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14,400 | comment | lupin_sansei | 2007-04-19T01:28:42 | null | How is competing against somebody evil? The only way you can take customers from StumbleUpon is to create a better service than StumbleUpon does. It's the users who decide who wins in the marketplace, not the companies.<p>"... Google is proactively squashing any chance that the little guy who is extremely innovative once had. Google is no longer a creative, positive force on the Internet, but a massive corporation who makes up in muscle what they lack in creativity. Start-ups beware!"<p>Again. Google can't squash a competitor, only the users can. If StumbleUpon is better than Google's Dice thing then it will die the same death as Google Base and Google Page Creator. | null | null | 14,381 | 14,360 | null | [
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14,401 | comment | rjam | 2007-04-19T01:35:23 | null | That's completely true. I also like the blogosphere more than normal news because bloggers are more credible. Anyway, I'm also happy good bloggers can monetize their work by doing payed reviews and I'll continue to be happy as long as they keep the responsibility to write honest reviews, that can disagree with the product/service/business reviewed.<p>Besides that, you will be always able to find honest bloggers who will write this reviews in a responsible way, why? because there a lot more bloggers than news channels ;) | null | null | 14,129 | 14,090 | null | null | null | null |
14,402 | story | nanott | 2007-04-19T01:44:54 | Shared Virtual vs Dedicated vs Colocated server hosting - which do you use for your startup? | null | 1 | null | 14,402 | -1 | null | null | true |
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14,403 | story | nanott | 2007-04-19T01:45:07 | Shared Virtual vs Dedicated vs Colocated server hosting - which do you use for your startup? | null | 15 | null | 14,403 | 16 | [
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14,404 | comment | jward | 2007-04-19T01:55:02 | null | Just curious why you always quote and reference things in your posts. To me it just feels overly formal and extraneous for the level and type of conversation I expect to find here. It's a lot like shaking my roomates hand in greeting every day.<p>To answer your question:
Programmers Notepad, WinSCP, TurtleSVN, PuTTY<p>
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14,405 | story | amichail | 2007-04-19T01:58:19 | Microsoft Research: The vision | null | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muibPAUvOXk | 4 | null | 14,405 | 2 | [
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14,406 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-19T02:08:13 | null | Classic "that depends" question there. I'd suggesting going to <a href="http://www.webhostingtalk.com/">http://www.webhostingtalk.com/</a> and doing some searching. You'll see some wide ranging opinions on Dedicated vs. Colo vs. VPS. <p>Go there for an hour or so, ask around. It's mostly a hangout for infrastructure dudes but you'll still learn quite a bit. | null | null | 14,403 | 14,403 | null | null | null | null |
14,407 | comment | schoudha | 2007-04-19T02:09:58 | null | I disagree with the premise that Google is only good at making product's that its own hackers use (See aston's points below).<p>Nevertheless, even if we assume that this is true, many of Google's employees, including tech leads, produt managers, VPs, do give slide presentations. These employees have huge influence on the products and thus its very likely that Google "Presenations" will be more like Gmail than Google Video. | null | null | 14,283 | 14,219 | null | null | null | null |
14,408 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-19T02:10:22 | null | So Paul when you brought this idea up earlier (an OS for a phone), what kind of apps did you envision people writing? What's not out there now that you think needs to be? | null | null | 14,388 | 14,388 | null | [
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14,409 | comment | lupin_sansei | 2007-04-19T02:10:26 | null | But repealing the laws would allow them to compete with each other. | null | null | 7,840 | 7,463 | null | null | null | null |
14,410 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T02:16:03 | null | squeeze more juice from your multimedia content | null | null | 14,337 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,411 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-19T02:16:19 | null | Google's taking pages out of MS's playbook. | null | null | 14,360 | 14,360 | null | null | null | null |
14,412 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T02:18:58 | null | me - or more accurately, my depleted savings did. why? | null | null | 14,387 | 14,253 | null | null | null | null |
14,413 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-19T02:19:01 | null | Reddit is for sleepers. We were playing with this last week! | null | null | 14,389 | 14,389 | null | null | null | null |
14,414 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-19T02:20:44 | null | After a lot of testing, we went the colocated route. VPS was the second best option but the memory issues (too little) that we've experienced with two hosts were unacceptable. | null | null | 14,403 | 14,403 | null | null | null | null |
14,415 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T02:21:34 | null | are you talking about the website? or the actual software, NP. | null | null | 14,363 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,416 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-19T02:25:37 | null | Both work for me in Kubuntu on Firefox 2.0.0.3. | null | null | 14,083 | 14,003 | null | [
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14,417 | comment | kul | 2007-04-19T02:26:26 | null | I actually really enjoyed this. My first guess is that when we find something complex beautiful, it's because it is tapping into something innate (I would love to write about how music taste works). Also, I thought comment about "how easy something is to use" actually being a measure of how well it is made, is brilliant, which sometimes people don't get. Alas, it's 3.30am and I should sleep.
