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   by modoc 17y ago

   For any major company any given channels' numbers have some percentage of sales which have cannibalized from other channels. That's just the nature of the universe. There's no accurate way to measure how much is incremental revenue versus
2. 512.▲
   by modoc 17y ago

   Wow. Unknown CA and wrong hostname. They're batting 1000.
3. 513.▲
   by modoc 17y ago

   FWIW: SoftLayer offers the same combo of dedicated servers and cloud offerings, and I prefer their turn around time, support, and pricing to RS.
4. 514.▲
   by modoc 17y ago

   Very good point. That pretty clearly points to issues with education/culture (as it relates to dress, speech, expectations, etc...)/etc... NOT race.
5. 515.▲
   by modoc 17y ago

   In this case though it seems applicable to at least some sub-set of startups. Our company, admittedly B2B focused, would not be where it is today if we hadn't engaged strongly with a large customer right off and made them impressed and happ
6. 516.▲
   by modoc 17y ago

   Jira works for this pretty well. It's not free, but it's got good integration points, and easily customizable workflows.
7. 517.▲
   by modoc 17y ago

   My iPhone is great in Boston and the greater Boston area. When I went down to NYC I was getting dropped calls, lack of signal, etc... The issues seem to be location dependent, and are therefore more an issue of AT&T infrastructure and
8. 518.▲
   by modoc 17y ago

   As far as TONS moved a MILE per GALLON trains beat trucks by a pretty large factor.
9. 519.▲
   by modoc 17y ago

   Michael Parkes pieces in a few rooms of my house.
10. 520.▲
    by modoc 17y ago

    From the Java world, that seems odd:) Scaling your DB and/or caching layer is a lot harder than scaling sticky session based app instance with minimal db interaction.
11. 521.▲
    by modoc 17y ago

    jshen: sticky sessions make it a non-issue. Sites I work on run on 3-100 server clusters with each server handling a few thousand active sessions. I know memcached is very fast. However it's at least an order of magnitude, or more, slower
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    by modoc 17y ago

    Interesting. I mostly build J2EE apps and sticky sessions support is built in. Complex apps require a fair bit of session state (user profile, shopping cart, custom catalog, breadcrumbs, user promos, etc...) in general and the idea of hav
13. 523.▲
    by modoc 17y ago

    PHP has session variables to put state objects into which are persisted between requests. Right?
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    by modoc 17y ago

    I typically work with largish teams on very large websites (cingular.com, jcrew.com, ulta.com, pcavote.com, etc...). With good frameworks most JSPs are very close to normal HTML and we actually usually have: designers/UX folks who provide P
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    by modoc 17y ago

    Building/maintaining that sounds way more complex than writing a JSP. In my experience, if you architect your server-side components well, if/when you want to expose something as a web service you can prop up a web service that's basically
16. 526.▲
    by modoc 17y ago

    I haven't done any real dev with those frameworks you list so I'm wondering how do you manage session state? user profile, shopping cart, breadcrumbs, multi-request flows, etc... Do you write/read all that into the db/memcached for each re
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    by modoc 17y ago

    In my experience breaking everything down into a bunch of uncoupled services, ala SOA, adds a significant amount of performance overhead making all these web service calls to build up a semi-complex page. Performing all the logic within a
18. 528.▲
    by modoc 17y ago

    Cross-browser testing can be one of the biggest time/money sinks during the QA phase of a web-app release. $326 may not make sense for a small company, but medium to large companies will spend much more than that on manual cross browser te
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    by modoc 17y ago

    Googling "myisam vs innodb" gives a lot of pretty informative results, including ( http://tag1consulting.com/MySQL_Engines_MyISAM_vs_InnoDB ). The big turn-off for me with MyISAM is that I can run a script to create some tables and setup fo
20. 530.▲
    by modoc 17y ago

    I'm still not sure why folks still use MyISAM. I'm sure there may be some edge case where it makes more sense, but in generally InnoDB seems like a better choice (not just regarding row level locking). Or postgres:)
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    by modoc 17y ago

    You can support 10,000 requests/second hitting a servlet engine, with dynamic templates, and backend DB calls, on one quad core box? I'd like to give you a job. Maybe I've been working with heavyweight frameworks too long, but that seems a
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    by modoc 17y ago

    Good to know. Mostly I've just been hitting Toys R Us and similar places and haven't found any basic blocks available there. I'll look harder:)
23. 533.▲
    by modoc 17y ago

    I HATE how hard it is to find Legos that aren't just part of a kit that builds ONE thing and has step by step instructions. My nephew has several of these, but I think they're such a waste compared to the old days where you had a bucket of
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    by modoc 17y ago

    Are you concerned about medium/long term damage to your brain or endocrine system? I'm not judging at all, but for me, the fear of damaging what is my #1 asset has kept me away from anything beyond the occasional cup of tea. The idea of b
25. 535.▲
    by modoc 17y ago

    I haven't used Trac in a couple of years, so I may be out of date, but: The interface is much nicer. Superficial, yes, but I like it, and so do the less technical folks. Built-in integration to Mylyn in Eclipse (you CAN do this with Trac,
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    by modoc 17y ago

    This is key. Worst case scenario you have 101 users, so you're paying $8,000 for Jira. Assuming your billable and/or cost per hour is $100, If Jira saved people 48 minutes a YEAR, it would pay for itself. In most cases Jira will save a lo
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    by modoc 17y ago

    What cheaper or free systems can you recommend that have the same feature-set or ease of use? I've tried: Trac, Bugzilla, Mantis, MediaWiki, SharePoint, etc... And in the important aspects, to me and the PMs/Biz folk, Jira/Confluence wins
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    by modoc 17y ago

    They're fantastic products. Working with Jira is lightyears better (imho) than Bugzilla, Mantis, Trac, etc... It integrates with Eclipse, SVN, and Confluence. Easily customized issue types, permission rules, and workflows mean that it's s
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    by modoc 17y ago

    It works as a visitor filtering mechanism. "You must be at least this good at maths..."
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    by modoc 17y ago

    Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott is an amazing book about writing. It's funny, very helpful, inspiring, etc... http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Some-Instructions-Writing-Life/dp...