Storytelling on Twitter in the first person is filled with suspense, at least in this case.
His Tweets are filled with the two basic building blocks of great storytelling, even if only by coincidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loxJ3FtCJJA
I tend to alternate between two schedules for a week or more at a time:
12-2AM: Life is busy and I've lost track of time but I am always in bed by 2AM.
10PM (ish): My body is in tune with the sun and so I'm waking up at 5-6AM by the light. I find I usually need naps to make it through the day but this schedule is usually my most productive. I get onto this schedule when I crash early from staying up late for an entire week or when I spend time outdoors (e.g. camping for a week in Yosemite under the stars).
Audio feed of what's going on: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?feedId=705
I could have used this last week when I hosed my box running the Lucid Lynx upgrade from 8.04 (I lost networking). I can easily justify $5/month to not have to waste my time rebuilding a server like I just had to…
Fluther is now hiring a software engineer and an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/
We'll give a free iPad to anyone who refers someone to us that we hire.
Alright good job Apple. Now when can I have Google Voice without jailbreaking?
NoSQL/NoREL is a tradeoff of features for performance. If you don't need certain features and you can make the trade and need the extra performance than it can make sense for some people. I don't think it applies to everyone. They made the decision that was best for them and congrats on that.
Also I can say rotational disks may not provide the economics that make RDBMS seem attractive—but FusionIO cards have really changed that. And I didn't just read the datasheet and get a nerd boner. I watched the queries from 8 beefy physical database boxes (that were getting hammered) combined onto one physical box that was identical in all ways except it had an FusionIO card. It handled 8x the number of queries with ease and could have taken a lot more punishment. Yes, the cards are expensive but in the scheme of getting rid of 7 servers it was actually saving significant amounts of money.
Fluther (http://fluther.com/) is hiring an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/fy2tOt/
We're building something brand new, incredibly challenging, and very exciting and this is your chance take something complex and setup the perfect environment for it (if you've ever wanted to do try that…). We're a Python/Django shop, we're in San Francisco and this isn't a remote job.
Fluther is funded by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, and Dave McClure, and we're advised by Biz Stone (Twitter) and Leonard Speiser (Bix).
On the subject of "don't get informal before the formal interview but I'm nervous unless it's informal", why not use two people and clearly delineate their purposes to the interviewee: one person to be informal and get them comfortable before handing them off to another person to conduct a formal interview. If you're up front about the second person and the fact that it will be a formal interview, wouldn't solve both problem to some degree?
I'm sorry about that. We get a lot of spam comments so I was constantly checking the Wordpress page to approve comments. For some reason a HUGE chunk of them didn't show up until just now. I approved all comments that weren't spam. The ones that were there when your comment wasn't there were people who had commented before and were auto-approved. Again, I'm sorry you felt that way, it was not the intention.
Our designer (http://www.davidcole.me/) is awesome. We'll let him know you love it!
That's the sense I get—that they are laying the framework for more advanced database functionality like sharding.
How well would you say you know South?
I felt that way at first but once I got to know South I found it to be much better than custom queries.
I'm excited for that but what I really meant was split/sharded databases, something you need at scale (which Fluther doesn't need...yet). Correct me if I'm wrong but the upcoming multiple database support can't do that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_(database_architecture)
What it seems to support is "Database Routers" which let you implement your own sharding. It's not that you can't do it. It's just that it doesn't support sharding out of the box.
I'm more excited for the template performance improvements.
This advice feels wrong but it reminds of what Jason Fried said at this year's startup school, which I feel is better advice anyways. [I'm probably butchering it but one of the gists of it was] Just get started and practice making money.
We should have said you need to be able to work from our SF offices.
Personally I find a single text file + Dropbox both simple and all I need. I always know where to look and I can reorganize however I want. If I'm looking for a registration code or a favorite quote or a handy command line snippet, I can just use Spotlight or open the file and search. This has worked well for me for years (even pre-Dropbox). I realize this doesn't work for everyone.
http://chartbeat.com/ I can't describe in words how awesome this service is for just $10/month.
