Viewing profile — chrisboesing

TechCrunch has list with 159 companies atm. http://techcrunch.com/unicorn-leaderboard/

Are you from Germany or do you have your Browser set to German? The first time I visited the site I got redirected to https://blog.lastpass.com/de/2015/06/lastpass-security-notic..…

Khan Academy has a nice 12 minute long video on this topic: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...

From the Wired[0] article posted above[1]: "Oschwald[Co-Founder of Swiss Fort Knox] can tick off blue-chip companies such as Cisco Systems, Novartis, UBS and Deutsche Bank among hi…

Do you plan on supporting direct debit in the future or is your focus on expanding to more countries before adding more payment options?

Without looking at the source, I would say it is using the History API introduced in HTML5. Here is a nice article describing it: http://diveintohtml5.info/history.html A simple ex…

Here are the AWS alternatives I could find when I was searching for them 2 months ago. They are both hosted in Germany and operated by German companies. I haven't played with them …

I can totally understand that. What I don't get is why the F1 officials haven't learned more out of that tragic accident. Sure the cars are much safer than they were when Senna die…

Thanks a lot for doing this. I'm trying to choose a framework right now and TodoMVC is really helping in doing so. I have one question though: Would you mind if I ported your apps …

Maybe a little off topic: Red Bull's marketing is impeccable. They started out with all the actionsport athletes and moved upstream to more mainstream, and I guess, more expensive …

He talked about it a little bit in the video mentioned in the post. He thinks about "open sourcing"(his words) or patenting the idea and giving the patent to someone who has the fi…

GigaOm now has a confirmation[1] with a short Q&A that says "VDIO and Rdio are run by separate teams". [1] http://gigaom.com/video/vdio-janus-friis/

Just a quick note: App Engine hasn't left preview. This[1] blog post from today says at the end: "[...]and we hope you find these tools useful as we get closer to our goal of leavi…

I have just browsed through the blog of the project manager at http://tagebuch.miniatur-wunderland.de (it's in German). Until now the only thing I could find regarding the programm…

An EBS node in a EBS cluster is connected to two networks. One is used for the traffic to and from the EBS volumes(Primary network), the other is used to replicate the EBS volume o…

Reserved instances would be nice, too.

You could use the tag system. The questions would be at ama.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/Joel+Spolsky. The person who posted the question just had to accept the answer of the…

I wonder who the "competitor" is that bought delicious. The first one that comes to mind is Digg, since Kevin Rose said he would like to buy it and Yahoo contacted Digg if they wou…

I agree that it would much more even if your load is consistent and heavy, but if it gets too heavy you run in a lot of problems with EC2. If you max out one instance, you would ne…

You only pay for CPU if you really use it and not for "standby". So if you have 100k requests in one month and each request takes 0.1 seconds you only have 10.000 seconds(or 166.66…

Maybe he uses it for his designs or his writing.

That is exactly the position I'm in right now. Was going to use GAE but now I'm rethinking that decision. A micro instance of their relational database service would be perfect for…