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14,418 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-19T02:28:29 | null | Also see this video:<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~awilson/PlayAnywhere%20final%201Mbps.wmv">http://research.microsoft.com/~awilson/PlayAnywhere%20final%201Mbps.wmv</a> | null | null | 14,405 | 14,405 | null | null | null | null |
14,419 | comment | pg | 2007-04-19T02:31:48 | null | I didn't propose that startup idea; that was from Robert Morris. | null | null | 14,408 | 14,388 | null | [
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14,420 | comment | timg | 2007-04-19T02:33:29 | null | Related: What's a provider that can give me lots of CPU time when I can no longer host CPU intensive processes from my home computers? What about for cost less than a dedicated server? | null | null | 14,403 | 14,403 | null | [
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14,421 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-19T02:37:30 | Why Is Twitter Using A Database In The First Place? | null | http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2007/04/twitter-rails-hammers-and-11000-nails-per-second/ | 21 | null | 14,421 | 23 | [
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14,422 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-19T02:40:48 | null | The website. I've no idea what the software is and thus I didn't download it. | null | null | 14,415 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,423 | story | brett | 2007-04-19T02:43:15 | Paul Kedrosky: Top Ten VC Lies | null | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/04/17/top_ten_vc_lies.html | 1 | null | 14,423 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,424 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-19T02:44:29 | null | <i>'... Programmers Notepad, WinSCP, TurtleSVN, PuTTY ...'</i><p>What languages?<p>
<i>'... Just curious why you always quote and reference things in your posts. To me it just feels overly formal and extraneous for the level and type of conversation I expect to find here ...'</i><p>Not overly formal but dense. While the <i>'Internet might not forget'</i>, [0] it looses context and meaning over time. This means the things you write now, are going to be around for a long time. So if you are going to write something it may as well be interesting & useful. This isn't <i>'formalism'</i> gone mad, but recognising that a small additional bit of information makes quick comments, observations, insights much more useful at some time in the future. <p>I'll give you an example. One post on <i>'Deep data'</i> [1] I added some comments, cited the source and made some extra observations that would make the overall comment more complicated than it should be. I wasn't really surprised then, checking back over the original sources the author [2] had picked up this post - why? Because I added extra useful information (author, article title, comment, keyword), picked up by google & found & provided useful feedback.<p>Plus, what makes you think I just leave the comments here? I cross post good comments to my flickr account, summaries to twitter & full posts to my blog. Though I must admit If i had inline links I probably wouldn't need to cite as much :(<p>Reference<p>[0] Jay Ward's blog, 'The Internet Doesn`t Forget'<p><a href="http://www.wardtek.ca/2007/04/the-internet-doesnt-forget/">http://www.wardtek.ca/2007/04/the-internet-doesnt-forget/</a><p>[1] bootload, news.yc, 'GDrive Google's next big thing?'<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10792">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10792</a><p>[2] Joe Gregorio, bitworking.org, 'Megadata Follow-up'<p><a href="http://bitworking.org/news/159/Megadata-Follow-up">http://bitworking.org/news/159/Megadata-Follow-up</a> | null | null | 14,404 | 14,392 | null | [
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14,425 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-19T02:45:01 | null | Amazon's EC2!<p><a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2">http://aws.amazon.com/ec2</a> | null | null | 14,420 | 14,403 | null | null | null | null |
14,426 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-19T02:49:00 | null | I'd totally buy one the next time I get a phone, but I can't help thinking that the iPhone is going to kill this. | null | null | 14,388 | 14,388 | null | null | null | null |
14,427 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-19T03:09:08 | null | You keep promoting your site (and without disclosure here) but it still lacks even the functionality of actually accepting submissions, among other basics.<p>If it was actually useful I'd make submissions and promote the site myself. | null | null | 14,147 | 14,090 | null | null | null | null |
14,428 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-19T03:13:07 | null | I was curious about it too; it's certainly not an easy thing to do, and bootload does it well.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10389">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10389</a> | null | null | 14,404 | 14,392 | null | [
