jefft

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by jefft 8y ago
My wife is a lifelong migraine sufferer and these anti-CGRP drugs really seem to be working (fingers crossed). She'd literally tried everything and had given up. Virtual high-five to these researchers
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by jefft 13y ago
Not anymore: SFA 77 VCU 75
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by jefft 14y ago
The comments here are really hitting home to me how self-aggrandizing and toxic hacker news is becoming. This guy got off his ass and started a real business. How about a pat on the back or words of encouragement? Here's a dose of optimism
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by jefft 15y ago
Durham (American Tobacco Campus) is home to TriHUG, one of the best Hadoop Users Group in the south. There's a great crop of young, vibrant startups in Durham and Raleigh that are thriving and hiring. It's a lot more than IBM, SAS, Microsof
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by jefft 15y ago
Hadoop is much more than MapReduce. It's a fault tolerant, highly scalable file system where you can store a shitload (technical term) of data. That alone is remarkable. Once your data is there, then you get your map/reduce on. And the best
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by jefft 15y ago
And Justin Frankel. He and his peeps at Nullsoft cranked out some great stuff
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by jefft 15y ago
To me, this is idea is akin to having a 3rd year creative writing student write a love poem for your bride-to-be. Nicely designed site, though. Looks great.
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by jefft 15y ago
Isn't the "one extreme to the other" kind of the point of his post? Following his gut has obviously worked quite well for him. It's refreshing to hear this side. And frankly, it doesn't sound like you know much about him if you're replying
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by jefft 15y ago
Don't worry about competition. It's a good thing. It means you picked a good market. Focus on what makes you different and better. Sounds like you may be a single founder. If so, find a friend or mentor who can help you work through the ups
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by jefft 15y ago
I paid a local law firm for a TOS once. It was not cheap, and after I received it, I had to manually edit out the remnants of an unfinished search/replace of another company's name. One more anecdote: When my service went live, I put a free
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by jefft 15y ago
I recall reading an interview with Evan Weaver that the problem with moving to JRuby was in client libraries they were using, not JRuby itself.
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by jefft 15y ago
Sites like Hulu and Spotify predominately use web analytics to gauge their audience in order to sell advertising, not to make their sites better. That may be a by-product, but that's not driving their analytics usage. Additionally, cross-si
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by jefft 15y ago
Let's be clear: this ability isn't used to have perfect information on how users interact with your product. It's used to allow publishers to make more money from their consumers through advertising.
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by jefft 16y ago
don't forget the cost of the EBS volume. that'd be an extra $5/mo for 50GB of storage
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by jefft 16y ago
the ROI is people spending more time on Twitter. have you used the app? it's set up for much more noodling/discovery of tweets and people, rather than just looking over a timeline.
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by jefft 16y ago
why is this upvoted so much? your points are all off base, and frankly sound like they're coming from someone who doesn't care to do iPad development. The real factor here is the iPad has only been on the market for 5 months. We've had the
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by jefft 16y ago
and the peculiar thing was, the CPU that was released, it didn't perform anything like this CPU
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by jefft 16y ago
IMHO the answer is here in this thread... which would you choose? a) php b) rails c) Java + JSP/Servlets/JSTL/Tiles/Struts/Spring/JSF/Play/Wicket/GWT/Stripes/Tapestry/WebObjects
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by jefft 16y ago
my $.02 ... listen to anyone who recommends Rippetoe's "Starting Strength." oh, and ignore everyone else.