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by jbyers 16y ago
Of all the concepts under the lean startup umbrella, the pivot is the one that makes me twinge every time I hear it. I talked to someone at a lean startup meetup who was proud to have pivoted six times in under six months. It sounded to m
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Early Detection is Key(startup-marketing.com)
1 points by jbyers 17y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 17y ago
Forget the buyer and seller. The person that lost their iPhone prototype in a bar is the one who's going to get crushed by Apple.
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YourSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL: MySQL Conference Report(redmonk.com)
6 points by jbyers 17y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 17y ago
Oh -- I completely agree. What blows my mind is the magnitude of the loss, both monetary and human.
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by jbyers 17y ago
This is a really enjoyable video, especially if you've ever dabbled in game development. By happenstance I sat next to Sid Meier on a bus at E3 a few years ago. He seemed every bit as friendly and gracious as the video portrays, which is
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by jbyers 17y ago
With $120M in funding, this blows my mind. I'm reminded of Ho Nam's Fat Startup Watch. Today's announcement suggests that despite massive growth and traffic, Ning did not find sustainable product-market fit. http://www.blog.altosventures
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by jbyers 17y ago
Yes on both counts. I'd say it happens all the time in startups, especially with co-founders and early hires.
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by jbyers 17y ago
In the last two minutes the raganwald page was removed. The page for us is interesting. Huge amounts of content, flashes of brilliance, and moments of sheer terror. http://cpedia.com/search?q=wikispaces
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Three Reminders about Platform Businesses (Apple, Twitter, and Facebook)(charleshudson.net)
1 points by jbyers 17y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 17y ago
If it is true that non-HTML resources are a factor based on Google Toolbar reporting, that's scary. On high confidence sites -- more than 1000 datapoints, in Google Webmaster terms -- average speed seems stable and correlated with other pe
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by jbyers 17y ago
"Error establishing a database connection" Perfect.
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by jbyers 17y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1018965
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by jbyers 17y ago
Definitely worth reading, more detail on that incident that the parent article. And just awesome.
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by jbyers 17y ago
http://www.sleddriver.com/biography.html
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by jbyers 17y ago
Read all the way to the bottom. A big caveat for now: The following limitations are currently in place during the Amazon SNS beta: One hundred (100) topics per AWS account
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by jbyers 17y ago
Is a day and a half enough to cover this year's spate of awful, unimaginative online April Fool's jokes? noprocrast: yes maxvisit: 1 minaway: 2880
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by jbyers 17y ago
As is to be expected from this author, this is definitely on the flame-bait side of things. I submit it because I believe there is an important point here: for the vast majority of startups, going with a relatively unproven "NoSQL" databas
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I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die(teddziuba.com)
86 points by jbyers 17y ago|78 comments
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Fighting The NoSQL Mindset(yafla.com)
113 points by jbyers 17y ago|76 comments
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by jbyers 17y ago
I think I've read every post on highscalability.com, and this is by far the most deep and detailed writeup they've done. Lots of insight into the huge scale of justin.tv and what it takes to push that kind of traffic. Highlight for me was
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by jbyers 17y ago
I'm happy for people to benefit online in proportion to the value they provide to others. Post a thoughtful comment, write a review, link previously disparate ideas? Sure, put in an affiliate link. Hijack the top comment on a thread with
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by jbyers 17y ago
[deleted] I should have just down-voted the affiliate link and left it at that. Something's changed in the tenor of comments here on HN, and my reaction to it isn't productive. For the foreseeable future, I think I'm going to bite my tong
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by jbyers 17y ago
No whole-system backups. Offsite (across the country) replicated MySQL database with daily full snapshots and periodic encrypted dumps to S3. Real-time encrypted mogilefs backups to S3 on a per-file basis. S3 MFA + versioning is a huge w
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by jbyers 17y ago
(2006)
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by jbyers 17y ago
Read all the way, it's got a good punchline.
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by jbyers 17y ago
"The issues that bother you at the beginning will be what kills you later." This section describes a people problem, and I think the headline should be narrowed to that realm. Otherwise, a good, honest list that I believe will ring true to
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by jbyers 17y ago
Congratulations on the fast turnaround. I have the dubious distinction of writing the somewhat snarky top-voted thread on your previous post [1]. While I'd still like a better understand of etact's privacy features, not having to enter my
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by jbyers 17y ago
Power is the great uptime equalizer. Show me the most elegant HA design you can dream up and chances are I'll show you a system that's one unexpected power failure away from failure.
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by jbyers 17y ago
I've read a surprising number of resumes from people who seem to bounce from company to company wanting to be the idea guy or gal. I don't know where they got the idea this position exists. Maybe it's from some bygone era where giant dino

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