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I think your comment should have been : oh crap here come the 4chan wannabes. Lets urgently start looking for a new aggregator to frequent.

Agreed. Dont it let it degrade to that level please.

From the Guidelines for this forum: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics,..."

Please don't turn this into a place for politics, instant support groups, lolcats, and recycled memes from 4chan. That place is called reddit.

Yes. I meant if you're not behind a NAT they can correlate your IP with your gmail cookie when you do a search and thereby link a record of the sites you are visiting to your profile to serve you more targeted ads. Apologies for the ambiguity.

No, you are assuming that 20 MB number is all heap. Wrong assumption.

Anyway this article is flawed about the number of MB each process uses because I think hes using PS to get the numbers and that shows shared libraries too. Shared, as in single code segment used by all the processes. Also he's making bad assumptions about the work load. Shit maybe I should blog.

Assume you are logged in or you have a gmail cookie, hell yeah they know.

More like record every URL you visit, and use the content of those websites to determine intent, and then target ads accordingly.

Apache has pluggable concurrency modules (MPM's) and you can switch to a multiple-threads per process MPM if you choose. When the limit is hit, it will fork a new process. Each new thread stack is not more than an MB or two, so based on your calculations, you can do much better.

Think about why it is you do this. I'm guessing you either grew up in a family where money was tight and you're determined as hell to make it, or there was something else you need to prove a point about.

There's nothing wrong with that. Once you figure out where the drive is coming from, it will clear up your goals, and the best way to achieve them.

Maybe your problem is not "how to avoid burn out" but "i'm willing to kill myself to make it - whats the best path?"

If this rings true, you are me five years ago.

Nonsense.

I've worked with several venture funded startups, all entirely satisfying experiences, and twice for large corporations. The big places were both good for the first six months, and then you ask yourself repeatedly 'what kind of fucken life is this?'

edit: important to note, the caliber of the founders is key. if they have done this before, or if they've held senior positions at large organizations before, then it's a good bet.