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What do you use to monitor your websites? | warp: Did you see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903589 ?I'm not familiar with that service btw, just remembered seeing that here a few days ago. I use nagios both at home and at work. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | matthewking: I use pingdom, it runs on remote servers where locally run systems will fail if your datacenter loses its internet connection etc. Can't fault it but ignore the response times, I think the pingdom servers are just slow ;) |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | EGF: Pingdom - use it on quite a number of projects and they keep adding more data checks around the world making it even better to triangulate back to where and why people are having problems. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | rajuvegesna: http://site24x7.com |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | johng: Pingdom here as well. I think it could stand to be quite a bit cheaper but it works well. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | dlsspy: I wrote this thing for myself: http://dustin.github.com/whatsup/ |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | carl_: Pingdom with email2sms gateway for external/global checks and zabbix for internal checks |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | aneesh: http://mon.itor.us/It sends you an email when a site goes down. The free version pings every 20 minutes or so. |
Tool for handling a beta tester group? | bbhacker: I have simply setup a closed forum using phpBB and it works pretty well in my case. I can see who logged in, who contributed and forums are something that people are pretty familiar with.I also like the idea of building a real beta-test community for my products because I found out that there are some people ... |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | mcav: I've got a few users who skype me and e-mail me as soon as the site goes down. Not what you're looking for, but alas, that's what I use for now. |
What would you do if you run out of ideas? | e1ven: One thing that I've found is that a change of environment and work helps dramatically. One TED Talk I enjoyed discussed why he tales every 7th year off at his consulting business- It lets him recharge his mental battery of ideas for the next 6.http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/649 |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | DenisM: Does anyone know of a monitor that validates entire pages? I want to make sure that my site was not defaced so I would like to compute and compare hash values for a set of files. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | niels: http://wasitup.com |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | crxnamja: pingdom.com |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | techiferous: Has anybody used http://www.howsthe.com or http://www.aremysitesup.com ? |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | colinplamondon: Pingdom, with NewRelic for more detailed monitoring. That way when a customer emails in with a specific issue we can see what went wrong at a glance. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | stanleydrew: cloudkick for my slicehost and ec2 instances. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | spudlyo: check_http, one of the stock plugins for nagios. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | moomerman: I'm working on http://nimbu.net/ at the moment that does what you're looking for. I've just added twitter alerts too if you use twitter. If you've got anything specific you would want to monitor then please let me know. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | chadr: Pingdom for site uptime & paging, munin for capacity planning and performance monitoring, and monit for process monitoring. |
Best software for schematics/diagrams? | CyberFonic: Based upon my experience:
Open Office Draw is quite good. For greater power, you could consider InkScape. Dia is also good if you have the time to tweak to your requirements. I end up using OO-Draw for 80% of my diagrams and it interfaces with OO-Impress. |
What would you do if you run out of ideas? | CyberFonic: I get like that when I'm in the same environment day after day. I got over the ideas drought by taking a notebook (dead tree variety) with me on walks, dallying in art galleries, coffee shops, park, etc. When I'm in a "different space" the creativity flows again. I then take my notes and return to the com... |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | daleharvey: I have been meaning to try out http://boxedice.com |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | jzting: http://www.montastic.com |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | brixon: We use what used to be called IPCheck. http://www.paessler.com/prtg
You can run this with 10 sensors for free. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | stuntgoat: Why not write a script that checks the site from a cron job on a different server. You can have it send an email or text via twitter. Cron is a simple service. And if you can write a script that emails you or your phone, you only need to place it on a very reliable server or 2.I wrote a script, run via cron,... |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | JangoSteve: I use http://aremysitesup.com/. I think I may have even heard about it on HN when they launched. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | barmstrong: I use monit on my linux boxes.It requires some setup but the big advantage of this is that it can not only tell you when your site is down, but sometimes ACTUALLY FIX IT by restarting nginx or whatever you need it to do.This is something a monitoring service can't do since they don't have access to your box... |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | truebosko: I use http://sucuri.net/ for a very simple up/down, content changed notification system. It tracks those as well as DNS, HTTP Certs and a few more. It's also free :) |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | dylanz: http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/ |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | justinsb: How about Microsoft including an ad blocker in the next Windows Update. