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I read this post as "your mileage may vary", gravitating toward "it doesn't work like we expected". One particular line caught my eye:

"NodeJS’ async everything wont have any affect on a CRUD app. Popular frameworks, provide very good caching and everything that is needed for your app to work fine even synchronously."

There is a lot to this statement that implies how an application is architected. Node.js is async at heart, and one can only build a successful application if you follow the programmatic model as it's designed. It doesn't matter how simple or complex an application may be, if a framework is being bent to work in ways in which it wasn't designed, the application may not work so well.

Reading between the lines, what I'm getting is a picture of a team that has encountered productivity issues with the current stack and is migrating to a more familiar stack to increase productivity. Nothing wrong with that tradeoff, but I always look to what future tradeoffs are being made: "cache everything and gets the work done ASAP" is great until you need finely-grained control of your queries.

I'm sure they thought well about their decision, but if asked to make a wager -- I'd guess that certain problems are being traded from one framework to another.
This guy is a genius, he keep coming with ideas about how to pay people less for their work. He must be very popular on the exec golf meetings.
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From my personal experience, Node is a really fun platform to quickly whip up a working web site/app/service over the weekend. But I keep getting this nagging feeling that it's not sustainable for a long term project with a large codebase. Other than socket.io, I really don't see Node as a general purpose web stack.
And some of us don't. It is presumed that you need a computer to run an IDE, but it is not presumed that you need a Mac. So saying that you need to have Mac to do something is quite an informative statement.
It is all about perspective. Compared to London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, most of the bay area is incredibly low density. Huge chunks of SF, Oakland, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Redwood City are 1 or 2 story single-family homes with huge lots. Regulations prevent even a modest 10 story condo.

You don't have to make it into a false dichotomy of LA-like insane urban sprawl vs. the current situation.
Have you ever been south of Palo Alto? There is not much of a difference between San Jose and LA (I have lived in both).

Besides, LA is not ugly because of the population density, but because of the endless sprawl.
For some context, I work at SeatGeek, Jack's startup, and participate in the later stages of the hiring process referred to in the post.

I think something that a lot of the recruiting/hiring discussions on HN miss is that the hiring process is not only about finding people who are capable of doing the job. It's also about finding people who will thoroughly enjoy doing the job and get along well with the rest of the team.

For example, I spoke to a candidate (in other words he made it through this set of heuristics) whose background was in security and whose primary platform was windows. He was definitely very bright and very well accomplished, but by the end of the interview, I genuinely thought he would have been bored out of his mind at SeatGeek.

Similarly, if you don't use at least one of OSX, git, ruby or python, there's a decent chance SeatGeek just isn't for you. An important caveat, that should probably be in the post, is that if your answer to any of the specific-tech related questions is "no, but I saw that you use X at SeatGeek, and I'm interested in learning more about it", that's probably equivalent to a "yes".
I see a lot of these, but I just think to myself that without bootstrap those websites would have probably ended up being some ugly wordpress theme instead, so I'm thankful!
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Yes (the article is incorrect). Native apps (that aren't Safari) don't have JIT.
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Quora explains using AWS for "everything" here: http://www.quora.com/What-stack-does-Quora-run-on-EC2, but they don't say how many of what. Their traffic is a secret too, despite what the article tries to assume of AppData, but I'm curious why it is believed that running application servers and their databases/cache is economical. Does Quora really see a huge flux in activity and inactivity?
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Well, I guess that depends on whether or not people are going to pay 20k bitcoins into the supposed Bitcoin account of the purported unmasker, doesn't it?

Is unmasking this person really worth what basically amounts to $100k USD?
so the high cost keeps out the riffraff?
That depends on what you want to do with your life, doesn't it? Obviously, running a company should teach you how to run a company. It won't teach you how to be a chemist, or an electrical engineer, or a teacher, or a composer, etc.
I was always under the impression that the delay in push notifications (which you also see with Twitter for iOS, even in the Tweetie era) was a result of NoSQL databases used for notification points. I know Facebook is MySQL, but it would make sense that they might use a non-traditional database for push points.
yep, that's the issue. with all technology you have to balance the pros and cons for the user and developer. Path took 100 % the user as focus point, Facebook a bit more the developer
What do you consider an 'expert' to be?