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14,429 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-19T03:16:10 | null | Unless you have money to burn, I would definitely recommend against hosting at a colo. <p>At the last startup I worked at we had no end of fiascoes regarding our colos. The startup bought over a <i>million</i> dollars of servers and then was paying high-priced employees and consultants to set them up at a colo. But then once the servers were all set up, the colo discovered that they didn't have enough power for our servers. Then we had trouble getting out of the big colo contract that we had signed and had to move all the servers and get them set up at yet another colo. Turns out the next colo also didn't have enough power for our setup even after many reassurances at the beginning that they did. So all in all, this waste of resources put us months behind schedule. Then, ironically we got acquired and no longer even needed our setup because we could then just use the bigger company's server setup.<p>This is another case of 'premature optimization is the root of all evil'. Seriously, we could have done the whole startup with a couple of Dreamhost accounts and launched earlier with a better product and with WAY (millions) more money in the bank. They were optimizing our server setup for HUGE traffic when they should have just been focused on the product.<p>I'm glad I was able to see those mistakes close up. It gave me confidence to do my own startup self-funded since I knew how low I could keep my burn-rate. <p>So now, I'm using EC2 for my servers and it's an amazing experience. I set up a custom server image and then can run multiple instances of it for only 10 cents per server per hour. I can kill instances that I'm not using and bring up a new server within 2 minutes. My server bill is less than $50 a month during development and will be about $100 a month once I launch. I'll also have the ability to scale up VERY quickly and cheaply if I need to.<p>Anyway, that's my take on it from my limited experience. I'm sure there are some guys that are obsessed with doing their own custom server setup at a colo. Good for them. But you have to realize that you'll have <i>much</i> higher capital costs up front and will be exposing yourself to <i>much</i> greater risk. Focus on your product and find a server solution that is cheap, low-risk, and flexible. Remember you can always scale later - but you have to have a reason to scale first! Have the faith to focus on product and don't fall into the trap of an 'intriguing' 'interesting' academic experiment in server setups! | null | null | 14,403 | 14,403 | null | null | null | null |
14,430 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-19T03:28:23 | null | I am going with Media Temple (GS) I can't give you feedback about them yet, but they cost $20 a month and their grid server can grow with your needs... | null | null | 14,403 | 14,403 | null | [
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14,431 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-19T03:28:24 | null | I think someone is confusing correlation and causation... | null | null | 14,074 | 14,074 | null | [
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14,432 | story | jaed | 2007-04-19T03:30:23 | Is telling your employer you're quitting to launch a startup a bad idea? | null | 2 | null | 14,432 | 11 | [
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14,433 | comment | jaed | 2007-04-19T03:30:43 | null | Even if the startup has nothing to do with your current work. | null | null | 14,432 | 14,432 | null | null | null | null |
14,434 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-19T03:35:27 | null | XML + XSLT -> (XHTML, RSS, mail) is a winner. | null | null | 13,679 | 13,679 | null | [
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14,435 | comment | kyro | 2007-04-19T03:35:42 | null | If it's to pursue what you love and have a passion for, then telling your current employer your quitting to essentially pursue happiness should be absolutely no big deal. :P | null | null | 14,432 | 14,432 | null | null | null | null |
14,436 | story | mattmaroon | 2007-04-19T03:36:33 | My thoughts on my upcoming YCombinator interview | null | http://mattmaroon.com/?p=181 | 9 | null | 14,436 | 8 | [
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14,437 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-19T03:41:16 | null | I can see this definitely having more nerd-cred than the iPhone. Hope it works out. | null | null | 14,388 | 14,388 | null | null | null | null |
14,438 | story | Prrometheus | 2007-04-19T03:41:57 | Headin' to California, with an aching in my heart... | null | 7 | null | 14,438 | 21 | [
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14,439 | comment | Prrometheus | 2007-04-19T03:42:23 | null | So let's say I quit my investment banking job this summer and head to California with $10K in my pocket and hope in my heart. What's the next step? College, a tech job, hanging arround coffee shops looking for cofounders? I have a rudimentary knowledge of PHP and Ruby (I built a photo gallery in the former), an abstract mathematical background, and I love talking in front of crowds. What would you do if you were me? | null | null | 14,438 | 14,438 | null | [
