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by jbyers 17y ago
Right on. Our startup, Wikispaces, will be five in two weeks. I finally have the feeling we've got the flywheel spinning at a good clip: millions of users, thousands of customers, a stable and scalable infrastructure, and actively hiring
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by jbyers 17y ago
Double the hardware can be an expensive proposition for a startup, unless you're paying by the hour. I prefer red pill / blue pill deployment. Build an environment where you incrementally deploy and roll back new code. During a rollout s
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by jbyers 17y ago
Aggregating http log data (request timing, custom fields) in redis. To be open-sourced.
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by jbyers 17y ago
GoDaddy's business practices are awful. Their view of the rights of domain owners alone was reason enough for us to move all of our domains to Gandi. More expensive, fewer features, but at least they respect their customers.
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by jbyers 17y ago
I've been touting nginx to anyone who will listen here and elsewhere for 2+ years. It just never breaks. Billions and billions of requests, no problem. Spikes up to 500 Mbps, no problem. DOS attacks, misconfigurations, exotic in-a-pinch
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by jbyers 17y ago
Well, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is I want to use your service. If it works the way it looks like it works, I'd pay you to use it. I'm guessing a lot of other people will think the same thing. That's huge! The bad ne
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by jbyers 17y ago
I want this very, very badly. But they'd have to pay me a thousand dollars to get me to type my Google password in that box.
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by jbyers 17y ago
Wordpress serves traffic live out of three datacenters. That is the redundant system. And I can say from experience that it's really, really hard to do that. Doing so well is probably the reason they've had such a good record for the las
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by jbyers 17y ago
I'm happy to have written code for a system I know nothing about. :)
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by jbyers 17y ago
Lazy/bad developers will always find ways to put business logic and presentation in places they don't belong. I like systems that -- rather than enforcing arbitrary and inevitably leaky constraints -- aim for maximum productivity and power
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by jbyers 17y ago
Heh, which code is that? If it's anything to do with a certain salesforce-like system at a certain log-searching company, I apologize. :)
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by jbyers 17y ago
What is the fundamental problem it masks?
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by jbyers 17y ago
For me, XHP is far more interesting than HipHop. And I say that as someone who administers a pile of single-application CPU-bound PHP servers. This completely and forever changes the templates-vs-just-PHP debate, and I'm glad -- it's the
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by jbyers 17y ago
Wikispaces is hiring in engineering and sales: http://www.wikispaces.com/jobs . We'll cross 4M registered users today (see our front page). We're an 8-person company in SOMA.
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by jbyers 17y ago
I agree with Tracy's comment on this post. What specifically are we talking about, other than generalities?
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HipHop - PHP Source(github.com)
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by jbyers 17y ago
Enterprise programmer made me laugh. Especially after spending a few days buried in SAML.
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by jbyers 17y ago
Websites are built on standards. Standards make them usable across lots of browsers. IE 6 doesn't adhere to standards, therefore deserves no special treatment.
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by jbyers 17y ago
I find myself wondering if this is something djb already put in tinydns. :)
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by jbyers 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus... The numbers here are too small and the data too limited to make that claim. Also search engine changes aren't instantaneous -- I've seen it takes days or weeks for changes f
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by jbyers 17y ago
The code checks to see that x is nine or fewer characters, so you can try to request up to 9999999x9 or 9x9999999.
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by jbyers 17y ago
Is a chunk of HTML and javascript that crashes IE rare? Unless my memory is faulty, I feel like we've come across code that crashes various IE versions a dozen times in the last few years. Reporting these bugs to Microsoft is practically
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by jbyers 17y ago
Both now redirect to pbworks.com.
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by jbyers 17y ago
I think Dyn will make a good parent. We started using their "enterprise" DNS service Dynect recently and it's very good. Highly reliable, great UI, polished product. I've been using EveryDNS for personal stuff for years and am happy to s
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by jbyers 17y ago
This is mandatory reading if you're thinking about raising VC funding. The most interesting takeaway, in my opinion, is the almost-always-neglected cost of going down this road: "However, I do regret the decision to seek funding - it cost
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by jbyers 17y ago
Working on Wikispaces. Thinking about how to make it even better for teachers and students.
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by jbyers 17y ago
It's the middle hyphen in plans---defining. In the original it's an unencoded character, in mine it's a urlencoded UTF-8 hyphen.
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by jbyers 17y ago
Sure enough. This is a weird one because the URLs are identical. I'm going to leave this active for now as an example of a possible bug.
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Tell pg: URL Dedupe Bug / Make No Little Plans – Defining the Scalable Startup(steveblank.com)
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We have single-processor 4GB AMD 1216 and 1354s running nginx. Neither one goes above 20% CPU while doing a few hundred req/s. If we were doing a lot more SSL the picture might change, but nginx seems very efficient.

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