rykov

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by rykov 17y ago
Loss of data after 6 months did not seem that bad after I read that Amazon shuts down your MySQL (RDS) instance every week for up to 4 hours "for maintenance" http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/10/introducing-rds-the-amazo... Edit: wording f
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by rykov 17y ago
As JVM gets closer to being the de-facto VM for running any language (Jython, jRuby, Scala, Java, etc), the possibility of higher performance by running the VM "closer to metal" is quite exciting. I commend Sun on pushing JVM beyond just Ja
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by rykov 17y ago
A few reasons off the top of my head where subdomains make sense: 1. Letting users override subdomain with a custom domain (ala Posterous) 2. White-labeling (esp. in combination with #1) 3. SEO - last I researched, Google sees virtual hosts
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by rykov 17y ago
Can you give more details on how many blogs you've contacted? How many covered you? How did you phrase your email to make it interesting to the bloggers? Edit: Also, how you computed readership numbers for a blog?
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by rykov 17y ago
Direct link to whole 30 min interview: http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-innovation-20...
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by rykov 17y ago
A better question would be, for those of you who implement OpenID, Facebook Connect, etc. What's the customer percent breakdown against doing it the old fashioned (email & password) way?
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by rykov 17y ago
Hmm...do Tumblr, and now Posterous, qualify as niche site builders? or maybe Shopify? From all such site builder examples out there, the more successful ones seem to nail down the underlying problem first (publishing, e-commerce, etc), and
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by rykov 17y ago
Nobel Committee could not resist after seeing all of this accomplishments: http://www.hulu.com/watch/99945/saturday-night-live-obama-ad...
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by rykov 17y ago
summary: brain fails to garbage collect reference cycles
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by rykov 17y ago
+1 for version control. 1) Do it because it will give you a huge piece of mind (backup & history) 2) Do it because you can code review (git diff) the whole feature before committing it, rather than doing it one line at a time and hoping