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by diego 14y ago
Just because it's money? You're also spending your time, effort, attention, and opportunity cost. Is college meta because you spend money to work for free with people who also spend money, while learning from people who get paid money to te
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Video of NASA and CSA's RESOLVE Lunar Rover testing in Hawaii(youtube.com)
1 points by diego 14y ago|0 comments
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by diego 14y ago
Without telling us the install rate, "doubled" is just lying with statistics. Did you go from 10 to 20 daily or from 10k to 20k? Play says that you have 10k+ installs total (not a lot), so it looks more like the former. If your initial numb
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by diego 14y ago
Luckily there are enough software people like yours truly who know how to solve these problems. Solving them requires tradeoffs, so you also need product people who understand those tradeoffs and make the right calls. This is what failed at
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by diego 14y ago
That's still pretty early. I worked at Inktomi, LookSmart and LinkedIn. Once your database is distributed, you can optimize the hell out of your systems. Not everything interacts with everything. If you cannot make your costs grow slower th
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by diego 14y ago
"at that kind of scale I'd expect most expenditures to scale linearly or faster with number of users" That just doesn't make any sense. Have you ever built any internet infrastructure? Costs grow much less than linearly as you scale.
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by diego 14y ago
HN is not a business. Y Combinator is. HN is useful to Y Combinator as long as the discussion is interesting and attracts the right people. Quora is a business. They are not making any money. Like Twitter, they can only hope to make money i
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by diego 14y ago
Did you downvote me? You can google the studies yourself, there are lots of those supporting whatever conclusion you prefer. I don't have an opinion on helmets, only on the logical fallacies used in the article.
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by diego 14y ago
"More precisely, what risk is going to be removed from the deal?" You've got to be joking. One of the highest risks in every startup is the team falling apart. A team that was able to build a prototype is likely to be more consolidated than
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by diego 14y ago
This article is rampant with dishonest usage of statistics and anecdotes: “Statistically, if we wear helmets for cycling, maybe we should wear helmets when we climb ladders or get into a bath, because there are lots more injuries during th
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by diego 14y ago
Exactly. And it's even more complicated: the author assumes that funding is distributed evenly over the year, when it's not. Very few deals close during the summer, and the period September-December is particularly active. To the OP: you ar
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by diego 14y ago
The fatal flaw in this article is that the author has NO IDEA how much of the 2012 investment has made it into Crunchbase. He's dividing the total investment by the number of days as if every investment made until today had been accounted f
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by diego 14y ago
This is one of the most naive articles I've seen on HN. And that's saying a lot. "CEO: Dumb as hell / Compulsive Liar Engineer: Compulsively Honest / Genius" Have you heard of Bill Gates? Eric Schmidt? Is Mark Zuckerberg dumb as hell? Flagg
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500Startups invests in 9 additional Mexican companies(venturebeat.com)
4 points by diego 14y ago|1 comments
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by diego 14y ago
That is not true. You can create apps on top of app.net that can be used by non-members (as long as you respect their TOS). For example, you can see my cloud of what people talk about there: http://adn.loqix.com/ I could use my developer
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by diego 14y ago
The goals of VCs are very different than the goals of entrepreneurs. Their job is to return at least 3x cash-on-cash in 10 years with relatively low beta. Why should their standards be the same as those of entrepreneurs? In fact, I wrote a
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by diego 14y ago
What matters is the ratio of reads per write. Blogs with multiple authors have a higher ratio than blogs with single authors.
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by diego 14y ago
It's actually not that different, and of course they make as much use of caching as possible. So does my self-hosted wp blog, for that matter. If you are using WP Super Cache correctly, you can deal with significant amounts of traffic. I've
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Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx(highscalability.com)
131 points by diego 14y ago|91 comments
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by diego 14y ago
So important to my business? What business are you talking about? You are just confused. All this time I've been talking about a toy app that I wrote to kick MongoDB's tires. If you don't understand that, there is no point in having a conve
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by diego 14y ago
Maybe you should make constructive comments instead of making assumptions about what people learn or don't (or what they know or don't, or what has worked for them or hasn't). There are some really disrespectful people in this community.
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by diego 14y ago
How do you know that you're going to rely on it if it's new? I install something new. I kick the tires. It takes a long time until I decide I'm going to rely on it. I'll look at the log at some point, but not necessarily the first time I in
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by diego 14y ago
Normally people look at logs when things go wrong. Do you look at the log anytime something starts successfully and seems to be working? You must spend lots of time looking at logs. This is a message that MUST be displayed on the console wh
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by diego 14y ago
Confirmed, like others below. Installed on Ubuntu via APT. ~$ sudo service mongodb start mongodb start/running, process 7680
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by diego 14y ago
I like the concept of MongoDB. My main problem (which perhaps is not totally clear from my post, linked in the article) is that there are certain historical conventions about what a database should be. In particular, a database will not hav
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by diego 14y ago
See my comment below. If you use a package manager you never see the warning.
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by diego 14y ago
I installed it through Ubuntu (apt-get). Most people must (or should) be installing MongoDB through a package manager. Once again, assuming that people will see the warning because it's on the download page is shortsighted.
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by diego 14y ago
This type of attitude is not constructive. Of course I read the documentation. Much more than "copy and paste from the tutorial." I looked at tons of code samples as needed, read blog posts, etc. The limitation wasn't obvious at all. This r
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by diego 14y ago
Except that it was hidden deeply in the documentation. It's like making a car that has the gas and brake pedals switched, and then blaming accidents on people not reading section 5 of the owner's manual. I'm hardly an inexperienced programm
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by diego 14y ago
Incidentally, who "leaves" a language? I started programming almost 30 years ago. Some languages I haven't touched in decades: BASIC, Fortran or Pascal. These days every time I have to use Java I hope it's the last. On the other hand, I u

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