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | human_v2: I don't think advertising is going to be able to sustain Google indefinitely. As more tech-savvy users get on the web, their tolerance for advertisements will dwindle, along with advertisers' return. Google probably knows this, which is why they've moved into other markets like Android and Google's office to... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | patio11: What could ruin the Google profit party?Anti-trust regulation to split Google and AdSense/AdWords would probably figure as the Ultimate Nightmare Scenario. I don't necessarily think that it is likely, but then again I never saw an OS/browser tag-team as being a threat to world peace. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | dugmartin: wormly.com |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | chrischen: It is trivial to switch search engines physically, but not necessarily psychologically. Plus you could easily switch, I switch occasionally, but to permanently shifting your usage trend is tougher. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | jasonlbaptiste: google doesn't make money off "search". you don't pay them to click the search button. Google gets paid when people pay for you clicking on those ads (or viewing them with doubleclick). If the money that is spent on those ads+clicks is spent elsewhere that's the worst thing that could happen to Googl... |
Is Linus creating AI Life? | noonespecial: Maybe the kernel is just a basis for some sort of massive ai-life simulation?The kernel isn't the emergent life, the community is. The kernel is just the/(a) side effect. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | dksf: I think Google's biggest risk is in not owning enough of the most important corpora of web content which are getting created today: social information. The Internet is being reinvented as a network of people instead of just a network of publications. Facebook and Twitter are leaders in owning this people-conten... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | Chirag: My take is there is a yet a better way to search the Internet. We are still looking at search as a keyword driven application. Which is not the optimal approach to search. Though no one can argue that google give decent results to most of the searches you key-in. Search can be more intelligent and personalized ... |
Is Linus creating AI Life? | chrischen: He said he believes in guided evolution, which I agree is the best way to do things. But really it's the only way, because if you're not doing that then at some point you must have lied to yourself when your vision misaligned with results.I think what he's going at is trying to design things logically and ra... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | dasht: I've pondered that very question off and on for several years. I don't know what the "worst" thing would be but some places where I think there are clouds (pun intentionality uncertain) on their horizon - in no particular order:1) Culture fail: leading to dithering and waste that swamps the ship. Until a recen... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | brown9-2: Government regulation. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | eugenejen: I think we don't know the answer. 10 years ago few would imagine Microsoft not being a tech leader. 30 years ago few would image that PCs would replace IBM mainframes for most of the computing tasks. 150 years ago few imaged computing machines exists.There are always something out of left field that knock di... |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | timtrueman: http://chartbeat.com/ I can't describe in words how awesome this service is for just $10/month. |
Is Linus creating AI Life? | jrockway: There is no artificial intelligence, just a lot of humans doing experiments and keeping the best results in the kernel. I think that's plain-old "intelligence". |
Raising a friends And family round? | tptacek: Wait. Can you sell unregistered stock to non-accredited investors, even if they're "friends and family"? Unless your friends and family are millionaires, you need to talk to a lawyer. |
Tool for handling a beta tester group? | rs: When I was running xp-dev.com's beta, I used a collection of hand rolled scripts and mailman http://www.list.org/.Personally, that did sorta work for me. I had about 1000 beta users, and did not care too much about conversion ratios (downloads, CTR, new user signups, etc). I just wanted to get the word out when som... |
Raising a friends And family round? | patio11: The stock piece of advice we gave at the technology incubator I used to work at is to consider giving them debt rather than equity. There is a minimum of legal fuss associated with this -- for many friends & family, you can literally proceed on a handshake ("$10,000 loan, 5% APR, 3 year term work for you? Th... |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | joevandyk: i use nagios to monitor a lot of sites. there's also montastic. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | jsz0: I don't think there's any one silver bullet that's going to take them by surprise. For search I think the biggest danger is not being able to keep up with spammers and tricksters. People may not abandon Google search but it would make their advertising platform far less appealing and open the door to competitors.... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | old-gregg: Commoditization of search: at some point people will stop caring whose servers stand behind that little search box in the top right corner and whoever controls user experience will just pick the best provider out of many, driving down search profit margins.This is why Google wants their own browser, this is ... |
