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by marclove 16y ago
Right, I'm aware. Not everybody can afford a contract though, nor should they have to in order to avoid major outages like this. But I would like to know if Foursquare has a commercial support contract with 10Gen. If they didn't, why not? e
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by marclove 16y ago
But it wasn't the overloaded shard that brought the site down (it was only slowing things down), it was the addition of the new shard: "For reasons that are not entirely clear to us right now, though, the addition of this shard caused the e
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by marclove 16y ago
Well I have nothing constructive to add, but it certainly makes me rethink using MongoDB in any sort of serious production environment. I've been hesitant to use MongoDB for this very reason...what happens when things go wrong? I'm certainl
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by marclove 16y ago
The parent link was just updated by TOSBack/EFF. Looks like the versions were accidentally flipped (it was showing the reverse of the revision). In fact the new TOS adds the clauses which prohibits app producers from selling your data.
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by marclove 16y ago
Well no reason to worry, cause Facebook isn't that stupid. They'll always make their money through indirect means, either through processing payments, displaying ads, giving companies access to data, etc.
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by marclove 16y ago
Facebook’s biggest weakness is that its core value proposition to users is that everybody you know is on it. Any business whose core value proposition is that “everyone is doing it” is essentially a fad. Its success and usage is driven prim
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by marclove 16y ago
They'd be lucky if ~0.5% of their audience would actually pay.
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by marclove 16y ago
True, although I'm betting the local phone companies' distribution model more accurately fits the traditional definition of "the Yellow Pages". When people think "Yellow Pages" they think of a free telephone directory distributed to all res
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by marclove 16y ago
After reading the complaint, I think its pretty clear the reason the Feds thought it warranted this much investigation: "In November 2009, two victims from the Charles Smith/YPDP fraud scheme contacted the United States Attorney's Office in
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by marclove 16y ago
I believe that's the relevance of the sweep account issue. If you're using the "deposits" into a sweep account as the basis for measuring the supposed & claimed "fraud", its an incredibly overinflated figure.
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by marclove 16y ago
In a lot of banking and finance, they use "M" to abbreviate thousands and "MM" to abbreviate millions. It's based on the roman numeral "M", so "MM" is meant to represent "a thousand thousands". Of course if you know anything about Roman num
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by marclove 16y ago
After reading the complaint, I came to a similar conclusion. Was it fraud & money laundering? That's for the court to decide and they have a presumption of innocence. Regardless of that outcome though (and assuming United Directories do
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by marclove 17y ago
I find that hard to believe. They're one of the most popular and successful companies in the Ruby community and they have paid accounts that they've been collecting on for quite some time now. EY has thousands of customers who pay them ever
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by marclove 17y ago
Its worth noting that you get more than just EC2 + a full-time sysadmin with EY (speaking as an EY customer myself), and I don't mean this to question your own decision...that's something we all have to make considering the budgets we have
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by marclove 17y ago
What about appreciation for a company that essentially helped sponsor your company's incubation? One of the things I appreciate about EngineYard, and the Ruby development world in general, is that they appreciate the benefit of helping to i
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by marclove 17y ago
EY is worth every penny they charge because they provide an incredible quality and commitment of service. They are without a doubt the best hosting company I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Not only are they quick with assistance