jwecker

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by jwecker 20y ago
Well, reaction time and being agile enough in general (like when pg talks about implementing a competitor's feature the night after a competitor announces it) also give you room. That can be institutionalized.
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by jwecker 20y ago
If you could somehow involve students in virally marketing it to their teachers it could get interesting. Still, not a big market (especially when you factor in their spending power). If you're passionate about it, though, it's an
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by jwecker 20y ago
Not to be mean but that blog you always link to is very spammy. Please either link directly to the source, or if it's your blog- dude- the whole page is ads until you scroll down! People just don't like it and it won't make yo
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by jwecker 20y ago
Thanks for that palish. Wow, what a difficult sector though. I've worked with schools before and they don't have a lot of money- and when they do you have practically a year long sales cycle. So if I were to give you one piece of
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by jwecker 20y ago
Great illustrations :)
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An Ad Upstart Forces Google to Open Up a Little(nytimes.com)
10 points by jwecker 20y ago|2 comments
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by jwecker 20y ago
:) Ah- I looked it up. It's better than XP anyway http://tmsoft.com/article-genome.html
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The Decline and Fall of the Palm Empire(techworld.com)
6 points by jwecker 20y ago|0 comments
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When Google buys your company- remember your customers(techworld.nl)
4 points by jwecker 20y ago|0 comments
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by jwecker 20y ago
The name MyBlogLog makes me think of the lawyer in Arrested Development- Bob Loblaw (you have to say it out loud) :)
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Fun, games lead to making it big online(orlandosentinel.com)
2 points by jwecker 20y ago|1 comments
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by jwecker 20y ago
linked at the bottom of the main page. n/m
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by jwecker 20y ago
wait a second... is this pg? are you testing your anti-spam code? http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Forcicle
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by jwecker 20y ago
That's definitely part of it- they are heavyweight threads or processes (no matter how you configure it) (rather than lightweight erlang threads). I would imagine the bigger problem here, however, is context switching. Because Apache
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by jwecker 20y ago
Nitpick. I noticed this is working now when you type two newlines, but when it's just one newline it translates into a space. I'm probably the only one who cares though...
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by jwecker 20y ago
(he finished this)
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by jwecker 20y ago
From the amazon page for this book: What do customers ultimately buy after viewing this item? 91% buy the item featured on this page | 6% buy Dreaming in Code... | 1% buy Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive... | 1% buy Harry Potter and
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by jwecker 20y ago
@Forcicle- are you confusing this site with a warez site? the all caps title is lame too. If Jessica released it as a free PDF it would be another matter altogether. Have some respect dude.
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by jwecker 20y ago
I do. Erlang is a blast. It's a language/platform specifically developed to be very scalable and very fault tolerant- because it was designed for telecommunications systems. Here's a nice write up from some of the guys at Sendmai
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For the Uninitiated- When You _Really_ Want to Scale(sics.se)
6 points by jwecker 20y ago|7 comments
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by jwecker 20y ago
How to Waste a Lot of Money in Software Development: _Neglect to fire_ people who need to be fired and/or neglect to have a little bit of new blood flowing into the program- especially if it's a long-lived program. If there is a progr
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by jwecker 20y ago
I can't get it to pull up. google cache http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Kzhj8Oi5868J:www.slifelabs.com/&strip=1 Good heavens, there's not a news.YC effect, is there? I guess it's on digg...
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by jwecker 20y ago
can't speak for joshwa, but I thought this one was spammy. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1040
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by jwecker 20y ago
Make sure and post this comment in the "Features you want" section if you haven't already. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363
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by jwecker 20y ago
Nice. A network of hierarchical bayes inference machines without a line of code.
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Searching Their Souls On Camera (SF Museum)(sfgate.com)
1 points by jwecker 20y ago|0 comments
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by jwecker 20y ago
Well, the idea is out in the open now so you can steal it and make them feel silly :) Actually it doesn't really say in the article what they've developed, if anything. Also, the VC firm could own 90% of the company now or something- it'
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by jwecker 20y ago
I find myself marking up comments of the same 2 or 3 users more often than others. They don't have ultra-high karma or anything- they just are interested in the same articles and discussions I am. It would be nice to learn more about them
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by jwecker 20y ago
uh, yah. It's a fun idea, but 5m seems more appropriate.
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Conglomerates Seek Small Business Acquisitions(abclocal.go.com)
1 points by jwecker 20y ago|0 comments

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