kakooljay

"There are two reasons for this: bandwidth limitations and the data integrity issues posed by the commodity drives that are typically used in cloud services."

Why does using commodity drives entail data integrity issues? Doesn't everyone use commodity drives? I know Google does [http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&source=hp&q=Google+commo...]..

"PrivateEquityForums.com (stunnning $14,500 to $25,000 plus 3-5% of your raise to present!) We’ve received information that Mike Segal of Joshua Capital Partners runs this forum that is looking for up to $25,000 and/or 3-10% of how much you raise!"

Kudos for outing these "epic bastards" - IF it's true.. certainly hard to believe anyone that gullible hasn't already sent his $$ to the widow of a recently ousted African minister...

That's great (and apt, given the economy). The New Yorker has collections of Baseball Cartoons, Political Cartoons, Art Cartoons, Doctor cartoons (which I got for my dad :). but no books of Tech or Computer cartoons.. wonder why?

Great post - who knew about this facebook thing :p

That bar graph (1/2 way down) is from 2006 [http://ajaxian.com/archives/ajaxiancom-2006-survey-results].. shows jQuery=7%.. wonder if that has changed since.

With the launch of interactive advertising, "many of the dollars that went to the internet will come back to the TV," says David Kline of Cablevision...

Paul Graham has a great post about hiring: http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html [Great hackers]

Some other good links: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing... http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html

Did you see this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868967

"...be sure to check the URL. If it’s something like http://74.98.30.203/ebayaccountverify.php IT’S A SCAM!"

How hard would it be to write a virus that changed a victim's browser (say FireFox or Chrome, which are both open source) so "paypal.com" appears in the address window when the real URI is something else? It's a scary question.. just throwing it out there.

Great tips - reminded me of a post on beating writer’s block: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8864

Note: It's a FUN post, not really practical for coders [eg: "Graham Greene wrote exactly 500 words per day, even stopping mid-sentence if necessary"] but a nice distraction.. just what you need when you're battling procrastination.. :)

In case you were wondering...

Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Lawrence Page, and Terry. Winograd. What can you do with a web in your pocket? Data Engineering Bulletin, 21:37–47, 1998.

[Hey Larry, who's Lawrence Page? :p]

Slides are here (PG warning in effect lol) http://carsonified.com/blog/web-apps/start-up-metrics-that-m...

11 & 12 explain the AARRR / pirate model... Great references (slide 20) too - thx

Funny..

Btw, I think wwwycombinator.com [http://wwwycombinator.com] is still available ;)

See: http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/scaleout/scaleout_pitfalls.ht...

Just speaking rhetorically.. don't mean to generalize. I'm sure Bill Gates would have dropped out sooner (in high school, instead of college) if opportunity came knocking sooner.. You're obviously an exception & probably dropped out for good reasons :)

Nice overview: clear & concise. Thanks.

"Hennessy... remarks that companies are great things, but they are missing most of what makes a university so appealing to its employees: the freshness and excitement of the students and the freedom to conduct one's own research."

That's why google (which cultivated a collegial environment) was able to attract so much talent. But maybe that's about to change: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=867491

Maybe you're right. Apparently Pareto originally used his distribution to describe wealth allocation & intuitively it seems fair to assume that 20% of the developers account for ~80% of the earnings. But are you sure?

Btw, if developer talent is normally distributed (talent, it seems, usually is), shouldn't developer earnings also be? I'm not a statistician but it's an interesting question..

Thanks - Mint is discussed in The Web Startup Success Guide [http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219858] but I actually found this more useful.

Update: the parent link disappeared? Did you delete it?

Interesting, but not really surprising. Artists & musicians aren't "getting rich" either.. Is there some reason a normal(ish) distribution wouldn't apply to iPhone earnings?

Includes a discussion of Stanley Milgram's famous experiment ["with a budget of only $680, he set out to test the speculative idea that people are really connected in the global friendship network by short chains of friends.. he asked a collection of 296 randomly chosen 'starters' to try forwarding a letter to a 'target' person, a stockbroker who lived in a suburb of Boston.." & found that the MEDIAN length of successful paths was just six] and clarifies a common misconception about it:

"It doesn’t establish a statement quite as bold as 'six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet' - the paths were just to a single, fairly affluent target; many letters never got there [all but 64 in fact]; and attempts to recreate the experiment have been problematic due to lack of participation."

Have fun with this one!

Btw..

Ycombinator.com Valuation $7.07 Million

News.ycombinator.com Valuation $9.52 Million

Bizinformation.org Valuation = $11,764.25 (hehe)

Yep.. of course it is. Is flash good for PCs? Is Thai food good for international cuisine? Choice & competition are GOOD. We just need better ways to find & filter apps (& information in general).

This is hilarious:

Schmidt: let me, some of your assumptions about Chrome adoption are wrong. The adoption rate of Chrome is [very strong]. We are going to do a better job of getting that message out.

Schonfeld: Steve Ballmer calls it a rounding error, is it?

I don’t respond to Steve Ballmer questions. Next question?

Exactly... just like doctors should earn a lot of money because their skills save lives, not because professional associations conspire to limit the number of doctors.

Love this: In early September, endowment officials announced that they had lost $10-billon, a 27-percent drop... Vanity Fair sent a reporter to Cambridge this year to assess the damage. She was told that the university had lowered thermostats by four degrees and would no longer be serving free coffee [because their endowment was "only" ~30 billion].

Btw, endowment or no endowment, Harvard is not in business to give away free degrees. Indeed 10 to 15 percent of students in any given class at Harvard are legacies, who pay a LOT for a Harvard undergrad degree, which, by the way, isn't worth as much as people think.. http://slate.com/id/2112215/

>making a single stew out of them all seems like a mistake.

Ya... http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070710/absurd-the-giant-swi...

Maybe their design choices were.. uninformed. The team was small, quite secluded (in Australia) & secretive (even within google). It;ll be interesting to see what/how much they change.

Are honeypot strategies still effective? They talk about using hidden form fields here: http://www.rustylime.com/show_article.php?id=676

...but they add a disclaimer: "We are no longer using this method as it, after more than a year of successful use, seems to be beaten regularly now."

"4. Stop spam trackbacks.." Don't forget to consider using rel="nofollow" (which most weblog software marks reader-submitted links by default)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_in_blogs#nofollow

Last I heard [mid-Sept]: Apple said that "Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application and we continue to discuss it with Google." Seems sketchy... [http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10356432-265.html?tag=mnco...]