you know i once saw you at the yahoo coffee bar wearing a shirt with a giant hammer and sickle on it. my immediate conclusion was that you were a hipster who skipped history. in case you need a little refresher on how cool the soviets were, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
if you play your cards right, you could end up being married for fifty years
on the other hand, you will likely be "done" with playing mr. web startup guy within ten. you're not going to be forty three going to geeknrolla and y-combinator meets.
so what i find puzzling is why you would give up a fifty year gig for an eight year gig.
and drop this "gold digger" crap...you don't have any gold to dig. you might in fact end up leeching off of your wife
wow how come the bubble hasn't burst yet on key-value dbs?
first: unless you run google, yahoo, ebay, amazon, or another top-100 site, chances are you can stretch mysql/memcache more than far enough for your needs. if you do run google or yahoo, you've been using proprietary key-value dbs for a decade, you don't need to read about them on highscalability.
second: they don't do anything. forget about practically everything that makes you cozy using your open source rdbms. key-value stores don't have standard query langs, they don't have DBI-like language abstractions, etc etc. you have a key, you get a value. fun! they're fast because they don't do anything
third, the key-value systems that are rock-solid are proprietary and tied very much to large serving architectures. the open systems are half-baked at best
most hackers don't need a "scalable" site, they need a site that people actually give a crap about. build one then you can scale it
after reading his blog post i'd rather flip him off and let him keep his money. he'll be needing it when yale's endowment manager sees "-76%" printed on the next statement reporting on his clever investments
fortunately i have more money than him so i won't have to listen to him and his pansy partners prattle on
doubt he is so dickey to the pension funds who phone him up asking when their rapidly-evaporating investments might even offer the stellar returns of three-month treasuries
explain to me why a news site nearly completely bankrupt is wasting time and energy on hadoop apis???
hadoop is very cool, and yes the nytimes has lots of data, but a company on death's door should probably back off the geek-masturbation projects and focus on the bottom line
NO ONE WANTS A FREE MARKET SOLUTION FOR HEALTHCARE.
get over it.
a free market solution means dying baby gets turned away when parent has no money. otherwise it is not a market solution. no one wants this. no one. move to somalia, you can implement your plan there, life is cheap.
healthcare is not a business. no civil society is going to let you decline cusomters who cannot pay when it comes to keeping the baby alive.
oh fuck off. there is always some pedantic prick who has nothing intelligent to say but chimes in with "citations????". you get tonight's dipshit award
- healthcare is not a business. get over it. the law says you cannot decline emergency care. there is no business model here, any more than there is in running the navy. its a cost.
- you care about public health. meaning, you care if other people are healthy. do you go to the mall or restaurants? if you do, you care if the person next to you has TB. infectous diseases doesn't care about your fully-paid premiums...it matters if other people are also healthy. this once again goes to the fact that healthcare is not a business.
- single payer is the only model that works. or would you prefer to spend another century experimenting with craptastic half-baked business/public hybrids? all health insurance companies must go. the government itself chooses single payer when it needs to run large healthcare plans. the VA, military, federal govt...they all go through single-payer.
- healthcare will be rationed. deal with it. water is rationed. the carpool lane is rationed. bandwidth is rationed. why would healthcare not be rationed?
i don't know anything about cal's departure, but i can say that any large co like yahoo, google, msft, apple etc is more or less impervious against the loss of one or a few technical individuals. his departure may have symbolic value but the machine that is chugging there will keep chugging, for better or for worse
where was thiel bitching about the Fed and its liquidity binge when it was goosing his facebook stake into the billions? haha it will be amusing watching this guy circle the drain with all of the rest of the lauded paypal mafia, whose paper-tiger web2 "empires" are individually going nowhere fast
i wonder if amazon will stay on the "wholesale" side of this equation or eventually move into the retail side...seems gdrive or whatever it is google is planning might upset the amazon/N-front-ends racket
1980s: anyone can make a PC. every strip mall in the country has its own PC builder. 2007: dell, apple, hp.
2009: everyone can build a website....2009: only google is really making money