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1. 61.▲
   by sbraford 19y ago

   Yep, sessions are nice when your site is in the 1-5k visitors per day range, but don't seem to scale much beyond that. (coming from an RoR background here)
2. 62.▲
   by sbraford 19y ago

   I'd also recommend you do some contracting work if you can swing it. I recently left a full-time position and now devote 50% of my time to contracting, making 2x as much per hour. Net result: I have 50% more free time and make roughly the
3. 63.▲
   by sbraford 19y ago

   Because it's not legal in just about any way you try and do it. I'm no lawyer but companies are always trying to do this, and some get smacked down by the FTC.
4. 64.▲
   Penthouse Snags AdultFriendFinder for $500 Million(thealarmclock.com)

   9 points by sbraford 19y ago|6 comments
5. 65.▲
   by sbraford 19y ago

   If they get what they're asking ($25k), then based on those traffic figures, I've got a few sites worth $50k+! Something tells me they'll have to settle for a bit less.
6. 66.▲
   by sbraford 19y ago

   Yep. It might be time to look @ options like EngineYard, etc. But it's more fun to scale things yourself =)
7. 67.▲
   by sbraford 19y ago

   I run a site kinda like this. If you have a "digg clone" and it doesn't gain enough critical traction, sadly, you just end up with a bunch of spammers anyway. What's the point of public submissions then?
8. 68.▲
   by sbraford 19y ago

   This is the coolest comment I've read on news.YC in a while. Congratulations!
9. 69.▲
   by sbraford 19y ago

   Anyone who enjoys a moderate amount of success combined with publicity, accolades or seeming "legions" of followers / blog commenters, inevitably becomes the victim of personal attacks. Having an abrasive (see Calacanis), or egotistical, or
10. 70.▲
    The History of Tetris(atarihq.com)

    6 points by sbraford 19y ago|3 comments
11. 71.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    Maybe he is?
12. 72.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    How is this mean-spirited? Seems pretty even-handed, especially for the wag.
13. 73.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    Hey guys -- very slick implementation... I'm wondering though, what is the major differentiating factor from what's out there already? It's lightning fast & the UI is incredibly clean; that could be enough right there.
14. 74.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    brk - yup, there very well indeed may be more factors to consider. I'm with several other posters on this one: - 2% + a modest first-developer salary is totally reasonable (some would even consider 2% high here) - 2% + $0 is a fool's barga
15. 75.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    true but what about the falling value of the chutzpah relative to the maka-maka?
16. 76.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    brk - while it's sometimes nice to have varied opinions here on News.YC, I can tell yours will be modded down quite a bit. This isn't "Suits News" or "B-school Guy News", it's Hacker News. I would view reading this as more of a learning ex
17. 77.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    When you say "internal Google project", do you mean hired a guy who used code from his previous company and slapped the name "Orkut" on it? Via Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut "In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit
18. 78.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    It took Google what, 4-5 years to finally come out with AdWords and begin their powerhouse ascent? Give FB time, they'll get there.
19. 79.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    H Jaggu - do you (or can you) code yourself? I was speaking with an older entrepreneurial guy the other day who was talking about getting an SBA Loan together. (he doesn't have the skills to design/code things himself, so this would be to p
20. 80.▲
    What does News.YC think of distributed version control?(madstop.com)

    8 points by sbraford 19y ago|11 comments
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    Infrastructure 2.0(johnmwillis.com)

    2 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
22. 82.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    And be sure to avoid civic center / tenderloin, unless you want to pass 5 homeless people on your half-block walk to the local Starbucks. =)
23. 83.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    Emotional imbalance and lessened productivity. More startups should really let their hackers work odd hours occasionally, or from home sometimes. As co's get bigger they tend to enforce stricter day schedules, killing any potential for lat
24. 84.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    Not that you'd want to do this... but you could even leverage Amazon Mech. Turk w/o telling your clients =) If you have plenty of good, inexpensive answerers then you wouldn't need to.
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    Puppet - one key component of iLike's scaling success(reductivelabs.com)

    13 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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    How iLike Scales with Rails (older article)(ilike.typepad.com)

    1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
27. 87.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    Thanks =) I'll check them out!
28. 88.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    Trac is sweet but is simply a royal pain to setup. Anyone offer an outsourced, hosted version of Trac? =)
29. 89.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    I've had great luck with Unfuddle: http://unfuddle.com/ They also offer svn hosting, but that is optional. (you can simply use them as a bug tracking system) They've been very responsive to feature requests and have fixed several bugs/is
30. 90.▲
    by sbraford 19y ago

    56,258 lines -- That's a lot of code! What is Auctomatic written in? Very impressive stuff, from what I've seen so far.