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by drusenko 17y ago
no ddos protection, lousy routers, single points of failure everywhere (on old servers that are about to die), running their racks very near electrical capacity (too many servers load up at once, breaker trips), way oversubscribing bandwidt
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by drusenko 17y ago
For many reasons, including: - We already have the expertise to do so, so the cost to us is much smaller - We can ensure a much higher level of service by making sure every component along the line is up to par (you'd cry if you heard what
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by drusenko 17y ago
To post up a counter-perspective here: From our perspective (Weebly) the DMCA is quite convenient for us. We turn away any DMCA complaint not related to copyright (like trademark infringement). Other than invalid complaints (did not meet th
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by drusenko 17y ago
On the other hand, Google has a lot of resources and lawyers to fight off the government if they come knocking, and they've been known to fight to the max in the past. You? Not so much. If the FBI shows up at your door, you're toast.
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by drusenko 17y ago
revenue is not made by "interesting" products. and for a shopping cart, i'm not sure it's necessarily that much more intuitive.
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by drusenko 17y ago
tl;dr: google accounts are really confusing here's what's most confusing. there's a "google account", that can be any email address (including a google apps for your domain email). this is not the same as a gmail account, it's just a "googl
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by drusenko 17y ago
yes. domain accounts are considered "business" accounts and do not get any of the new features until they are proven out -- we're usually on a 4-9 month exciting feature delay.
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by drusenko 17y ago
I couldn't disagree more. Maybe the pundits would have told them to go get a regular job, but the users were clearly very passionate, or they wouldn't have continued iterating and developing the product. Believe it or not, there were a
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by drusenko 17y ago
Not sure I agree with that. While in theory, anybody could apply this advice equally well, there are certain types of people who are too far down the rabbit hole to properly process feedback. For us, it's definitely been very helpful to h
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by drusenko 17y ago
in our experience, a drag drop action is incredibly hard for a user to perform, and should really be reserved only for when it add significant UI context to the action. i'd stay far away from having users drag and drop goods into a shoppi
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by drusenko 17y ago
Well, making lots of money is an easy indicator... Otherwise, you make the best bets you can.
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by drusenko 17y ago
In regards to the first point, I felt like he was making a distinction between what he's calling "nerd engineers" (perhaps poorly chosen) -- with no design sense or care for UI -- and other engineers, who carefully think out their interface
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by drusenko 17y ago
I'm also very interested in how it is able to escape properly... anybody?
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by drusenko 17y ago
Saving 14 bytes per request is something only a very few sites need to think about... For the rest of us, clarity and semantically correct code are much more useful.
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by drusenko 17y ago
very, very cool. i can't wait to dig into this more... it looks like even the basic examples are cool, but there's lots of stuff under the hood waiting to be discovered.
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by drusenko 17y ago
i would presume that the scoff came more from the implied "I am unable to understand or appreciate the needs and desires of a female partner" than it had to do with the logic behind the statement. if you find a partner who doesn't want a di
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by drusenko 17y ago
and the amount of networking and exposure available to you working as a writing intern at techcrunch is invaluable. i'm not sure why everyone gets in a twist over free interships -- nobody's forcing you to participate. if everybody thought
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by drusenko 17y ago
exclusivity is definitely also a readership thing. the blog that breaks the news picks up more daily readers, which in turn makes them a bigger blog.
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by drusenko 17y ago
Happening to me too :/
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by drusenko 17y ago
I wrote down a few tips I'd collected a while back: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2008/02/press-for-startups-10... The landscape may have changed on the embargo bit (TechCrunch claims not to respect them), or not -- they still seem to re
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by drusenko 17y ago
1-5% is the norm, usually towards the low end
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by drusenko 17y ago
cofounders typically have a lot more equity, and hence are typically much more motivated to work 24x7 until things are up and running. employees are not motivated in the same way.
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by drusenko 17y ago
There's a lot of free time in college, if you can keep your time organized. It's very possible to (a) get decent grades (GPA 3.3-3.7), (b) learn something in the classes that are interesting, (c) hang out with friends, party like it's 1999,
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by drusenko 17y ago
I disagree completely, at least for young entrepreneurs. I started a hosted email company in high-school, and while it never really went anywhere, it was the single greatest thing on my resume. It made me stand far above most other applican
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by drusenko 17y ago
"...and the 1st Trillion Dollar Company" I don't think he was
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by drusenko 17y ago
"They are currently valued at about $50BN, but are growing at about 20-25% annually and will continue to do so for the next few decades." Hello, unfounded assertion...
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by drusenko 17y ago
if your "backup" is on a single disk, it's not a backup
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by drusenko 17y ago
I don't know, I sort of side with TechCrunch on this one. Yes, you can replicate a site (some easier than others, and a blog should be relatively easy), but that's still no excuse for datacenter downtime, and Rackspace has had a prolific am
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by drusenko 17y ago
Very possibly. But AFAIR IE is the only notoriously favicon caching browser, the rest of them do a good job of updating it often. And the favicon is showing up in multiple screenshots on both FF and Chrome.
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by drusenko 17y ago
Interesting to note that the favicon is still there. If it was a DNS attack, you would assume it wouldn't be there (unless the attackers put it on their box, which seems not very likely). Given that and the speed at which the service recove

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