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   by mthreat 15y ago

   I found it at least as relevant as articles on how to take better naps, which get plenty of upvotes.
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   How Indeed, The World's Largest Job Search Site, Exploded To 60 Million Uniques(businessinsider.com)

   2 points by mthreat 15y ago|0 comments
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   Searchify launches IndexTank hosted search platform(blog.searchify.com)

   18 points by mthreat 15y ago|0 comments
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   by mthreat 15y ago

   I would add that the media's job isn't only to entertain you, it's also to keep you worried. Read/watch the news, and ask yourself "what are they trying to make me worry about today?" You'll be surprised.
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   by mthreat 15y ago

   Agreed. Here's a good relevant blog post by mark maunder challenging the "cloud hype" - http://markmaunder.com/2011/10/31/clouded-vision/ I love some aspects of AWS, but I find it hard to trust them when it comes to the cloud vs. dedicat
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   by mthreat 15y ago

   This is good news. Now if they would lower their EC2 instance pricing, especially large RAM instances!
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   Kill Hollywood Remixed(diegobasch.com)

   4 points by mthreat 15y ago|0 comments
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   by mthreat 15y ago

   Has anyone asked on Quora, why Quora does this?
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   by mthreat 15y ago

   You, sir, have a good source!
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    Asked on Quora a month ago, "Why doesn't Amazon offer a cloud-based search service?" http://www.quora.com/Amazon-Web-Services/Why-doesnt-Amazon-o...
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    Yes, no attempt to hide that
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    But as PG says: "If you make anything good, you're going to have competitors, so you may as well face that. You can only avoid competition by avoiding good ideas." -- http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    Wow I launched my hosted search service, http://www.searchify.com at just the right time!
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    OP here.. yes for sure. Probably more like February
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    Show HN: IndexTank's search API will live on at Searchify(searchify.com)

    21 points by mthreat 15y ago|7 comments
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    Here's a golang blog post about doozer: http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    And what shall the PaaS providers use for their web servers? PaaSaaS? :)
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    Maybe it depends how large the numbers are? Google kept their (amazing) numbers hidden as long as possible. When they filed for IPO, their AdWords revenue numbers blew everyone away.
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    We are working on a drop-in replacement for IndexTank users -- same REST API, fast search, same features and pricing, and we will aim to provide the same awesome support that IndexTank provided. We're (so far) a few guys who are passionate
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    One word: AMEN
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    You say AirBNB isn't making a dent in the universe, but then you say people need shelter. I think AirBNB (and even before AirBNB, couchsurfing.org) is making a dent in the universe.
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    Isn't it ironic...
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    Yes - I think you're talking about the Principle of least astonishment , which states that: "when two elements of an interface conflict, or are ambiguous, the behaviour should be that which will least surprise the user" http://en.wikipedi
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    I started thinking this through and here's a problem I see. If companies decide to only do business with other "good" companies, then they have to decide whether every potential customer is "good" or not. How do you define it - where do y
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    I also find it ironic that this link to perl.org took 15 seconds to respond.
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    Jason interviewed me for the BBS documentary - http://www.archive.org/details/20040130-bbs-mthreat He loves making these documentaries, and he does a ton of research gathering for them. I think this is a person and cause worth supporting
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    UT-Austin's machine learning beats hand-coding in World RoboCup Championship(web5.cns.utexas.edu)

    1 points by mthreat 15y ago|0 comments
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    I've heard "swing for the fences" many times in the context of startup companies. Fred Wilson (A VC) has a blog post entitled "Swinging for the Fences" that talks about it - http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/10/swinging-for-the-fences.html
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    In the early days it was pretty easy to make money. I paid my rent from TopCoder earnings for a few months in 2001.
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    by mthreat 15y ago

    When I've worked hard on a project that could fail, I've usually had the mindset, "if it fails, at least we'll know it wasn't because we didn't try".