michelson01

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Microsoft to Scribd: Take down leaked Xbox 720 documents(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by michelson01 14y ago|0 comments
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by michelson01 18y ago
vanguard index fund or fidelity spartan fund (which actually is a money loser for fidelity, but they keep the fees at .1% as a loss-leader to bring in the chumps for the managed mutual funds) no-load, low-fee index funds, basically.
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by michelson01 18y ago
whoo... tough crowd :)
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by michelson01 18y ago
i don't know... the algorithm killed jeeves
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by michelson01 19y ago
Scribd is growing quickly and actively hiring all kinds of developers (ruby on rails, flash/actionscript, C++, etc) so please contact us, hackers@scribd.com, if you're interested. Check out our jobs page here: http://www.scribd.com/stat
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by michelson01 19y ago
yeah, this is using alexa rankings, so it's far from perfect and misses a lot of other data, so take it for what it's worth.
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Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings)(rails100.pbwiki.com)
42 points by michelson01 19y ago|30 comments
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by michelson01 19y ago
i prefer a proxy balancer that is smart enough to know when the back-end servers (mongrels in this case) are busy or not, and smart enough that it doesn't send requests to back-end servers that are down (i'm looking at you, apache mod_proxy
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by michelson01 19y ago
until fair proxy balancer is production ready ( http://www.brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-bala... ), i really like nginx in front of haproxy in front of the mongrels nginx => haproxy => mongrels
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by michelson01 19y ago
i still wouldn't trust him with my cats or with mowing my lawn
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Robert Scoble interviews Trip Adler of Scribd(blog.scribd.com)
11 points by michelson01 19y ago|2 comments
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by michelson01 19y ago
they were already making millions a year for many years. it's not like they were broke before this.
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by michelson01 19y ago
also, with the value of the dollar plunging below even the canadian dollar, the US stock market prices in terms of euros, for example, haven't been climbing that much, iirc (might even be declining?). someone can probably point to a graph
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by michelson01 19y ago
answer is 42. I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
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by michelson01 19y ago
i thought one of the big advantages of jQuery was the smaller size of the javascript file(s). but this demo uses 106k of javascript (and it's not compressed for some reason) photo from web developer extension: http://myskitch.com/miche
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by michelson01 19y ago
isn't that a picture of safari?
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by michelson01 19y ago
keep in mind that if the company is successful and is one of the lucky few to get a series A VC round you will likely get diluted to 0.5% - 0.6%.
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by michelson01 19y ago
'YC company' is the new google
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by michelson01 19y ago
in other news, so did Twytter and yLike
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by michelson01 19y ago
fake knock-off? so it's not a knock-off?
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by michelson01 19y ago
there's a facebook group for it too
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by michelson01 19y ago
y-scraper
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[SF] Come work at Scribd.com(scribd.com)
12 points by michelson01 19y ago
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by michelson01 19y ago
Hey, the three of us at scribd are looking for more people to join our team. Chances are good if you're reading this that you're the kind of person we're looking for. If you join Scribd now, you'll have the real startup experience: you'll
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by michelson01 19y ago
don't worry, I'm sure they'll take out a vowel or something, like optimalsal or optimalsle
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Use facebook? Try the new Scribd app for facebook for document sharing(facebook.com)
11 points by michelson01 19y ago|7 comments
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by michelson01 19y ago
i had to refresh twice to get it to work.
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by michelson01 19y ago
you might have to hit 'reload' a couple times. Facebook f8 is having some issues as they roll out the apps.
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by michelson01 19y ago
yeah he doesn't actually mention Paul in this pdf, it turns out
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by michelson01 19y ago
scribd link to flashpaper version: http://www.scribd.com/doc/50745/seth-godin-mentions-paul-graham-in-his-book

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