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by emmett 18y ago
I don't know if this applies to your site or not, but if you have any dynamic http requests (non-cacheable) that approach doesn't work very well. You're much better off doing it on the fly with nginx as paul suggests; the impact on CPU is n
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by emmett 18y ago
Londiste from skytools (backed by skype) is an excellent replication product that matches mysql replication. We use it, it's bulletproof and dead easy to administer. However the lack of hot standby is definitely a keenly felt issue...it can
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by emmett 18y ago
The kind of companies Paul is talking about appear to be software companies, in general. More new software companies originate in Silicon Valley than anywhere else in the world by a wide margin. Most new software companies (Google, for exam
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50% of the top 10,000 sites use Google Analytics(royal.pingdom.com)
20 points by emmett 18y ago|6 comments
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by emmett 18y ago
I found this post interesting. I'd subscribe to your blog if the posts were about things like this.
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by emmett 18y ago
All of the Ruby runtimes are unreliable (buggy) and very slow. Ruby syntax is perfectly good for "data-intensive tasks", but the current runtimes are not.
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by emmett 18y ago
Just to second this: Amazon.com was founded in 1994 and achieved its first operating profit in 4th quarter 2001, almost 8 years later.
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by emmett 18y ago
Mostly farmland, scattered small towns. A lot of wineries and grape farms. World class restaurants, a lot of tourism.
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by emmett 18y ago
Google is an archetypal "Seesmic" startup. They didn't even start making money for years. It just happened to work in that case.
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by emmett 18y ago
From http://www.silverspider.com/2008/sxsw-accelerator/ : Winners of each category “can receive two badges for the 2010 SXSW Interactive event, a write-up in the April issue of SXSWorld magazine, plus additional prizes yet to be announced.
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by emmett 18y ago
His point was: As Google proves, being free doesn't magically remove substantial value from your product. He went a bit overboard with the rhetoric, but looking past that you have to grant that he's correct.
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by emmett 18y ago
Fun fact: Control-Shift-A activates the subversion menu from TextMate on OSX, which I use all the time. It is a pretty random key sequence though :-)
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by emmett 18y ago
Because ISPs are terrible at picking winning technologies that are worth paying for. If they provided all their users with a search engine 10 years ago, it wouldn't have been google, it would have been some lame competitor.
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by emmett 18y ago
Yes, and it's been supersmooth so far today.
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by emmett 18y ago
I dunno, I've bought more vitamins recently than painkillers. It's common to take a daily multivitamin, few people take daily painkillers[1]. The vitamin industry makes plenty of money; dietary supplements are big business. Not that painki
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by emmett 18y ago
I've always hated that analogy. Tylenol isn't the only profitable drug; Centrum Silver makes plenty of money too. Vitamins are perfectly respectable business.
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by emmett 18y ago
If your product is decent, they'll cover you.
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by emmett 18y ago
This guy is a known spammer (to pretty much everyone who runs a social news site), so take what he's saying with several large grains of salt.
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by emmett 18y ago
You'd think they would, but we've been running this for a long time already and other than this silly kerfluffle, there haven't really been complaints. And believe me, our users love to complain (that's why we love our users!)
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by emmett 18y ago
FYI - this isn't a method of monetization. This is a way of policing our community, by preventing people from searching for and finding porn on our site. Secondly, actual users of our site have not complained, except for a few of our mods w
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by emmett 18y ago
Techcrunch didn't include the comment on the story we sent them, but here it is: Justin.tv uses a variety of common tools to effectively reduce the amount of inappropriate content on the site including: community-based reporting, community
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by emmett 18y ago
The reason to take sell equity in your company for capital is that you believe that your company requires that captial (usually to expand capacity or acquire resources), and that equity is the cheapest way to get that capital. That's almost
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by emmett 18y ago
On the other hand, you're giving up extremely well designed integration with almost every language and runtime on the planet. Why use your own custom protocol, when you could use HTTP? The argument isn't that HTTP is always better, but rath
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by emmett 18y ago
Although to be fair, we don't have that totally sweet "immune system" thing. I have to admit, it sounds pretty cool.
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by emmett 18y ago
The question this raises for me is, what habits of mind are important to keep your downsize your identity? One idea is suggested in the essay: if you find yourself thinking, I'm an X, but tolerant of Y, that's a warning sign. Any others?
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by emmett 18y ago
It's illegal in the United States to discriminate on a basis that has nothing to do with the job. So if your job doesn't require people with sharp analytical skills (trucking, for example), it would be illegal to use an IQ test. In programm
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Google introduces Loopt competitor(google.com)
41 points by emmett 18y ago|14 comments
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by emmett 18y ago
I was talking to Justin recently, and he gave the most succinct definition I've heard: A startup is a business aiming for a liquidity event. Edit: Reading the responses to this, people clearly got the wrong idea. A liquidity event != early
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by emmett 18y ago
It doesn't; you can certainly download a Hulu video if you know what you're doing.
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by emmett 18y ago
I played board games last time - but wait that was in SF...

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