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Suggestion about Amazon EC2, S3, etc
I am now into my 3rd week of trying to get into the EC2 groove. I've read through the APIs, have configured a basic LAMP server, and perplexed myself silly about how to do Mysql backups to S3, etc.

Tonight I did a bunch of modifications to my AMI and followed the directions to bundle it again and push it to S3 for storage. The process worked like it did the first time, pretty smooth. Then I found that ALL of the website files I uploaded were GONE. Back to where I started this morning, apparently.

If you're like me and are a relative newb to setting up EC2 servers, you might be running into a similar problem I've been noticing.

Documentation and process for all of this "cloud computing" crap sucks.

Amazon's basic Getting Started guide is decent. Then it falls off a cliff. Its enough to introduce the concepts and get you to the starting line of having "a server". Beyond that, a lot of the documentation that sits on their own developer site is scattered around. Some is in blog posts, some in wikis, some on poorly-designed information pages. A lot of its out of date.

When you start looking around the web for 3rd party information, some is good and most is bad. Right Scale talks a lot about what they're doing and at a high level, its helpful. But they don't go much deeper in explaining things.

There are dozens of introductory blog posts that are meant to teach you how to get started, but most of these are really nothing more than poor rehashes of Amazon's own Getting Started guide. They all lead up to a certain point and assume you are ready to go and build the next Smugmug.

A lot of other "guides" focus on how you too can setup massively scaling virtual server farms with multiply redundant virtual RAID, load balancers, and anti-Cylon defense systems, all running on Ruby on Rails. Guess what, I don't need to know that yet. Its DEFINITELY interesting, but its way beyond what I want to do yet.

All I want to do is hack. I want to build. I want to be able to learn a couple new things a day, be able to implement them relatively easily, and be able to sit back and feel like I've accomplished something. And the stuff I've learned SHOULD STILL BE THERE THE NEXT GOD DAMNED DAY.

I am mad because I want to learn this stuff and everything is so scattered around that its like pulling teeth to figure out what I need to do next.

What people like me need is good documentation. Mostly-full API docs (which we already have thankfully) combined with process guides on how to build simple servers that progress on to more complicated setups.

There are a lot of us struggling developer-types working alone that want to build and execute on our ideas, but we're being caught up in the minutiae of laying brick and plumbing. Not because the brick and plumbing is hard, but because all the pages of the Do-it-Yourself book are scattered around the Home Depots and Lowes across 10 states. If we could just get the manual with all the pages in one place, instead of having to hunt them down like it was National Treasure III, then we can have fun figuring out how to engineer for the cloud, and then actually build are dreams.
If you're starting from scratch, windows is a bad plan. But if you're a company that already has a bunch of .NET code, and the usual tangle of business-admin stuff built around Excel, then using windows for some applications can be much easier.

Plus, I second the article's love of IronPython.
So this is very similar to eatlime.com.

I love the idea (I use eatlime on a very regular basis). Unfortunately, eatlime is faster for me. I'll give you major points for a super clean interface.
What smtp-level protection are you using?

I recently kind of gave up and just relied on the Thunderbird spam filter, in addition to my handcrafted rules.

Now there are already thousands of files in my junk mail folder. It is infeasible to check them by hand, so I'll never learn about any false positives. In other words, email is not a reliable way to reach me anymore :-(
Neat idea. Quibbles:

1) No explanation of what you're doing. Minimalism is good, being completely text-free not so much.

2) Entering an invalid email address, I get something that looks like a mangled smartquote (opera on ubuntu): 'Email address Recipientâ€™s email(s) is not valid.'
Yes and no. Perhaps more accurately you should say 'Anyone who relies on restricting information indefinately to stay in business is in trouble these days.'

There are many cases where restricting information for a limited duration is an entirely viable business proposition. A classic example is Pay TV. In Europe, Pay TV operators make an absolute truckload of money each time the Football World Cup rolls around. Why? Just before the tournament starts, they all update the algorithms protecting their broadcasts. In general, these algorithms are pretty thoroughly hacked, and you can relatively easily get your hands on a pirated STB to get your feed. But it takes a while to figure these hacks out (anywhere between 1 month and several years, depending on how clever the scheme is). The thing is, it's no good figuring out how to crack the system in 3 months time, the pirate's customer wants to watch the football live! So, he has no choice but to cough up the money for the official STB/Pay TV subscription.
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they just got silver at the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards. there's more to start-ups that software...
they just got silver at the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objec...
there's more to start-ups that software...
And here I thought the whole cloud infrastructure was supposed to provide its own redundancy.

If you need to first setup your site to work with a cloud, and then need to add a cloud balancer to guarantee uptime, maybe a regular network load balancer and old-fashioned solutions might be a better option.

