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by rkalla 16y ago
blurry, I'm not clear on what what ironic -- that the release was rushed, so down time should be excused or something else. Could you clarify?
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by rkalla 16y ago
ojbyrne, No doubt about it I don't know the details of the technical impls of Twitter in the early days -- I only became aware of it when it's usage started exploding and the "fail whale" became such a common occurrence. No knock to the Twi
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by rkalla 16y ago
For me, it has been writing small little utility projects using technologies that I'm curious about. Recently it was jQuery and the Play! Framework -- for the longest time I was trying to think of some "grand" project that I could write to
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by rkalla 16y ago
Very cool idea... I have my critical hat on though, so don't take offense to any of this and please weigh it with the other feedback you get -- this is just my own personal take on the service. -- As soon as I read "You and your friends can
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by rkalla 16y ago
Posting on HN is a good start, enough folks potentially interested will see this. Have you tried asking folks at YC to put the buzz around the office? I have heard a few of the Mixergy interviews where someone (or a group) was going through
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Digg v4's Problems are not Technical(thebuzzmedia.com)
65 points by rkalla 16y ago|41 comments
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by rkalla 16y ago
For anyone else interested in this "quick, cheap, feedback" cycle, PickFu is another service that does this: http://pickfu.com/ I spent about $20 to get 200 responses for my question, but only ended up collecting 103 answers before the qu
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by rkalla 16y ago
1tw, Could you share a URL to your new site? You paid your mortgage with an Amazon affiliate link... damn! What kind of traffic are you getting now?
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by rkalla 16y ago
lol, I just popped in here to write that and saw that someone beat me to it. As soon as I saw that title "Fastest helicopter" the only thing that popped in my head "Airwolf" now I have the theme song in my head...
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by rkalla 16y ago
aresant, That has been the common theme in everyone's reply and I think you are right with the "jack of all, master of none" comment. Not sure if what I want is to really drill down on a specific topic though, so now it's an issue of re-eva
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by rkalla 16y ago
Using "link" on Google's search shows something like 38 and Yahoo Website Explorer shows like 7... but going from Google's Webmaster Tools shows 2.9 million http://imgur.com/cTaKE.png I have no idea what is up with that discrepancy...
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by rkalla 16y ago
yes that is it... used to be breakitdownblog.com Thanks for the kind words.
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by rkalla 16y ago
Jose, Right now the site does about 500-600k pageviews a month and I make just enough from Adsense to cover hosting costs... that's it. "make it" would be enough income to support family with some extra to take trips occasionally. "super ma
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by rkalla 16y ago
Michael, I should have clarified; I don't have a problem with SEO... I always try and choose titles well, keywords, categories and write findable copy. It's the SEO shenanigans that get my blood angry. The info graphics that point back to a
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by rkalla 16y ago
FWIW the site used to be 3 separate sites for the first 3.5 years: * Tech/Video Games site * Humor site * Programming site and none of them did particularly well on their own. It was also mentally draining for me to try and manage 3 separat
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by rkalla 16y ago
It is tagged and categorized fairly richly (via WordPress) and then Guides, Movie and Video Game reviews all called out onto separate pages. Once you are there it is pretty easy to find something you want, but visiting the site every day or
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by rkalla 16y ago
ahoyhere, Of course I agree with you, seeing things written out from a 3rd party perspective. I argue frequently with people about how the #1 thing resturaunts can suffer from is lack of consistency. When you walk in that door, you want to
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by rkalla 16y ago
ah! wallflower that is it... I couldn't put my finger on it, but that is what Pat does. Breaking complex topics down into a bunch of edible nuggets with examples and clarifying content. That is an art. I am actually good at doing the opposi
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by rkalla 16y ago
Patrick, After almost 5 years of doing this and thinking the tide would change "any day now" for the better, I can see now that it will never change... sans bits of income here and there, I will never support my family doing this or create
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Ask HN: How to be successful online without SEO bullshittery?
149 points by rkalla 16y ago|61 comments
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by rkalla 16y ago
Section of interest: SEC. 109. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION. (a) Claims as Conscientious Objector- Nothing in this title shall be construed to require a person to be subject to combatant training and service in the uniformed services, if that pe
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H.R. 5741 - Bill to Instate Mandatory National Service (Draft?)(govtrack.us)
3 points by rkalla 16y ago|2 comments
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by rkalla 16y ago
I don't know the scale of "many" here, but in the thousands, I think Paul's presentation makes the case for threads given the near free cost of having idle threads sitting around and activating/deactivating them as long as they aren't conte
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by rkalla 16y ago
redrobot5050, The first 30 slides or so are explicitly about the 25% performance gap between NIO and IO on a modern system -- I think it's fair to say the article was as much about performance as it was scalability. I think he even addresse
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by rkalla 16y ago
jbooth, Interesting post -- I don't know if that is something Paul evaluated. What mix/ratio would you propose? Something like 1:10 threads:selector/connections?
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by rkalla 16y ago
For those that want the "Quick WTF?!" it is because: * With modern operating systems, idle threads are practically free. * Managing non-contending threads is extremely inexpensive now. * Multi-core systems. * Selectors and state-restore use
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Java IO is faster than NIO: Old is New Again(thebuzzmedia.com)
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by rkalla 16y ago
Want to thank moultano (from Google) for replying to so many stories. One technique that I have manually begun employing to stop landing at what I would call value-less sites is looking at the PageRank (Chrome extension) of the host page be
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by rkalla 16y ago
I just typed up a reply and realized pg's suggestion of reading bottom-to-top is an excellent idea. It's like only reading Nobel-prize-winning publications and then complaining you feel dumb...
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by rkalla 16y ago
Everyone feels this way in every profession every where... doctors at medical conferences, race car drivers at racing events, movie stars at red-carpet events. This is why team-work is so important, because individually none of us can reall

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