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by dcurtis 18y ago
More info is here, linked from the above article: http://www.uie.com/articles/death_of_relaunch/ Look under the title "eBay.com: Satisfying their Users with Gradual Evolution"
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Internet backbone Level 3 is offline(internethealthreport.com)
25 points by dcurtis 18y ago|8 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Tony Hsieh is awesome. I can't wait to read this book. Zappos is a company to be looked up to. If all companies were this fanatical about customer service, the world would be a much better place.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Wow, that's fascinating. If anyone has any more info on this, I'd really like to learn more.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
What is the magnitude of this, and how many servers do you have to buy to do the deployment? Also, while the DNS is switching there would be some major database inconsistencies between the two server stacks. How do you deal with that?
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by dcurtis 18y ago
That's interesting. The reason I wrote a post about it, though, is because it seems somewhat disturbing/alarming to me. I think many first time startup founders have a very visceral, almost animal-like feeling that if they make it big and b
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Awesome! Sadly, I don't have academic access anymore, which is why it was hard for me to find. Also, it's copyrighted so I figured linking to it might be morally dubious.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Sure. I first learned about the research from a brief footnote in the book Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran (highly recommended). Then I spent quite a long time looking for the article sourced, by Tinbergen, which is: Tinbergen N.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I think this is the best option for most people. Audis are like Macs, they retain their value really well.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Something happened to Michael Arrington recently. His opinion articles like this one are quite good and I am enjoying them.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Posting to that thread feels like tossing an idea into a black hole.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I'm not sure why I thought EBS was stored on S3. Thanks for the detail.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I was under the impression that S3 data, including EBS, has never had a case of data loss that Amazon knows of. Where did you get your annual failure rate data?
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This isn't always true. When I was 12, I became the youngest Apple certified tehcnician. And I can tell you very clearly: my parents did not force or encourage me to do that at all. I am an American and I was older than this girl, but I don
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by dcurtis 18y ago
The day Paul Graham uses CSS is the day hell freezes over.
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Who was Ponzi -- what the heck was his scheme?(cnn.com)
2 points by dcurtis 18y ago|3 comments
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CNN Abandons the Crawl for the Flipper(nytimes.com)
7 points by dcurtis 18y ago|2 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This is really fascinating and reminds me a lot of the feeling I get sometimes when I code something.
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MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession(fora.tv)
60 points by dcurtis 18y ago|23 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
MySpace isn't nearly as bad.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This is an atrocity.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Students range from couldn't-care-less to passionate, not from stupid to smart. Wow, I never thought of it that way, but it really makes a lot of sense.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I am pretty sure it was your tone.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
"Obama edits and rewrites portions himself -- he is the better writer, Favreau insists -- and they usually work through final revisions together." I wonder if the same can be said of other presidents. Some of the classical speeches from the
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Twitter Hiring Product Manager To Bring In The Revenue(techcrunch.com)
10 points by dcurtis 18y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This article is the most interesting I have seen on techcrunch in a while. It really is an extraordinary event, and Arrington has actually done a great job reporting on it.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Regarding your update: that's saying they encrypt the pipe between your computer and their servers using SSL. The files are still stored without encryption on their servers (as far as I can tell).
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I love Dropbox and use it every day. But this article says the data is encrypted before being sent to the cloud, and that is not true. Because of that, it's not a good idea to put sensitive stuff on Dropbox, like "accounting" stuff or stock
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Im surprised no one has mentioned OpenID. It has pretty much failed at this point, but it was sort of an attempt to fix this problem.
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Logging and Learning(tom.posterous.com)
26 points by dcurtis 18y ago|6 comments

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