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vanguard index fund or fidelity spartan fund (which actually is a money loser for fidelity, but they keep the fees at .1% as a loss-leader to bring in the chumps for the managed mutual funds)

no-load, low-fee index funds, basically.

whoo... tough crowd :)

i don't know... the algorithm killed jeeves

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Here's a link to our traffic graph on alexa:

http://snipurl.com/24rqq

yeah, this is using alexa rankings, so it's far from perfect and misses a lot of other data, so take it for what it's worth.

i prefer a proxy balancer that is smart enough to know when the back-end servers (mongrels in this case) are busy or not, and smart enough that it doesn't send requests to back-end servers that are down (i'm looking at you, apache mod_proxy_balancer)

until fair proxy balancer is production ready (http://www.brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-bala...), i really like nginx in front of haproxy in front of the mongrels

nginx => haproxy => mongrels

i still wouldn't trust him with my cats or with mowing my lawn

they were already making millions a year for many years. it's not like they were broke before this.

also, with the value of the dollar plunging below even the canadian dollar, the US stock market prices in terms of euros, for example, haven't been climbing that much, iirc (might even be declining?). someone can probably point to a graph of US stock prices in euros, but it's interesting, as i recall.

answer is 42. I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

i thought one of the big advantages of jQuery was the smaller size of the javascript file(s).

but this demo uses 106k of javascript (and it's not compressed for some reason)

photo from web developer extension: http://myskitch.com/michelson/document_size_-_http__ennerchi...

isn't that a picture of safari?

keep in mind that if the company is successful and is one of the lucky few to get a series A VC round you will likely get diluted to 0.5% - 0.6%.

'YC company' is the new google

in other news, so did Twytter and yLike

fake knock-off? so it's not a knock-off?

there's a facebook group for it too

y-scraper

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Tikhon

don't worry, I'm sure they'll take out a vowel or something, like optimalsal or optimalsle

i had to refresh twice to get it to work.

you might have to hit 'reload' a couple times. Facebook f8 is having some issues as they roll out the apps.

yeah he doesn't actually mention Paul in this pdf, it turns out

scribd link to flashpaper version: http://www.scribd.com/doc/50745/seth-godin-mentions-paul-graham-in-his-book