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by timg 19y ago
Nice point.
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by timg 19y ago
It should be the other way around, since users rarely create the content of their submissions.
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by timg 19y ago
Um, is there a reason for this?
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by timg 19y ago
""" trailing even myYearbook.com""" To be fair, that site literally bought 90% of its users.
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by timg 19y ago
I have never hated any feature so much as tagging... Alternatives?
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by timg 19y ago
Links could be smaller for easier reading.
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by timg 19y ago
I'm pretty sure that synchronous XML requests and the certainty that js will be present are exactly what defines web 2.0..
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by timg 19y ago
99.9999% of the views of reddit and similar are people wanting to see what the hottest current news is. Are you really going to hide it from them? If not, then are you going to make some votes not count as much as others? Users will hate th
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by timg 19y ago
"Tell her about how she can now call her cousin for free [..] It fulfills a need that most humans have - the need to interact socially with others." But the same could be said of gmail - a definite web2.0 app.
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by timg 19y ago
This is really great.
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by timg 19y ago
And really, it's not the news but the communities that form around it which really drive the traffic.
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by timg 19y ago
semantics are obsolete.
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by timg 19y ago
Alone in their basements? Seriously.
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by timg 19y ago
It is really frustrating how lazy bloggers/investors always are rationalizing why great startups should be doing bad, instead of figuring out what makes these "bad" startups do so great. Nice example.
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by timg 19y ago
"your data fits in RAM" Not so. It's not too hard to check if you have some data and then retrieve it from the db as necessary.
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by timg 19y ago
The users.
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by timg 19y ago
I don't like sites that need an explanation of more than a few words at the top.
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by timg 19y ago
Now that's what I was trying to say. Those users were about to drive me out of my mind!
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by timg 19y ago
I have a separate thread that writes changes back to disk at its leisure. There is also a special shutdown/restart mode that I can trigger which stops accepting input from the user and flushes everything to the db. This can be implemented v
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by timg 19y ago
That's what she said.
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by timg 19y ago
SQL Databases are so astonishingly slow that I just switched my most intensive app to only use the database for backing up the data to disk and reloading from on startup. This arrangement is so much faster and easy to understand/measure/opt
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by timg 19y ago
Related: What's a provider that can give me lots of CPU time when I can no longer host CPU intensive processes from my home computers? What about for cost less than a dedicated server?
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by timg 19y ago
More like StumbleUpon rained on Google's parade by turning down their offer.
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by timg 19y ago
don't know about where you are, but the weather is unusually nice outside today.
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by timg 19y ago
timg.is.here at gmail
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by timg 19y ago
But in your example, the absence of photo albums on myspace is punished quite heavily in practice. Right up until they were sitting on a billion dollar valuation, you could not even make your photos private to just your friends. Sharing was
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by timg 19y ago
No kidding. As much as some people around here hate to hear it, sometimes you have to FORCE your users provide content before they can receive their fill of content from your app. What are the benefits/costs of each approach? Allowing u
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by timg 19y ago
I can't help but to think that the founders can be made to act more like needy girls. Make them want you, make them think that they are about to lose because everyone else recognizes how valuable you are. Make them think that they could n
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by timg 19y ago
edit: you are correct.
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by timg 19y ago
"engage the user and see if you can get the feature to a common ground" Yes, this is what I'm asking. In direct marketing for example, there are ways that success can be scientifically measured. I am wondering if any of you have used more m

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