At least then you have a tried and tested solution, not to mention you got it all under your control so things can actually be fixed.
There's no need for a flash navigation bar.

You may disagree, but It's my opinion that flash should only be used when absolutely necessary.

Great idea, though. Great domain and great design.
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I would echo these sentiments. Sachin and I worked on Posterous.com remotely (I was in Mountain View and he was in NYC) for the months before we applied and were accepted to YC Summer 2008. We could work independently for long stretches and get large pieces of functionality done fast just over IM.

In fact, we've found this summer in Cambridge that the times we've been really able to crank out code are the weekends when one of us is traveling and one of us hangs back at the ranch. Complete control over distractions = gigantic productivity boost.
i was the poster of that question and this service and using a complicated name on limewire were the two options i could come up with for my non-IT friends (and even then limewire was 10 steps too far). well done.
There's already a business-orientated social network:

http://www.linkedin.com
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Thanks. Got your point and to some parts agree, let's see what we deside on.
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I don't believe eatlime have any "streaming" functionality such as starting the DL before the uploader is finished? They may be fast now, but can their platform scale?
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Will look in to the Opera + Ubuntu bug asap. Thanks for that.
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Niched job boards are good if they are run by professionals from those niches -- and jobberBase aims to help those people start such job boards.
Large recruitment websites can be too general and it becomes very hard to filter out the noise they bring.
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clearly if your thoughts are to pollute or exploit nature or others - you should be treated accordingly. This fuckfest that capitalism has become allows companies who exploit etc. to be treated the same as mum and pop biz's who really care to do a good job. That is insane.
great interview, tony!
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You're talking 65:35 of... zero right now. I'd say he gets that share if he sticks with it (meaning you stay in business) for three years.

Additionally if you make this such a large pain point, then are they the correct co-founder to begin with?
IronPython does rock indeed. Being able to poke .NET libraries from a command line is really cool. I had an idea for a Windows IT administration app last year, so I spent some time poking around IronPython, .NET and Monad/PowerShell. I liked what I saw, I just wanted to try my hand at web development instead.
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First off, I probably wouldn't have tried the service without such a badass turtle on the frontpage. Good artwork.

1. There's no indication of what the service does — "The Music Search Engine" is written too small and in a horrible font.

2. After entering my favourite artist and waiting nearly 1 minute there's still nothing happening. MAKE IT FASTER.

3. The font in the footer also looks horrible (Mac user).

4. I _hate_ it when someone changes the default right-click menu.
Ah, the good old ad hominem. Always works as a backup when you don't have anything to say.
IMO, broadcast TV for soccer games has had the right idea for advertising that can be co-opted for online video.

Soccer game broadcasts usually play two 45 minute halves with very few breaks for commercials. So, they do a lot of banner advertising along the bottom of the screen. Sometimes it's a text crawl, sometimes it's animation. I've noticed that Google has been experimenting with this on YouTube recently.

As to context sensitive advertising... that's a tough one. Probably your best bet would be tagging. But, if you know that most of your audio is going to be spoken word into a microphone, that makes your job a bit simpler. You could try running a speech recognition program on your audio stream, and then pick up repeated words from that to use as contextual ads.
1. It's easier to communicate, and thus easier to get things done. (But with modern communications devices, e.g. a screen recorder to capture exactly what's going on my system so that the programmer can how I produce the bug, I remain unconvinced that in-person speed of communication is anything more than a slight advantage that is greatly outweighed by the disadvantages of not being an entirely virtual company.)

That's easy to under-estimate. The best way I've seen this explained is the following: imagine that each time you have a question, there's a ten minute delay to getting an answer. In a start-up, things are constantly shifting, and the product design will need to shift with them, so chances are you'll have a lot of questions. If you have, say, 15 (serial) questions a day, that's 2.5 hours of extra waiting time a day, so more than 25% extra time added to the critical path, roughly. That could make the difference between delivering within your tight budget and failing to do so.

Even worse is the questions you choose not to ask because it's too much overhead. Those can cost you abortive work, or cause you to miss out on a cool idea because you didn't discuss it with your cofounders.

I started my first start-up with a friend in Leicester while I was in London, and while it's definitely possible, that friend is basically my best friend that I've known for ten years, and I took trips up to Leicester regularly, and still we struggled somewhat. Obviously it can be done, but it is an extra hurdle, and you should be aware of it and spend extra effort to make up for the downsides.

For my current start-up, I work from home, and we have one developer in Kansas, but our CEO/product guy is in London too, and I spend a day a week with him, and that's working alright. We don't have offices, but at least we have strong communications between the business and tech sides.

