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by schammy 16y ago
I know! And the amazing thing is just to think about how relevant this is to Hacker News! Because when I think, gee, I wonder what technology Mega Corp is raking in the billions, this it the very first site that comes to mind!
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by schammy 16y ago
Fair enough, however, $9.99 is no longer the common price point. Most new releases are $12.99 now, which many people think is too high, and the problem is the retailers can't do anything about it because of this "agency pricing". I had no p
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by schammy 16y ago
Yeah, I know, interest rate used to be good. I used to get 5% on my emigrant direct savings account. Now it's 1%, and I don't know of anything higher (for a money market account anywys)
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by schammy 16y ago
> Incoming calls will interrupt data activity. I don't see why people make a big deal out of this. How often do you really need to talk AND use data at the same time? I've never, ever, ever, ever, ever had to or even had the inclinati
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by schammy 16y ago
I know of no such bank offering interest rates even close to that. You're talking 2.5% - 5%. That's unheard of these days. At my current bank, $1M in a money market account would generate about $2,500/year, which is nothing short of insulti
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by schammy 16y ago
Especially considering these are almost all jQuery 101 tips, e.g. things people learn within the first month of using jQuery. It's not like these are crazy secrets. I was also quite put off by the "check out my book" reference in the very f
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by schammy 16y ago
I'll just chime in here and say "I agree 100%", since all replies to so far (excluding the OP's) are basically calling you a moron. :) Yes, the test had some serious flaws, but I imagine that removing the free plan was by far the biggest fa
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by schammy 16y ago
The second I learned this trick, many years ago, I've used it in everything. The argument that it's "slow" is ridiculous. It's like using while(i--) instead of a for() to shave 0.0000001 milliseconds off your javascript loops. Just admit yo
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by schammy 16y ago
Nice call. Not sure if I could call it my "favorite" of the year, but it's definitely a damn nice product. I used it to purchase tickets for all of the flights I took this year and was very happy with the experience.
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by schammy 16y ago
Facebook is not a startup.
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by schammy 16y ago
Sorry, when you said "I've been involved in startups for the last 9 years (the last 4 as a technical founder)", I took "the last 4" to mean the last 4 startups , not years - from which I gathered there had to be at least 1 more, hence 5 st
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by schammy 16y ago
Yeah, because everything Apple does is 100% original. For example, they don't notice someone has written a nice app for organizing your books and copy it to the point where it's almost cut and paste for their own iBooks software. Nope, Appl
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by schammy 16y ago
The article is not talking about "bugs that can wait til Monday" or all night coding sessions. It's talking about emergencies that affect your customers that must be dealt with immediately. You've been with at least 5 startups in 9 years. T
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by schammy 16y ago
It's already half garbage anyways. Recipes and fashion tips? Just what I always wanted! Would be cool if things could be categorized somehow so I could only see the top stories being shared for things I actually care about. I realize this i
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by schammy 16y ago
Yeah, only problem is that is very inefficient from a storage perspective. It depends on the situation of course. If it's only a few thousand per day for example, not a big deal, but otherwise that could end up biting you in the ass hard af
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by schammy 16y ago
Wait a second... You're telling me there's a senator thinking for himself and the good of the American people, instead of having lobbyists and special interest groups think for him? This is all wrong. Impeach the SOB!
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by schammy 16y ago
Yes, that's what I meant. Constructive criticism is fine and is much appreciated by most parties, but most of the comments I read (this story is a perfect example) are just proclaiming that something is stupid and will certainly fail.
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by schammy 16y ago
While I agree with some of you that this probably wouldn't get nearly as much attention if there was an unknown team/investors behind it, I still find all of the negativity surrounding startups these days on HN and other sites like TechCrun
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by schammy 16y ago
Yup. This move is based purely on greed. But as if godaddy doesn't make a metric asston of money already? I guess I don't really get it. The only thing this is going to result in is a lot of pissed off customers and a lot of chargebacks. I
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by schammy 16y ago
I hear lots of awesome things about Linode, however they are actually hosted by Rackspace so with Rackspace's known reliability issues... maybe an issue. Another service to consider is VPS.net. We have 6 virtual servers with them. They are
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by schammy 16y ago
Agreed. We do colocation for about 50 servers. Up front costs higher, long term costs MUCH lower - but man can it be a pain in the ass sometimes when there's a problem. :)
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by schammy 16y ago
Is Bing really a big source of revenue for them though? I thought something like 90% of their profit was Windows and Office. Either way, good point in terms of promoting their own search engine, but unless it's a significant source of profi
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by schammy 16y ago
What I wish is that Microsoft would just give up on MSIE. For its time, IE6 was the shit. But they let it linger for what, 6 years? Meanwhile Firefox started being awesome, and now we also have Chrome which seems to be setting the standar
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by schammy 16y ago
Yes, this is true - it's not going to stop someone who really wants in from finding your SSH port. But at the very least, it's useful when looking through your logs, because the ONLY failed log in attempts you will see are from people who m
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by schammy 16y ago
Did they learn nothing from the Recurly debacle a few months back? I don't think their pricing is bad but they need a starter plan that's less than $99/month. Also, why are both Chargify and Recurly doing "bucket" plans with such high start
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by schammy 16y ago
We're monitoring traffic for 260,000 web sites with over 200 million daily page views. We have almost 10TB of data stored. That requires a lot of servers. Yes, it's sharded. There are no slave servers.
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by schammy 16y ago
Well, most of those queries are just to look up the "name" for a given ID. And of course we use memcached to cache almost everything. But it still requires a bunch of round trip requests to either the database or memcached. Before anyone a
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by schammy 16y ago
My concern about that is communication between web and DB servers. Some reports need hundreds of queries to generate - wouldn't the lag severely slow this down? Most of our servers are DB anyways. We have 2 load balancers, 6 web servers, an
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by schammy 16y ago
Thanks. That is exactly my fear. Most of the commenters on our blog told us this probably isn't a good idea so we're very unlikely to do it at this point. I'M JUST SO DAMN SICK OF DEALING WITH PHYSICAL SERVERS. :)
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by schammy 16y ago
I was referring to power loss. Although in the cloud, it's not actual "power loss" that's the issue, but the end result is the same - the database is shut down uncleanly and must be dealt with before coming back online.

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