Raising a friends And family round? | gtm: One approach is to raise the funds in the form a "convertible note", which is basically a loan that converts to equity when you raise your first round of financing. Rather than interest, you give investors a discount (20% is typical) on the conversion. (e.g. If your price per share is $1.00 when you raise your ne... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | jjonte: The Semantic Web blossoms beyond the need to infer meaning from bodies of text. If the information on the web becomes more structured, structured beyond the need for Google.If web pages and web services were to all completely expose their information as RDF and embed rich metadata inside bodies of text the nee... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | tsally: A scandal related to personal data large enough to spook your average consumer. We're talking serious stuff, like records being sold to criminals or given to the government without a warrant. The only thing that could cause a user to get over the large cost of migration is a massive breach of trust.It doesn't... |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | latortuga: We use pingdom and pagerduty (they launched on here I think, not sure if they're YC funded though) and are pretty happy with both. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | llimllib: I made a bet with a friend 5 years ago that by 2015, Google will be a public utility.(This is also the worst thing that could happen to Google) |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | quizbiz: It just seems vulnerable that despite the diversity of Google's products and services, they make basically all their profit from displaying [very relevant] ads. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | bhousel: They could bring Brad Lidge in to save the company. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | jmonegro: Legal crackdown on monopoly claims. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | ramanujan: The Affero GPL.If it becomes popular, it closes the server side loophole and Goog would have to either give up on using new open source software or else open source their codebase.That's why Chris DiBona at Google Code won't let it on their servers. Search "Affero GPL" for more stuff around that.Ps: if I wor... |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | thesethings: I use cloudkick.com, which is a hosted service. It's the most accurate hosted monitoring I've ever used. Less false positives than any other hosted service I've used, and the fastest (accurate) notifications of true issues.The catch?You have to be using one of the hosts they cover (currently EC2, EC2 Europ... |
Raising a friends And family round? | fnid: My first thought is, if he believes that, why doesn't he quit and go full time selling the product? Three months isn't that long, but imagine the opportunity to work full time on your own product. With $2k+ already in recurring revenue, that's enough to eat on.You may not need that F&F round, no dilution, no in... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | flashgordon: what about P2P search? or essentially a distributed search engine (or engines) running on volunteers' servers? Google's good fortune for now is that search is not yet a commodity. Can distributed search engines make search a commodity? |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | protomyth: Some search startup comes along (probably via local search) that has a real focus on user experience and design. |
Raising a friends And family round? | skmurphy: I would continue as you are and find a way to close deals part time until you hit break even. I would think your co-founder could take some vacation days over the next six months and get you to break even (figuring that a partial sales effort will take perhaps twice as long as a full time one). This is not a ... |
Starting programming salary expectations? | dimarco: "It depends." |
Is Linus creating AI Life? | VonGuard: Perhaps "Hive Mind" is a better term than AI. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | davidw: They seem big enough and profitable enough that to really dent their progress, it will probably take something no one has foreseen, and which they can't easily chase without ruining their current business. |
Starting programming salary expectations? | mbrubeck: For a new CS graduate in Seattle working for a software company, I'd guess most get between $50K and $100K depending on type of company/position, how good they are, and how well they can sell themselves. The higher end will be students who can point to significant accomplishments (e.g. open source code, publ... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | dlevine: In the short term, not much. In the long-term, disruptive technology. Something will come along and do to Google what it has done to Microsoft.Eventually, the game will change, and the existing players won't be able to compete. |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | njn: Some weirdos just plain like it more than high-level languages. One of those weirdos is developing the Linoleum language: http://anywherebb.com/bb/index.php?l=D4JeGEdhacS6Srr6QLQgZpW... |
Raising a friends And family round? | vaksel: Why not just get one of those 0% apr for 12 months credit card offers and use that? |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | bilbo0s: Medical Imaging and Oil Exploration. A lot of the really fast packages are using ARB Assembly instead of GLSL to minimize the number of instructions per voxel. It adds up if you are doing 4D imaging in real time for instance. |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | mfukar: Contrary to popular belief, assembly is not only used for performance. Ask the security industry for more info. |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | DarkShikari: Anything that's worth spending time to do fast is worth spending time writing SIMD assembly for.You can get 5x, 10x, 20x, or more performance increases just by using the vector instructions given to you by the CPU. Until a magic compiler appears that can make proper use of them (read: never), hand-coded a... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | pg: To become so bureaucratic that all the smart people leave. |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | jonah: Inner loops of graphics algorithms - Picasa, Photoshop, etc. |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | luu: I did some assembly optimization for an internal RTL-level simulator. We had ~1000 machines on a three year upgrade cycle, i.e., we upgraded 333 machines / year = $333k / year. Lets say I cost the company $200k / year. Several days = perhaps $2k, so I'd only need to get a .6% speedup for it to be worth it, not ev... |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | tptacek: Debugging and performance monitoring. |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | brg: Supporting backwards compatibility in vtable lookups. This is becoming increasingly important with COM. |
