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diego
15y ago
but don't have kids :)
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Why is NoSQL becoming popular?
(quora.com)
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diego
15y ago
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New release of IndexTank, now with Public Search API
(blog.indextank.com)
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15y ago
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diego
15y ago
Or you can try IndexTank. Free up to 100k documents, $49/mo up to 500k. Unlimited queries. (disclaimer: it's my company)
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diego
15y ago
Gmail must be part of Social.
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diego
15y ago
San Francisco, CA - IndexTank. Software Engineer. We are a fulltext search API that powers sites such as Reddit, Twitvid, blip.tv and many others. We are looking for an engineer to help us improve the UX of IndexTank's customers, and to bui
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diego
16y ago
Based on http://dbasch.posterous.com/lamabot-fortune-cookies-and-mark... and text from http://status.aws.amazon.com/
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AWS status messages remixed with Markov chains
(amazingsupport.heroku.com)
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16y ago
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16y ago
Taking advantage of different availability zones is a business decision based on cost. Of course I don't mean just cost of the servers in different zones, the highest cost is designing and testing your architecture for the additional uptime
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diego
16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. This is a new design (just done) so we are testing it out.
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IndexTank now free up to 100k documents
(blog.indextank.com)
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16y ago
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The Siren Song of AWS
(dbasch.posterous.com)
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16y ago
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Tanker: integrate IndexTank with your favorite Ruby ORM
(blog.indextank.com)
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16y ago
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diego
16y ago
I'm playing by ear, but the one thing that stands out after reading the book is the display of karma (user / comment / post scores). One thing the book emphasizes is that if you display karma prominently, users will feel motivated to perfor
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diego
16y ago
While that may be true for Facebook users, it's not true for users of specific sites that use their comment system. Part of my thinking when coming up with the idea for IndexTank is that sites need to control their UX (search in our case)
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16y ago
I'm surprised this book hasn't been mentioned here yet: http://www.amazon.com/Building-Reputation-Systems-Randy-Farm... If you read that book and then look at HN, it's clear how its design encourages behaviors that are not aligned with th
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Facebook Comments Epitomizes Everything I Hate About Facebook
(techcrunch.com)
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16y ago
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diego
16y ago
We have remote employees that come to San Francisco for 1-4 weeks at a time. We used to find temporary places for them on Craigslist. AirBnB is much more helpful.
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diego
16y ago
If by locally you mean running your on desktop/laptop/smartphone/robot dog acting as a web server, then yes. If people have to download it, no.
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Contest time. Build an app with IndexTank + Factual
(blog.indextank.com)
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16y ago
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16y ago
Thanks! Right now you can turn it on or off for particular fields, but we could do what you suggest. If you have a good use case please come chat with us on the site if we are around, or email us (support@...)
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Fuzzy Search: find what I meant, not what I said
(blog.indextank.com)
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diego
16y ago
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Don't Listen to Yourself: Redesigning the eBay of Latin America
(slideshare.net)
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16y ago
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Thoughts on Convertible Notes
(k9ventures.com)
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16y ago
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diego
16y ago
Why is the title of the submission different from the article's? "Why You Should Never Buy a Home Again" sounds trollish. It's does not apply to a large number of people for whom buying a home is indeed a good idea. Please edit the submissi
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diego
16y ago
proxy.heroku.com -> 75.101.145.87 NetRange: 75.101.128.0 - 75.101.255.255 CIDR: 75.101.128.0/17 OriginAS: NetName: AMAZON-EC2-4 (from whatismyip.com)
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diego
16y ago
That's like saying that not buying the winning lottery ticket was a bad decision. You did the best with the information you had at the time. Drinking and driving is a bad decision. Putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad decision. Pass
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diego
16y ago
Google's favorite marketing trick: artificial scarcity. Well played.
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diego
16y ago
Have you heard of Heroku? They were YC's largest exit to date largely due to solving exactly that problem! It doesn't get any easier than Heroku.
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diego
16y ago
Or you can just have one-on-one oral examinations. Nah, that's a lot of work.
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