Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

In Gates and Ellison’s minds, the corporations who owned the Information Super Highway would tax every transaction by charging a “vigorish” as Microsoft’s then Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold referred to it at the time. Still, since 1996, the only major change to the browser’s user experience has been the addition of tabs.

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CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Correspondingly, your products’ names contribute to, but do not dictate, their success.

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Naming Technical Review Product Product Name 40

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

In this scheme, all of the data related to a specific feature of a product are stored on the same machines. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further.

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San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151