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by smoody 18y ago
it looks like a well-executed service. as soon as the registration system is working again, i'm planning to give it a go.
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by smoody 18y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that DHH has become a bit more civil since Merb has started to get some momentum? It's easy to have a "f__k you if you don't like my choices" attitude when you're the only real game in town. Suddenly a player co
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by smoody 18y ago
I personally believe Sun's problems began way before the downturn, but the downturn provides a great excuse for them to report really bad earnings and lay off people. And, as a bonus, they get to drag down confidence in the tech sector in g
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Sun Laying Off Workers as Crisis Hits Tech Companies(nytimes.com)
6 points by smoody 18y ago|7 comments
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by smoody 18y ago
Have you checked out memcachedb? It's a wrapper around the berkleydb that uses the memcahed protocol (so support is already available in your language of choice). They're showing benchmark stats that meet your requirements (> 1MM writes
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by smoody 18y ago
"We could pay anyone $75k to start cranking out lines of code and come in at 9 or 10 and leave at 5. But that’s not what we want,..." The poster keeps assuming that there's an inverse correlation between how much you pay someone and how man
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by smoody 18y ago
Love this quote: "Sony doesn't consider Apple as big a threat because gaming is secondary to its devices, said John Koller, director of hardware marketing for Sony's PSP. 'The consumer is using the mobile gaming on the iPhone and iPod Touch
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by smoody 18y ago
Eliminating explicit pagination does mean one has to load everything at once. Google Reader is a good example of this. There are libraries out there that allow a sort-of load-on-demand of content. Here is one example using jQuery: http://w
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by smoody 18y ago
Just out of curiosity, what does "implemented" mean in this case?
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by smoody 18y ago
I can't give you a figure, but I do encourage you to consider not only your current traffic figures, but also potential traffic figures that will result from your site being introduced to the acquirer's user base, if that makes sense in you
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by smoody 18y ago
<rant> i'm not sure why anyone reads this blog. it's not the least bit creative (negative humor is second only to fat jokes in terms of lack of originality). and does anyone here feel good after reading posts like this? does it impr
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by smoody 18y ago
I find it hard to believe that he had no stress. Startups are stress engines. Things go wrong, usually under deadline. And that causes stress. The stress can be managed and "evolved" people don't let it control them, but stress exists for a
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by smoody 18y ago
Very clever.
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by smoody 18y ago
http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/10/20/automatic-production-rai... -- it's a no-fuss script for bringing up production Rails on slicehost.
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by smoody 18y ago
Under a different user name? I checked out your three posts and none of them seemed to mention your site.
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Memiary + Lessons of a Weekend Entrepreneur - Rev2.org(rev2.org)
1 points by smoody 18y ago|0 comments
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by smoody 18y ago
This reply probably deserves the same fate as the post, but it's worth noting that the Bud commercial was based on a 1999 short film by the name "True." So, technically, it's a remake of that short film and not the commercial. http://www.i
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by smoody 18y ago
It's sort-of silly to compare a publication like the old Infoworld (which had a large staff and was a weekly print publication that hadn't mastered the digital realm) to a small team, blog-based publication like the Crunches. They're two di
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by smoody 18y ago
Search for articles about the collapse of Iceland's financial markets for a partial answer to your question.
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by smoody 18y ago
Nice idea. Personally, I would hold off on the ads until you have some momentum. The revenue will be minimal until you have traffic and I believe not running adsense ads will make it more attractive to your early adopters.
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by smoody 18y ago
This service for subscription payment processing launched recently. I haven't tried it, but it looks interesting -- especially if one wants to get their subscription app out the door quickly. http://www.zuora.com/products/zpayments/index.h
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by smoody 18y ago
two responses: "But there's still a crapload of money, billions in fact, in funds that HAS to be invested in new startups because its part of those fund's charter." Disagree with this slightly. Yes, they will always invest in startups, but
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by smoody 18y ago
I'm not sure if it's the Best Way, but the Panda project looks interesting if you're willing to host on EC2 and S3: http://pandastream.com/
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by smoody 18y ago
from the post: "You start with a container, in our example /articles/. Do GET /articles/ to get a JSON document listing the URLs of all the articles. These URLs are relative to the container URL. You’ll get a response like [’./1′, ‘./2′, ‘.
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by smoody 18y ago
There was a link to an article posted yesterday or the day before on HN that attempted to interpret the original article. Here's the link: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/10/24/RESTAPIDesignIn... I have to admit it's still a bit co
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by smoody 18y ago
It doesn't surprise me that IE javascript performance is worse. MSoft has incentive to keep it its Javascript engine throttled back. If it gets too fast, then javascript-based web apps will start to perform on-par with their office suite of
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by smoody 18y ago
Excellent use of mimicking! I just don't see how any smartphone that isn't an iPhone or Android phone will survive over the next few years. I believe people have emotional reactions to apps like this. I just wish my iPhone were a bit less a
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by smoody 18y ago
A quick question: When replicating mySQL across data centers, is there an easy or perhaps built-in way to encrypt the replication data streams to prevent prying eyes from potentially intercepting the data? If not, might that be a problem if
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by smoody 18y ago
The extension methods are very Ruby-like, which is kind-of scary. Don't get me wrong -- it's a powerful idea, but have you ever tried to get a complete definition of a class that is spread out over a dozen files in potentially a handful of
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by smoody 18y ago
there are people out there who make $2000 in the time it takes to read this comment. those people will choose it for the statement it makes and price will not matter to them, unless the price is too low, then it's unacceptable. i don't thin

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