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by rkischuk 15y ago
Answering the burning question, "How can I run a commodity application platform on more expensive, less secure servers?"
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by rkischuk 15y ago
I'm not sure how anyone reads these articles without reaching the obvious conclusion that we've achieved abject fiscal insanity. "...the ECB. As the lender of last resort, it must do more to save the banks by offering unlimited liquidity fo
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by rkischuk 15y ago
It's true that it's not just the administrators. It's the budgets and programs that come with them. I went to Georgia Tech. The last time I heard a report, Georgia Tech had 3 staff members dedicated to the fraternity system. 1 for fraternit
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by rkischuk 15y ago
For the case of Facebook app development, there are few great substitutes for an SSH tunnel routing traffic back to your local dev environment. All the local dev tools your used to, including TextMate if that's how you roll, with a little b
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by rkischuk 15y ago
Sad can be fascinating. It is sad to seem so much cash thrown at failing/failed companies, where it does little to create jobs or encourage innovation. I do expect Google to use these patents more as a defensive neutralizer than as a means
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by rkischuk 15y ago
We are in the midst of the intellectual property Cold War, and it's fascinating to watch. If Google can use Motorola's patents to balance the power in patent suits and avoid $20/device in licensing fees... well, they're activating 550k devi
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by rkischuk 15y ago
Going from 0-60 quickly in a flying vehicle isn't difficult until you hit the ground.
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by rkischuk 15y ago
I recently talked to a colleague who was hired as a developer by Google. He went through 3 rounds of "hiring committees". 3 different committees to make a developer hire is obviously broken. The ability to evaluate culture and skill fit sho
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by rkischuk 15y ago
I'm hearing from Rackspace that the merged offering will preserve the easy provision/upgrade features. No promises on the pricing, however.
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by rkischuk 15y ago
My first instinct is to plan a migration to Linode or Softlayer. I use SliceHost because I want to push a button and have a running server, and push another button to resize it in less than a minute. If I wanted more control, I'd be using E
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by rkischuk 16y ago
Makes sense. Same symptoms as the housing bubble. Housing bubble - people have a right to own a home, regardless of financial merit. Education bubble - people have a right to a college education, regardless of academic or financial merit.
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by rkischuk 16y ago
I think this would have been better titles, "6 Things Every Startup Community has in Common", and under that title, it's a pretty insightful article, especially in reference to wantrepreneurs. The title implies every startup community is ac
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by rkischuk 16y ago
The most unfortunate part of this is that 'the President would only support the Startup Visa in the context of “comprehensive immigration reform”.' If it is valuable to attract and retain the top entrepreneurial talent from around the world
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by rkischuk 16y ago
Exactly this. Getting a config running is quite often an iterative and exploratory process that should not be enshrined in structure until it's actually running. You get this, which is why Blueprint makes sense.
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by rkischuk 16y ago
This is pretty killer. We use Chef, and although its repeatable results are nice, coding for chef and deploying via knife seems tougher than it needs to be. This seems to have serious potential to position chef as a way of communicating con
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by rkischuk 16y ago
How would you contrast this opinion to your current thoughts on RFS7 (Facebook Instant Personalization)? Facebook has shown themselves to be developer-hostile in the past as well, and they represent all of the common risks of building on so
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by rkischuk 16y ago
No reason. Thanks for pointing it out. Fixed.
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How to get 4 to 5 stars on the App Store(amro.co)
130 points by rkischuk 16y ago|35 comments
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by rkischuk 17y ago
Not necessarily the case. This may be true for building console and hardcore PC games. I've spent the past year working on a kids MMOG, which means it's browser-based. Flash/Flex front-end, Java back-end. Flash is no walk in the park, but
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by rkischuk 17y ago
Ok, seriously? You're asking an RDBMS to index into XML data you've shoved into a column? Quoting Microsoft & IBM on database design is like quoting GM & Chrysler on vehicle design. All are years behind and focused on an under-inf
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by rkischuk 17y ago
Totally agree with This Will Destroy You and Explosions in The Sky as solid coding music. I'd also add Mogwai to that list.
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by rkischuk 17y ago
You're essentially saying that the market is too big to take on without big funding. In the vein of what rjurney said, is it possible the niche you're filling isn't small enough? If you try and capture the whole market with big funding and