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by zred 14y ago
That was their uptime for May, but looking at June it's going to be a worse picture. They're already down to 99.63% if you only include "red" incidents and down to 99.25% if you include "amber" incidents as well (as of 39m of downtime for
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by zred 14y ago
1. The same is true of share-nothing architectures in Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, or C# (including Rails and Django). All you have to do is get more app servers - no fuss. Of course, the hard thing is scaling the data store which is somethi
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by zred 14y ago
One thing that should be noted: if the debt is forgiven, the IRS counts it as income for tax purposes. As such, if you buy $5,000 worth of debt for $150 and forgive the debt, that $5,000 generally gets added onto their gross income. http:
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by zred 14y ago
I think I can shed light on what being a "DSL for the web" means. 1. PHP has built-in templating in that it's a language that gets embedded within other text files. If you go with PHP, you don't have to decide how you're going to output yo
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by zred 14y ago
Facebook's IPO was yesterday (while it started active trading today). If you were one of the blessed investors, you could buy the shares yesterday at $38. It seems like there were a lot of orders early today (probably entered in before Fa
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by zred 14y ago
This is just my personal opinion and I'll be the first to admit that I'm conservative with my money. That said, I think that a bet on Facebook's growth might be overreaching. 1. Facebook's profits are declining (by 12%). Revenue is up 43%
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by zred 14y ago
So, I haven't read the entire agreement, but the "release of unknown claims" sounds to me like: "You agree that if Bill Gates comes up to you tomorrow and offers you $1B, you can't get out of this. You also agree that if you read a post on
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by zred 14y ago
I fell into this problem a while back with the domain I use for my mail. Everything was set up nicely in Namecheap's DNS so that the MX records were pointing at GMail and the root CNAME was pointing at my webhost. After a couple days not
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by zred 14y ago
Palm bought BeOS for $11M (and those assets were later transfered to PalmSource which became Access). In 2001 (when BeOS was bought), it might have made a bit of sense. Be was pretty modern then - competing against Windows XP and either th
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by zred 14y ago
Haiku now uses a hybrid system so that it can support GCC 2 applications while using GCC 4. http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2008-05-18/steady_progress_towa...
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by zred 14y ago
I think you've hit the key - if they find a good monetization model. I remember an article on here about Facebook shutting down a social shopping experiment, but if that had panned out it could have been huge. There are always rumblings o
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by zred 14y ago
Assuming earnings of $205M per quarter and a valuation of $100B, that would put Facebook's P/E ratio at 122. Today, Apple is at 16.3, Google at 18.1, Netflix at 24.4, and Microsoft at 11.7. Now, it's completely possible that Facebook's e
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by zred 14y ago
I'm not trying to dissuade you from using prgmr, but EC2's reserved instance pricing makes it a lot more competitive. You can get the 3.75GB medium instance for $55/mo (1-year commitment including the up-front fee as a monthly cost) which
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by zred 14y ago
To play devil's advocate a bit: YouTube has a bit of a network effect going on in that viewers want to go where they think the videos will be and people want to upload where they think the viewers will be. I don't (personally) use dropbox
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Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth's Hazing Abuses(rollingstone.com)
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by zred 14y ago
If you want to see how consumer electronics can still be sold in retail locations, just spend ten minutes in an Apple store. They are selling some of the same products as Best Buy, but the two experiences couldn’t be more different. I th
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by zred 14y ago
I think it's more that many of us are having trouble understanding how FeeFighters fits in with Groupon. The strategy that I could see working well would be for Groupon to extend Groupon/FeeFighters to include a Shopify competitor. They ha
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by zred 14y ago
Depending on how you look at it, there can be many benefits, but as with most technologies, they're contextual. CDMA uses 1.25MHz channels. That can be limiting in some ways, but advantageous in others. When deploying UMTS channels, AT&#3
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by zred 14y ago
CDMA phones come with an ESN ( http://www.mobileburn.com/definition.jsp?term=ESN ). It's basically like your SIM card number, except that it doesn't change. CDMA carriers can activate a phone not sold by them by ESN. However, some carrier
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by zred 15y ago
The key is figuring out when technology gets to a certain point that make a vision possible and which technologies will make it possible. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, there had been touchscreen phones for a long time. Apple i
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by zred 15y ago
http://www.heroku.com/pricing#0-0 Heroku's pricing can be found there. I've found their uptime to be very good. Basically, Heroku launches instances of your application and then routes incoming requests to your application. They aren't
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by zred 15y ago
A very interesting look at Play can be found in this presentation: http://spinscale.github.com/play-advanced-concepts.html The author wrote the Play Framework Cookbook and so it's a presentation from someone that can be considered a bit o