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by jacobscott 18y ago
I want to make it very clear that I'm not a business guy. Think of it in the context of building a database-backed enterprise app that customers run in house. You don't want to ship a DBA to every customer...
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by jacobscott 18y ago
If it helps, I asked a more concrete version of this question focusing on PostgreSQL on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556325/postgresql-managem...
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Ask HN: Just replace my DBA: painless db admin and scale without the cloud?
7 points by jacobscott 18y ago|14 comments
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by jacobscott 18y ago
If one vertically oriented monitor is good, are two better? http://is.gd/kqNA
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by jacobscott 18y ago
A well known quote (in the right circles): "Real men reduce from 3SAT" -- Christos Papadimitriou [ http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/ ]
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Berkeley's hackathons are every six months, and given the way undergrads generally sleep, I don't feel like this is a huge deal. That said, the main pros are probably the camaraderie and the challenge. The general case is people coding (lon
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Full disclosure: I was a judge. Trevor Blackwell (from yc/anybots) was too.
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UC Berkeley's eighteen hour hackathon(startupatberkeley.com)
21 points by jacobscott 18y ago|4 comments
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by jacobscott 18y ago
In addition to a cloud-hosted solution, packaged software (along the lines of Hadoop) would be great too. Not everyone wants their corporate data out in the cloud, but I suspect they would all be happy to skip writing one-off "fix RDBMS sca
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Whoever solves the "scalability or consistency: choose one" problem will make a boatload of money. From what I can tell this is a very hard problem, so software that makes it seamless to operate at multiple levels of this tradeoff curve --
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I think posterous is awesome, and it has become my primary blog, although I don't blog much. That said (and no offense intended), this feature is not exactly groundbreaking. Livejournal, Wordpress, and MoveableType all had stuff like this f
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Ticketmaster-Live Nation talks raise concerns(cnn.com)
1 points by jacobscott 18y ago|0 comments
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Putting my graduate student hat on, it seems like what HN is faced with is a problem of mechanism design. If we can agree that the goal of HN is good news and discussion (and defer to pg on the details of exactly how those resolve), then th
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Sounds about right. Wikipedia has more information on regular languages, which computer scientists know a lot about, and of which Perl regex is a superset: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language
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by jacobscott 18y ago
If you are: * selling software people pay money for * writing software people install -- that is, /not/ web stuff Then under what circumstances would it make sense to ship untested code? When is there a difference between code that has unit
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by jacobscott 18y ago
The following quote made me decide to post to HN: "A lot of people in the news business, myself included, don't buy as a matter of theology that information "wants to be free." Really good information, often extracted from reluctant sources
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Executive Editor of NYTimes on business models, etc(nytimes.com)
3 points by jacobscott 18y ago|2 comments
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Couple of points: 1) I understand the use case, but asking people to trust you with their twitter credentials is bad news bears. Isn't some combination of OpenID/OAuth supposed to fix this (once twitter gets around to it, or whatever)? 2) I
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Flash mobs for not only fun/doing good, but also profit? This doesn't sound like something you can get wealthy doing, but if you have other priorities, seems reasonable. Does anyone have figures/stats on how much of an impact social or "web
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I suspect that the delivery is probably the problem for you, rather than the content. To me, the core of it reduces to: * If you disengage your brain periodically (e.g., get enough sleep, have fun, etc) you will find you work better * Occas
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Thanks for the pointer. Also, my work is gasp enterprise java duck . Eclipse integration with JUnit, Ivy, svn, ant, etc etc, saves me lots of time. My cover is blown :(
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Real time polling is all well and good, but it seems like facebook itself is a bit of an elite audience. Do you really need facebook's infrastructure/tie-in to run a realtime poll? What advantages does running it through facebook have?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
FTA: you get $100k/yr as a teacher after working at the same job for ~30 years. A sweet pension is also possible -- although who knows whether this is still the case or will last.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Anyone know if there is git-svn integration with Eclipse?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Ask yourself: why would kijiji be competitive with craigslist? What advantage do they have? I suspect: * Buying pets is not a killer app for craigslist-like sites * The fancier design is a net negative craigslist has a pretty good lock on w
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by jacobscott 18y ago
no. Not that we couldn't use better government priorities. Also, per guidelines, better link would have been to TFA: http://www.newsweek.com/id/181392
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Very enlightening. I recently did a week or two of ad-hoc product management (in contrast to my day-to-day backend engineering) on a tight timeline. I wish this had been written/on HN a month ago!
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by jacobscott 18y ago
"make sure the architecture and code is examplary" If you have time to write beautiful code at a startup, I might be suspicious. If something is ugly but not broken, why spend the time to fix it (versus releasing a new feature)? If you do e
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by jacobscott 18y ago
the MYSQL escaping seems broken: http://www.listable.org/mysql/random-stuff
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by jacobscott 18y ago
this kind of thing is good to write a blog post on, but when else is it useful? I think it is irresponsible to choose "_awesomer_" over "scalable, readable, fully tested" for anything that is supposed to be production quality (don't know th

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