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by mrduncan 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(database) has a pretty good overview if you're not familiar with Cassandra. Cassandra only guarantees eventual consistency where as most RDBMS systems are focused on always showing a consistent view
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Out of curiosity, can you share any more details on your company?
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/the/path/of/most/resistance(nimbledesign.com)
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Staying Immune to the Hype Virus at SXSW(feeds.harvardbusiness.org)
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Sounds neat, with a simple API for application specific metrics it could be really useful.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
That's always been one of my favorite speeches. I highly recommend it to anyone who's never heard (or seen) it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
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Can hand sanitizers like Purell really stop people from getting the flu?(slate.com)
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Designer Ethics(drawar.com)
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I actually noticed signs (at IND) a few days ago saying that the scanners were optional. If you chose not to be scanned, you would get a pat-down instead.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
It looks like it is manually curated to me. If not though, I'd second your interest on how they determine it algorithmically.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
So we bought a 10-minute spot for $15,000 at a trade show. We had this sales guy say, "Everyone stand up, because we are going to play rock, paper, scissors. And the winner gets a Hummer. But instead of saying 'rock, paper, scissors,' we'r
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by mrduncan 17y ago
He was the director of web technologies at Sun, he's also worked on the XML and Atom standards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray According to his website, he is also a member of the Technorati advisory board and a friend of the comp
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Could the circling be due to waiting for landing due to a lot of congestion at the airport? I'm not a pilot so I'm curious how that's normally handled.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
As a-priori pointed out in another reply: My guess is that someone forgot to change the flight number on the transponder, so what you're looking at is the path of one plane over a couple flights.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Ron Conway, one of the Valley's most active angel investors, who has backed 190 companies Anyone happen to know if that number accurate? It seems like, given the length of time he has been investing, that number would be higher.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
If you haven't before, make sure you apply for a spot at Startup School ( http://startupschool.org/ ) this year. It's run by YC and open to non-founders. Edit: This is of course assuming that there will be a Startup School in 2010 since it
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by mrduncan 17y ago
It sounds like it's only open to YC founders (and invited guests) based on the following: The speakers were completely open, because they knew they didn't have to worry about someone cherry picking quotes in a blog post to make them look b
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I've always found moving to be the best time to get rid of things. If it hasn't been used since the last time I moved or I don't feel like packing it, it's gone.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Seriously excellent slides. Any chance of a video of this talk being released? I'd love some commentary from you guys.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
This blog post has some higher-level information about TS - http://ostatic.com/blog/guest-post-yahoos-cloud-team-open-so...
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Helping News Be News(buzzmachine.com)
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Fair enough. I suppose, being already inside of the US, that I don't really have a choice in the matter if I need to go somewhere. I certainly haven't thought twice about flying instead of driving, in fact I'd definitely prefer to fly if
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by mrduncan 17y ago
What evidence do you have of that? (I'm genuinely curious) Anecdotally, while agree that they are a complete joke, I certainly haven't flown any less recently.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I'm curious if a lot of other users do the same. I rarely (if ever) look at my saved list and probably therefore end up upvoting a lot more than you (or others) do.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I completely agree. I've actually started browsing "newest" much more lately (almost exclusively on some days). My solution is to pick out quality submissions and try to give them the bumps that they need to make it to the front page for
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by mrduncan 17y ago
It might not be helpful advice in your specific case (or that of craigslist type sites), but make it useful even if there aren't any other users. If I remember correctly this is the advice I've always seen from the Reddits on how to solve
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by mrduncan 17y ago
37signals has taken an investment from Bezos Expeditions. As Jason Fried explains in the blog post, it was certainly not the standard VC deal though - http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests...
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by mrduncan 17y ago
If you're really that curious: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/137275735_6ba4ac4e5a.jpg
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Statistically, flying is far safer than driving (apologies for not having boating data). The numbers are a few years old, but a quick search dug up the following: http://www.crashstuff.com/driving-or-flying-plane-vs-car-acc... http://fr
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Rework (Q&A with Jason Fried)(blog.800ceoread.com)
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