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If you're doing well freelancing then have you considered doing something to generate passive income? It might not sound great, but a popular wordpress/drupal plugin could bootstrap a business, and a range of semi-popular paid plugins could be a business.

I know your concerns are mainly technical, but you've given us no idea of the type of business you're looking at starting. If your business idea is good enough and you think you can deliver then yes, I'd say go for it. As a single founder though I'd like to warn you that no matter how successful (or not) you get, it'll suck the life out of you like a vampire, so make sure it's something you're going to enjoy beforehand.
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What benchmark is this?
So it's above freezing then, all is good!
I'm not sure it's the kind of thing where you can expect a huge number of pre-launch signups. You're providing a tool, but not one that's solving a burning business problem, for example. Big pre-launch signups tend to be for sexy technology platforms, buzz-generating social sites, or useful-looking business apps. Your site may provide value, but I'm not sure it will provide so much value that people really want to be told when it launches. That doesn't mean you shouldn't go ahead with launching it, mind. It could be the kind of thing people only care about once it's there. I mean, if somebody was opening a store near my house would I sign up to get an email when it opened? No. I don't care that much. But would I go in once it opened? Sure, maybe. The two things aren't related.

[edit] Sorry, to be clear: they are related, but not as closely as you might expect. No signups does not mean no business, just like many signups does not mean lots of business.
Once I got into it, I liked Wave a lot.

The real problem for Wave was that it had a 20-60 minute learning curve, almost no one I knew was using it, and it was hard to convince people to use it because of the learning curve and no one else was using it.
It seems serving to a rubber baron makes some sense for Nokia now.
I pay 800 baht a month for unlimited bandwidth with CAT. The government still hasn't gotten the licensing issues sorted out, which is why CDMA is still the only game in town. Meanwhile the rest of the world is rolling out 4G. Amazing Thailand...
Probably. Google Chart API is golden.
"that Groupon isn't a scaleable business, since it requires an army of salespeople to negotiate deals with retailers"

Requiring people doesn't make it non-scalable. Doesn't McDonalds scale? If you have a process to acquire, train and retain sales personnel, it can be made to scale. 'Scale' != 'throw more/better hard/software at it'.
It looks like they are comparing the new speeds to the first benchmark on this page:

http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/announcing-warp
Wave actually shows the other person typing and editing. Really cool. Skype doesn't do that, does/will Convore?

I use Wave and the main problem is the load time, and basically speed. They need to get some HTML5 and local storage into it, maybe some Node.js.

Also, Waves can seem to go on and on, and one forgets why a wave was created in the first place, and when one should be ended/closed.

So there should be a splitter button to start a new wave within an existing wave.

It's rather like a text chat with someone. You never know what's going to come up, so how can you categorize it before it's even begun? Or if you do, and it goes off-topic, then what? Do you head-butt a wall or do you go to the beach?
> I would point out that the server load with nginx running with NO CACHING (WP-SuperCache disabled, all queries execute PHP and perform a MySQL query) was something like 1/4 what my Apache/MPM/FastCGI/PHP/WP-SuperCache-enabled setup was using.

This does not compute - no caching (the use of nginx is irrelevant) will always be slower than caching, especially supercache which creates static files for the server to serve directly - even apache can serve those faster than nginx+memcached of the article.

So I would have to say that his caching system under Apache wasn't working.

That would fit the numbers better.

It is true that nginx will perform better than a badly tuned Apache system in the event of a slashdotting but only because it alleviates the slow client problem ie.:

You have 400 concurrent visitors, each one takes up a thread on Apache causing it to saturate, whereas nginx will buffer the request from the client, send it all in one go to the backend, buffer up the response, freeing the backend for another request - an Apache thread would be unavailable for the entire time of that request.

However you can get the same behaviour just reverse proxying from nginx to Apache.

This is all moot though, you can handle even a slashdotting on a 5$/year vps - just make a static version of the page being hit, and serve it directly until the load dies down. 99.9% of requests will be for that page only.
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I'd keep quiet otherwise they will end up all having to pay tax and NI!
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Great stuff!

