wlll

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931.
Why Is Business Writing So Awful?(inc.com)
2 points by wlll 15y ago|0 comments
932.
The 37signals on-call programmer(37signals.com)
3 points by wlll 15y ago|0 comments
933.
by wlll 15y ago
"I also don't think I was comparing it to creating a hostile environment where women feel objectified" Lighten up.
934.
37vegetables - The 37signals CSA benefit in action(37signals.com)
1 points by wlll 15y ago|0 comments
935.
New Basecamp official launch post(37signals.com)
5 points by wlll 15y ago|0 comments
936.
by wlll 15y ago
When I'm standing up I tend to move about more and wander off while I'm thinking about stuff. I definitely get more exercise than when I'm sitting down.
937.
The desks of 37signals(37signals.com)
126 points by wlll 15y ago|76 comments
938.
Making QR Codes even dorkier with ANSI/ASCII(adamgent.com)
2 points by wlll 15y ago|0 comments
939.
ASCII interactive fluid animation(nkwiatek.com)
663 points by wlll 15y ago|66 comments
940.
SaaS: Change starts easy and then gets really hard(37signals.com)
10 points by wlll 15y ago|0 comments
941.
Ruby Trick Shots(rubyreloaded.com)
200 points by wlll 15y ago|30 comments
942.
by wlll 15y ago
I graphed the old and new prices so you can see how they compare: http://willj.net/static/amazon_s3_old_and_new_price_comparis...
943.
Yahoo Groups doesn't have an API so I made one(yahoo-group-data.herokuapp.com)
5 points by wlll 15y ago|0 comments
944.
Give up on no-ops(kitchensoap.com)
2 points by wlll 15y ago|0 comments
945.
by wlll 15y ago
"why should we pay someone tens of thousands of dollars to do it?" Because it costs us less and we have better deliverability. Also, 1% of 50 million emails a month is a lot of undelivered mail.
946.
by wlll 15y ago
The whole app, so both.
947.
by wlll 15y ago
We only have stats for third parties for the time period in the article, but for our products they're here: http://basecamphq.com/uptime http://highrisehq.com/uptime http://campfirenow.com/uptime http://backpackit.com/uptime
948.
by wlll 15y ago
I get the version you see when I use Chrome, I get the other version 100% of the time in Safari.
949.
by wlll 15y ago
Your new designer will be able to have a crack at an original homepage ;) http://i.imgur.com/fRI8Q.jpg http://i.imgur.com/KbQo0.jpg
950.
by wlll 15y ago
memcached is standalone, no one server knows about any other server, so at a simple level, no. It also can't go out and fetch data from else where, it's either got the data or it hasn't. You could write a more complex cacheing layer on top
951.
by wlll 15y ago
Luckily we bought single threaded RAM ;)
952.
by wlll 15y ago
It's in a secure datacentre surrounded by millions and millions of dollars of other equipment (some of it ours), it should be OK :)
953.
by wlll 15y ago
"There are only three hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, off-by-one errors and pedantry."
954.
by wlll 15y ago
The DC took the photo for us, I'd have to check with them what precautions they took but it looks like the build station if my memory serves. The RAM went in Dell boxes.
955.
by wlll 15y ago
I'd bet that Facebook uses a fairly complex cacheing system though, so your point that using extensive cacheing says anything about the ability of the underlying stack to scale still doesn't really work for me.
956.
by wlll 15y ago
Facebook: "…use more than 800 servers supplying over 28 terabytes of memory to our users." ( http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=39391378919 ) The scale of a memcached cluster doesn't really say anything about the scaling abilities of
957.
by wlll 15y ago
Three memcached servers
958.
This is what 864GB of RAM looks like now(37signals.com)
231 points by wlll 15y ago|129 comments
959.
by wlll 15y ago
Yep, Shaun Hildner: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3041-welcome-shaun-and-emily https://twitter.com/shildner/status/162600458559565824
960.
Refusing administrative minutiae(37signals.com)
55 points by wlll 15y ago|14 comments

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