I’m always amazed at how many times this simple architecture can handle just about any common situation that arises. It’s hugely scalable, super flexible, and unbelievably simple. +——————+ | | +———+| Job Queue +————–+ | | | | +—————+ +—-+—–+ +——————+ +———+——–+ | | | | | | | Client App +—+| Web App | [...]
Bay area. Utopian.
One of the “Cloud Drive” providers should create a series of standards for storing user data and start convincing sites to adopt it. They could create a Photos standard, for example: $ ls Dropbox/sites/picturesharingly.io/Photos 1.json familyvacation1.jpg $ cat Dropbox/sites/picturesharingly.io/Photos/familyvacation1.jpg.json { ‘doctype’ : ‘Photos/v1.0′, ‘created’ : ’2011-02-14 21:58:13′, ‘title’ : ‘Us and the kids swimming’, ‘album’ [...]
Just saw a 60 Minutes piece on Elon Musk, creator of SpaceX (and Tesla Motors). In it he chokes up when the reporter asks him about some of his heros “casting stones” in his direction. User bane posted this nugget on Hacker News: There’s a time, a sad time, when up and comers ping on the radar of [...]
Kevin Rose is a high profile Silicon Valley figure. Anything he does is going to get attention. Even things that aren’t very good. The same is true for anyone like him. That means that he could launch something totally lame and some small number of people will actually use it. I’m not saying Oink was [...]
Just thought I’d post some info here, since I’ve received the same questions from a few people. Two days ago I had an amusing idea, inspired by a thread on HN about PG’s latest essay on property. SendThemYourMoney.com In less than 20 minutes after posting the idea in a comment I registered the domain and put up the page. [...]
Created a funny site today: http://sendthemyourmoney.com/
Saw an awesome little nugget of wisdom on Hacker News. DHH, from 37 signals, was explaining why the new version of Basecamp doesn’t have some features of the previous/alternate version: “We weren’t happy with the time tracking integration in Classic. It was usable, but it wasn’t great. We want to take our time to either come [...]
Saw this on Reddit (I think) a week or two ago. Just blew my mind. To anyone who thinks Google hasn’t been innovating in web search: I thought Microsoft bought Powerset, not Google? Hacker News Comments
Y Combinator has started funding so many companies per round (60+) and getting so much investor attention that they’ve had to move their “Demo Day” event (where companies present to investors) into a larger building and make it an all-day event. Y Combinator Demo Day Brings The Future To Computer History Museum It got me [...]