It's one of the most ambiguously defined and useless word when used in practice.
Could you elaborate a better first step?
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I was actually going to make a joke about "if the number of people I know who actually use Bump is any indication, it's not clear they even need a large data store."
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They celebrated 80 million installations as of 2 months ago (up from 50 million 8 months ago). http://blog.bu.mp/introducing-bump-pay-a-new-project-and-app...

That's a growth rate of 5 million installs a month; if they kept up that pace, they're at 90 million installs.

To put that in perspective, Instagram "only" has 50 million users. http://www.quora.com/Instagram/How-many-users-does-Instagram...

More bump data here: http://bu.mp/static/images/infographic_9-2011_6.pdf

I'm not a user, but it seems like they have serious data.
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I think you are ignoring the fact that Silicon valley is an ecosystem of engineers/product managers/sysadmins etc. all of which a growing startup needs. Hence, while a remote area might have people with ideas, it most likely will not have the eco system to sustain the growth of the startup.
The Bay Area's density is a fraction of of New York City's density. Yet rents in the densest parts of NYC are even higher than those in the Bay Area, which suggests that many people want to live there.
I admit to knowing nothing about real estate, and even less about ocean liners, but it seems that an ocean liner - even at sub-market rates - would be ridiculously expensive to buy, and then merely ludicrously expensive to operate.

Sure, you're not burning a ton of fuel a minute plowing through dolphins and kelp, but you still need to generate power to operate all of the on-board facilities such as electricity, plumbing, elevators, etc. Would the city allow an entrepreneur to run a fat power cable onto a sitting ship - leaving aside political implications of a big honkin' vessel blocking the ocean view, are there even any regulations written for it?

Based only on what I've read of jwz just attempting to put a door in a nightclub wall, it seems that a hostile takeover over San Francisco, followed by some summary executions of most of the city government and a formal secession from the United States of America would be easier.
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Every time I hear someone make a claim like this I have to wonder how much experience they actually have with these systems in a demanding environment.

Relational databases, all relational databases, have a disturbing tendency to fall over suddenly under load with little advance warning. They don't have a pleasant gradual failure mode. Instead some point of contention goes from 99% of capacity (at which point it takes very little load) to 101% of capacity (at which point everything falls apart).

If you've never experienced this, then I'm pretty confident that you've never scaled a database to its limit.

Which isn't that surprising. Most companies don't have sufficient load to make their database break a sweat. But once you've encountered the region where problems happen, life gets much more difficult.
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Unveiling real identities of hackers, or "doxing", is fairly standard behavior between competing hackers or groups. But there's a matter of proof and falsification of information that makes it incredibly hard to ever verify the claims being made.

Without verifying the identity of "cubespherical" and his claims via alternate means and sources of data, how can we be sure this isn't a ploy by th3h35t3r himself to leave a false trail and make a quick $100k?

The best hackers aren't just masters at digital systems. They must be masters of manipulating other people first and foremost.
"I'm convinced that the only people who can tell and even care about the performance difference between Path and Facebook's native apps are software developers...most people don't care"

the story you're commenting on presents evidence which contradicts what you're saying. unless you count a brief introductory paragraph, it is literally the first point they make.

the article says that the app has nearly 12K one-star reviews and an average of 2 stars, indicating that people don't like the app. the writing is not 100% clear, but it appears to be saying that the app only has a little over 21K reviews total, which means more than half of all reviews for the app are one-star reviews.

how could you possibly square this information with your belief that most people don't care? they counted the number of people who care and not only are there thousands of them, but more than 50% of the reviews are as negative as it is possible for a review to be.

seriously, dude, "people hate it" is the first point this article makes, and it does so with plenty of compelling evidence.
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Totally creepy. I've seen a few articles trawled from stuff like that. If you work for a trendy company, you might want to watch your back and pay attention to what audience with whom you are sharing.

e.g.
http://thenextweb.com/la/2011/12/10/meet-isabel-this-23-year...
Hyper-growth is an abused term in the valley. We've coincidentally forgotten that the only metric that truly matters, in terms of business (as it relates to growth), is revenue-for a high-growth company.