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14,440 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-19T03:42:39 | null | <i>"(Or if you're a crazed wunderkind like LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick, you invent a memory-based distributed hashtable as a cache to put in front of the database.)"</i><p>The cool thing about Brad is that he released that creation as open source -- we can all benefit from his genius, like Facebook already has. Memcached is an amazingly effective way of getting the benefits of SQL storage in a simple, scalable, and reliable way. It's impossible to over-hype how much it kicks ass.
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14,441 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-19T03:44:08 | null | Interesting article, and really it is quite blatant most of the time. You can search google news for phrases from PR wire and get all kinds of hits.<p>Also, another interesting trend is Edelman moving into 'flogs' , i.e. paid pr shill blogs. Recently got caught pulling that for Walmart and Disney, I believe. <p>Articles on the consumerist:<p><a href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/edelman/">http://consumerist.com/consumer/edelman/</a> | null | null | 13,993 | 13,993 | null | null | null | null |
14,442 | comment | kyro | 2007-04-19T03:44:28 | null | Where in California exactly? | null | null | 14,439 | 14,438 | null | [
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14,443 | comment | Prrometheus | 2007-04-19T03:45:16 | null | I figure San Francisco. That's where the action is, right? And a day job would be easy to come by in a city that large. | null | null | 14,442 | 14,438 | null | null | null | null |
14,444 | comment | Prrometheus | 2007-04-19T03:46:39 | null | C-n opens a new browser window...<p>
Awesome idea though! | null | null | 14,416 | 14,003 | null | [
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14,445 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-19T03:48:49 | null | I'd look for the girl out there, with love in her eyes and flowers... | null | null | 14,438 | 14,438 | null | [
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14,446 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-19T03:53:23 | null | <i>"What would you do if you were me?"</i><p>I'd start learning to be more self-reliant and stop seeking advice on what I should do with my life from random people on the internet.
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14,447 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-19T03:54:53 | null | Why would Google launch it before the deal is closed? They would rather acquire StumbleUpon than release their own competitor. | null | null | 14,379 | 14,360 | null | null | null | null |
14,448 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-19T03:59:59 | null | <i>'... it's certainly not an easy thing to do ...'</i><p>I'm in the process of refining my toolset to allow you to create, capture a post. I've been doing this kind of stuff for a long time, for example my /. uid=2774. [0] So I've had plenty of practice. The current problem I'm working on is creating my toolset [1] to move up the data chain, from <i>data-information-knowledge-wisdom</i>. [2]<p>Capturing my data, adding extra information then being able to push it elsewhere ~ just being another live node on the network :) A more important thing trying to improve my quality of life.<p><p>Reference<p>[0] Slashdot was the news.yc of it's time <p><a href="http://slashdot.org/~goon">http://slashdot.org/~goon</a><p>[1] ng or Nextgen<p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/nextgen">http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/nextgen</a><p>[2] ITConversations, Gigavox media, 'Attention: The <i>Real</i> Aphrodisiac, 24:23, 11.2 mb'<p><a href="http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail739.html">http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail739.html</a> | null | null | 14,428 | 14,392 | null | null | null | null |
14,449 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-19T04:00:16 | null | done in dreamweaver 8
Yeah, that'd be your problem.<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjuwo.com">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjuwo.com</a> | null | null | 14,320 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,450 | comment | jrbedard | 2007-04-19T04:07:31 | null | Good luck for the interview! Have fun in the Napa Valley!, don't forget to bring back a bottle of wine to celebrate(hopefully) on Sunday night. | null | null | 14,436 | 14,436 | null | null | null | null |
14,451 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-19T04:07:54 | null | Why can't you launch it now? | null | null | 14,432 | 14,432 | null | [
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14,452 | comment | woot | 2007-04-19T04:08:42 | null | Hey! This is cool! But Crap Box is better.
