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Does anyone have any experience with some FeedBurner competitors that they'd recommend? I'd be happy to pay.

People love hate on Time Warner and Comcast (I do too), but I have used both of their services and they do offer more mbps than other providers.

At my old apartment I had 50mbps Time Warner (Rochester, NY). At my new apartment I, I have 105mbps Comcast (Charleston, SC).

Whether they'll ever offer 1gbps, I don't know, but 105mbps isn't exactly the 5mbps average that the rest of the country has either.

I'm a big fan of James Altucher. His concept of building your "idea muscle" by writing down a page of random ideas everyday has dramatically improved my life.

Two of my favorite posts by him

How I screwed Yasser Arafat out of 2 million dollars and lost 100 million in the process

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/how-i-screwed-yasser-ar...

How to be the luckiest guy on the planet in 4 easy steps

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/02/how-to-be-the-luckiest-...

When I gave up social media for a month (my friends are all very heavy Twitter users), the biggest thing I noticed was deeper and more in-depth conversations. I was excited to see people. I actually -missed- my friends when I didn't see them, because I didn't know what they were up to every second of every day.

You know I'm always up for a naked run

Sure, but a 5x markup? Plus as someone other peopled mentioned, Amazon has S&S

I've always wanted to get onboard with the Manpacks but it's hard to justify $10/shirt when I can get a 5-pack of the same kind on Amazon for $18.

Sure, it's http://fncy.it/RvrAPd

You get 50% off your first month, I get 10 bucks.

it's because of my run naked post from a few months ago, haha

I removed the aff link since a few people think it's detracting from the message of the post. I could care less about the referrals, the point was to get my readers 50% off by using the link.

I'll change the link, I don't care about the referral dollars, it was to get you 50% off for using the link. Anyways, I'd rather it didn't detract from the message of the post.

BTW- I love FancyHands and have 0 ties with them.

Fixed the error, thanks :) Obviously I did not have Fiverr proofread the post for me!

I used Fiverr over MT because of the spin-up time involved in setting up the MT project. I only tested Fiverr with one 62 page chapter, which I was able to send to my guy in one document. If I used MT, I'd have to split up all of the content into paragraphs, create tasks, and review all of the work, etc.

I'll probably test MT again in the future and use some sort of system to.. automate it ;)

The website is confusing. They can buy things for you. I'm not sure how it works exactly (but I used it to signup for a $30 race).. I think they billed it to their own credit card and will charge me for it at the end of the month?

I wouldn't say it's full blown hiring. Maybe micro-hiring. Is that a term?

So jealous, I would kill to have access TaskRabbit/Uber/FreshDirect/etc, but it seems like those types of services only make it to NYC or SF. Living in Charleston, SC has its perks, but getting new tech first is not one of them.

Laundry & Maid service is next on my list, though. I figure, if they save me even 2 hours a week, I've already made my money back.

Thanks! Fiverr was great. I had FancyHands find me a high rated proofreader on there and ask him if he'd be willing to do a 62-page, 15,000 word doc (the guy normally was doing 1500 words for ~$5). He said sure, for $50, and that the turnaround time would be two days.

Two days later, I had a fully edited and proofread copy of my document, above and beyond what I expected to get for $50.

Mechanical Turk was way cheaper (even though $50 is already pretty cheap) but the quality varied greatly... from super-low to super-high. I would love to build an automated, nearly real-time proofreading tool that harnessed MT, though.

It's because of the "run naked" post I wrote a few months ago.

Zynga has almost 3000 employees? Jeez. That's more than Twitter.

As someone that has only sold self-published ebooks (where I keep 98% of the profit), I always forget how bad the split is on "real" platforms. The fact that (in the publishing world) 35% is VERY VERY GOOD, blows my mind even more! I can't imagine having a business model where I share >50% of my profit with a company.

Came here to post the same thing. I don't know if it has been fixed in 5.4, though.

My question is - why does Postgres need its own scheduler? Shouldn't that be the job of the OS? Is it a legacy thing or just something to squeeze out a tiny bit of extra performance?

Are you looking to learn the ops side or just want to play with Hadoop to learn how it works and how to use create jobs?

If you want to learn the "ops" side, EC2 is great for building clusters, tearing them down, testing different configurations, etc.

If you just want to learn how to start using Hadoop, writing jobs - don't even bother setting up a cluster. You can use it directly with Eclipse to run a single-node setup on your machine. Way less complexity and much easier to start learning with.

The only value I see (and why I use it), is so that I can track how many RSS readers I have.

Also interesting - RSS (for me anyways) converts really poorly. On 100,000 pageviews, I only pick up about 100 or so RSS subscribers.

In college, my friend (who was by no means an expert) picked the lock on the elevator with a paperclip and a shim. These "locks" are only designed to keep out the honest people.

I'll send you an email and we can figure it out - I email pretty regularly. I wonder if you have an older copy of the book, too.

I really like this comparison.

The downside, or challenge, with NoSQL (generally speaking) is that you need to handle your aggregations ahead of time - you need to know what queries you'll want to run in the future when you store your data. If you have some new aggregation you want to keep, you'll need to re-process the data (with Hadoop or something else).

It's the trade-off of being able to scale reads and writes horizontally. And unless you need it, an RDBMS makes sense given the flexibility.

Maybe, instead of looking at NoSQL as a full-on replacement for RDBMS, we can look at it as a better solution to sharding.

Wonder how much of that 8 billion in payments/year they see. 2.75% (their fee) of 8 billion is 220 million. How much of that do they have to pay out to the payment networks?

Not true! I respond to emails almost immediately, sent out an email two mondays ago, and have updated the GitHub repository every single day for the last 10 days. If you have beef with me, email me, but don't slander me. And, if you're unhappy, email me for a refund. Jeez.

BTW- I just checked my email to make sure I didn't miss something from you. I personally emailed you when you bought my book, thanking you. You never contacted me. Why would you air your dirty laundry here first?

I guess it depends on your frame. For me, it's fairly insignificant because I don't take many appointments - maybe 1 per week, tops. So it's no big deal. If I had 4 or 5 per day, well, that'd be a different story.