Tricking someone into using, or coercing them into signing up, in order to watch something is interesting, but it's not a business.

What's going on is interesting, but don't fool yourself into thinking they are all going to be big businesses.
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"Getting an A is as easy as doing everything, it doesn't require any real intelligence or understanding. This is really what college is all about."

You don't have a representative experience. Try going to a top 5 school in science/ engineering/ math.
This is such a bummer! I hope it's not true. The Jester is kind of like a mini-hero to me. He constantly trolled those 'anon' guys and somehow made them look even worse than they manage to make themselves look on their own.

Reading his blog posts was like reading an engaging book. He has to be the only one of "these guys" that is even remotely cool.
There is also a lot of variability in CS programs. Mine was way heavy on math, and light on the computer side. EX: DifEq is useful, but IMO it's odd to require that of CS students while not requiring a functional language.
I think also that if you are not a tech founder, you should learn this stuff. Not in a complex way to be the best engineer, instead to understand the concepts, so you can work with other developers and know what to ask for.
It's not hard. Firefox under Unix has an interesting property. When you select text, you end up with the following targets for an X Window select operation:

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With this, I was able to add an extension to my editor to obtain the URL, pull the page, pull the title and generate an HTML BLOCKQUOTE with proper CITE attribute with the highlighted text included.
@kneath would have never let that page design fly.
I'm not sure what exactly qualifies as respectable scale, but the Mongo master was running out of space and IO capacity with 24 SSDs and 90 million user records, and was replaced by a sixteen-node Riak cluster.

I'll happily share any other statistics you're interested in.

Edit: the Riak cluster actually contains lots of other data (communications, object metadata, etc.); we didn't need sixteen boxes for the user records.
Good point. He's probably suffering more now with his paranoia over being identified than he would be after his identity was released.

The worst things he's likely to face from being unmasked, given his targets, is a book deal, a handful of right-wing TV and radio interviews, and a sweet computer security gig.
More offices in the East Bay/Berkeley would be an improvement. Maybe a mini air taxi bus to go from one tip to another. (Berkley Airport - San Carlos/Palo Alto Airport - Reid Airport)
Maybe not true for everyone, but I find when working on quick prototypes of web ideas, where I have to write both front and back-end code, the fact that they're both in the same language with node.js is actually a huge advantage -- much greater than I expected.
They don't talk about it in the article but the app is also just generally buggy.
I agree with you in theory, in practice, my experience has been a bit different. Specifically,

1. Since Mongo has a database (or maybe collection now) level lock, doing rebalancing under a heavy write load is impossible.

3. Mongos creates one thread per connection. This means that if you've got to be very careful about the number of clients you start up at any given time (or in total).
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Either this person has actualy been unmasked and the person has left the public sphere or he wants to cash in and get 20k bitcoins. Why are people suddenly now revealing people for profit when in the past they just did it for fun?
>Compact cities are more efficient, but congested urban sprawl is most definitely not.

The article was arguing for density, not sprawl. Also that affordability is more important than desirability.
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Just wondering, how do you guys handle your email client. I would prefer to be able to read all of my customer's emails from my personal email account. But when I respond to them, I want it to show the customer, From: John@XYZcompany.com, not John@gmail.com.

Just wondering if this is possible. I set up POP3 fwding but I was wondering if there are any other possibilities.
Good luck. I'd be happy to see the likes of Ademco / Honeywell clobbered, hard :-)
"how can we be sure this isn't a ploy by th3h35t3r "

exactly...
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Zee, Judith Griggs with Cooks Source was 'brutally honest' as well. You would probably do well to give her story a read:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/web-decries-infring...

It obviously has some keen similarities to your situation (particularly in the "editor's response" department).

