ericflo

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by ericflo 16y ago
Everything Kahn says seems to indicate that he doesn't believe in simply "watching a video and drilling on some problem set."
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by ericflo 16y ago
We built this in-house, but we're excited to see that other people are building out apps too. (I'm an Android user myself, and use the third-party Convorsation app https://convore.com/convorsation/ )
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by ericflo 16y ago
EU to the internet: You shall store no state!
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by ericflo 16y ago
You just described a (perfectly reasonable) system which would take a nontrivial amount of code to build.
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by ericflo 16y ago
I fail to see why people want to delete their accounts when they decide not to use a service any more. Why not simply stop logging in? With Yammer it at least makes a little sense because there's possibly sensitive business data on there.
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by ericflo 16y ago
> The site got twenty-two hundred hits within two hours? Thousand. Twenty-two Thousand. Is this generated dynamically? If so, awesome. If not, still cool.
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by ericflo 16y ago
This entire comment is predicated on the assumption that getting rich is the underlying reason entrepreneurs build businesses. I disagree with this assumption.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Congrats to the DotCloud guys—if they can crack the language-agnostic cloud hosting nut, they'll be worth every cent. It's a big problem to tackle though :)
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by ericflo 16y ago
That's the thing though: they didn't fail, they quit.
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by ericflo 16y ago
The reason it's easy is because you set it up and then you can just forget about it, and then you're doing good things for charity.
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Brief Thoughts on Angel List(500hats.typepad.com)
56 points by ericflo 16y ago|37 comments
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by ericflo 16y ago
Just make up a word, that's what we did.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Not asynchronously.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Because we already had redis installed, and I like less moving parts rather than more. So far, it's worked out just fine.
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by ericflo 16y ago
We're good on all fronts except 4, and the transaction pool mode :)
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by ericflo 16y ago
That's exactly the approach we're taking. We're not going to spend any time prematurely worrying about various scaling things until we can forecast that it's legitimately going to be a problem.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Unfortunately I can't give out any exact numbers :(
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by ericflo 16y ago
Yep, but we liked Eventlet better because of the simpler programming model and better support for things like psycopg2 (our database driver). So far it's worked out great--it's held up really well under our current amount of load. That sai
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by ericflo 16y ago
That's awesome, thanks for the offer, I'll definitely take you up on it and ping you if we run into problems scaling up that live endpoint using Python. As a side-note, this is why I love the software engineering community: everyone's alway
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by ericflo 16y ago
Yeah, I've been following that work for quite a while, it's really impressive! I'm a big fan of Cassandra in general (in fact, I wrote an example application to help teach beginners about it: https://github.com/ericflo/twissandra ). The d
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by ericflo 16y ago
Taskforce is really nice, I've been using it, and it definitely makes my life better.
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by ericflo 16y ago
That's quite the course correction, going from backbone/node to CLI/Haskell.
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Re-using Backbone.js Models on the server with Node.js and Socket.io(andyet.net)
76 points by ericflo 16y ago|22 comments
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by ericflo 16y ago
It will save time every subsequent login, because you won't have to type anything.
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by ericflo 16y ago
If this were Convore, I would star Groxx's message :)
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by ericflo 16y ago
We've definitely heard this feedback from others, especially those coming from other web-based chat products that tend to include this feature. Right now we haven't offered this as a feature because we're a free app, and hosting more than a
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by ericflo 16y ago
Thanks! One of the things we really wanted to have before we launched was an initial version of an API ready so that people could experiment with building things like you describe. We've been happy so far that people have started to do jus
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by ericflo 16y ago
Why delete your account? Why not just stop using it? I don't understand this.
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by ericflo 16y ago
I want to thank Mike for being extremely professional about reporting these bugs privately and giving us ample chance to fix them before publishing. If he hadn't done that, he probably could have gotten more blog traffic, but it would have
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by ericflo 16y ago
Not yet. Right now we're still in "minimum viable product" mode, and additionally file uploads start to be cost prohibitive on a free product like ours. That said, we're not opposed to adding this in the future, it's just a matter of when

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