In curious: What do you think about exposing this service via WebSockets? Would that make it even faster?
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> That is one bold statement. I don't know if I'd bet the company's success on a claim like that.

This whole "Plan B" is big on nice-sounding words that don't stand up to a serious critical analysis. Here's the first point, for instance -

> Return the company to a strategy that seeks high growth and high profit margins through innovation and overwhelmingly superior products with unrivaled user experience.

1. High growth strategy (lower price, more market share, more sales) tends to be antagonistic with high profit margins (high price, lower market share, less sales).

2. "innovation and overwhelmingly superior products with unrivaled user experience" - They're going up against Apple, who are already doing an overwhelmingly superior job and producing an unrivaled user experience... and Apple has a 5-10 year head start. How do they plan to make that gap up while charging high prices (for high margins), and getting large market share?

...the whole site seems more based on arousing emotion than critical thinking/planning.
Are you saying that you believe Jonathan Schwartz is lying in this post? If so, what evidence do you have and if not, why the effort to undermine him by attributing attention-seeking motives to him?
When Wave came out I thought it was really cool and used it for several weeks. Then it wore off, we began using email for stuff we did on Wave, nobody was on Wave anymore, so it slowly died.

One of the major factors for me was the crappy, slow UI.

Also, I think Wave lacked CONTEXT. It was great for collaborative editing, but which kind? With friends about parties? With classmates about projects? With colleagues about code? With customers about products? It imported a few Gmail contacts from each group, not enough for either one to make sense in the long run. It had some great features, but not enough for either one [compared to email/Facebook/specialized webapp].
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You can only see the browse page when you are logged in. Most people glancing at the page probably didn't create accounts - I plan on playing around with the service and I still haven't created an account.
I so do hope Apache Wave will bring Wave to new heights:
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WaveProposal
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> Online electronic tax filing requires that you complete the process in paper format as well. To complete the electronic process you have to send it in by normal snail mail as well. And you cant get acknowledgments.

Well, you certainly can digitally sign your return - then you won't have to send your physically signed copy.
Aw man this is awesome, I've been secretly longing for a visual dashboard for months now, but for one reason or another I never got around to having one.

Never realised there were so many out-of-the-box solutions already, this makes getting a good dashboard a weekend project! Sounds like a challenge ...
I don't get what these benchmarks are supposed to do. I mean, it's great that a server takes 5 μs to complete a request, but when my own code takes 10 ms to run, does it really matter? It's 2,000 times slower, it's not like the webserver is the bottleneck...
I'm obviously not privy to Google's internal deliberations, but I've always thought that Wave was a great product - for people working in large institutions like Google. If I had to regularly collaborate with people in different offices, and with customers and suppliers, to keep track of a variety of project state and planning documents, Wave would be an excellent tool.

Unfortunately, my colleagues are in the same room, and I already have other ways of communicating with my friends, so Wave isn't much good to me, and would probably never achieve mainstream success. It might have had a chance with corporations fed up with Outlook, though.
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One of my friends used to work for Nokia in Espoo and he has always stated that quite a lot of the managers he had worked with would have been quite happy to still be working for a paper company.
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The article mentions the "pong" benchmark which seems to reside here: https://github.com/snoyberg/benchmarks. Looking at the code is doesn't do anything besides answering "pong" to any request so it's mostly about testing the overhead of the webserver, not its resilience against high loads.
I got someone to install nginx for me on a not-so-busy server. Twice it filled up /tmp and ran out of inodes, crashing the server. I'm in for peak traffic next month and am afraid it will all come crashing down again :) Oh, and any help you can throw at me, it's appreciated.
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Maybe if they leave things alone Nokia might just survive. If they do whats in that list, they wont be shareholders or directors for long. Nokia fanboys need to realise that they are on a downhill slope right now, and if they continue on that path Apple and Android will bury them and Microsoft. I have owned Nokia phones from Australia's GSM introduction until last year when the lack of Nokia's software capability, in this country at least, forced my hand to the iPhone. Id give anything to go back to Nokia's quality hardware if it had a decent OS. Windows Phone 7 is a really nice OS, but for now is on some of the shittiest phones I have seen. Nokia + Microsoft should hopefully make a really nice bit of gear.
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Well, the faster the webserver, the more time is left for code to run while still having a very responsive website.
> Both you and yummyfajitas are making the classic error of espousing an unpopular opinion amongst people who tend to irrationally believe magical romantic things about evolved bags of meat.