Raising a friends And family round? | thorax: Check with your lawyer, but the SEC has some overviews here:http://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/qasbsec.htm#eod6Sounds like a lot of hassle for those 35 non-accredited investors you get with Rule 505/506. I'd also be interested if anyone else used that mode for non-loan investments. |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | dmoney: If people doing SEO found tricks that Google isn't able to overcome, and those became prevalent and persistent enough, people would start to lose faith in the quality of search results. Then they would go looking for other search engines. |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | chadaustin: IMVU hand-rolled its SSE skinning loops and parts of the software 3D lighting code, because only 2/3 of our customers have GPUs. We need to run well on five-year-old Dells with Intel graphics. (Direct3D on Intel isn't as good as a dedicated software renderer. We chose RAD's Pixomatic.)In addition, look a... |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | a-priori: Signal processing algorithms on the phones made by a certain company I worked at are mostly written in assembly. The cellular protocols, at least those that use time-division (e.g. GSM), have strict real-time constraints, but mostly they use assembly because every microsecond you can shave off those algorithm... |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | nvoorhies: In addition to the optimization reasons, you also end up coding assembly by hand to tickle features in the verification and bringup of new processors and/or processor architectures.Since a lot of the bugs therein may be dependent on a certain sequence of instructions, doing it in a high level language doesn'... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | vseloved: It has already happened: they've screwed up search, when moved away from PageRank to some reputation-based algorithms (and set-up the Facebook & co. as sites with biggest reputation, which is nonsense, as that's UGC). It's not so visible in English-language search, although begins to be, but, for example, for... |
Is Linus creating AI Life? | nazgulnarsil: is _____ creating amazing technological breakthrough?I'd prefer not to see question mark headlines. they're really easily abused. |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | angelbob: GPGPU stuff -- that is, using your graphics processor for random programming tasks. While something like <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html>CUDA</a&...; reduces the need to write assembly-like code, it also reduces the available speed substantially.For that matter, CUDA (and ATI's Bare-Meta... |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | daeken: Compiler intrinsics, binary patches and hooks (although EasyHook has made assembly a rarity here outside of the occasional shim where odd calling conventions are used), in-process debuggers, low-level bootloaders, hardware initialization/management, various thunking mechanisms.Others have covered the optimizati... |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | DCoder: Debugging and reverse engineering games.When publishers/developers don't give a bleep, the fans take up the task of fixing the bugs themselves. I happen to run one such project in my spare time (for C&C: Red Alert 2), and it's amazing how much stuff is broken. It's not as "serious" as other projects mentioned h... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | Create: It is the collapse of the US Empire.Which is bound to happen given History, like it or not, even if it is not allowed to fail (wall street).If you look at GOOG closely, you will realize, that it is not based on the purported commercial grounds at all. No single Company can:- map the moon as a "cool factor"- get... |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | wowfactor: I use the Website Hack detector http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/how-to-detect-if-your-web... with another program called site up. It is easy & quick to setup. |
Raising a friends And family round? | albertsun: My start up is in a similar place right now and I've been trying to come up with a valuation.The problem is that so many of the normal methods taught for valuing a company break down for an early stage start up. How do you predict your free cash flow in the future without pulling a number out of nowhere? How... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | gord: That they dont get split into smaller pieces [like Ma Bell] |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | deyan: The fragmentation of traffic sources might limit Google's growth (i.e. Facebook and other social media are quickly becoming a very meaningful place to advertise). In addition, international competitors and Bing might put more pressure on them.But in terms of something killing Google - that would have to be a rea... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | FreeRadical: If an effective search method was developed that wasn't based on pagerank and link volumes, but rather the internal quality of a page |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | natch: How about...The AI Google is growing becomes "too powerful to fail," a more insidious version of the "too big to fail" we hear from banking. The humans at Google lose control of their business as automation increasingly leaches more money from any business possible. It becomes harder and harder for the Google hu... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | asheniam: How about click fraud getting wildly out of control? Google's profit is based solely off of online advertising. Click fraud is a never ending battle to undermine that business and Google has teams of phds hard at work to understand what is click fraud and what is not. Now if click fraud reached a point wher... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | dsplittgerber: When Google doesn't find a way to stay on top of real-time search, social search and regular search - or doesn't find a way to combine those before a competitor does - they are going to fail. It's not a given that Google stays on top. Remember Yahoo, Altavista et al? Search is going to adopt to changing ... |
What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app? | rwhitman: I've been doing a ton of research on this over the past few days and put it at this:
Freelancers: $40/hr-$75/hr
Shop / Agency: $100/hr-$250/hrJust wish there were more developers out there. I've been scoping projects and looking for resources but its tricky. Its such a different world than web that you almos... |
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