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The problem with autoscaling DynamoDB is that every time you scale up they shard your table into more partitions but they never merge them back when you scale down. You end up with…

Thinking of a house as an investment is foolish. Do you think of your car that way? No. Homes are commodities that like your car depreciate in value. Building homes has like anythi…

Exactly. It's probably just more FUD to discredit WikiLeaks.

I'm sure this has a lot more to do with "anchoring" than "random".

Breaks back button, very frustrating. I don't get it, needs at least a short explanation on the front page.

Seconded!

Wow, thanks for sharing that observation! What a gem of insight into how easy it is to cross that gray line of usability. Just a week ago I was watching the Berkely course videos f…

Haha, too true! That made me laugh, thanks for sharing ;-) Life must be good at the top!

The Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steven Gary Blank

They are forced to build a better, more useful, competitive product so that they, their investors, and customers all benefit.

Daily active users is based on "touch points". Touch points are: Canvas Page Views Link Clicks in FBML Mock-Ajax Form Submission Click-to-Play Flash So Facebook requires some kind …

Agreed.

28 + CHSPE My high school counselor recommended I graduate early to attend college, but being 16 and feeling unchallenged by school I opted to apply myself to the real world and st…

Faster? Interesting! I hadn't heard that before. Personally I'm rooting for them, I would love to see some innovation in the search market. Unfortunately I just don't see the consu…

Exactly, reducing the indexing cost has little to no impact on the customers, so there is no competitive advantage to using Cuill over Google for searchers. They claim more "releva…

Anything Trip-hop (Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Bjork, AIR, EBTG, Zero 7, Tricky, etc.)

Fantastic job with the simplicity of it all. Only suggestion I have right now (after about 30 seconds) is to change the move block of text icon. I think it's a "paw"? But it was no…

Thank you. I appreciated that. I can only imagine how awkward it must have been to be the only male in the room absorbing all of this. And equally as so to be able to submit your n…

I cashed out with $9 billion after being acquired by Google. Woohoo! How did I do it? Spent my first $1 million on PR consultants. Didn't build a single product or hirer any develo…

Python and Ruby are great. But if you are interested in PHP and like MVC (such as Rails), I recommend trying Symfony. I use it for a lot of projects. There are still plenty of good…

Bought an album on there today. Great service! Easy to use, and 256kbps of DRM free MP3 goodness! Few kinks in the download process, but nothing Amazon can't fix easily. Highly rec…

Wow. That story was... unbelievable.

Have you tried attending any of the tech networking events in LA? There is a strong, small, but growing tech / startup community in LA. If you haven't attended Twiistup, Lunch 2.0,…

a) "It's business", move on. b) Don't let it! Move on, worst thing you could do is drag this on and not be up front and clear cut about it, because then it will drag the life out o…

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