I find it a little odd to be given advice by people that sound like they never even have been near an "evolved bag of meat" of the female kind --much less maintained a successful relation.
You'll notice he's updated his about: "Don't participate anymore due to the hive mind, intolerance and lack of quality discussions here."
To quote: "My intelligence is in the cloud. My life is in the cloud. My friends, photographs, ideas and mail. My life. My mind. Take away my cloud and I am left mindless.

Mindless, unattached, not clinging... a proper Nirvana.
Appsumo reveals its A/B testing secret: only 1 out of 8 tests produce results
Let's suppose the webserver takes 0ms to run. How much would that help ?
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Your reasoning sounds exactly the same reasoning they used against Apple for the iPhone.
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But it would be trivial to OCR the text in a few microseconds, so I don't see how it makes any difference at all to give the text to the computer...
With nginx+PHP script that just echoes "hi", I get a mere ~2000req/sec. What am I doing wrong? What are the specs of his server?
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This is roughly my experience, too -- take a look at how many null results ("no significant difference") I rack up: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo/results

To add insult to injury, half of the remainder were significant... in the wrong direction.

(Edit to add: null results aren't failures, though. What is the Edison quote: you now know one more thing that didn't work.)
To be honest, I'm not really aching for a 0.5% speedup (at best).
Disclosure: I run a startup that makes SaaS status boards.

While I agree that having access to _actionable_ metrics is what's really going to be the biggest tangible benefit of these sorts of systems, I've also found that there exists another class of data that, while not actionable, also provides some utility. These are often tagged with the 'vanity metrics' label and conventional wisdom deems them to be useless at best and distracting at worst but, I've found, they can sometimes be useful.

In other words, I may not be able to act (or know how to act) when they change but getting constant feedback from many aspects of my business helps me to notice subtle changes that may be interesting and that sometimes act as a harbinger for larger/more significant changes further down the line.

What these metrics are will entirely depend on your business what sort of person you are. For me, something like changes in my Twitter follower count (a classic vanity metric), when combined with a host of other signals can give me subtle cues about how the business is being perceived, what's causing that, is it a good change etc... none of it is immediately actionable but it all adds up; it's more data points leading a more rounded understanding of how my business works.

It's entirely possible I spend too much time dog-fooding my own product and most reasonable business owners don't have the time to explore these cues, but I do feel like it helps me to feel more connected to the day-to-day running of my own business.
While that is certainly true, MeeGo is much more of a linux system than android is, and has great potential to attract hackers. The same tools and libraries can be used to develop for MeeGo, as is used in any (desktop) linux distribution. My point is, there is a lot of developers out there that already know how to develop for MeeGo. Not a proprietary but only very lightly platform specific tool chain is needed.
Yup, same experience with me too (while observing customers' tests and doing my own A/B tests). Noah provided great counter-examples. I mostly publish only positive A/B test results as case studies but this doesn't mean every A/B test produces spectacular results.
It was a great product, but it became 'another inbox' to me. It was designed to make communication frictionless, but it felt like a drag to check.

New communication services need to provide big, obvious benefits over existing services, then communicate those benefits with early adopters in a way that trickles downstream.

If we can learn one thing from Wave, it's how deeply embedded existing communication methods are in our way of living and working; it's hard to pry business users away from email and social users away from Facebook even if you're Google.

