malachismith

Thank you so much for sharing this. It's about time people started pointing out that EBS is a disaster. If we all do, maybe Amazon will finally fix it.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."

Vote.

You misunderstand the goal of a Venture Fund within an investor's portfolio. It is supposed to to be high risk, high reward, GROWTH investment.

Patent Trolling is just another means to the same end.

The exception - but only in severity.

this was simple calculus. big companies do it all the time. their legal department, their leverage... their money -- against the lack of all three (by comparison) possessed by a small company. it's not that they didn't know what was going on or the risk - it's just that they assumed that it wouldn't matter. this is why it's so great that FRC fought the whole way. about time!

Medically this is untrue. You need to understand the actual definition of "addiction" before making statements like this.

as a journalist... his job is the very OPPOSITE of "fighting for any excuse for his action." REALLY weak

The money quote, "Rather than engage in this empirical debate, or even acknowledge its existence, Kappos acted as though it was self-evident that stronger patents always create a larger incentive for innovation."

And, of course, we have copious illustrations of how he is wrong (and how he is right). So perhaps we should spend the time to determine if patents "always create a larger incentive for innovation" or not.

They you've pretty much got unlimited choices. AppFog, Heroku, you name it. Everyone supports PHP and MySQL these days.

are you looking for PHP only platforms, or platforms that support PHP along with other languages?

This is SO cool!!! Cannot wait to try it out.

Exactly why I stopped programming in my 30s. Figured I would try to solve management problems as that could do more good for programmers than any code I wrote. Turned out to be harder than I thought.

The next time you're stuck in rush hour traffic in Seattle and cursing the gods you'll have your answer.

The summer is the silver lining without a doubt. So many berries....

If only it were not for the weather....

The big question remains... will enterprise software companies ruin Node now that it's got all this momentum.

To paraphrase from Yves Behar, "there are two kinds of designers. Good ones and bad ones. Good ones can do all kinds of designs. Bad ones invent new subsets of design to excuse their failings."

I've learned the value of not working with designers who do not understand the realities and constraints of entrepreneurship.

Actually... most often UI people end up marginalized because they think their ideas and their needs are more important than they really are. Designers are, in general, their own worst enemies.

SSL coming very very soon...

Congrats man!! Deserved and earned!

Seriously! Good to see the good guys win one!

AppFog is actually free for 2GB of RAM....

from the blog post... "For us, this is just the beginning. In the coming months, we are planning on adding support to a number of other data storage technologies, including Redis (which is now one of our very highest priorities)..."

I think the answers are here: http://blog.appfog.com/if-paas-is-expensive-and-slow-why-not...

There are as many kinds of VCs as there are entrepreneurs. Some VCs are untrustworthy and some are even dumb (as stated here). Just like some entrepreneurs are ignorant and some are event dumb (as illustrated here). But there are fantastic VCs out there as well. I'm on my fifth startup and I've been lucky enough to have worked with a number of truly fantastic VCs. FWIW... the clear give away that someone is talking shit when they talk about how VCs suck is when they say things like "maybe VC Fund X is an exception." A knowledgable entrepreneur knows that what matters is NOT the fund - but rather the partner. And there are some smart partners out there.

WHY have we not reformed our patent system yet? Is it purely because of the sway lawyers have over our legal system and regulatory system (and the inherent conflict of interest that results)?

Right here: http://blog.appfog.com/if-paas-is-expensive-and-slow-why-not...