davidnelson

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by davidnelson 16y ago
I'm curious why anyone thinks $350,000 a year for two people is a lot of money and impressive. Seriously, $175k a year and you get an article in entrepreneur magazine and 26 points on hn? Really? They must not live in the bay area!
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by davidnelson 16y ago
awesome
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by davidnelson 16y ago
"reclusive but highly intelligent stereotype", lol now I don't feel so bad. but seriously, I can't get this bing social search to work. I've tried keywords I've seen occur many times in my facebook stream. It doesn't appear to be doing a
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by davidnelson 16y ago
funny, I was bummed python came before java on app engine. and what about gwt? that's java! who would want to write their javascript in javascript anyway ;-) and yes, I agree that the mindset of learning new things in your free time (and
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by davidnelson 16y ago
nice idea. I tried to setup a new a/b test for a site and it became 'not easy' when I wanted to track an adsense click as a goal. I wrote a manual a/b test for the same site about 7 years ago, and got adsense click goals working with 40 va
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by davidnelson 17y ago
I believe there's a few reasons. one is that the google file system blocks that bigtable runs on and "reads" for your query could be on any number of machines. been a while since I read the google architecture papers but I would recommend
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by davidnelson 17y ago
I love the document record pattern. I use this on google app engine, which is a tad tricky to use as a relational db. It actually ends up being way simpler and faster. For instance, you can model an app with just one "table" (Kind). You
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by davidnelson 17y ago
I come from a c# and php background and don't know ruby, for what it's worth.
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by davidnelson 17y ago
python for sure. you can use it with app engine, whereas ruby on the app engine jvm is less mature. take a look at some source code here to help you get started: http://developeradvocate.appspot.com/id/1005/AppEngineBlog-(... http://cod