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by whirlycott1 4y ago
This is really useful!
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by whirlycott1 4y ago
Chief Architect at PagerDuty here. Sorry this has happened to you! I can accelerate this for you but I’ll need some info to get started. Can you please email me at pjacob@ [PD domain] if you’re still open to PagerDuty?
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by whirlycott1 12y ago
That "Overwhelmed" book is excellent. Halfway through it now and it's really altered my perspective on everyday life.
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by whirlycott1 13y ago
It's a venture funded business. There are only three outcomes: sell, go public or crash. What were you expecting? They also said their API will stay up: http://blog.echonest.com/post/78749300941/the-echo-nes
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by whirlycott1 13y ago
Congrats Brian, Tristan and Jim!
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by whirlycott1 13y ago
How do people feel about Springpad? I've only used both casually, but it seems like the power users probably have thoughts or advice.
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Stackdriver post-mortem on recent outage involving Cassandra failure(stackdriver.com)
2 points by whirlycott1 13y ago|0 comments
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by whirlycott1 13y ago
Certainly, there's a whole ecosystem of add-on services for AWS that improve the whole experience.
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by whirlycott1 13y ago
On the monitoring side, we're shortly moving into private beta for Stackdriver. Ping me if you want early access. @whirlycott
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by whirlycott1 14y ago
Dan was a super guy and a good friend. Incredibly smart, incredibly experienced, well respected and wonderfully nice to be around. It's incredibly sad and a big loss for the technology world, but let's not forget to direct our thoughts to
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by whirlycott1 14y ago
One solution (which obviously won't for everybody): live in Massachusetts. We have excellent health insurance plans available here: https://www.mahealthconnector.org/ I'm using one now.
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by whirlycott1 14y ago
I tested infinite scrolling on a large site about a year ago and the results were decidedly negative in almost every significant respect according to our A/B testing. Does anybody actually have evidence that infinite scrolling is a good th
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by whirlycott1 14y ago
Note to self: try not to make announcements on April 1st lest they get mistaken as jokes.
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
The startup scene is not elitist at all. There are lots of easy places to plug in and I think people are generally receptive. Feel free to ping me when you arrive here or email me. I'm easy to find online.
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
I'd say "focus on the server," which seems to be overloaded and currently unavailable.
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
I finally had a better understanding of the context of the opportunity and started to think big. And I found people I liked who understood the vision and were willing to back the idea. The hosting bill back then was ~$100/month since it al
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
If you're all presuming that EC2 is some magical pixie dust for reducing the costs of running a large site, that's not the case. We had ~10 EC2 boxes and 15 managed servers at Contegix, CDN, Dynect, email service provider and a few more se
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
Those are short so I will just answer them here: * Basic social sharing of products, fancy bookmarklet, following other people and then we quickly moved into some high-end realtime recommendation technology. * At first, it was just friends
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
Easy: without venture funding, I would have just been a guy sitting on the couch at home with nobody to work on this with. And the hosting costs alone to run a site that large are around $25K/month. Yes, we had reached 7 figure revenues ma
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
http://www.quora.com/How-much-was-StyleFeeder-acquired-for Sure, fashion search/bookmarking is a commodity - that's why those sites don't succeed. I think discovery services are more nuanced than this and it's easier to understand the val
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
Sorta... http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2005/10/17/stylefeeder-step-1... LMK if that's not what you are looking for.
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
Good luck to you with your new venture! I'm easy to find online and will be happy to answer any questions if you like.
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
I started StyleFeeder in January, 2005, built it into a profitable company of 8 people and sold it to Time Inc in January 2010. From January, 2005 through May, 2006, I worked on StyleFeeder on the side - while I had a pretty demanding day j
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
Wow, I'd love to see an 8256 - that's what I learned to program on. Actually, my first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, but... man, bump the table even slightly and the 16K RAM pack would dislodge and reboot the computer. So, really, it was
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
It's not a matter of forgoing unit tests. Example: rename a method to something more clear. It's used 1000x in your codebase. You can do that in probably 5 seconds and know that it's done correctly. It says nothing about how the metho
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StyleFeeder: a retrospective(whirlycott.com)
1 points by whirlycott1 15y ago|0 comments
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
In two years, people will still be saying "nginx + ssl = bad" because of this post even though the problem may well be fully addressed. Google will continue to surface this article even though it may be totally wrong at some future date.
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
Two years ago, I would have agreed with you about the angel situation - it was pretty dorky and very clumsy. But something big has changed here very recently and the energy is unlike anything you saw when you lived in Cambridge, Paul. I a
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by whirlycott1 15y ago
Sorry to hear this sad news.
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by whirlycott1 16y ago
Uh... 99.7% is ridiculously bad if you're doing anything that matters.

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