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by wheels 15y ago
There are two main models -- we could label them the "Redhat" and "MySQL / Qt" models. The Redhat model establishes a brand, often the original source for the product / project and uses that to market their expertise. Redhat is primarily a
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Divide Between Venture ‘Haves’ and ‘Have-Nots’ Gets Bigger(pehub.com)
6 points by wheels 15y ago|1 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
37signals chief strength has been in building a following around their dogmas. Remember that their customers are small businesses; they've positioned themselves as an expert among their peers and interviews like this solidify that. That a
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by wheels 15y ago
Note that caching didn't and wouldn't have significantly helped in this case. It was an inappropriate Apache configuration. No amount of caching will stop a server from falling over when it's running far more Apache processes than it has
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by wheels 15y ago
As mentioned, this is on a single VPS with 256 MB of RAM. Each Apache process needs about 25 MB of (non-shared) RAM, so actually 8 is pushing it. We're using mpm_prefork. There's no additional proxy nor cache. My point, specifically, was
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by wheels 15y ago
No. Once I've seen that it's working properly at one point, I've never seen a case where SuperCache stopped working later (unless I changed the config).
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by wheels 15y ago
This is the most critical bit. We run our website (totally disconnected from our webservices, naturally) on a 256 MB VPS and frequently handle top HN stories on our wordpress blog (which runs on a host with several of our other PHP / stati
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by wheels 15y ago
CityDeal was about as close as you can get to a full-on clone schlepped to another market. If the stories I've heard are to be believed, they actually sent people to become interns at Groupon to do reconnaissance. Granted, it was from the
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by wheels 15y ago
We track the programming language that our customers are using on sign up. Our customers aren't particularly early-adopter-ish, so I assume it's a reasonable approximation (taken over a decently large sample of sites): http://blog.directe
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by wheels 15y ago
Hmm, hate to knock the steam out of my own post, but it seems Lerdorf was only at WePay for one year and left in April: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rlerdorf
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by wheels 15y ago
Interesting note: With Rasmus Lerdorf working at WePay, this means the creators of the two most presently popular web programming languages, Ruby and PHP, are now working for YC companies. (Which is a teency stretch since Heroku is now Sale
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by wheels 15y ago
That's somewhat naive, as is this article, though I assume the author is being intentionally so. Counterintuively, during a recession, the government is usually the only entity that's able to pump enough money into the economy to fuel growt
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by wheels 15y ago
Their hardware was a resounding flop and building a state-of-the-art production facility for something for which there was no demand is in retrospect clearly a mistake. Also, given that NeXT was bought for about 15% of Apple's market cap (a
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by wheels 15y ago
They were agile before it was cool to be agile. Which turned out to be arrogant, stupid and wrong.
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by wheels 15y ago
Experts are sometimes wrong. That doesn't change the fact that they're right vastly more often than non-experts.
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by wheels 15y ago
Your comment is wrong on so many levels: • It's not even on topic. This post is not about general memory usage; it's about fragmentation in the javascript VM – i.e. that a system object existing in a general memory page precludes that page
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by wheels 15y ago
It's a large percentage, but probably less than half (at least in our batch). Also most weren't fresh grads. It seemed like the median age was 25 or so. Most had had jobs post-college. So, basically a mid-20s candidate from a non-promine
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by wheels 15y ago
The "brand name" investors are exactly the ones that don't "chillax". Casual angel investors usually lose money. The ones that have strong deal-flow don't get that by just occasionally showing up in Mountain View with a checkbook. Also n
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by wheels 15y ago
It's not like compiling it in would have helped: satie: /usr/lib/kde4> strings kipiplugin_facebook.so | grep -P "[0-9a-f]{32}" bf430ad869b88aba5c0c17ea6707022b 0434307e70dd12c414cc6d0928f132d8 I just picked the plugin in ques
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by wheels 15y ago
That's false, actually. The most dangerous additive things are generally GABA agonists (alcohol, GHB, etc.) and things that futz with opioid receptors (heroine, etc.). Those classes of drugs produce physical dependance and in extreme case
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by wheels 15y ago
I just ordered my first netbook yesterday. The main feature? It's disposable. My main laptop is a Macbook Pro. It cost €1400. The netbook I ordered cost €136 (used). I have a cheap cell phone because I lose my phone at least once a yea
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by wheels 15y ago
Local variables in C and C++ are just put on a stack (i.e. the stack ) and its behavior is pretty predictable. For example: #include <stdio.h> static int *foo(void) { int i = 42; return &i; } stat
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by wheels 15y ago
One of the interesting things on doing some analytics on our customer base was seeing just how wide the gap is between the usual HN fare and reality: http://blog.directededge.com/2010/05/30/what-programming-lan... The core message being:
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by wheels 15y ago
You can't retroactively change the license on the software once it's already been released. You can only change the license for future releases.
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by wheels 15y ago
One only needs to look at history to see our capacity for rapid improvement in retrospect. One of my favorite metrics is life expectancy. In 1800, most people wouldn’t expect to live past 30. It's hard to take someone seriously writing ab
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by wheels 15y ago
What I found surprising about that is that they apparently already own about half a million dollars worth of Google stock. I was expecting something far more toyish.
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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal(bothsidesofthetable.com)
15 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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Stephen Elop's Nokia Adventure(businessweek.com)
2 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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What Should We Make of Peter Thiel’s “20 Under 20″ Education Program?(bothsidesofthetable.com)
7 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
RubyGems 1.8.5 actually breaks Rails 2.3.11. Just to be really clear there: the package manager breaks the 4 month old release of the most important framework for that language, on a branch that until rather recently was still the prefe

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