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You're linking to commercial services touting them as examples of Amazon being more open than Google? Services linked to are: MapReduce, S3, EC2, SQS, SES and MechTurk. sigh

OK kids, here's what you need to know. There are three levels of your relationship with Godaddy: Level 1: You're in balls deep. You register your domains with GoDaddy, use their DN…

Because sometimes separation of presentation from content is not worth the additional labor cost and complexity.

Trust you? You've failed to take into account the opportunity cost of your time spent working on the business. Lets assume your labor costs $120,000 a year and the company is not p…

I've heard of 3 out of 10 of these highly successful startups. I think we call ourselves successes prematurely to try to accelerate the arrival of true success. Again today a very …

Delivering cryptographic software via a network, having it run in a "maleable" runtime and creating a user expectation that it will be secure, is not new. We've been doing this on …

This is right on - particularly the part about you screwing up the hiring process, not the exec being at fault. I made assumptions about a level of professionalism that I never ass…

My favorite paragraph: The nurse "called the emergency room doctor, who told him that I was dead and that they should walk away," says Snitzer. "And he hung up and he said to the r…

"Earthquakes make Web Servers sad". Dude. What the FUCK?

"Drink coffee and then take a 15 minute nap.". Advice like this makes it hard to take this article seriously. It's also a little thin on the data. Sure, it's an article on caffeine…

Hey. Genius. Some of us send over a million emails a week as a free service to users who are happy to hear from us. We just can't afford to check the damn inbox for that many peopl…

The problem is that I feel less smart and less motivated for 2 weeks after smoking a joint.

I think the spirit of your idea of a per transaction tax on financial products is a good one. I would balance the increase in government revenue with a reduction in tax on capital …

I'm with you there yo.

So keep an eye on treasury bonds on monday morning. Rate goes up, people still believe the US is safe, regardless of S&P. Rate goes down, market sentiment mirrors S&P's rating, and…

Netscape 6 is (or was) the oft quoted example of why not to do this. All that old code may seem old and boring, but it has a huge amount of knowledge, wisdoms, learnings, fixed mis…