago
The Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steven Gary Blank
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by chadboyda 19y ago
They are forced to build a better, more useful, competitive product so that they, their investors, and customers all benefit.
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Daily active users is based on "touch points". Touch points are: Canvas Page Views Link Clicks in FBML Mock-Ajax Form Submission Click-to-Play Flash So Facebook requires some kind of daily interaction for a user to be counted.
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Agreed.
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by chadboyda 19y ago
28 + CHSPE My high school counselor recommended I graduate early to attend college, but being 16 and feeling unchallenged by school I opted to apply myself to the real world and started my own business instead.
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Faster? Interesting! I hadn't heard that before. Personally I'm rooting for them, I would love to see some innovation in the search market. Unfortunately I just don't see the consumer benefiting directly much from any of this. I hope they p
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Exactly, reducing the indexing cost has little to no impact on the customers, so there is no competitive advantage to using Cuill over Google for searchers. They claim more "relevancy" but there is nothing to support that claim so far, but
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Anything Trip-hop (Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Bjork, AIR, EBTG, Zero 7, Tricky, etc.)
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Fantastic job with the simplicity of it all. Only suggestion I have right now (after about 30 seconds) is to change the move block of text icon. I think it's a "paw"? But it was not intuitive at all to me what the "paw" did. I kept asking m
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Thank you. I appreciated that. I can only imagine how awkward it must have been to be the only male in the room absorbing all of this. And equally as so to be able to submit your notes here, but I think you did a nice job of separating your
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by chadboyda 19y ago
I cashed out with $9 billion after being acquired by Google. Woohoo! How did I do it? Spent my first $1 million on PR consultants. Didn't build a single product or hirer any developers. Went to Bubblecon 2008 to raise some VC with my army o
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Python and Ruby are great. But if you are interested in PHP and like MVC (such as Rails), I recommend trying Symfony. I use it for a lot of projects. There are still plenty of good reasons to use PHP just as there are any other language. Us
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Bought an album on there today. Great service! Easy to use, and 256kbps of DRM free MP3 goodness! Few kinks in the download process, but nothing Amazon can't fix easily. Highly recommended!
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Wow. That story was... unbelievable.
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Have you tried attending any of the tech networking events in LA? There is a strong, small, but growing tech / startup community in LA. If you haven't attended Twiistup, Lunch 2.0, LA Web App Meetup, or Los Angeles Open Coffee Club, etc. th
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by chadboyda 19y ago
a) "It's business", move on. b) Don't let it! Move on, worst thing you could do is drag this on and not be up front and clear cut about it, because then it will drag the life out of the project and you. c) Talk to your lawyer! IANAL, but --
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by chadboyda 19y ago
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Whatever someone is willing to pay you for it. I'll start the bidding at $20.
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by chadboyda 19y ago
I used to live up in the Valley for many years until I moved down to Los Angeles about 5 years ago. Doing a startup in Los Angeles has been difficult, mostly in trying to find and network with other like minded individuals but with a little
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Sounds like a very welcomed alternative.
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by chadboyda 19y ago
Los Angeles, CA
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by chadboyda 19y ago
I've been very disappointed with Spock so far in my testing. People that are very easily found on other search engines hardly if at all show up on Spock. I hope they seriously improve the index.

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