jimboyoungblood

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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
If this wasn't a RoR hatchet job, why put it in the title and sprinkle sarcastic jabs all over the article? Regarding his recommendation at the end, if someone suggested a server with 32GB of memory to run a site that has "About one user ev
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
I agree some tools never go away, but I hope you're not literally saying that no advances have been made in scaling techniques in the past decade or so. Almost a decade ago I worked on a large scale site that ran on PHP3, MySQL 2 (before it
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
Sure such things can matter, but in this case I think it's more likely that someone pitched the story to NYT and they liked it for whatever reason.
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
What's your point? That he's a dinosaur and totally out of touch with current technology? If so, I totally agree! edit: Thanks for the downvote(s), but seriously, what does it matter that Greenspun wrote this? The article is still seriously
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
If you're operating a top site/service, scaling is the most important issue you have. It's naive to think that you can get someone else to handle it for you flawlessly.
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
Yawn. Yet another misinformed "Ruby/Rails can't scale" article. Seems to me the main problem is that his "MIT trained" friend had no experience building a scalable web service. He would've botched it up in PHP, Python, Java, whatever. There
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
The graphic with all the X'ed out logos is pretty interesting. I noticed that the founders of a many of the "dead" companies have since moved on to newer, more successful, projects. I'd say it's more damning of the Web 2.0 companies w/ no t
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
Disagree. If your product is not viral by nature or solve a real problem people know they have, you had better work on a different product.
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
if you didn't notice, the authors are NOT journalists: "Bruce W. Sanford and Bruce D. Brown are partners in the Washington office of Baker Hostetler. They specialize in media and First Amendment law." obviously if congress were to pass thes
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
You're kidding, right?
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
Or even more accurately "Link bait sure to generate controversy and drive traffic to my obscure blog"
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
dang, and I was hoping it would tell me who I could pay to become an empowered entrepreneur...
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
Um, did we watch the same video? 1) It ends with "See how Grasshopper empowers entrepreneurs to succeed" and "grasshopper.com" bouncing up and down to call attention to itself. 2) What "causes" are sponsored? I completely disagree with your
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by jimboyoungblood 17y ago
did anyone look at the company that produced this video? http://grasshopper.com/ http://blog.entrepreneur.com/2009/05/video-entrepreneurs-can... they're trying to sell stuff to entrepreneurs (who've never heard of grand central / google
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by jimboyoungblood 18y ago
Bonus reading: http://www.bevnet.com/bevblog/2007/11/new-book-on-the-switch...
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by jimboyoungblood 18y ago
Good idea, but the site is a bit busted. The registration lightbox wasn't dismissed after I signed up. It would be nice to be able to easily compare the rate cards of different publications.