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by keefe 18y ago
Here is my advice having struggled with scalability for the last two years, please take with a grain of salt... Regarding the previous discussion of EC2 etc - EC2 just gives you headless linux boxes that you can do with as you please. You h
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by keefe 18y ago
I'm doing performance testing through ant nightly, just running a custom package to exercise the server and grabbing metrics through a diagnostic call and outputting periodically.
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by keefe 18y ago
JUnit, FlexUnit and nightly build scripts with ant. Everything is complicated by working on an OSGi based project, so eclipse test framework is a core piece and reports from ETF are formatted with an XSLT and mailed.
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Ask YC : How to hire moderately skilled help at a startup?
5 points by keefe 18y ago|9 comments
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by keefe 18y ago
Flex :: " # No real testing support " .... Flexunit. This article is a bunch of MS dev's loving on silverlight. Biased.
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by keefe 18y ago
OK you have deliverables due in 3 months, go!
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by keefe 18y ago
"For those who don't know, Flex allows you to write XML and JavaScript and compile it to a .swf instead of using the traditional GUI timeline based tools." uhm... you write ActionScript3, not javascript. Different beasts and likely to remai
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by keefe 18y ago
Will every startup have the same requirements? What if I want nginx instead of apache and so forth? You are always going to want some customization, if you are on EC2 then you can just create an AMI and I think there is some way to save the
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by keefe 18y ago
I think having somebody build a site in HTML and CSS is a waste of time. There has to be some knowledge of the space and I think almost everyone has the basic knowledge of what is a website now. You've mentioned one development process, but
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by keefe 18y ago
I don't think "good" communication skills are the requirement but rather just adequate skills in a field populated by people notorious for having rather poor communication skills, thus making the basics look good.
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by keefe 18y ago
This is not going to happen in 2 years, inertia is too high. Imagine all those projects that have just started now that aren't even out of analysis yet?
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by keefe 18y ago
Be careful just assuming they are unenforceable. Non-compete agreements are, but if your company can show that they have any "actual or anticipated" research, development or plans in this area things are up in the air.
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by keefe 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML Generating files with this XML format should let you get something into excel. The only others I know of are Java based as I'm fairly anti-ms : http://poi.apache.org/ and http://jexcelapi.so
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by keefe 18y ago
This article seemed to come to the conclusion that TC50 is not worthwhile and that working out of the east coast is better and then wrote up a piece justifying it.
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by keefe 18y ago
I always thought once you have enough money for food and shelter for some time out in advance, it's just a matter of finding a way to do what you have passion for and keep the ball rolling. That's easier for a programmer than a guitar playe
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by keefe 18y ago
The applicable statute: 2870. (a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention tha
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by keefe 18y ago
There is something to this argument depending on the application you are writing. Abstractions are good, but higher abstractions mean slower performance. For some applications, some frameworks may not offer significant performance degradati
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by keefe 18y ago
I think the legality of this depends on the exact details of the contract he signed. If they are a gaming shop and he releases a game, they may have some kind of a claim here. A few months ago I decided I wanted to complete a web research a
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by keefe 18y ago
I wonder how long rendering time was
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by keefe 18y ago
My typical solution for how to pull an all nighter is don't, unless there is some horrible deadline. Life's a marathon, not a sprint and those extra 8 hours of increasingly less productive time (~6 hours @ full capacity) will cost far more
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by keefe 18y ago
"but it is just too risky to assume that a single person can prevent the creation of as many bugs as a pair can." Bug creation is not inevitable, it is a product of the developers. I can just as easily say, two people are twice as likely to
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by keefe 18y ago
"But upon further thought, the 404 test is brilliant. Why? Well as the CEO aptly put it, most of the time the visitors to the site blame the 404 on their own browser, connection, or service provider anyway." I think this is a faulty argumen
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by keefe 18y ago
doesn't rendered useless imply a change of state?
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by keefe 18y ago
I'd go ahead and keep the bed, since it is what you are accustomed to. When I moved out to CA, I left half my stuff in KY. I'm about to downsize again to lower the bar of "ramen profitable", so some of my stuff has got to go. I think our cu
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by keefe 18y ago
There is a dangerous kind of boolean thinking here : "Either you believe that luck is dominant, in which case, why bother with effort? or You believe that luck is random, in which case it can be eliminated from your thinking and you can foc
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by keefe 18y ago
'Furthermore, Java is mainly used in Web applications that are mostly fairly trivial,' I'll add an Nth comment to how ludicrous this article is. Is building a highly scalable server really so trivial as all that? Higher levels of abstractio
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by keefe 18y ago
The issue is more along the lines of other startups attacking the same problem with more funding, particularly those still in stealth mode.
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by keefe 18y ago
How confident are you that your model for this is correct? Hundreds of millions of records is a lot for one table... in some cases, it may be beneficial to partition such a table even in a normal relational database. That being said, if thi
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by keefe 18y ago
Maybe most good hackers are pragmatic? I'm spiritual, but not religious. The biggest tenet of my philosophy is "I don't know". I've always found that those people that turn to religion with dead-set certainty are usually running away from s
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by keefe 18y ago
This seems incredibly dangerous, a bunch of smart, tech-savvy people are exactly the last people I want seeing my site.

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