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Asked on Quora a month ago, "Why doesn't Amazon offer a cloud-based search service?"

http://www.quora.com/Amazon-Web-Services/Why-doesnt-Amazon-o...

Yes, no attempt to hide that

But as PG says:

"If you make anything good, you're going to have competitors, so you may as well face that. You can only avoid competition by avoiding good ideas."

-- http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

Wow I launched my hosted search service, http://www.searchify.com at just the right time!

OP here.. yes for sure. Probably more like February

Here's a golang blog post about doozer: http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html

And what shall the PaaS providers use for their web servers? PaaSaaS? :)

Maybe it depends how large the numbers are? Google kept their (amazing) numbers hidden as long as possible. When they filed for IPO, their AdWords revenue numbers blew everyone away.

We are working on a drop-in replacement for IndexTank users -- same REST API, fast search, same features and pricing, and we will aim to provide the same awesome support that IndexTank provided. We're (so far) a few guys who are passionate about search, and have worked together in search for 4+ years. If you're interested, you can email us at indexstack a.t. gmail.com.

One word: AMEN

You say AirBNB isn't making a dent in the universe, but then you say people need shelter. I think AirBNB (and even before AirBNB, couchsurfing.org) is making a dent in the universe.

Yes - I think you're talking about the Principle of least astonishment, which states that:

"when two elements of an interface conflict, or are ambiguous, the behaviour should be that which will least surprise the user"

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

I started thinking this through and here's a problem I see. If companies decide to only do business with other "good" companies, then they have to decide whether every potential customer is "good" or not. How do you define it - where do you draw the line? Do you hire another person to make this decision? Outsource it? Or maybe there's a y-combinator startup that provides an API call - isCompanyEvil(company_name).

I also find it ironic that this link to perl.org took 15 seconds to respond.

Jason interviewed me for the BBS documentary - http://www.archive.org/details/20040130-bbs-mthreat

He loves making these documentaries, and he does a ton of research gathering for them. I think this is a person and cause worth supporting.

I've heard "swing for the fences" many times in the context of startup companies. Fred Wilson (A VC) has a blog post entitled "Swinging for the Fences" that talks about it - http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/10/swinging-for-the-fences.html

In the early days it was pretty easy to make money. I paid my rent from TopCoder earnings for a few months in 2001.

When I've worked hard on a project that could fail, I've usually had the mindset, "if it fails, at least we'll know it wasn't because we didn't try".

PG discusses this at about the 5m mark in this video, using the example of curing Malaria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7K0vRUKXKc

Wiley Wiggins is an actor - he played the kid "Mitch Kramer" in Richard Linklater's (excellent) 1993 film _Dazed n' Confused_ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazed_and_Confused He's been in several other movies including Love & a .45, The Faculty, Waking Life, and Sorry, Thanks.

Now he's working on a kickstarter project, an iPad game called Thunderbeam! - check it out: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wileywiggins/thunderbeam...

There's also Ashton Kutcher, who said at TechCrunch disrupt that he had learned a bit of programming in college, but I'm not sure he would consider himself a programmer.

I wonder how many bitcoins Google could get if they cranked up all their CPU power towards mining...

Wow... I traded Jeff a DefCon '93 shirt for one of my ToneLoc shirts back in the day. It's good to see them appoint someone qualified.

That's just it - I'm interested enough to want to know more about the company. But without knowing more about them, I'm not sure if I'm interested enough to send my resume.

So if no new twitter clients are allowed, but existing ones are "grandfathered" in, does this mean there will be a market of buying and selling these grandfathered twitter clients?

Case in point - this article.

There was an app called Hangtime that did this, http://iphonehangtime.com/, but it seems like it's gone. I just searched the app store and found another app, also called Hangtime!, that appears to do the same thing under the guise of measuring how long you yourself are airborne (not just the phone).

Their conclusion seems incomplete, or maybe they came up with the conclusion before the study.

Other possible solutions include: increasing driving skill, paying more attention while driving (no sending text messages), etc

Austin, TX - Indeed.com - one search, all jobs.

We're a job search engine. We're hiring for the following engineering jobs, all in more detail at http://www.indeed.jobs/

* Jr. Linux System Administrator

* Software Development Engineer

* Statistician / Quantitative Analyst

* User Interface Developer

* Web Front End Developer

I've had these same thoughts myself while walking to the laundry mat in my apartments. I know that Ning exists, maybe it's too general? Maybe a social network for apartments would get more usage? You'd have the problem of verifying that someone lives in the apartments (facebook used to verify you went to school.edu by your school.edu email address).