diego

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Survived an AWS outage? Don't gloat(dbasch.posterous.com)
1 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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Stroustrup: Why I created C++(youtube.com)
4 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
That is not true. A startup uses all resources at their disposal, including recruiters if necessary. A good recruiter can hire very specific people that you couldn't reach easily yourself, especially if you are young and haven't had the tim
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by diego 15y ago
Good post, but I would change the title. It's not about technical co-founders being overrated. It's about how it's a good idea to make yourself technical enough if you are a business person who wants to start a company based on a web appl
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by diego 15y ago
The distinction between currency and asset can be fuzzy. Would you rather be paid in USD, gold, bitcoin, Google stock? How much extra would you charge to accept any of the above? I'd personally take bitcoin rather than gold today, because b
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by diego 15y ago
I was expecting your question to be: what can I do to make my company survive? From what you describe it sounds like you're giving up, the situation itself doesn't necessarily sound terminal. Other startups have survived worse situations an
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by diego 15y ago
IndexTank - SF. Looking for: - a sales person - a marketing person - a front-end engineer All positions local in SF (great location, one block from th 16th St. BART). Email me for more details: diego at indextank
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by diego 15y ago
Correct, Twitter in fact did a lot of work on the Lucene core specifically for this. The OP was talking about standard Solr though.
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by diego 15y ago
In terms of culture and lifestyle, yeah. Many people call Miami "the Capital of Latin America." Buenos Aires is not particularly representative of Latin America, it's more like a hybrid between LatAm and Europe (you probably agree). In term
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by diego 15y ago
IndexTank :) Meaning, we wrote a search engine from the ground up. We probably should write a blog post to explain why. We did use a couple of things from Lucene: - The tokenizers, to be compatible with the query syntax - The index format f
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by diego 15y ago
It is not silly if you have asynchronous indexing because your content is generated by your users, one document at a time. If you want real-time indexing, that's the way to do it. This is the default behavior for IndexTank. When an indexing
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by diego 15y ago
We at IndexTank will be happy to help. Should be pretty easy.
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by diego 15y ago
Here's just one example. There are thousands of companies and people on Crunchbase that are not notable enough for Wikipedia. Having that information on Crunchbase is extremely useful.
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by diego 15y ago
For every Andrew Carnegie, there are lots of others who watched their basket and saw it destroyed. They just don't go around giving advice.
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by diego 15y ago
A good one would be Learn Python the Hard Way. Python is a good language for beginners, and widely used. http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index There are probably similar books/resources for Ruby.
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by diego 15y ago
There's an abundance of people too. You wouldn't say people don't matter. You can teach the importance of execution by emphasizing execution.E.g. two teams with the same good idea, one executed and the other one didn't. You don't need to de
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by diego 15y ago
It would be nice to know who those employers are so people don't waste time interviewing with them. Asking a prospective employee to be your friend on Facebook is a sneaky way of asking illegal interview questions. Federal and many state la
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by diego 15y ago
It's convenient, and it has a decent theme by default. Plus I've met the guys and I like them. I'd say they are doing a good job at marketing themselves :)
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by diego 15y ago
Here's one: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-for-startups-top-7-lessons
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Marketing for Hackers: a 5-min intro, 97% BS-free(dbasch.posterous.com)
48 points by diego 15y ago|7 comments
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by diego 15y ago
I started to write a reply but it became a bit long so I turned it into a blog post. http://dbasch.posterous.com/marketing-for-hackers-a-5-min-in...
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by diego 15y ago
Oops, we haven't tested it with IE9. We'll get on it and fix it asap, thanks for the heads up!
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by diego 15y ago
There are many uses, one of them is when you want to do instant search. There is no point in having the browser go to your server so you can act as a proxy for a query. Also, you could add search functionality without having to touch your b
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by diego 15y ago
I like it too obviously. I randomly met the guys last week and learned about it, it was very simple to take my script and just make it work. In general I see the Ruby/Rails community as being very receptive to services like this (and ours).
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Build a “Serverless” search engine with IndexTank and SimpleWorker(blog.indextank.com)
58 points by diego 15y ago|6 comments
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by diego 15y ago
The only thing that happens when you're rich is that you can help more people. If you were not helping people before (whatever that means to you), you probably won't do it after.
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by diego 15y ago
Yes, but for a startup you don't want to settle. The point is that it's still better to have a kickass one in the same room.
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Startups: Just say NO to outsourcing, contracting, and distributed teams(k9ventures.com)
7 points by diego 15y ago|5 comments
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BitCoin will be made illegal, but cryptocash is here to stay(dbasch.posterous.com)
15 points by diego 15y ago|14 comments
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by diego 15y ago
If you are satisfied with 1M, here are some good bets: - Take up a high-paying corporate job. I would join a pre-IPO company such as LinkedIn where you'll get a competitive salary, stock options that will likely be in the money and probably

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