In this sense, Wave wasn't a bad idea; it was a great idea ahead of its time. I suspect that communication methods that are natural evolutions of existing popular systems (e.g. fax machines, Skype) are likely to have higher adoption rates than methods that take brilliant leaps too far too soon.
This is a phenomenal post. I completely agree that it improves things - we recently got a massive TV in the office at Distilled to show off some key metrics using Geckoboard: http://yfrog.com/h3uhzrj
Surely not terrible news, it's only satire.
Buysellads.com looks great as a self service option. However does anyone have a recommendation for a company that will actively try and seek out advertisers for you?
Not much changed since Wave launched, they could've iterated more. Just creating a platform and API isn't enough.
Yes, absolutely every startup I've talked to creates their own dashboard or dumps some results to excel periodically. And I've talked to a lot of them, as my company is addressing this issue. (chart.io YCS10)

I think that will change shortly.
You may be thinking of the Python Challenge; I could see them being mentioned together when someone asks for programming puzzle sites.
Exorbitant roaming

Why not get a local pay-as-you-go GSM SIM with a data bundle, pop into your phone, and voila?
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Folks,

This is the OP. Thanks for all the kind words and advise. Yesterday, I talked with my boss and it went surprisingly well (maybe I was pessimist), he understood why I was leaving and I will stay there for two weeks helping the transition.

Again HN community shows how great it is.

Thanks folks!
Probably, yes. It's one of those things you never realise are wrong until you think about them.
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I'm sorry, I think I don't understand the point you are trying to make. Are you really complaining that Java doesn't do messaging? Surely not, because that would be like saying that Lisp is okay, but it would be better with a heap more parenthesis.

When you get down to it, pretty much any language with even a rudimentary ability to manipulate strings and connect to a socket can do messaging. But right from day one Java has had the capability of communicating with remote machines baked in.

Oh wait, I just checked, I'm wrong. The Remote and Serializable interfaces date since Java 1.1, NOT since day 1. My bad. Of course 1.1 was released Feb 19, 1997 so RMI is almost exactly 14 years old at this point.

So my conclusion is that if you've been living under a rock for exactly 14 years, you have an excuse when you say that Java can't do messaging.

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Someone always comes along and says "what about $blindingly_obvious_thing and gets massive amounts of karma for doing so, so let me just say that yes, I am aware of... bugger it, I'll do it myself and reap the karma. Muahahahaha!

...

...dang, there's no reply to my own message option. (For obvious reasons) Oh well, we'll have to settle for option #2 which is that someone comes along and posts an objection which has nothing to do with any of the posts before it, and gets masses of karma for it.

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Addendum:

If you're implementing a messaging system in your handy dandy language with sockets and strings, and you want it to be robust, you will of course need to take into account this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput...

or a more in-depth look at them:

http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf

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Yup. This prevents me from considering using the site.

Also, it's probably not enforceable. You can't sign away your rights. Anything you write is YOUR copyright, not some machine's. They can say that have unrevokable rights to publish and distribute, but they can't take your rights away.

And under that, I -still- wouldn't use it.
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Actually I think Meego does not have a chance because of C++. It is Meego's main fault. Qt is a great framework, but that won't help if you force programmers to use languages from the stone age. Anyone who wants to establish a new platform should make it at least as easy to develop for as Android. And I also doubt that you can catch up with other OSes while using a less productive development environment.

On the other hand, I never expected Objective C to be as successful...
Every test produces results. Only 1 in 8 produce positive results.

Knowing that 2 different approaches are approximately the same is a great help in design... It eliminates that 'Which way is better?' worry and lets you design it the way that looks best, instead.
Except that's not what happened in this case, and probably many others. De Facto, the process was

1) Somebody says "I don't think this article should be here."

2) We talk about it for a week.

3) Despite there being no votes to delete and clear notability, poof! it's gone.
For some approximation of "originally". The rubber company had bought a cable company and an electricity company, and they merged in 1967. The electronics work came from the cable branch and the name from the electricity branch.

The phone company was spun off in 1979, and the telecommunications one in 1977, and the mother company later bought both. They sold off the non-phone, non-telco bits around the 90's, including nokia tyres (worth appx. 3.5 billion euros now).

According to Wikipedia, anyway.
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These aren't failures, if the A/B test shows no impact or that the change is a negative, then both of those add value in telling you what to concentrate on.

Before people did A/B test, it was generally assumed on Facebook ads that the title was the second most important factor on CTR so people spent a lot of time tuning title copy.

After lots of people did A/B testing it turns out that title copy has almost no impact, people switched their title to Chinese (for a non-chinese speaking audience) without seeing any change. That "no significant difference" means that thousands of man hours can be spent elsewhere rather than copywriting ad titles.
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