floodfx

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by floodfx 16y ago
Does anyone use AppEngine in production? I am not trying to troll but we've have had pretty poor performance getting data out of their datastore. We only have a couple operations apps running on it and I could not imagine running anything
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by floodfx 16y ago
GXP is decent. ( http://code.google.com/p/gxp/ ) You could also try GWT ( http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ ). Obviously more than just a templating engine but very cool.
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by floodfx 16y ago
FF makes money off revenue generated when you search and click on google ad. They do not replace links on content that you generate without telling you. Apples/Oranges my friend... Personally I use posterous as my personal site and I don'
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by floodfx 16y ago
agree - his annual reports are beautiful...
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by floodfx 16y ago
I've been reading about "Quantified Self" on kk.org for a while. I didn't realize it was actually Gary Wolf and others writing a lot of the content. Pretty interesting stuff... One simple idea is to have an API to enable easy collection o
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by floodfx 17y ago
similar advice from Marc Andreessen: http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-pers...
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by floodfx 17y ago
Try living in the present and not stressing out about the future or past... I recommend you read (or better yet listen to the audio book version) Ekhart Tolle's "The Power of Now". From the Amazon description: "the author describes his tr
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by floodfx 17y ago
the video is cool and all but does anyone like the music? seems to get lost to me... i guess it's really not about the music though. not one comment before mine even mentioned it... again awesome video but it's going to be hard for them
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by floodfx 17y ago
Maybe join a team for your next project. There seems to be a lot of advice to pick a small individual project (which I agree with) but it may be helpful to be part of a team to start. Stay on a team until you get a few wins and go from th
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by floodfx 17y ago
classic dissenter view of a new product (or products in this case). newsweek writer pissing on facebook, twitter and buzz in one article. i guess this is indicative of why i haven't read a newsweek article since never and probably won't un
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by floodfx 17y ago
Bizo is looking for a UI/UX person in the SF/Bay Area. We are a good group of people and the company is growing fast. We recently came in second place in the Amazon Web Services Challenge and also raised about 6M from Bessemer Venture Par
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What If You Could Recreate Live Performances By Dead Artists On A Computer?(techdirt.com)
1 points by floodfx 17y ago|0 comments
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Make your own virtual/augmented reality goggles(youtube.com)
1 points by floodfx 17y ago|0 comments
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by floodfx 17y ago
Unit testing is the only way to scale lines of code without scaling your team.
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by floodfx 17y ago
anyone here actually buy CDs? other than signed (and still sealed) CDs or really interesting ones like (moldover's), I haven't purchased a new CD in years... maybe I should considering the MP3s I do buy require me to agree to Amazon's lice
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by floodfx 17y ago
the most important part of early stage hiring is to be patient and not rush into hiring people who are not 100% fit both personality and skill wise. be extremely picky because early hires are going to interview and hire other people.
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by floodfx 17y ago
Check out JRuby ( http://jruby.org/ ) You can write a RoR front end and pull in/execute Java code (in Ruby's sugary syntax). No need for any crazy bridges...
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by floodfx 17y ago
Considering this: Under the Federal Trade Commission Act: * Advertising must be truthful and non-deceptive; * Advertisers must have evidence to back up their claims; and * Advertisements cannot be unfair. (via http://www.f
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by floodfx 17y ago
I recommend Information Aesthetics -- http://infosthetics.com
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by floodfx 17y ago
would love to see a leaderboard of companies with the happiest employees and with the unhappiest ones.
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by floodfx 18y ago
Take advantage of the object oriented features (classes, inheritence, etc) Write unit tests early and often. Re-read the docs; some of the PHP functions are inconsistently parameterized -- meaning one function expects params in one order
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Firefox Plugin for Amazon SimpleDB(aws.typepad.com)
2 points by floodfx 18y ago|0 comments