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As crass as that may sound- its very true. When 'evangelists' start throwing around crazy ideas and plans at cocktail parties, it leaves the people on the ground who are actually working on a product dumbfounded

sorry. things didnt fly with the management.

thanks bigbang.

Seconded. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/omnidrive_heading_for_d...

paying for hosted SVN is a pain... I found a godsend when in a similar situation- www.assembla.com - free project management, svn, git, trac- just name it.

when you say "game design" in your profile; and " http://3boobs.de/ "

... your've gotta be kidding right?..right?

You are 17 years old and about to drop out of high school...I personally would advise you to at the least, finish school and get into a cool university and experience life outside the comfort zone of your parents' house. There's still a lot to learn, see and experience out there.

However, that does not necessarily mean that you completely stop working on your startup. While being committed is important, there is a right time for everything and it may not be the best time to drop out of school... suppose an year down the line, you change your mind- it will be a lot harder and for you to get into good universities. The risks vs. benefits at this stage may be out of whack.

The important thing is that the idea should not die and should always be on the backburner until the time is right and you have the matured view of the world [and how cruel it can be] to make the whole scheme of things to work in your favor.

Just my 2 cents...

EACH post? wow..but,there is nothing to stop you. If its something worthwhile, it'll rise up otherwise dwindle into disappearance...

There is a lot more to John D. Rockefeller than the article can ever summarize. I would suggest to anyone who wants to find out about the entire history, politics, discovery and wealth surrounding Oil and oilmen to read Daniel Yergin's The Prize.

well.. i think the guy barely knows what is apache in the first place.. It just goes on to show how important it is to get a basic grasp of the technicality involved in your app even if you are the non-technical founder/member/whatever.

Just like yesterday there was an entry about some guy's co-founder bailing out and he's left with no skills and no money.... sorry state to be in.

-- PS: I like your blog dude- been a long time reader.

funny.. because i just reverted to firefox 2 today because colorzilla and firebug would crash FF3 every 15 minutes.

Reverted because this is an invaluable tool...

I find the theory full of holes... 1) Just think about the amount of power needed by a system to maintain such a virtual world 2) Consider the magnitude of the power needed to further maintain a nested system/S within itself???

[....besides.. i doubt amazon ec2 could scale this kind of thing anyway \)

there is no such thing as immediate "automatic" scaling (at least not in the sense as amazon makes it appear).

That said, Yes Scalr is pretty cool, in fact it is almost a godsend for high traffic apps out there... but take this with a grain of salt- establishing server farms using pre-built generic AMIs to load balance your databases can come at a cost...literally.

Scalr still has some way to go but it sure does look promising.

can someone ban this person?

I think what he is trying to inference is that one must not sacrifice his sanity, family and friends at the expense of his work.

Again, all people are different when it comes to how they maintain balance or not maintain balance, for the good.

I find 37signals pretty stubborn when it comes to listening to its users, in general.

-just my 2 cents

It works..because the Indian cellphone companies don't cheat you into paying a fee for RECEIVING sms or calls.