175 karma · joined February 21, 2007
Email: joseph <at> magnesium.net _dot_ net
And we like our color scheme. :)
I feel like your question overlooks something, namely that if your goal is to become successful, then until you do, you probably won't have the "buck" to pay your crazy smart hard-working individuals their worth to work for you. In order to acquire the money to pay them (and them is plural, remember) you're going to have to work for it. And working hard will probably get you that money faster than not working hard.
Finally, your claim about the people whose "financial situation just cannot get better" intrigues me. Who are these people? Do they have extenuating circumstances causing this? Do you find yourself in those same circumstances, or why are you so ready to align yourself with their plight?
> Bands must get sick of trying to get their gigs listed on all the different sites (myspace, purevolume, etc.), having a solution that could push that info to all those different sites would be interesting part of promoting shows.
In the works!
That is the kind of feedback I was looking for. One of the things we struggle with is good information presentation.
It's a mailing list management system for bands. Or it was. Now we call it "fan management and data collection", and we have client-side software that lets fans sign up for bands' mailing lists at concerts. And there's more snazzy stuff in the works that we'll be unveiling in (hopefully) a week or so.
Blocking ads is completely ethical (IMHO). The advertising-based business model is not a contract to which the end user has agreed. People have always had the freedom to turn off the TV or radio during commercial breaks. Automating the process (a la TiVo) at the user's request does not somehow infringe upon some given right on the part of the advertiser to show the user its ads.
Just my two cents.
Edit: If you're going to downvote me, at least explain why. Kthx.
Eh, depends on who you talk to. I'd guess it's very much en vogue with web developers who are not so thrilled with the LAMP/OSS stack.
Note that I am not saying that PHP > .NET -- obviously on sites of this large scale, as has already been noted in the post's comments, using any technology "out of the box" is looking for trouble. What I mean to imply, however, is that perhaps for sites this big, .NET is the wrong thing. And, as the parent comment points, out, IIS certainly isn't helping things, though I don't think Apache would necessarily be a magic bullet. Craigslist, which does many megabytes of data transfer per minute, is considering switching to Lighttpd because Apache too heavyweight.
P.S. Sorry about the links -- I couldn't figure out how to link a text string to a URL. Can someone enlighten me?
Edit: Also, I find it interesting that on a site so big (I mean MySpace, and thusly, on a site that should have a fair number of smart developers working on it), they have not changed the default IIS error message for something a little more site-specific and user friendly. To see what I mean, click the story's URL. :) Or is doing something like that deep voodoo on a robust web platform like .NET+IIS?