Overall, I support the idea of a completely virtual company, and that's the direction we're trying to take this company in - but you should be fully aware of the challenges of it. It seems you are, so go for it! Good luck! :-)
You sure you're not talking about the infamous Gizmondo mobile gaming phone thingy? :-)

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

They burned through hundreds of millions too to produce a worthless, inferior handset that no one bought, and had organised crime links and the lot...

Incredible that people invest in this kind of company. The fund-raiser must be extremely silver-tongued.
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I usually just put my email into an image and leave it at that. As previous people have said though, it is only a matter of time before your email gets on some lift. Ultimately it all comes down to the quality of your spam filter :-).
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louislouis great start.

I'm some competition...lol

http://www.myplaylist.biz/

I would recommend Linode for hosting/scaling.
you need controls, SEO advice, legal statement - have a read of this:
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Good luck with the app, it looks great.
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Understanding the algorithms in your code, both the ones you wrote and the ones that the the compiler/interpreter are adding, is the useful thing in my view. In as far as C forces you to explicitly deal with many of these issues manually it would help with your understanding of this. Usually however the difference in complexity (both space and time) between the algorithm you think you are using and the one the computer is using constant or at worst Log(n) which doesn't justify delving into the lower levels such as C or machine code.
I havent done any hands on yet but found a good resource from Oreilly http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515812/
Idea for a startup...
Interesting idea for anyone who's into Mobile Devices. Certainly good to start thinking a bit more...
Some explanation would be nice...
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I don't get these names...they already claim to have failed once because of their name. I don't think this one is much better.
Does your virtualization strategy create an SEP field?
Sure! We'll have this opportunity in a few weeks.
Also can you add a "test contact" like in skype?
I am now logged in but have no idea whether its working or not :)
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I believe it's a matter of complexity vs reward. There are already so many unobfuscated addresses available on the internet, that it's not really "worth it" to spend extra time parsing even simple obfuscation techniques. Something about low-hanging fruits?
On this note, I love the concept and the simple design but with all of that open real estate on the homepage you might consider one short explanatory blurb to greet visitors and pull them right in.
For your point (16) I think that searchme.com are doing a phenomenal job
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some jQuery code can give you the same effect

UPDATE: here's my shot at it: http://www.nirmalpatel.com/menu.html

The font sizes and padding may not be exact, but I got it close.
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Google is supposed to organize the world's information or something like that, but apart from their decent search engine I'm seriously not impressed by what they currently offer (I can't even use Google Maps to plan walking trips!) Are they really paying all those smart, elite hackers to play fussball and pool all day long, and write overlong, boring, pedantic essays about technology that no one really cares about?

I want a location-aware, mobile device (I don't really care whether it's an iPhone, Pocket PC, Eee PC or whatever; just something I can carry in my pocket or backpack, with good-enough battery-life, a screen, GPS and wireless link). I want to ask this device: "I want to drink this brand of beer; where is the nearest pub offering it? And please show me a map and instructions toward it. And pictures of the inside. And let me listen to the music they're currently playing, and let me know what kind of food they offer as well."

This kind of stuff (actually, it's mostly a software and "logistics" problem; all the hardware and infrastructure is ready).

Also, I have a lot more down-to-earth problems: e.g. I want to clean my bathtub/shower to a shine without using 10 different products and scrubbing for hours. It turns out that no chemical company was really able to solve this problem (seriously, I've tried everything). It looks like a stupid problem but the market is probably huge, and I expect a few smart chemical engineering students to be able to find a solution to this problem.
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Agree. Actually, We will shortly add an embedded movie clip that greets visitors with a short presentation and explanation of the service.
One would think the Macbook Air would have been mentioned in this article. If the lack of a CD-ROM/DVD drive isn't evident of web application focus instead of hard data, nothing is.
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Why doesn't it fit horizontally in 1024x768? Is that the new 640x480? :P
What I meant by image processing, as an example, is face detection. They already do that for some cameras, but that’s just the tip of an iceberg. You can attach a digital camera to a microscope (or a telescope) and detect cells (or stars). Or consider home security...
You might want to start incrementally. Have weekend hacker sessions instead of dedicating it full time. It would be cool if you could make a SHDH clone that was available continuously.
Isn't this a great example of a problem that needs to be solved? How can great UI design and open source be combined? I guess it's hard because great design means making (tough) choices for your users by limiting the feature set an thus the openness of the system.
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This is a very useful service, kimovski, and I wish you the best of luck with selling it.

I still think you should implement my suggestion of: a) having a splash screen explaining that the file isn't finished yet for recipients or b) sending all files with a content-type to make the browser download instead of trying to play media files.

MMC @ WN.se :)