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by jacobscott 18y ago
With regards to craigslist -- I don't think that they ran with a high burn rate or took much (if any) VC money. Today, they are certainly profitable, although probably not making as much money as they could be. I think the key is to make su
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Parallel data stuff makes sense. As for the hardware aspects of scaling: I don't think that people are thinking about hardware much beyond "more boxes". My understanding of the hype surrounding ec2 was that it mostly concerned the rich API/
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by jacobscott 18y ago
By having a unique product in terms of operating system and hardware design, Apple avoids their products becoming commodities. Thus they aren't subject to the same economic forces as Acer (jeez, how can you compare Apple to Acer, anyway...)
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Article makes reasonable (although not exactly new) arguments for running faster, leaner, less formal with fewer meetings and more emails. What annoys me is the twitter part - who in their right mind would have any sort important technical
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Disagree. More likely they realized that sustainable revenues from teenagers was a better bet than being the online equivalent of a 1-900 number, then having parents pull the plug and dispute charges. Save the general concept of a long-term
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Interesting slides, I like the rocket ship/driving analogy. A few quibbles/clarifications: From slide 13: "Learning: cross shard joins & transactions aren’t required" Do you mean that there was never a time where you had to do a join or
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by jacobscott 18y ago
This is actually an AP story, which might be even more impressive. Congrats Kevin, Hannes, Yiming.