I should have mentioned this up front on the sales page. Buyers can be issued a full refund if they don't find it helpful at all. I just added a note right below the "Buy" button.
I thought Travis from Uber had a great talk because he showed the operations of his business. Zuck mentioned that companies can 80/20 somethings but have to be the best at some things to beat the competition. I think Uber's core is operational efficiency. They keep metrics on everything, they predict where riders are being underserved, not just where they are. I posted some more of my notes on http://tommy.chheng.com/2012/10/24/startup-school-2012-summa...
Qwiki is looking for backend, android and devops engineers in SF. We are currently using Ruby/Scala for most of the server side code.
We are developing a platform to allow people to experience information in a compelling manner(visual, audio, story). We need your help to deliver this experience to the world. There's a lot of interesting challenges(text mining, media processing, scalable and performant services) to be solved.
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I think the problem is that if a startup hires a poor performing engineer, they get a negative output because other engineers will have to constantly fix/tune the offending code. So I definitely see backtype's cautious view of hiring only great engineers.
I thought of the application as a way for freelancers to get paid for relatively short tasks in between jobs while helping the open source community.
The site isn't geared just for bug fixes. It's any task for any open source project that needs to be done for a price.
For example, this recent task http://nextsprocket.com/tasks/python-for-enunciate wants to port enunciate from ruby to python.
http://nextsprocket.com
Pay and get paid to complete open source tasks, bugs, etc. We are having trouble figuring out why the idea is not catching on. Is it fundamentally the idea of paying for open source, the traction or other?
What about batch processing a large number of small files? say 10 million image files of 500KB. A typical file system will need to seek each small file.
I wonder if GridFS stores small files in blocks to allow efficient batch retrieval for processing.
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