Keep the 24" monitor, you can use it as a second display on the iMac.
Early internal feedback on Gmail: "I would like it to search my email, not just yours" — Paul Buchheit's talk
"It's like we're married, but we're not fucking." — Some startup founder who went through Y Combinator quoted in PG's talk
Semi-unrelated but if you're curious about BGP, this 2004 talk—although absurdly long—talks about some of the issues with BGP (an many other issues with hosting content on the Internet). The speaker is Tom Leighton, one of the founders of Akamai.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/199 (BGP at ~10 minutes in)
Am I the only one who finds the uppercase lettering rather puzzling?
I have one suggestion that would possibly help: separate out "saved" versus "up-voted". For me, I rarely want to save something but I would love to go to the new page and up-vote more interesting stories to get rid of the noise. But maybe that's just me--I'm also the type who never submits anything unless I want to see the discussion on it. I'm guessing there's a lot of karma-whores and hence all the TechCrunch articles (I kid, I kid). Anyone have an idea for putting the incentives in the right place for submitting with that in mind? Fractional karma for submission up-votes?
Is $4.95 cheap enough? http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_i...
For anyone that hasn't heard of Sparkfun, it's kinda of like a small Newegg for electronics projects.
I'm working on an inertial navigation system for an autonomous aircraft. An Arduino Mega communicates with an inertial measurement unit (six degrees of freedom, 3-axis gyros, 3-axis accelerometers), a 3-axis magnetometer, static and differential pressure sensors (altitude and airspeed respectively), ultrasonic rangefinder (for very precise landing altitudes), and a 5Hz GPS.
I just completed a first flight which limited the scope of the test to a glider that kept the wings level and the nose on the horizon (using the pitch and roll data from a Kalman filter running on the IMU data updated at about 54Hz). Here's what that system looks like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ttrueman/3770700718/
It's a lot of fun and I highly recommend Arduino hacking to anyone that wants to give hardware a try.
Here's a good starter kit: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_i...
One simple project that seemed cool to me was this LED one: http://blog.bsoares.com.br/processing/controlling-rgb-led-wi...
If you're ambitious you could try building your own UAV based on Arduino using Ardupilot: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ardupilot-main-page
(I know this comment goes on and on but if you work with i2c, SPI or serial often check out Saleae's Logic: http://www.saleae.com/logic/ which is a cheap logic analyzer that is incredibly useful and well done.)
Also pressurizing an aircraft that isn't a tube can be tricky and evacuation/safety concerns are a messy issue. It will be a while before you'll see manned aircraft in that style.
"So compared to the 777, the 787 is claimed to reduce fuel consumption by 20 percent…"
It was perhaps worded poorly but that's not what the article said: "Dreamliner will use 20 percent less fuel than jets of similar size…" I would wager a lot that if a 777 was redesigned with composites it would likely have similar fuel savings (~20%) over an aluminum 777.
If you take a look at the table in the link at the bottom you will see the 777 is primarily for long-range, high-capacity flights. The 787 was originally intended as a replacement for the 767 and as a competitor to the A330-200. The majority of flights are shorter and carry fewer passengers than the target of the 777. So fuel efficiency is just fuel efficiency and fewer passengers is just a different market segment. The 787 is simply aimed at a different and higher volume market than the 777.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_between_Airbus_and_...
It's the address of Yahoo!'s headquarters. (edit: yeah I don't know why I didn't see what thwarted saw, clearly I'm an idiot)
One of the most enjoyable experiences I've had recently was with Arduino. It's amazingly easy to build cool shit with it. It's both rewarding and fun.
An example (since I haven't recorded any of my projects yet; also sorry it's in Portuguese): http://blog.bsoares.com.br/processing/controlling-rgb-led-wi...
Heh. I wasn't terminated but as of a few days ago I started full time.