delano

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1. 151.▲
   by delano 16y ago

   Haha, I love that line. Thanks for the references.
2. 152.▲
   by delano 16y ago

   A few observations: I dread each time my inbox lights up but recognized that 60%+ of our business is driven through our email list. Our AppSumo.com emails for the most part were always short and sweet, just the way I liked them. Then why
3. 153.▲
   by delano 16y ago

   Adding a prefix or suffix to your domain is a reasonable approach. Dropbox was originally getdropbox.com for example.
4. 154.▲
   by delano 16y ago

   That true but I think what's more interesting is the number of incidents (timeouts, exceptions, and significant slowdowns).
5. 155.▲
   by delano 16y ago

   If you're interested to see how sites perform on EC2 and Rackspace over time: https://www.blamestella.com/vendor/ec2 https://www.blamestella.com/vendor/rackspace
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   Some cool uses of Git-like hashes in Ruby(solutious.com)

   3 points by delano 16y ago|0 comments
7. 157.▲
   by delano 16y ago

   Nope!
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   by delano 16y ago

   Here's a screenshot after a minute or so: http://cl.ly/1J0V1R2h1r2H2N3y401Y Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.127 Safari/534.16
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   by delano 16y ago

   This is the BarBird open beta. Expect some things to not work right! That's cute. I like it. It looks like it could be an interested app but none of the tweet content loaded for Seattle or San Fran. Maybe post again when that's working.
10. 160.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    It's never a good idea to be disingenuous. If you plan to run the company on your own, use I. If you can conceive of and are hopeful of building a team, use we. People that would be turned off by that are not the kind of customers you would
11. 161.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    You should be able to do a URL redirect from http://awsping.com/ to http://www.cloudping.info/ for now. Cool tool btw!
12. 162.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    Of those, 20% (8,000) will actually finish building something Hey now, we can't all be Edsger Dijkstra.
13. 163.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    I don't follow.
14. 164.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    It's a literal statement for people on the west coast. It becomes figurative as you go east.
15. 165.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    I took a quick look. It's a cool demo but it's inappropriate to link to it here when there are obvious XSS issues.
16. 166.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    You'll start again when you're ready.
17. 167.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    It's not limited to language. It's also very much about culture. Montreal is literally and figuratively half-way between North America and Europe.
18. 168.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    There is no shortage of business ambition in Quebec in general. But we do need to develop a better culture of aggressively going after a target market.
19. 169.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    You can find out: write a script to populate sets in Redis and run some commands. You'll likely find it's fast enough for your needs.
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    How I handled the traffic from a single Smashing Magazine tweet (with numbers)(solutious.com)

    2 points by delano 16y ago|0 comments
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    by delano 16y ago

    My other car is a startup.
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    Why public monitoring is important (a follow-up on the EC2 issue yesterday)(solutious.com)

    8 points by delano 16y ago|0 comments
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    Tell HN: Ongoing issue with EC2

    7 points by delano 16y ago|5 comments
24. 174.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    Yep.
25. 175.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    I'm not sure where DanBlake is from, but paying rent by cash/cheque is still the norm in Canada.
26. 176.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    Congrats on the launch! A few people here aren't sold on the concept but that's fine. There are obviously others that are.
27. 177.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    There's also Bone which implements SET, GET, and KEYS over HTTP(S). It also uses something similar to the Amazon S3 request signatures for authentication. https://github.com/solutious/bone
28. 178.▲
    by delano 16y ago

    I would imagine by use (digestion, rest, energy), flavours (sweet, savory), caffeine content, etc. That said, OP, congrats on your first MVP!
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    by delano 16y ago

    That's a good idea. I could sort on a score based on response time and page size. Update: I added a score-based sorting (bytes/response time). Is this interesting or confusing? https://www.blamestella.com/group/ycombinator?sort=score
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    by delano 16y ago

    Combining monitoring data from multiple locations would give a more accurate response time overall. But as a site owner, that number is not very useful because it's not actionable. For example, if response times to my site become slow from