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I created groups for news and discussions about Y Combinator and X-Google startups(friendfeed.com)
13 points by paul 17y ago|1 comments
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by paul 17y ago
Also, FriendFeed has had post-by-mail (originally called mail2ff) since before Posterous even launched.
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by paul 17y ago
Post-by-mail is a very old feature. Blogger.com has had it for a very long time, for example (as have other blogging services).
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by paul 17y ago
Read http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_LSD.shtml LSD can be very intense. Given your prior inexperience, it's probably not a "good idea" right now.
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by paul 18y ago
Incorrect. Gzip streams just fine, so there is no latency issue. Google search, for example, writes the top of the page before the search is complete. (and I assure you, they use gzip)
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by paul 18y ago
I don't use apache, but apparently it may be a little more complicated than that if you really want it to work: http://www.nerdblog.com/2009/04/my-modgzip-settings-deflatec...
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by paul 18y ago
Have you actually made any measurements? Smaller pages are actually faster (both individually and collectively), though gzip is already fast enough that the difference is irrelevant.
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Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
186 points by paul 18y ago|59 comments
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by paul 18y ago
No, but acting as though they are makes for a more dramatic (and higher scoring) blog post :) FriendFeed is about simple sharing and discussions. bbgm gives a great example in another comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550126 Du
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by paul 18y ago
Here's another option if you want a (hopefully) well-formed and de-duped news.yc RSS feed: http://friendfeed.com/api/feed/room/newsyc?format=rss
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Justin.tv - Paul Graham at AngelConf(justin.tv)
67 points by paul 18y ago|18 comments
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by paul 18y ago
In terms of impact, it's much better to build a product for people who spend several hours/day using email instead of those who login once every few weeks to delete their spam. For the latter case, just about anything is good enough (even H
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by paul 18y ago
Increasing the number of shards is similar to changing the backend infrastructure, but simpler. Downtime obviously isn't acceptable, so when switching from one system to the next, we have a period during which we write to both so that it is
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by paul 18y ago
Another interesting detail is that this is roughly the 4th iteration on the FriendFeed backend since we launched 17 months ago. If you look at the the graphs at the bottom of Bret's post, you can see that our previous system was about to di
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by paul 18y ago
I left Google almost 3 years ago. Keith is the person you want to bug about Gmail now: http://friendfeed.com/keith Why would you want keystroke playback in Gmail though? I'd rather have "undo send", among other things. (yes it's doable, j
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by paul 18y ago
Actually, they do, e.g. http://highscalability.com/skype-plans-postgresql-scale-1-bi... MySQL is popular with startups though, so it's not surprising that there's a lot written about it. It's true that MySQL has some lame limitations, but
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How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data(bret.appspot.com)
347 points by paul 18y ago|84 comments
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by paul 18y ago
I didn't really say that you "don't need" virality, but that the best kind is a product that people love so much that they want to tell everyone about it (which is a kind of virality). Obviously, the need for virality also differs based on
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by paul 18y ago
At a sufficiently high level, everything is old. However, for real products, the details matter a lot. Just because X is conceptually similar to Y does not mean that they are the same, or that the difference is unimportant. Threading has be
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by paul 18y ago
I have no specific knowledge, but I'd be surprised if there was a general layoff in Engineering. It seems more likely that they are pushing on people they have classified as "underperforming". I think they also shut down a few remote office
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by paul 18y ago
Putting strings in a separate "message" file is a really annoying way to localize code. It's both hard to read, and hard to write. See GNU gettext for a more reasonable approach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext I agree that doing thi
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by paul 18y ago
Why would I not "hard code" strings? These suggestions don't seem that great to me. How about learning to type with your feet, or only using the mouse, or maybe code blindfolded? (or all three!) Somehow, people seem to have gotten the notio
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by paul 18y ago
Because when your local ISP does it, they are abusing their monopoly. If it was actually an open market with real competition, then I wouldn't care about net neutrality, because there would be plenty of options for non-broken internet acces
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by paul 18y ago
I think I agree with everything Joel said in that post. These crazy rules people come up with for "proper object oriented" programming remind me of extreme religious rituals. You have to observe all these stupid little rules or else your co
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by paul 18y ago
This must incredibly frustrating, but I don't think it has anything to do with Gmail, Calendar, etc. It sounds as though it's a domain registration problem due to Google acting as a domain reseller for eNom, or something. If anything, the l
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by paul 18y ago
We probably have different definitions of "slick". Nevertheless, I'm curious where I can find this slick code just in case... BTW, I'm not just randomly bashing Java. I've actually been using it since 1995, worked briefly at Sun/Javasoft, s
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by paul 18y ago
I think they are really trying to discourage usage. It used to be a nice, fast, and simple http server (when it was originally written), but from a quick look it appears that they made all "enterprisy" with FactoryFactories and whatnot. Jav
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Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
144 points by paul 18y ago|29 comments
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by paul 18y ago
I remember when I initially read these emails (the thread is from last year), my first though was, "I'm glad that I don't have to work with these people." Perhaps this is unfair since they are just venting (and not all of the emails were in
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by paul 18y ago
The "blog" service only asks for the blog url and does not even mention RSS (we look for the appropriate link tag on the page). I've also just added the feature that Bruce requested, so you should be able to add a "Add this blog to FriendFe

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