diego

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by diego 16y ago
Decent article, common sense for the most part. What does it have to do with living forever though? With a reasonable amount of effort you can avoid a few things that shorten your life span. The problem is that the long tail is huge, and it
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by diego 16y ago
I started writing my story but it became too long so I posted it here. http://dbasch.posterous.com/how-did-you-become-a-hardcore-ba... Tl;dr: in 1998 I created an mp3 search engine that got significant traffic, had to learn on the fly, en
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IndexTank now has unlimited queries for all plans.(blog.indextank.com)
5 points by diego 16y ago|0 comments
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by diego 16y ago
If someone else said that, he'd probably get panned. If you are a BH shareholder, odds are that the added five hours of driving cost you much more (time, effort, risk) than the difference in ticket prices, especially if you are flying in fo
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by diego 16y ago
The Crusher's Dilemma :)
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by diego 16y ago
Of course there are reasons, too many to count. I'm very close to one of the acquisitions on the list (as an early employee I made a modest profit). It comes down to a combination of: - Team: the acquirer likes the people and believes they
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by diego 16y ago
Do you use Netflix? A while back I bought a Zotac Mag to have as my entertainment center. I set up Ubuntu on it, my usual dev tools and Boxee. I found out that there was no way to make Netflix work on Linux, other than through a Windows VM
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by diego 16y ago
No question they are thinking about it. I went to a meetup last week in which they explained how moving to the cloud was extremely important to them, and how they transitioned to SimpleDB and Cassandra. http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing
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Lamabot (fortune cookies and Markov chains)(dbasch.posterous.com)
4 points by diego 16y ago|1 comments
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by diego 16y ago
And they aren't. The nic.ly page says about 10k have been registered, meaning they make about $750k/year. The country's GDP is five orders of magnitude larger.
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by diego 16y ago
Yes, I guess it's all relative. We are new to most people who have never heard of us :)
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Why Non-engineers Think Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups(dbasch.posterous.com)
181 points by diego 16y ago|74 comments
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by diego 16y ago
Saw your tweet, thank you! I'm a fan of the Zappos philosophy, and we have a ton of work ahead of us to have customer service that can be mentioned in the same sentence (especially now that we are a small bunch). Our dev guys are being grea
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by diego 16y ago
I strongly recommend having a chat widget on your site. At IndexTank we use Olark, and if someone mentions an issue with us on Twitter and we're around we encourage them to come chat with us live. People love the instant response and the qu
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by diego 16y ago
No, it seems like a very good reason to take useful/promising but improperly commercialized research and turn it into a product. A startup rarely has enough runway to do the scientific research needed to solve a problem like this.
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by diego 16y ago
I interviewed at Netscape shortly after they announced they would release the browser as open source (June '98, ended up going to Inktomi). I remember being very excited about this, and downloading the source when it first became available.
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by diego 16y ago
You are falling prey to a fallacy. Suppose there is a competition (say a marathon) where one thousand people participate. The winner gets to choose a number between 1 and one million and see if it matches a randomly generated one. If you wi
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Rubber duck debugging and how we got 2500% improvement(blog.indextank.com)
7 points by diego 16y ago|0 comments
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by diego 16y ago
At the risk of sounding obvious, you have different sources of energy to spend: your own time/effort, cash, equity. Figuring out when to use which is the trick. You can't optimize everything, so you have to think about it and give it your b
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by diego 16y ago
Relative wealth is what gets you the most mating opportunities and gives your genes a competitive advantage, to put it in a pseudo-academic language. Geoffrey Miller's The Mating Mind is way more interesting and deeper than this article if
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by diego 16y ago
I wouldn't put it in good/bad terms, I did this for years. If you are the type who enjoys building things, ultimately it gets very boring. If your business is successful (mine was) and you need to hire people, it's hard to convince the very
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by diego 16y ago
10 km/h is approximately 9:40 per mile. Not a fast pace. [BTW, what he did is insane and probably very dangerous for most people to attempt. The odds of getting injured/sick/suffering long term health consequences are high.]
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by diego 16y ago
That's just corporate talk. Most likely some PR person made sure to include that, but I doubt anyone applying for a job at Google today would believe it.
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by diego 16y ago
Hackers usually underestimate the importance of PR. If you are going to do one thing from the article, I'd say get media training. Reading it reminded me a lot of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by diego 16y ago
1. I really like the design. Simple and elegant, no clutter. 2. I keep looking for a search box because you branded it as a "Tea Search Engine", but it's more like a directory. I'd either call it a directory or add a search box. Let me kno
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by diego 16y ago
That's what rvm is for. Leave the system Ruby alone and install your own, even multiple versions. I have ruby 1.8.7 with rails 2.3.5 and 1.9.2 with 3.0.3, easily switch between them for testing. http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/
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by diego 16y ago
Do it. My Galaxy S with 2.2 is so much better than with 2.1 that it seems like a different phone. It's faster, more stable, the battery lasts longer. I wish I'd done it sooner.
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by diego 16y ago
Does atomz.com work? I tried it and it times out. Hadn't seen it, thanks for the tip!
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Full-text Search Workshop, 1/26 6:30pm at IndexTank (San Francisco)(blog.indextank.com)
22 points by diego 16y ago|3 comments
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by diego 16y ago
The search part would be the easiest. The hard part is keeping track of spatial coordinates for all those items in near real-time. If you could tag say 1000 items in your house and gave me that api, I could set up a web app for you to find

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