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by rantfoil 17y ago
We'd love to be able to store an infinite amount of data in redis with large datasets -- that would let us use it at Posterous in ways that are beyond how we use it now -- which is mainly for analytics and job queueing (via resque)
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by rantfoil 17y ago
At the risk of feeding the trolls, I don't think you really understand what this release is about. It's not about theming (which by the way we support the same theme blocks and parameters that Tumblr does and its trivial to use all existing
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Don't listen to lists telling you what you should or should not build. Any one of the points he lists could have been acceptable if explained, but so many are dismissive and not fully reasoned. For instance, it blows me away that people thi
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by rantfoil 17y ago
At Posterous we experienced a similar boost, but then over time it turned out that we spent enough time commuting and breaking up our days that it became a bother. It's important to have a central space where everyone can coordinate and pla
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by rantfoil 17y ago
60k starting? That sounds low, even for 6 years ago when I graduated in CS. Google/Microsoft paid 80K starting for college grads back then -- have no doubt it is > 100K or more now.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Have no fear, we are working day and night to bring the ruckus. The list is long.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
The MySQL behavior that was seen (long connect times of unauthenticated users) may happen because MySQL can't do a reverse lookup on the IP. Setting the private ip's in the /etc/hosts file on the MySQL box fixes this problem.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Interestingly, this was one thing PG pushed us to take out of Posterous registration. And he was right. You want to lower barriers. Since we already were getting the user's email address, it really wasn't painful at all to let the 'forgot
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The air in the valley(yoda.posterous.com)
24 points by rantfoil 17y ago|14 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
It might also be a function of being in the Valley. Everyone seems to know each other here.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Between this thread and the Dustin Curtis mob lyching, I think the larger problem is that of tone, and not of content. It's fine to provide constructive criticism, but these threads are not constructive. They're wholesale character assassin
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by rantfoil 17y ago
A small startup worth $1 billion. They laughed when Facebook was valued at that too.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
In the glory days of Microsoft (circa Windows 95), the company culture was very different than in the Ballmer Administration. There used to be a class called 'Precision Questioning' that was specifically about being very efficient at asking
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I actually agree with you there -- the people in charge don't care about taste. But I think one aspect is that experience is the product. And the people in charge should care. They should care a lot, and it's why Virgin and Jetblue and So
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by rantfoil 17y ago
You're right that these things happen in cycles -- just like that "The Office is like the office" quote -- things get big and degenerate. But something about accepting it as unchangeable fact does not sit well with me.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Fair enough -- look, the counter point to this is that films constantly get absolutely destroyed by producers. And those are the decisions that matter -- how the movie ends, what gets cut and what stays, etc. I think again you're getting hu
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by rantfoil 17y ago
It goes deeper than the pixel. In fact, I could care less about visual design. I think that's an over-emphasized aspect of design. It goes to philosophy. Anyone can make pretty things, but it takes a damn intransigent defiance to do whateve
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I hardly think saying "This is the way we always do it" is a good enough reason to stop criticizing American Airlines. Designers may not have been critical to brands in the past (just buy authenticity through well-intentioned PR and ad plac
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Hubris? Hubris is a loaded term that is purely subjective. He's one of the most talented designers I know, and he deserves to speak strongly. Humility doesn't need to enter here. A humble designer is one who affects no change indeed. Design
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I think its incredibly foolish to try to get funding for something that has no basis in reality yet. That's what a demo really is -- a toe-hold. But that toehold is usually enough to know whether a team can make it a reality, and whether th
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Recommended: slinkset.com as a social news platform for superior uptime. (disclosure: It's one of our sites.)
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by rantfoil 17y ago
This is pretty cool, but for a startup at scale it still makes way more sense to own / operate on your own. For instance for a quadruple extra large instance (68GB) it would cost about $27k a year. Considering you'll want to do master-maste
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by rantfoil 17y ago
There are a few clips here: http://vimeo.com/album/138616
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Photos of all the Speakers from YC Startup School 2009 - Thanks YC(garry.posterous.com)
35 points by rantfoil 17y ago|7 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I agree with you -- not everyone has to code. I am not against non-technical founders at all. The great nontech cofounders are people who can either design or hustle with the best of them. Those are the phenomenal non-technical cofounders.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
They don't have to code, they just have to be able to do everything else not coding. When you're starting out (like 2 or 3 people) -- it's ideal if everyone can move the needle in big ways. A PM at that stage (someone who just writes specs
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Program Manager -- it was closest to the metal (work day to day with engineers, designers, testers, and marketing) -- but was far too much paper pushing.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I agree with this. Do not hire a PM who can't code, doesn't have design experience, and can't bring business in the door. Big company PM experience is not an asset here. I was a Microsoft PM before, and it did not prepare me one bit for the
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How Tech Startups become technology institutions(alex.posterous.com)
5 points by rantfoil 17y ago|0 comments
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Flickr community manager nukes popular group: "I hate your freedom."(flickr.com)
3 points by rantfoil 17y ago|0 comments

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