socmoth

too bad. the guy spent three months just thinking about his startup. each week had a point, with specific things like talking to customers, talking to investors. finding out about competitors, etc. i really liked it, but forgot to save it.

i just switched to http://www.gandi.net/, i wasn't able to find a single bad review.

I don't know anything inside or specific but I have read some books on buffet. He invests in good companies that are below market rates. His generally buys companies that have sound financials and will continue to make money. He also likes companies that make simple products (razor blades, furniture, not technology : ).

Buffet has gone on record multiple times (cnn, print interviews) saying he would be the person who buys the mortgages from the banks and resales them later if he could get a 700 billion dollar or comparable loan.

The mortgages are current artificially low because everyone is scared. If you can buy them low and sell them once the fear is gone, you could make a ton of money.

People will make money on this situation, the government will completely mess up some aspects of this, articles will be written 'exposing' all the problems.

i wish there were wikipedia style discuss pages for legislation. especially for things like this.

You don't really know much about Warren Buffet. He is famous for paying unusually high taxes compared to his peers because he thinks it is the right thing for people in his position to do.

"Most important, when banks fall on Wall Street, they stop all the traffic on Main Street — for a very long time."

best part for me, and how people aren't really getting why you would bail out banks.

thanks for joining waynep, maybe i can help you out.

email paul - at - deluux.com

so personal seo is an interest of mine, and something i've succeeded at.

before you can answer, what are you trying to be known for, and where are you publishing currently.

yeah, for your age, you don't need an investor until you need lots of servers. So get lots of users then investors will be easy.

i've heard some other kul quotes that would make great headlines.

go try it, a statistically significant number of times, and tell us if you ever got caught.

bookmarklet

the moods app forgot to verify_sig on that request. i'm betting there are a lot of facebook apps like that.

there are often cycles in newstories

the first cycle is characterized as something found, launched, or created. (gold in california)

2nd, is everyone is doing it, most important thing ever and you are missing out (gold rush)

3rd, is more subtle and often missed as a trend, it is characterized by counter thought, (nobody actually got rich in california) (which is mostly true about gold)

you can see it in a lot of places.

1) facebook platform launched

2) land grab in progress

3) nobody makes money on facebook apps

newpapers have to tell a story, and these stories are the kinda angles that work over and over. there are many variations and subtleties and articles which don't fit, but in any big news trend, you can find some articles which fall directly in to those three categories.

this story is category 3, readers! everything is ok! you've been hearing about something, but everything is ok! you aren't missing anything!

i'm not sure that guy wasn't just flamebaiting.

i asked the same question of a network phd student. i got the simple text version, and i have no idea if it is valid or not, but the guy i know is very smart.

he says in all likelihood, a guy in charge setup a malicious route or "report" saying they could access youtube faster than they really could. which means, everyone trying to get to youtube, went through pakistan because it was the fastest way to youtube. so all youtube traffic went to pakistan, which was the ddos part.

why isn't this a huge problem? it kinda is. the system shouldn't be able to be taken down. But, it isn't a huge problem because nobody actually does this.

Apparently, isps pay a lot for their access, and this kinda thing is a good way of paying a lot more and loosing all your money and not having internet, which is the opposite of the business they are in.

i've never ever heard of something like this happening, or about these 'reports.' so... maybe nobody should listen to me. but my friend is usually right about this stuff.

it never says how food was distributed through lego town. and if i had to stand in line to get toilet paper. if their economy is any good. : )

i just noticed replies.

mongrel doesn't do it for the same reason tar doesn't support encryption (pgp does!).

mongrel is designed to serve requests, not balance requests or spawn itself. sure it could, but it doesn't have to. it is just as easy to have another project spawn more mongrels. That way if I want to to write software just for looking at my servers and making more mongrels, i can, very easily. Otherwise i have to look in mongrel's code.

one mongrel handles one request. if you request takes one second to complete. you get one request/sec. 7 mongrels => 7 req/sec.

100req/sec * 7 mongrels => 700 req/sec total. and other simple math.

they aren't spawned automatically. you setup a number and distribute to them. there are ways of getting them to spawn automatically, but it isn't inherent to mongrel itself.

aww, i had some text apologizing for incendiary titles. or at least fallacies in them. sry

what do you mean?

making semiconductors is a ton of math, theory, and layout work. are you talking about actually using masks to do the doping?

could your elaborate on the following paragraph? i'm not sure how something is worth 20 dollars because of 1 dollar yearly revenue. what assumptions are you making?

Let's assume the 1-year government bond yield is at 5% (it's not, but it simplifies the math, so bear with me). As a gross oversimplification, that means that a $20 investment today will produce a risk-free return of 5% ($1) at the end of a year. The converse is also true: if a risk-free investment produces $1 in revenues over the course of a year, then the investment should be valued at $20.

omg kn0thing how did you find that out! ;)

ec2 + s3 is awesome. saved my but a lot.

this list isn't extremely accurate. in fact i think it is overly pessimistic.

yey secrets.

looking good ;)

paul, socialmoth

you found me.

i'd love speaking tips/feedback in general. or tech whatever.

you can take what you said and apply it to google and their published pagerank. or the establishment of the previous players.

as long as there is a lot money in search, there will be a lot of people competing for it, and people funding them. And the very least it will do is keep google on its toes, which is good.

beware the great rewrite.

one of the best things about YC is the peer group and the environment. you get a lot from talking to your new friends who are going through exactly the same thing you are.