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I guess they start competing with DoubleRecall, the smart YC funded startup[1]. Nice competition!

[1] http://doublerecall.com/

I think it's time to take such an advise seriously. Today's investments go to either successful late stage startups or seed ones[1]. And this trend is likely to continue for a while.

Also, there was a good discussion about profit[2] a week ago. I recommend to take a look.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/30/us-venture-bround-...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3147487

Thanks for jumping in, jrirei!

"with no cache" means no cache in app server layer. I guessed that's how the guy uses the words "no cache".

Getting rid of cache out of app server layer has great benefit on a cloud.

Having cache in app server layer needs synchronizations to keep data consistent. Scale out design was made before cloud era, when we have our own dedicated system on our site. LAN can afford expensive sync communications, but on a cloud?

Still makes sense if a scenario is read intensive.  But when update intensive?

That's why I see this interesting. Increasing memory is a cheap option on a cloud. So it's great if it scales by letting database utilize more memory.

Not really.

Consider their scenario. 100,000 db operations and 50,000 updates per sec. In this case, simple cache costs more than without. Eviction is expensive.

Also, it's no surprise replication doesn't scale because Updates get propagated.

Not sure details, but they succeeded to relax the tight requirements of ACID transactions. So this is a good case when RDBMS(or traditional database) fails.

I guess their design is more like MMO, hope to hear from the guy.

I just notified @jrirei of this discussion.

"At the end of the day, all that Amazon is doing is this: helping readers and writers find each other."

I like this idea.

> Eventually, an unprofitable enterprise will lose staff, investors, suppliers and will die.

I agree you can't lay too much emphasis on this. I have experienced it at startup, though the CEO tried hard to get out of the way along, and found the successful exit.

Yet, the worst was not running out of money, but the lack of our vision and will to achieve it. Or the vision might have been false, something good for us, not for customers. Anyway, in 3 years, we have burned out.

So I think the most important thing is something keeps you motivated, which drives you to try anything for the vision relentlessly.

Those who think the bank bailouts aren't the big problem may want to read this famous article, "The Great American Bubble Machine"[1].

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...

> It's this type of wording that can give life to stupid ideas such as 'you can run a business without making a profit'.

It is stupid.

The point here is, I think, money is a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. And such an idea has been spreading.

+1

Articles like "The Real Role Of Anonymous In Occupy Wall Street"[1] and "Exploring Occupy Wall Street's 'Adbuster' Origins"[2] clarified things, but didn't sound good enough.

The author might have succeeded to connect dots that had been separated.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/1788397/the-real-role-of-anonymou...

[2] http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141526467/exploring-occupy-wal...

Unfortunately, developers in software industry are considered as good as blue workers here in Japan. No talents are expected. For sales is the driver.

Actually talents are in top notch companies like Toyota. They rarely appear in public, though.

One sign of the bust, "It's A Boat, It's A Plane, It's The Great Wall Of China: Part Of Symbolic Chinese Landmark Collapses".

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/its-boat-its-plane-its-great-w...

The Atlantic offers a couple of opportunities.

"First, if you're an entrepreneur with a company in the South, we'd like to invite you to record your "Creation Story" as an audio clip"

"Second, if you represent a region, say the Greater Bossier Economic Development Foundation, and you want to make a pitch for your area, whether or not it's on our route, you can write us 300 words"

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/in-sea...

"V for Vendetta is a story about one person against the system"

Some may not like this analogy, but I do. For we need a story.

Previois Adbuster story on Forbes: The Brains Behind 'Occupy Wall Street'

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/10/14/the-brains-...

There was a related discussion just a week ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098050

I agree that's the way to go. Building something under limited resource is a must for an entrepreneurs.

The real advantage over Idea & Budget is the same as agile over waterfall. We can expand our own narrow worlds only by moving ahead.

And I think the learning through such executions is the "insight" that YC mentions.

No, I got shocked. I happened to watch the movie only a week ago. With the masks, the Occupy movement would look like the movie.

I hadn't noticed any clues of agitation. Now the movement looks like a terror, rather than a protest...

"V for Vendetta" is becoming real!?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)

Registered! My first time. Looking forward to seeing you!

free from hardware details / disconnect from hardware details

and, JNI is like an affair

Let me take an example, the recent fund money dry-up talks ignited by WSJ.

Even if you spend a week at Tahoe lake. You can follow up here(check RSS feeds). http://cuotcher.com/topic/Venture_capital

Information source is an aggregation of our private alpha testers' twitter streams, and only filtered interesting articles are notified. Let me know if you are interested.

Another one: What We Are Seeing http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/10/what-we-are-seeing.html

Follow up: Are the good times over (again) for startups? http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/8141-are-the-good-times-over...

TechCrunch tries to clarify the contradiction.

Web “Start-Ups” Hit Cash Crunch. Or Don’t, Depending On Whom You Ask. http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/12/web-start-ups-hit-cash-crun...

They must have forgotten to include Space on their research list! But will it come out of fiction?

I rather see freedom from censorship here.

I've designed such a system a couple of years ago, too. When users complain about Excel, now that sounds to me:

They're really saying, "I love Excel".

Don't forget it's only a tip of iceberg. Users will complain more about missing features after you built something users have cared about.