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by sabat 16y ago
How about working in Silicon Valley? Everybody knows that all the "real" startups are out there. I'm calling bullshit on this, once and for all. I love SV, and I love the entire Bay Area, but it's not a requirement for startups. He's most
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by sabat 16y ago
You're pretty close to something I've been hankering for -- a cloud service similar to EC2, except with a different set of strengths. Amazon's strong point is being able to scale up and down easily. A lot of businesses don't need that; they
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by sabat 16y ago
And depression and its associated pathologies. But as with everything, YMMV. Some people can drink a lot and have it not affect anything at all. Only some people, though.
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by sabat 16y ago
Anyone else surprised? I'm not being sarcastic. Hasn't Angry Birds already made > $20 million? If not, isn't it close enough?
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by sabat 16y ago
Can we stop the PayPal complaint train now? If you have a viable alternative to suggest, then yes, it would be reasonable to tell people to stop whining. Given that PayPal is the only game in town, and that there is no obvious competitor
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by sabat 16y ago
The silver lining is that ridiculous situations like this -- which is no less than legalized extortion -- will increase the obviousness of the need to reform the patent system and end the ability to patent the obvious. It will happen. It is
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by sabat 16y ago
Does this remind anyone else of the old adage that the best way to get rich is by telling other people how to get rich? 37signals may have something to teach the world, but I think its message is already out, and a lot of its success involv
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by sabat 16y ago
Paul -- would love to hear a summary of what you did to market these sites. SEO? Direct marketing? Word of mouth? Online ads? What was your approach, and what did you learn? Edit: I suppose one could read this post: http://jasonlbaptiste.c
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by sabat 16y ago
Yes. It was a side project by members of the Odeo staff, correct?
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by sabat 16y ago
I just gave that a quick look -- where does the money come from? Ad sales? Something else?
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by sabat 16y ago
We believe age matters because a lot of people allow their age to matter. They let themselves go, physically and mentally, and want to slide through life. They stop growing. They stop learning. Just because some people do that doesn't mean
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by sabat 16y ago
Here's a link to a Forbes article about it. You're right: my memory was distorted. The outage was only 22 hours. (I'm sure it felt like three days to the Ebay admins at the time.) Fun fact: the "Steve Abatangle" quoted in the article is y
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by sabat 16y ago
I remember it being 3 days. Could be faulty memory.
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by sabat 16y ago
Online Transaction Processing. I meant specifically on the web, where life is more chaotic than in traditional environments. I suppose I could have written "web OLTP". By "new", I mean less than 10 years old.
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by sabat 16y ago
I like the NoSQL approach as an option. But we should keep in mind: operationally, these databases/stores are comparatively new, and don't have the years and years of use that would help find and solve problems like this. It reminds me of E
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by sabat 16y ago
Absolutely true. I was making the point that they've survived and are apparently thriving. However: Pandora and similar services have had to work far too hard to do such a straightforward thing.
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by sabat 16y ago
only allowed to live so the labels can suck investors' money through them That's true, but not as true as you might suspect. Pandora is profitable. Yes, they are certainly pumping a large amount of money to the record labels, but they're
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by sabat 16y ago
"Rock star" is an overused term, sure. I don't know that its by hiring companies use makes developers think of abuse, though.
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by sabat 16y ago
Isn't that John Steinbeck rather than George?
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by sabat 16y ago
Please help me understand what those appealing features are. I am not being snarky. My wife is currently trying to get me to consider moving back there because everything is cheaper. Sure, it's cheaper: it is, as far as I am currently conce
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by sabat 16y ago
Because we get the gist of them; we experience books the way we experience life. We learn from both, regardless of whether we memorize specifics and details.
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by sabat 16y ago
Meh, Java is just fine, and if you really like it, I'm happy for you. (I find it an interesting but somewhat cumbersome language. Still, if it's the right tool for the job ...) Maybe this guy's amazing success will serve to change some mind
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by sabat 16y ago
SV innovation was once about creating the technological infrastructure that we all take for granted. Now, it's about using that technology in new, interesting ways to see what might happen. I have met and spent time with Dan, before he beca
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by sabat 16y ago
Outside of the fact that Blockbuster was often not a very nice company: did it really have to turn out this way? I think it didn't have to end in bankruptcy. Someone will eventually write a whole screed about missed opportunities (e.g. expa
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by sabat 16y ago
Troll.
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by sabat 16y ago
Being poor means having to constantly worry about money to the point where you're not sure where your next meal is coming from.
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by sabat 16y ago
Most (or all) cynics start out as dewy-eyed optimists.
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by sabat 16y ago
Why the hype? For me: it's not the hype, it's the hope. I have serious doubts that there will be much left of the middle class in a few years. We're seeing salaried jobs disappear, replaced by contract gigs that can be terminated at any m
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by sabat 16y ago
That was totally worth the downvote.
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by sabat 16y ago
But ... but ... if it goes down, how will it ever kill Google? =:-o

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