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by iseff 18y ago
Actually, I think it's important not to think of tests necessarily as "comments," but rather as "specs." This is pretty much the thesis of Behaviour Driven Development. If your tests define what your program _should_ do, then your tests can
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by iseff 18y ago
Am I the only one who is amazed that Compete has Flickr receiving same amount of unique visitors per month as Facebook!? Every single one of my friends uses Facebook, yet I'm one of the few who use (and even know of) Flickr.
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by iseff 18y ago
The author of this, David Beazley, was a professor of mine for two courses as an undergrad at UChicago. He taught Networking and Operating Systems and was one of the top 3 professors in the CS department. He left teaching for a while, but i
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by iseff 18y ago
Thanks! Good to know, and I'll definitely look into the mod_dosevasive.
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by iseff 18y ago
I thought some people here might find this interesting. Our site has been slow recently, and it's due to a dumb program causing essentially a DDOS attack against us. Here's some of the things we've done to alleviate the situation. I'd also
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How we have handled a DDOS attack from a dumb program(blog.openomy.com)
14 points by iseff 18y ago|6 comments
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by iseff 19y ago
For Openomy, one of the things that makes our project really exciting day-in and day-out is that we went to a service based architecture early. We don't have one single application for everything and we don't have one single database for ev
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by iseff 19y ago
http://twitter.com/iseff And, on tumblr, http://featureorbug.com (recently became a Tumblr staff pick!).
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Berkshire Hathaway 2007 Annual Report (PDF)(berkshirehathaway.com)
13 points by iseff 19y ago|2 comments
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by iseff 19y ago
well, there's Nirvanix ( http://www.nirvanix.com ) which competes with S3.
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by iseff 19y ago
There was a good thread about this a couple months back on 37Signals blog ( http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/753-ask-37signals-how-do-... ): The thing to note here, in my opinion, is to not implement it as they have. Do not store the cr
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by iseff 19y ago
Well said! These are two of the biggest strains for us, too. Even if you were to work 6pm-midnight every night, your productivity is sooo much lower! The best way I've found to be productive is to put long hours in on the weekend, at a coff
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by iseff 19y ago
Remember that we're working on this on the side. We have salaries, just not from this. That number definitely rises if/when that situation changes.
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by iseff 19y ago
Hahaha, it's true-- that's one of the great things. Thanks to Openomy, we've given ourselves the chance to try out soo many things (Ruby (on Rails), Haskell (+ HAppS), C# (mono), Java, Scala, etc). And those are just the programming languag
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Ask YC: Are you self-funding/bootstrapping?
42 points by iseff 19y ago|55 comments
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by iseff 19y ago
As one of the developers/founders of Openomy ( http://www.openomy.com ), I'm keenly interested in this. Our goal is to provide a place where people can store and access all their online files. We want to be the Online File System. We're hea
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by iseff 19y ago
Anybody up for a meet-up?
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by iseff 19y ago
Anyone from Seattle active on news.yc? Ian
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Why Facebook will IPO in 12 months(iseff.com)
1 points by iseff 19y ago|0 comments
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Why backing up your data is dead(iseff.com)
3 points by iseff 19y ago|6 comments
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Feature Or Bug - a tumblelog of technology oddities.(featureorbug.com)
1 points by iseff 19y ago|0 comments