jburwell

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by jburwell 16y ago
Why is being a "simple" management layer atop AWS limiting? Bear in mind that Heroku is, in your terms, simply a management layer atop AWS. Using it as a technical yardstick and considering Amazon's strong financial position and commitment
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From the perspective a potential founder interviewing with a company, beware of any partner who insists on maintaining their majority position -- particularly if you will be the third or greater partner. It good indication you will not be
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by jburwell 16y ago
A good step in the right direction. I look forward to similar treatment to the ticket system to provide real workflow and field customization would shore up one of the largest gaps in their product. If they combined distributed version con
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by jburwell 16y ago
I had no idea that Borders was in financial trouble. I have always preferred them over Barnes and Noble because they always have a wide selection of technical books. Unlike B&N which has aisle after aisle of VB, * for Dummies books, a
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by jburwell 16y ago
This technology could be extremely interesting -- especially if they make it easy to provision on EC2. Getting rid of the overhead to customize OS distributions simply to run a JVM would reduce TCO and time to market not to mention better
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by jburwell 16y ago
Add one more item to the list -- annually, on December 31st, dust off a long article of blindingly obvious advice, change the year to the next, and submit it to Hacker News.
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First, he thrusts the knife in, then violently twists it -- "Accordingly I have authorised the thesis to be issued as a Computer Laboratory Technical Report. This will make it easier for people to find and to cite, and will ensure that its
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by jburwell 16y ago
To sum up, tools will get better and faster, and we will develop for more than just desktop browsers. Way to go out on a limb. Filed in the "duh" category.