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14,453 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-19T04:10:50 | null | Apply for google.<p>Edit: No, but seriously, downmodding aside, apply for google. Working for a big company in a new place is a decent way of building up connections and local knowledge. Google is about the least egregious option, so go with them. | null | null | 14,439 | 14,438 | null | [
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14,454 | comment | woot | 2007-04-19T04:12:29 | null | Imagine your reaction when your employee does that to you when you start your startup!
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14,455 | story | bootload | 2007-04-19T04:14:30 | Thoughts on attention & specifically, continuous partial attention | null | http://www.lindastone.net | 1 | null | 14,455 | 1 | [
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14,456 | comment | woot | 2007-04-19T04:20:26 | null | There is a blog entry on their site which compares Apollo with Dekoh. Its totally misleading and is a lie.<p><a href="http://www.dekoh.com/blog/news/entry/desktop_ria_comparison_dekoh_verses1">http://www.dekoh.com/blog/news/entry/desktop_ria_comparison_dekoh_verses1</a> | null | null | 14,116 | 14,116 | null | null | null | null |
14,457 | comment | jaed | 2007-04-19T04:20:45 | null | They own rights to what I create. | null | null | 14,451 | 14,432 | null | [
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14,458 | comment | philc | 2007-04-19T04:23:51 | null | Juwo, this is the most confusing thing I've ever looked at. I have a feeling the product is not very focused itself, and thus is hard to convey. If you can't convey it in a single page with a few terse sentences (ala skype.com), you might need to redesign and make it simpler.<p>I'm glad you're a Christian, but a company-about page is probably not the best place for pro/con links. It's distracting. | null | null | 14,253 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,459 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-19T04:26:18 | null | I would keep pretty hush about it unless there's some real chance your employer is going to say "Wow that's cool -- why don't you partner with me and I'll invest $5M."<p>People can get petty and weird when they're jealous or angry.
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14,460 | comment | budu3 | 2007-04-19T04:29:11 | null | I agree with most people on this thread. There's an information overload. Plus I suggest you hire a web designer. The design is not doing your service justice. | null | null | 14,253 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,461 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T04:30:39 | null | "Hey! This is cool! But Crap Box is better"<p>Did you actually use juwo before stating that your toilet is better? | null | null | 14,452 | 14,253 | null | null | null | null |
14,462 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-19T04:30:52 | null | Wouldn't it make more sense to basically just have a web browser on the phone to access all your data? | null | null | 14,388 | 14,388 | null | null | null | null |
14,463 | comment | natrius | 2007-04-19T04:33:06 | null | That doesn't mean anything. | null | null | 14,410 | 14,253 | null | null | null | null |
14,464 | story | bkmrkr | 2007-04-19T04:34:02 | Better Than Rules: How Bayesian Theory Is The New If Statement | null | http://greggurevich.com/2007/04/19/the-rise-of-statistics/ | 10 | null | 14,464 | 6 | [
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14,465 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-19T04:58:53 | null | If you don't understand the phenomena, how can you create things that people want? | null | null | 14,455 | 14,455 | null | null | null | null |
14,466 | comment | menow | 2007-04-19T05:06:04 | null | Get hired somewhere. Check out the job boards on techcrunch, siliconbeat, linkedin. Go to every local conference. You don't have to be registered. Twitter. Blog. It will work out. :-)
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14,467 | story | vlad | 2007-04-19T05:11:05 | The Goal? To Crash your shared web hosting? | null | 2 | null | 14,467 | 5 | [
