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by diolpah 15y ago
Whenever we have a service outage from one of our providers( dns, payment gateway, AWS, etc )we check twitter to determine if it is widespread to more than just us. It is almost always more timely than the providers' own status pages.
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by diolpah 15y ago
This. SICP is a fantastic book. Buy it, then read it. Twice. Or more.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Over the course of the past few years, a lot of the overengineering mindset has been leaving the Java community. Bruce Tate and others have had a significant impact on this shift. More dynamic languages becoming available for the jvm has
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by diolpah 15y ago
+ one for this book. Excellent startup narrative.
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by diolpah 15y ago
* This only applies to the nontechnical founders.
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by diolpah 15y ago
This is not always true. Plenty of founders who spend time working instead of networking end up with a sparse network and very few people even aware of their success.
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by diolpah 15y ago
What? The person who works on perhaps seven deals over a five year investment cycle is 'way busier' than the person scratching to bring a new concept implementation to market as quickly as possible? Did I understand your position correctly
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by diolpah 15y ago
I am surprised such an obviously political story would be submitted by someone like Winer. That is, I would have expected him to abide the guidelines.
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by diolpah 15y ago
If the national reputations have been damaged, it is the fault of the nations in question, not that of the nameless executive. Nobody forced the prosecutorial abuses explicated in this article. Be assured, however, that the thin blue line
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by diolpah 15y ago
1. Never heard of gitorious 2. Github is so inexpensive such that cost is irrelevant. 3. Free is rarely a sustainable business model, and we are hesitant to put our source in the hands of an entity that may not be there tomorrow, even thoug
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by diolpah 15y ago
Be specific. Repeat customers? New customers? Over what timeframe?
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by diolpah 15y ago
This does not reflect the experiences of any developer I know. Is this a local phenomenon? Do you live in silicon valley?
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by diolpah 15y ago
This. We're running a startup environment inside an income-producing business, and I really do think it's the best of both worlds. If you are in this position, you will not be at the mercy of the investment climate for survival when the bu
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by diolpah 15y ago
We have a few million objects stored in S3 and our average object size is only ~40k. Plenty of people use cloudfront as a streaming CDN, though. Those assets would be far larger, obviously.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Similarly, we started out in my cofounder's grandmother's house and ran our original site on a $20 shared host running a horribly unstable cgi-bin with perl. My cofounder took calls and fulfilled orders himself.
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by diolpah 15y ago
This is true, but bootstrapped businesses with steady growth and a profitable model don't exactly fit the interests of venture capitalists, of whom the author of this article is one.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Unless you're Werner Vogels, in which case you mandate whatever the implementation team feels like using, as long as it scales and adheres to the service interface specifications.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Actually, lots of people think we shouldn't pay. More specifically, Millennials will need to decide at some point if they are willing to pay for the profligacies of their parents. Many of them rightly understand that they are shouldering
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by diolpah 15y ago
As a counterexample, I moved to Southern California specifically to run a startup. There were many reasons, but talent acquisition was never one of them. Interesting enough, though, we have been discussing the possibility of moving to Ne
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by diolpah 15y ago
Even if you don't include any Java-the-language material, I highly suggest adding some solid foundation on Java-the-platform. Android developers should always understand the rudiments of the jvm, java bytecode, dalvik bytecode, the differe
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by diolpah 15y ago
Serious question, no troll. Why do so many young developers insist on getting mentoring when there is so much high quality code available to be read? I can accept the proposition that reading books is insufficient for becoming a spectacul
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by diolpah 15y ago
I was in this situation during the 2000 bubble burst. Many of the developers accepted equity in leiu of paychecks, and then began drinking heavily at the office. The company in question eventually met their obligations and is still operatin
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by diolpah 15y ago
Depends on who is asking. My stock response is "I work for a web retailer". I generally only mention my ownership or role when it's relevant to the person or the context.
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by diolpah 15y ago
We paid hundreds of times more for our domain names than this, and we are glad we did. It depends on your market, though. And it should be noted that we started out with a medicore domain name.
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by diolpah 15y ago
This is not how TDD is generally practiced, though. The test is written first because it serves as an interface specification. Just as in traditional development, the specification comes before implementation.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Some good takeaways here, and an inspirational message, but the human brain still has a reasonably fixed (over the long term) bits per second acquisition/retention rate for pure information and a fixed degree of neural plasticity. In realit
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by diolpah 15y ago
The most important aspect that nontechnical people need to understand about technology development has nothing to do with technology itself. It has to do with process. Understanding how estimation works, the importance of environment, the
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by diolpah 15y ago
I concur. We operate a boring retail operation, but there are still plenty of technical challenges, from automating warehouse operations to building elegant and generic conflict resolution systems for promotions, taxation, etc. At risk of
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by diolpah 15y ago
I would like to put in a plug for EFNet #java - idle there long enough and you may learn some things. Disclaimer: I am an op there.
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by diolpah 15y ago
I've hired a number of people directly from IRC without a formal interview process. It's a fantastic place to find smart people. But it's important to point out that by virtue of sharing knowledge and posting pastebin urls of your code ove

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