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History rhymes. It’s funny that my problem back then was jamming fully formed thoughts into tweets, and now my problem is developing seeds of ideas into fully formed thoughts.

In the live stream version of this video, he does strap it directly on top of the HAT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlrCFJZlnI

Simply, and without too many details: the load balancer failed to work properly when one server in the cluster stopped responding, causing a cascade of errors which successively crashed all of the other servers (including, interestingly, the RDS database server -- which even Amazon was unable to explain).

It’ll be back later today. Sorry for the downtime!

This is incorrect. (Author of that article.)

Shortly after publishing, I received a phone call from "Apple, Inc.". When I tried to answer, the call dropped. Then my Apple ID account was suddenly unlocked and I got an email from someone saying they are going to try to call again tomorrow.

I didn't expect that tweet to get so much attention. I plan to write more about what exactly happened when my accounts are re-activated.

But to clear a couple of things up:

1. I've since learned that the reason this happened could be due to an unusual confluence of events including Apple Card, autopay, and the online Apple Store.

2. The disabling of iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts is actually an Apple Card policy for overdue accounts, and they have a team dedicated to handling these account de-activation issues. (I think this is absurd, which is why I am drawing attention to it.)

Nope -- iCloud was not past due. It is an Apple Card policy.

I didn't expect that tweet to get so much attention; I'll write up some more details shortly.

Actually, Sign in with Apple is one of the only things that still works.

As the author of The Best, I am quite surprised and confused by Rhinehart's suggestion that the piece marks the "death" of Silicon Valley. He does not seem to understand me or what I was saying at all.

Also, "my ilk" are the very people he praises, including Paul Graham and YC founders pre-2012. I'm tempted to write a rebuttal, because while I agree that there was a marked change in the startup community around that time, I think it happened for reasons very different from the ones Rhinehart outlines in his piece.

(For reference: https://dcurt.is/the-best )

First maintenance, then fixing bugs, and finally new features.

Nope.

Working on it right now, in fact.

It's not a marketing gimmick--it's a promise. It's how I want my own blog to be treated.

We announced this publicly so that you now know: if you write on Svbtle, your content is vastly more likely to survive for a long time than if you used your own server (probably) or if you used another publishing startup.

Garry and I have the same goals and motivations (and we are good friends).

Because it's going to take months to work out the specifics and I wanted to make the promise now.

Good idea--we'll add that.

No, we want to do it ourselves.

Only in the case of something horribly catastrophic would we resort to using an external service like Archive.org--but unlike other startups, we would work very closely with them to archive all data. And perhaps even give them the domain name.

Actually, we do save all user data right now and don't plan to change that--but it's hard to promise to keep that stuff forever.

As I mentioned elsewhere, there are certain things that can be done to keep the service running for at least your lifetime--I'm working on a trust that will be created in the event of my death (or the company's death) that can keep the servers running for a very long time to come, even with no paying customers. We will make that public when it's finished.

I'm working on a trust that will be created in the event of my death (or the company's death) that can keep the servers running for a very long time to come, even with no paying customers. Will make that public when it's finished.

In practice, there are almost always offerings for employees to liquidate at roughly the same benchmarks that an IPO would have reached.

From http://www.princeton.edu/communications/services/editorial/r... :

“Use the title Dr. only when referring to a medical doctor.”

I titled it that on purpose, to allude to the new product. I hate clickbait.

I changed the title anyway.

This Noah guy (the founder) is really hard to get in contact with. If anyone can make an intro--hi@dustincurtis.com

Google is definitely an ad company, but its main product is Google Search.

A lot of the supporting data comes from adults 18-29. I include data from teens 14-20, because I think the habits they are learning will continue as they grow older.

This is absolutely not true about Nokia.

Nokia took the competition seriously, but made a single fatal error: it tried to evolve its low end platform into its high end platform. While that strategy makes complete sense in 90% of cases for market innovation, in the mobile phone industry--which, it turns out, was going through revolution--Nokia should have done the opposite. People often forget that Nokia still controls more than 70% of the worldwide phone market, and controlled vastly more of it in the mid-2000's. In 2007, they had no idea that 90% of industry profits would come from the 30% of the market that they were not focusing on.

You can't really fault them for that, because strategically it makes perfect sense. They regarded the competition seriously but had a flawed approach/response.

That being said, they had a bunch of half-assed hedges against their fatal strategy, like high-ish end platforms such as Maemo, Symbian's advanced versions, etc.., but in fast moving markets with extraordinarily complicated infrastructure/platforms, this approach does not work. You can half-ass evolution, but you have to full-ass revolution.

They realized this mistake fairly early on, but by then it was too late to develop a platform, and full-assing it would have put the company's core competencies at huge risk. So Kallasvuo was fired, Elop was hired, the company moved in with Microsoft, and, eventually, they married.

Interesting that someone took my code, nearly character-for-character, and "open sourced" it without permission.

Yeah, please don't use the Svbtle design.