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14,468 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-19T05:11:16 | null | What exactly would you do in CA that you are not able to do in your location? I'd come to CA only if I have some idea of what to do: College? First find out which one and apply. Tech Job? First send your resume. Find co-founders? You won't find them in the coffee shops, trust me! (at least not the busy ones...)<p>Talking in front of crowds? That'd be a good reason. Lots of events going on over here. But first you need an app to show off :)<p>I love CA, don't take me wrong! I'm just saying that a bit of planning would make your 10k last longer. | null | null | 14,439 | 14,438 | null | null | null | null |
14,469 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-19T05:11:28 | null | What do you guys think? Is this a good of way of putting what we're trying to do here? Then hope it crashes again very soon after you upgrade to a dedicated server? That you can barely keep it running?<p>In other words, instead of worrying about the kind of hosting you have right now, shouldn't the focus be on figuring out ways to overload it? Isn't it kind of ironic or contrary to this belief, that people want the best host with the most web space and bandwidth? Shouldn't they want to slow as many machines to a crawl as possible?<p>I've heard stories of how businesses (startups or otherwise) love to switch to $5/mo web hosting with 5000GB of bandwidth which of course they will never reach before being kicked out. Or startups wondering what the best hosting company is. But, isn't that self-defeating to put those thoughts into your mind? Or that you're feeling inferior if you can't outgrow $5/mo web hosting?<p>I say, pay $10 a month for something sane, like 100gb transfer. Something that is $100 realistic. Then, when you outgrow the server, you know you're doing something right. And you don't have to feel guilty or inferior or that you're not using the space or bandwidth, which in reality you don't even have access to (they would shut you off.) So why do businesses try to disillusion themselves?<p>Wouldn't it be much better to find any web host with a bandwidth cap (so they simply shut you off and you're not stuck with a huge overages bill) and focus instead on building traffic of visitors to your site every day? | null | null | 14,467 | 14,467 | null | [
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14,470 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-19T05:14:13 | null | In the demo, he says your keybindings are dependent on your OS. I use Linux, which is probably part of it. If you're on a Windows box, it's supposed to make it more like Windows keybindings. Presumably at some point he'll make it a preference option thing. <p>edit: oh duh, you mean firefox. yeah, you'd have to change your firefox bindings. | null | null | 14,444 | 14,003 | null | null | null | null |
14,471 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-19T05:16:02 | null | <i>'... up to 11,000 requests per second'. Jesus Christ, thats a lot. Where does that come from? ...'</i><p>One of the bottle necks is the continuous polling on the public timeline and its RSS file. It makes me wonder why they don't charge for the privilege.
<p><i>'... polling for updates every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, thats still only about 1,000 hits/sec ...'</i><p>
try every 0-10 seconds per client per person using such clients. [0] If this was happening in other sites it would be throttled.<p>Reference<p>[0] google search, 'twitter updates timeline every seconds'<p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+updates+timeline+every+seconds">http://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+updates+timeline+every+seconds</a> | null | null | 14,421 | 14,421 | null | [
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14,472 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-19T05:16:16 | null | No! We're laboring to put our db on a separate server from http so our site doesn't randomly die for few minutes(10mins downtime today). Believe me it's not pleasant to get a 4:05am sms from hyperspin saying "SITE IS DOWN!". <p>But all in all it's a nice problem to have. I tend to agree with Delicious guys...worry about scaling when it becomes a problem. That shouldn't be an excuse to code bloated SQL queries. | null | null | 14,469 | 14,467 | null | null | null | null |
14,473 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-19T05:18:30 | null | Are you trying to influence PG's decision by submitting this and hoping he'll read it? If you are doing that, I think it's really pushing the limits of what's acceptable -- so you must be founder material. Either way: Good luck.
