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by pmboyd 12y ago
I worked at a mass notification company that used a similar approach and it worked well with a handful of workers pulling in batches that could push out 300 to 500 of messages per second and could queue a quarter million messages in a few s
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by pmboyd 12y ago
The America Heart Association's recommendation is based on multiple randomized control studies ( http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/106/21/2747.full#sec-4 ), none of which are the study in question.
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by pmboyd 14y ago
The fact that investors are putting up the money means there is some hope to the business. Not every startup gets that ... People seem to really focus on the negative. Startups are known to be bimodal outcomes. Either you retire from the
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Let Your Employees Bet on the Company(blogs.hbr.org)
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by pmboyd 14y ago
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by pmboyd 14y ago
Facebook has tried copying Groupon. This is their Groupon Now! clone announcement ( http://www.facebook.com/blog/blog.php?post=446183422130 ). www.facebook.com/deals appears dead so not sure if they've abandoned the project entirely.
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by pmboyd 14y ago
Netscape no longer exists as a company (or meaningful subdivision of AOL) so that might not have been the best strategy. Copying got them ahead quickly but didn't keep them there.
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by pmboyd 14y ago
The data is also skewed with false positive whereby the company appears alive but is not. My previous, now defunct startup's domain responds with a redirect to another domain.
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by pmboyd 14y ago
You might want to checkout ziplist. Most of the apps in the recipe/grocery space are pretty horrible but that site does a reasonable job, has a solid team as well as Martha Stuart as an investor. Not an immediate competitor to what you're
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by pmboyd 15y ago
The bigger picture is that WebSockets increases what's possible via the web. In theory REST isn't tied to HTTP although practically speaking, the two do go hand in hand. The natural REST application is also somewhat different from the nat