ehsanul

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by ehsanul 17y ago
How about "Will the software you're writing be done within a month?" What's the right answer there, when you really don't know?
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by ehsanul 17y ago
For some context: The original announcement - http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=305 The aftermath - http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=322 I expected traffic after the promotion to be significantly larger, but there
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Sparkfun Electronic's $100k giveaway hasn't helped traffic in the longterm(alexa.com)
2 points by ehsanul 17y ago|4 comments
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Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity(ted.com)
1 points by ehsanul 17y ago|0 comments
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Would this work in a non-Rails project? Say Sinatra?
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Here's a wonderful data visualization site: http://www.gapminder.org/ I know it through a few TED talks: http://www.ted.com/search?q=rosling&x=0&y=0
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I was hoping for a documentary-stye show when I saw the title and watched the opening theme, which is well done. But then the episode began and I remembered what HBO is all about.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Good point. The other, probably better way to do it is to have that kind of culture from the beginning.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I guess the low number of points for this post indicates that there are few on HN who are not citizens of the US, or at least few foreign startup founders here. I'm an international student in the US myself, wishing there was such a thing a
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by ehsanul 17y ago
And for many products ... it doesn't even make sense to try and squeeze any kind of judgement out of potential customers. Can't agree any more. Doing straight up market research through this "customer development" approach probably great
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by ehsanul 17y ago
At one point I entertained the quixotic and, retrospectively, stupid idea of requiring every employee at Fog Creek to be a programmer... The converse (and less stupid) idea is to require every employee at your software startup to do sales
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Hard to believe. Then again, these are probably the bottom 1%, as there are probably thousands that went to that page, out of which some were clueless enough not to be able to find the actual facebook home page, and were yet able to comment
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by ehsanul 17y ago
People in the comments mentioned "I am sitting in a room", which I found here: http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html Quite interesting to hear.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Too bad the good things rarely make the news. Even on Hacker News. A top story here seems to be as likely to be a huge controversy as something most here would agree was "good". Not to say there aren't "good" things here, just not as numero
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by ehsanul 17y ago
It is interesting though that many of these lost users were able to find the comment box and leave a comment. Perhaps that's something they've learned from Facebook?
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I'm reminded of this Google Tech Talk, where the speaker (Jon Bentley) refers to a colleague's praise of someone who "adds function by deleting code": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMnn0Jq0J-E Edit: Fixed quote
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Good luck to you too! You've got an interesting approach to scaling, hope it works out (cheaply). Yes, I've looked at Neo4j, and I would've tried that if it weren't for this (from their home page): Neo4j is released under a dual free softw
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I have no hard-earned experience with this myself. I've just been thinking about it myself a lot because I have a potentially write-intensive application in the works, and I'm anticipating aperformance issues with writes (but I should proba
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Which is great. But I think there's a need for something more generalized, just as memcached provides for caching. Then you could use any database at the back.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Nice, but when you're scaling to such a large size, you probably want to go NoSQL, unless you use MySQL as a key-value store (which I've heard of some people do). Another thing: Many applications, can get away with updating to disk much les
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by ehsanul 17y ago
They use cache components to scale their writes, since they have so many writes. I assume this means that instead of hitting disk for every write, data in the cache is updated instead, and asynchronously saved to disk. Really, this patter
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Well, I seem to always have formatting issues with haml, though probably because I haven't worked enough with haml yet to internalize the whitespace rules. No such issues with html of course. Not a huge advantage, but can make it annoying w
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I really want to make one myself. My idea is to have the terminal screen as a vim-editable 2-D ASCII environment, which you manipulate with vim commands. The goal can be anything. Say a plane or something going straight through a cave and y
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Nice find. However, I don't see where it says anything about MongoDB failing, though it is mentioned as a NoSQL database. Also: Another customer, Electronic Arts, uses Basho infrastructure for a system that supports 7 million daily users o
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Not completely, but any argument I have would be hand-waving. Hence the "probably". The number ( a couple dozen ) was totally out of nowhere, just making a point here. I should've added the disclaimer that I haven't used Riak, and hence nob
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I've got the same question. Anyone with an idea of why the monthly expenses would be so high, and why so many ops guys for just 60 servers? I don't want to be so cynical as to assume it's because of bad management or something; I must be mi
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by ehsanul 17y ago
On the question of performance, Riak's FAQ says the following: We've found it to be fast enough for our purposes, and our goal is not to be "fastest" but rather to stay "fast enough" as the system grows, as hosts fail, and so on. You know
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Do you know how/why MongoDB "failed" for the facebook application? It's not really clear what that actually means given your comment. Care to share a link to the story or an explanation if there is any? Also, I'm glad you informed us about
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Well, the idea preceded Redis and applies more widely. The advantage of having it the way I mentioned is that any database could be plugged in at the back, just as memcached as no requirements for what method of persistence is used. That ma
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by ehsanul 17y ago
This is great, I was really hoping for Redis to take this direction, since keeping everything in memory wasn't great for my current project. In the same vein, I have an idea about forking memcached and turn it into "memd". Instead of just c

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