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14,474 | comment | andre | 2007-04-19T05:19:21 | null | I think you have to thinking whatever gets your juices flowing, if it's crashing the server, be it, if it's something else go with that. | null | null | 14,467 | 14,467 | null | null | null | null |
14,475 | comment | jcwentz | 2007-04-19T05:21:59 | null | I recommend Bouchon in St. Helena. Same owner as the French Laundry, but you don't have to dress up or make a reservation months in advance.
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14,476 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-19T05:26:07 | null | null | null | 14,467 | 14,467 | null | null | null | true |
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14,477 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-19T05:26:29 | null | Years ago I faced the same issue. I decided to tell my boss and he actually supported me with advice and mentorship (he ended up convincing me not to quit, but that's another story...)<p>The first question that comes to my mind is: Do you really need to quit? Having an income while you moonlight is a huge advantage, as you can survive until your start-up is sustainable (and then quit your day job)<p>Second: Do you have enough savings to survive a year on your own? If not, keep your current job, build your savings and then quit.<p>Third: Are you in good terms with your immediate manager? If yes, then do tell him/her -- You might be able to even negotiate an alternative deal, like part-time, contracting or something else. If not, then tell him/her only if asked. In any case, it's certainly better to learn the news through you than through someone else.<p>Obviously, what I wrote in this post does not apply if you and your employer have a conflict of interests. If that's the case, I'd talk to a lawyer.
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14,478 | comment | waleedka | 2007-04-19T05:27:08 | null | I'd say you're on your way to bigger and better things. By making the decision to leave a comfortable job you're already ahead of 90% of the population. Most people seek stability not opportunity. Move there, talk to people, attend events, network, and you'll find something that you can do well and enjoy doing. And if it doesn't work out, so what! You'll probably remember the time as the best adventure in your life. Go for it. | null | null | 14,438 | 14,438 | null | null | null | null |
14,479 | story | staunch | 2007-04-19T05:31:02 | "Digg Killer" MySpace News Launches Tomorrow | null | http://mashable.com/2007/04/18/myspace-news-2/ | 2 | null | 14,479 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,480 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-19T05:37:01 | null | It seems like the hardball thing for Google to do would have been to release the product before the deal, to lower eBay's interest and drive the price down.<p> | null | null | 14,360 | 14,360 | null | null | null | null |
14,481 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-19T05:37:23 | null | Ask them to sign a form (user dhouston had done this) where they say that projects you work on in your free time are your own copyright. It depends on what you signed when you were hired. They may not own anything if you didn't sign anything. | null | null | 14,457 | 14,432 | null | null | null | null |
14,482 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-19T05:37:33 | null | one would be appreciated! nicholas.s.barnes atttt gmail.commmm
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14,483 | comment | jward | 2007-04-19T05:37:59 | null | Languages? Generally Python as of late. I find it easy and fast to work in. I'm trying to learn Haskell, so my next project will be using that.<p>My workflow tends to go like this... I open an ssh session to my colocated dev box to run servers, reboot services, etc. I use WinSCP to connect to the server and edit code directly on there so I can see the changes.<p>I do my best to keep SVN up and running so I have a repository. I used to just use vi over ssh, but I've found programmers notepad much nicer for dealing with large amounts of files.<p>Since I do webapps I have on one screen my editor, my ssh connection (or three), and WinSCP to manage files on the server. The other monitor holds Firefox and all it's glorious debugging tools. | null | null | 14,424 | 14,392 | null | null | null | null |
14,484 | comment | mattmaroon | 2007-04-19T05:38:22 | null | I've eaten at Bouchon in Vegas and wasn't too impressed, but I hear the one in Napa is leagues better. I had the good fortune of meeting Allison Steltzner a while back and she told me that. There's a good chance I'll try it on this trip. <p>And no staunch, that was not my intent, and I hope it does not appear as such. That had not occurred to me but probably should have. I really just hoped to share my experience and get any tips/comments from people here, especially on dining. | null | null | 14,436 | 14,436 | null | [
