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Hope I'm not repeating something already mentioned in this large discussion, but here's another thing to add to that list:

Once you live in San Francisco for a few years, it will become difficult to move elsewhere. You get used to all the cons mentioned. You will start loving running in the 6pm chill, the cultural diversity and the intellectual similarity, the feeling of living in slightly in the future compared to the rest of the world...

Classic case of lowering expectations so much that even fulfilling the basic needs seems like a fantastic experience.

While I agree with the coolness quotient, and the technological marvel, here is one for the skeptics:

I, being an infrequent traveller, am almost always online - whenever I am using my laptop, that is. In the age of always-online-everywhere, how many people really find this useful?

Besides all the other points in favour of S3, I'd like to add one small note: in any business, you want to shift your fixed costs over to variable costs.

It would be a bit like investing in your customer's business. You want to, but is that the business you're in?

Besides, the two all important questions: How do you decide who is deserving of the free account, and how do you know when they should start paying. You need to cover these both rationally and legally.

I got a copy of the Apartments For Rent magazine from a friend (I believe you can get it from ForRent.com) and found a lot of places that weren't there on Craigslist or Rent.com. It's useful to just call up the apartments directly to find out if they have anything.

Reading between the lines, does this mean: We are scared that pursuing this "legal battle" might open up a can of worms we'd rather keep under the covers?

How is this semantic matching? Seems to me another pop-quiz.

About Harvard professors spending time/resources on such things - it is a social phenomenon. And given the money involved here, a business phenomenon as well.

Run my map-reduce as a single task. :)

a) Find out how to partition your data.

b) Can you pre-process some of the queries and make the data available to the algorithm in a BDb or some such?

c) Can you make your heavier components into independent services?

d) You know what they say about premature optimization... :)

HTH.

Like everyone else is saying, don't. It's a lot of responsibility and that's not your main business anyway. How about using something like Amazon FPS instead?

My thoughts exactly. Although both are functional in their own way. MySpace is about me. Facebook seems to want to position itself about my network.

Reminded me of this post by Seth Godin:

It's easy to be against something that you're afraid of. And it's easy to be afraid of something that you don't understand.

(http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/09/its-easy-to-...)

I fed my feed back to my friend feed account. Each post showed up twice but that was it. No infinite loop, no endless recursion.

Hehe.. technology is finally getting touchy feely! :)

But I'm not sure how much a value-add this is over bluetooth which, although a tad slow, serves the purpose of short range communication for things like printing, sharing photos, business cards, etc.

Good thing is that a "touch" might serve as an indication of willingness to communicate and removes the need to press buttons as well as the initial handshake - for really specific applications like using coupons, or payments or to find out details about a product from its tag.

why do you think hacking is the same as programming?

Do I see Amazon doing to the web as a platform what Google did to the web as an application?

Wordpress? It's really extensible. And you'd get a lot of help from the open source community for any plugins that you might write.

"In letting Lehman fail the federal government puts a fine point on an obvious question: Why didn't they let Bear Stearns go, too? This business about the markets having time to adjust to Lehman's problems is baloney. The markets didn't adjust to Bear Stearns collapse; the markets looked at what the Fed had done for Bear Stearns and assumed they'd do it for Lehman."

From http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ai1w...

So it's final. A 158-yr old firm going down is sad news indeed.

It's not as much about the idea as about the execution. But your idea has been validated. And so has your idea-generation. Quit your 9-5 and start off on this full time.

Heh. Obama mentions McCain very often and McCain mentions Obama very often. They might as well give speeches for each other!

By the time this is over, there will be a thousand things that were "not covered in my physics textbook". :)

I'd like to change my user id. Is that possible?

Somehow I don't think such absolute statements can be made about using synchronous I/O or asynchronous I/O. I've used both; and in its place each turned out to be right.

What does everyone think?

I disagree. What if you make something free? Does that make it seem crappy?

I don't think pricing is a signal. It is a barrier - how high a barrier would you like to set for you customers.

Herd mentality = when everyone has the same opinions. Going by the number and nature of comments, I don't think that is true.

Diversity of thought: Barring phenomena like the Chrome launch, look at the variety of articles here. I think it's great. Remember that this isn't generic news, but Hacker News. So it's going to be more internet & technology centric that your Wall Street Journal.

The Design Of Everyday Things (mentioned above as well) is one of my favourite design books.

But will reading books help? What is your intent in suggesting such books to them?