jefft's comments

My wife is a lifelong migraine sufferer and these anti-CGRP drugs really seem to be working (fingers crossed). She'd literally tried everything and had given up. Virtual high-five to these researchers

Not anymore: SFA 77 VCU 75

The comments here are really hitting home to me how self-aggrandizing and toxic hacker news is becoming.

This guy got off his ass and started a real business. How about a pat on the back or words of encouragement?

Here's a dose of optimism for you, OP: Good for you. You got this far, you will figure out the challenges ahead of you.

“It is not the critic who counts" has never been more true.

Durham (American Tobacco Campus) is home to TriHUG, one of the best Hadoop Users Group in the south.

There's a great crop of young, vibrant startups in Durham and Raleigh that are thriving and hiring.

It's a lot more than IBM, SAS, Microsoft and Cisco here. You just have to look a little harder.

Hadoop is much more than MapReduce. It's a fault tolerant, highly scalable file system where you can store a shitload (technical term) of data. That alone is remarkable.

Once your data is there, then you get your map/reduce on. And the best way to get started there is to look into Pig or Hive (high level map/reduce abstractions). Either of those will take you a long way.

And Justin Frankel. He and his peeps at Nullsoft cranked out some great stuff

To me, this is idea is akin to having a 3rd year creative writing student write a love poem for your bride-to-be.

Nicely designed site, though. Looks great.

Isn't the "one extreme to the other" kind of the point of his post? Following his gut has obviously worked quite well for him.

It's refreshing to hear this side. And frankly, it doesn't sound like you know much about him if you're replying about "being sensible."

Don't worry about competition. It's a good thing. It means you picked a good market. Focus on what makes you different and better.

Sounds like you may be a single founder. If so, find a friend or mentor who can help you work through the ups and downs. You're going to be discouraged a lot starting a business.

I went through a similar situation and solicited advice. Lots of people told me "know when to quit." I didn't, and I'm glad I stuck it out.

I paid a local law firm for a TOS once. It was not cheap, and after I received it, I had to manually edit out the remnants of an unfinished search/replace of another company's name.

One more anecdote: When my service went live, I put a free t-shirt offer deep in the TOS. Only had 1 person ever try to redeem the offer.

I recall reading an interview with Evan Weaver that the problem with moving to JRuby was in client libraries they were using, not JRuby itself.

Sites like Hulu and Spotify predominately use web analytics to gauge their audience in order to sell advertising, not to make their sites better. That may be a by-product, but that's not driving their analytics usage.

Additionally, cross-site tracking isn't used for feature/usage tracking. It's used for highly targeted advertising.

My point was the "shattering advantages" are really advantages for advertisers, not web designers.

This technique wasn't developed with web designers in mind, so let's be clear about that.

Let's be clear: this ability isn't used to have perfect information on how users interact with your product.

It's used to allow publishers to make more money from their consumers through advertising.

don't forget the cost of the EBS volume. that'd be an extra $5/mo for 50GB of storage

the ROI is people spending more time on Twitter. have you used the app?

it's set up for much more noodling/discovery of tweets and people, rather than just looking over a timeline.

why is this upvoted so much? your points are all off base, and frankly sound like they're coming from someone who doesn't care to do iPad development.

The real factor here is the iPad has only been on the market for 5 months. We've had the iPhone SDK for over 2 years now. We just need more time to figure things out.

to your point: what do we expect skype to do differently on iPad vs iPhone? how about something creative?

it's embarrassing that Facebook doesn't have an iPad app by now. Kudos to Twitter for trying (and shipping) something new and exciting.

and the peculiar thing was, the CPU that was released, it didn't perform anything like this CPU

IMHO the answer is here in this thread... which would you choose?

a) php b) rails c) Java + JSP/Servlets/JSTL/Tiles/Struts/Spring/JSF/Play/Wicket/GWT/Stripes/Tapestry/WebObjects

my $.02 ... listen to anyone who recommends Rippetoe's "Starting Strength." oh, and ignore everyone else.