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14,485 | story | pg | 2007-04-19T05:39:09 | Amazon sues Alexaholic, everyone loses | null | http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=350 | 14 | null | 14,485 | 12 | [
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14,486 | comment | pg | 2007-04-19T05:45:48 | null | You know, there's something about Amazon. I keep noticing things that are just a little off, morally. First it was the one-click patent. Then I learned that their employment agreement forbids you from starting a startup with anyone else who has worked at Amazon, even if you didn't know them. (Don't worry, they'd never dare enforce it.) And now they sue someone simply for making a better UI to their lame site. There's starting to be a pattern. <p>If Alexa had a decent UI, Statsaholic wouldn't be a threat. Instead of suing this guy for doing their own job properly, they should just fix Alexa. | null | null | 14,485 | 14,485 | null | [
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14,487 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T05:47:21 | null | I have reorganized the page. | null | null | 14,358 | 14,253 | null | null | null | null |
14,488 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T05:47:44 | null | I have reorganized the page. | null | null | 14,337 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,489 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T05:48:10 | null | thanks, shall fix by hand | null | null | 14,449 | 14,253 | null | null | null | null |
14,490 | story | brett | 2007-04-19T05:48:51 | 37signals wants to charge their customers for the chance to give them customer feedback | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/384-37signals-customer-summit-exploration | 4 | null | 14,490 | 9 | [
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14,491 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T05:49:14 | null | Please click on the demos. The software downloads and installs. It is desktop-web.<p>I have reorganized the page. | null | null | 14,359 | 14,253 | null | null | null | null |
14,492 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T05:50:11 | null | I have reorganized the page. | null | null | 14,422 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,493 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T05:50:41 | null | I have reorganized the page. | null | null | 14,460 | 14,253 | null | null | null | null |
14,494 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-19T05:51:47 | null | juwo is... <p>A "Swiss Army knife" piece of software that gives more power to consumers to structure snippets of audio, video and text as a bullet list, to more easily index and annotate them, and to share the lists with others. Its benefits extend to multimedia as related to more enriching broadcasts, collaboration and organizing.
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14,495 | comment | blader | 2007-04-19T05:58:47 | null | The new design is a huge improvement, but (and I know this is harsh) only because the old one was so poor. There are still a lot of problems with the page. Right now your homepage looks like (well, it IS) a manual. It needs to look like a brochure. Put your manual somewhere else.<p>Paul Graham's suggestion to take a look at wufoo.com is a great one. That's one of the best homepages you can find on the net. Simplify simplify simplify and reduce reduce reduce. | null | null | 14,488 | 14,253 | null | [
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14,496 | comment | brett | 2007-04-19T05:59:48 | null | There's always been something fishy about 37signals that I can't put my finger on. I respect what they've done but know that I <i>definitely</i> don't want to run a company like they do. Firstly, they charge for everything they possible can. This is not necessarily bad in and of itself but at some point they stop feeling like a product company. First and foremost they're a <i>brand</i> company. I can't help but think they'll sacrifice quality in any other area if it helps their brand out. That's probably not entirely fair, but it's the picture they've painted.<p>I just want to build cool stuff. I know brand is important but it seems silly to me to try and make a career out of blathering about how awesomely I build cool stuff and how much I <i>just get it</i> where so many others don't. | null | null | 14,490 | 14,490 | null | [
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14,497 | story | ryan | 2007-04-19T06:02:22 | .com vs .net domain name? | null | 2 | null | 14,497 | 6 | [
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14,498 | comment | brett | 2007-04-19T06:02:54 | null | .com | null | null | 14,497 | 14,497 | null | null | null | null |
14,499 | comment | timg | 2007-04-19T06:04:59 | null | SQL Databases are so astonishingly slow that I just switched my most intensive app to only use the database for backing up the data to disk and reloading from on startup.<p>This arrangement is so much faster and easy to understand/measure/optimize for me that I can't see myself going back. | null | null | 14,421 | 14,421 | null | [
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