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by xal 16y ago
It's odd to point to C extensions when talking about the need for a GIL. The solution seems obvious. Wrap them in a mutex by default and introducing an optional API call to remove the lock. This way the important libraries will be fixed up
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by xal 16y ago
You compare a many thousand man years VM (HotSpot JVM) to one that has been largely written by one person in isolation ( Ruby 1.8 series ). Ruby 1.9 has 90% of the features you mention above and RBX will soon remove the GIL on top of it. As
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by xal 16y ago
law of large numbers. At 100 million customers, just about any conceivable thing that can happen will happen.
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by xal 16y ago
Paypal has roughly 8000 employees of which 7500 work in fraud and customer services none of which is outsourced. It's not that they are not taking it seriously.. Their customer support tends to be really good in my experience, don't base to
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by xal 16y ago
The new App Tab feature is downright brilliant. Link: http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/firefox4beta/appTabs-480.mp4
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by xal 16y ago
I wonder about Riak's storage efficiency. It seems like it would be ideal private S3 replacement for user upload storage. Just put a varnish in front that only allows GET requests and perhaps add/remove some headers and it should be fine ex
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by xal 16y ago
Tim is on the Shopify board of advisors. He gets no other compensation beyond the shares that advisors get. The whole contest also was Tim's idea. It promotes exactly the kind of thing that he is all about: build an awesome business and hav
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DODOcase (YC alumni) goes on to win Shopify's $100k contest(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by xal 16y ago
For actual data storage they build this layer on top of MYSQL ( and redis, and all other things that need sharding ) : http://github.com/twitter/gizzard
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by xal 16y ago
This is essentially how Shacknews worked since '99. People who subscribed got a lightning bold next to the name and got uncapped downloads on fileshack. This worked out very well for them.
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by xal 16y ago
why don't you publish the results of your benchmark?
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by xal 16y ago
Furthermore, Chunked to the client is having a renaissance at the moment thanks to the BigPipe ideas coming out of Facebook. Speaking of which, Mongrel2 will be a tremendous server for apps that need this optimization.
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by xal 16y ago
We have been testing this feature for a few months now at Shopify and it seriously takes GitHub to the next level. Really amazing and kudos to the team.
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by xal 16y ago
Shopify for one.
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by xal 16y ago
I think this is a brilliant idea. One of the most frustrating things for me when I travel is that my requirements are different from what the traditional Hotel industry caters to. All I need are a desk, chair and low latency / reasonable ba
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by xal 16y ago
Do you have some more information on this? Our first will arrive within the next 2 weeks and this sounds really interesting.
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by xal 16y ago
What's important to point out here is that you not just "Play a Game". You are playing a game based on what probably is the most advanced matchmaking algorithms ever made. It seems that after the critical mass of about 30k players during be
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by xal 16y ago
Yahoo stores was a great product for as long as Paul worked on it.
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by xal 16y ago
Lot's of people form Shopify show up for the regular startup drinks events. By the way, we love the Tony's Tim program. We hired 2 people directly from there. You should track our careers page and apply for some coop positions when they com
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by xal 16y ago
I described it below. I think your approach would vastly overcomplicate a system like this. It's essentially a freeform money transfer system. You click on a person, you enter an amount and we have a ledger system that moves the money from
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by xal 16y ago
Almost from day one. This has probably changed now but don't forget, Shopify is one of the biggest Ruby on Rails sites on the web and I've been part of the Rails Core team since it's inception (until recently). Rails stood for something new
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by xal 16y ago
Oh boy. Changing our business model was one of the worst days of my life. I recently relived that day when I saw the ZenDesk thing unfold. Luckily we had grandfathered all our customers when we did the big switch. The problem was that our o
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by xal 16y ago
Being a (hopefully) talented introvert myself I definitely don't optimize for that :-) I don't think it's fair to see our system so black and white. First of all, i'm sure it has problems. Probably many. However, bonus systems all have prob
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by xal 16y ago
Here is how it works at the moment: * twice a month we determine how much money goes into the system based on how well we are doing * Money is split evenly amongst all employees and contractors who have been with us for more then 3 months.
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by xal 16y ago
I'll let you know soon. We are over 30 people already ( 2 people started since the interview ). The point of the system is that for a bonus system to work well the people who give the bonuses need to know about the individual people's contr
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by xal 16y ago
Absolutely. The single most important ceo/cto person in a tech company like ours would be an analytical marketing VP. Now, programming would help but being technical and having an MBA lends itself to transitioning into this track. I've hear
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by xal 16y ago
John's investment was tiny compared to what VCs invest. 90% of his investment is time and advice. Mostly in the form of CEO coaching. Another way of looking at it: Shopify only has common shares. There has not been any Series A or preferred
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by xal 16y ago
Thank you. The idea is loosely based on a system we heard about that Second Life uses.
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Profitable & Proud: Shopify(37signals.com)
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by xal 16y ago
Seems go would only fail the mature requirement. Go's future is incredibly bright. Soon people will realize how trivial channels make some of the tremendously complicated plumbing that all weg/server/enterprise software eventually needs.

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