While I'm a fan of fair use (it's what makes the world wide web go round), I'm also a fan of attribution...and more importantly, of handling PR like someone who's the public face of a company. I think the responses here on HN show that most of us think similarly.
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What if a user is also a developer, or vice versa?
I would say that building regulations are precisely what is causing the the area to following an LA-style trajectory. San Francisco is one thing, and reasonably dense. But the huge sprawl of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Gatos, etc., is caused by all these communities wanting to be LA-style suburbs with no dense housing, and enacting laws accordingly.
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Dear Reader,

I am a young and driven entrepeneur. It was on a holiday, when visiting relatives in Bali (Indonesia), that I came into contact with the “Kopi Luwak Industry”. I found it fascinating, and even more so after having read a book by Dr2 Marcone, who won the Nobel Prize in 2006 by using a relatively small investigation to establish the fact that most of the Kopi Luwak for sale is not pure, but a mix-ture. In other words the buyer/consumer of this product is unfairly treated.

My goal is to tryFinished and bring back the purity of Kopi Luwak through among others scientific means. Therefore I have contacted the committee which advises the EU on food and nutrition ww.rikilt.wur.n. The TU Delft is partner in this project ww.tu.delft.n. Our combined goal will be to reinstall the value of Kopi Luwak, for it is part of the culture of the Republic of Indonesia. This means that the ‘kopi luwak’ war amongst the farmers of Indonesia must end and business must see to re-establishing the purity of the product. In this way the value of the Kopi Luwak, as far as the price is concerned, will also increase, so that part of the income could be used to invest - supported by Unicef - in healthcare and education.
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I don't think this is good advice. If you have the burning desire to start a company, you should start the company and not worry about timing the market to ride the bubble. People start startups because they have a solution to a major problem inside their head that's dying to get out, and because the alternative(getting a stable job) is out of the question, not because they think economic conditions are more favorable.
I'd be pleasantly surprised if he (and oDesk, by extension) were to share this data. They're very profitable, and this type of information might offer them a competitive edge. Moreover, it appears as if they're also fervid believers in intellectual property law's "right to exclusion" applied to ridiculous vague quasi-inventions, viz. http://www.google.com/patents/US20060284838. Luckily, this is only an application, and its longer-than-typical prosecution history will hopefully prevent them from trolling too much, thanks to prosecution history estoppel.
So: you went to college determined to find a path through it that would let you "get straight A's" and "graduate as quickly as possible", and then treated each course as a list of stuff to "check off"... and you're upset that you didn't get very much out of college?

Well, duh.

Every year I get a number of students whose entire motivation to be in my class is that they want to get the piece of paper. This sort of purely extrinsic motivation does not tend to make them very good students (although occasionally I have one that does well and gets an A, good for them). I'm always a little disappointed in them, because the class is more fun for both of us if they're more internally motivated; sometimes I can manage to get them actually interested, and then they perk up and are happier (and often do better), but sometimes they've just decided that they're not going to like college, and you know what? I can't force them to.

So, I guess they "win" that argument. But, it's an expensive argument to win; and it's kind of a shame, really.

As an aside, I also wanted to respond to this line:

> Getting an A is as easy as doing everything

Yes and no. In my class, and in those of my colleagues who have not overinflated their grades, As are gotten by the students who impress us with their outstanding work. Part of that is, of course, making sure they do all the pieces (don't skip anything, make sure it all works, check your work, etc), and the smart-but-sloppy students who skip things tend to be my A- and B+ students rather than my A students. But the students whose primary priority is checking everything off on a checklist, just "doing everything", rather than "getting it" or "making a cool thing" or whatever, almost invariably don't succeed in getting the A. It sounds like your background meant that you'd already learned a lot of the material independently, so your situation is different, but I think comments like the above are rather misleading for the bulk of students, who are learning this material on their first time around.
You're sort of both right. One reason I don't want to relocate to the Bay (despite several offers) is when I do the math, my quality of life is substantially higher here in the middle of nowhere New Mexico on astonishingly less money. If you're not after the glory, it doesn't necessarily make economic sense. Doubly so if you don't like the kind of work that exists in the bay. If the housing and commute time issues weren't so dramatic, I would think about it, but still probably would stay out here.
I was surprised how much of the housing was just... mediocre in SV. Even if everything was $500'000 cheaper.
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