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by rantfoil 16y ago
Author lost total credibility at that point. Rails is quite elegant, and yes, it is just another tool. Totally unsubstantiated bashing. Surprised to see this on the homepage.
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Pew Internet study: What people do online in 2010(pewinternet.org)
1 points by rantfoil 16y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 16y ago
We're tracking this bug down now -- mind letting me know repro steps? We'll fix it asap -- garry@posterous.com Thanks Emmett!
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Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy(blog.posterous.com)
113 points by rantfoil 16y ago|56 comments
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by rantfoil 16y ago
A few weeks ago we had some bugs in new batch processing code that caused some major errors there. These bugs have since been fixed. We are definitely not as far off as 9316 vs 14 in normal operation. These numbers are far from meaningles
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Our focus is on building the best product. It so happens to be that we are aware of the issue and recommend that you use Google Analytics for deeper insight into visitors and views. Here is a bit of how-the-sausage is made, but you wouldn't
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by rantfoil 16y ago
If anything, our focus on email and creation tools spurs far more original content than other traditional blogging methods. We do honor DMCA takedown requests -- they're fairly easy to do and we are very mindful of taking down infringing co
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by rantfoil 16y ago
This is an anonymous article on Quora -- if I could provide more attribution, I would. In fact, I have now added a ton more attribution and links back to the main quora page. I love Quora. That blog is just my interesting snippets blog. It
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Fixed
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by rantfoil 16y ago
We use Bitpusher as our vendor for sysadmin/ops at Posterous. They're a great group of people to work with, and they get to see a lot of different environments since they specifically specialize in working with startup ops. http://bitpushe
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by rantfoil 16y ago
At Posterous we use MySQL as a main data store but MongoDB for simple analytics and Redis for set operations around contacts and subscriptions. Redis is also great as a backing store for the Rails queuing system Resque.
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by rantfoil 16y ago
If you're willing to hire a full time person, Google's AdWords team has hundreds of very talented optimizers and account specialists who are in general fairly unhappy with their jobs. They have very deep knowledge of PPC/Adwords from the in
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Forced obsolescence.
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Elaborate fake Chevron PR campaign created by subversive ad group(tedfellows.posterous.com)
59 points by rantfoil 16y ago|9 comments
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Posterous is hiring Rails and infrastracture engineers(posterous.com)
4 points by rantfoil 16y ago
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Things like Airbnb don't exist without the Internet -- fundamentally they connect people who wouldn't have met any other way. It's about building communities that didn't exist before. That's significant. The modality is the difference. Peop
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by rantfoil 16y ago
For a hacker I cannot imagine a more amazing gift to oneself than the gift of ever-present Internet access via Sprint/Verizon/Whatever via USB dongle or expresscard. It's ~$50/month -- but I would definitely give up lattes and buy black cof
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by rantfoil 16y ago
San Francisco Posterous is hiring Backend and Rails engineers! We're a team of just 10 engineers -- 100% focused on being totally driven by great hackers who love building for consumer web. http://posterous.com/jobs
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by rantfoil 16y ago
I'm curious to hear what early users we got that may have helped us. OK, Arrington was a good one. =) Others?
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by rantfoil 16y ago
That's why startup scenes are a bit of a mixed bag. You can meet really awesome people who can help you a lot. But you can't let it get in the way of building product.
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Awesome, we will be in touch!
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Posterous is hiring, and we love Ruby on Rails. Let me know if you'd like to talk. Perhaps we can make lemonade from these lemons. http://posterous.com/jobs
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Software is the highest leverage profession in the world right now. Perhaps in the early 1900's it was wildcatting for oil in Southern California. It minted billionaires like Getty, but it was tough work that required guile and cunning. Any
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by rantfoil 16y ago
In addition, Delayed Job is also a battle-hardened/tested queue system too, with better retry / error rescuing (ironically enough). It is slower due to MySQL locking though -- Resque is built on top of Redis and is lightning fast. We use DJ
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Ideally invalidation happens on an offline queue with retry support. Server down? Reschedule job and retry later. We use Delayed Job at Posterous for things like this. Resque works too.
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Making Posterous faster with Varnish page caching(technology.posterous.com)
104 points by rantfoil 16y ago|20 comments
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by rantfoil 16y ago
There are three kinds of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. Daily pageviews here is probably the least useful metric to evaluate our site, given that Posterous doesn't chase pageviews and send daily subscription emails (full text bodi
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by rantfoil 16y ago
We're definitely working on it. =) But this feedback is super helpful. Thanks Max.
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by rantfoil 16y ago
1) Angels and YC can't really even be mentioned in the same sentence as VC's. Totally different goals and alignments. 4) Not true, many counterexamples, most notably Wufoo. Sounds like you're doing just fine on your own, though.
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Beautiful and simple sparklines with source code(vccv.posterous.com)
11 points by rantfoil 16y ago|5 comments

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