Comments for Leaving Corporate http://leavingcorporate.com On technology and startups Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:07:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on The evolution of Socialbrowse by genieyclo http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/07/11/the-evolution-of-socialbrowse/#comment-3268 genieyclo Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:23:57 +0000 http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/07/11/the-evolution-of-socialbrowse/#comment-3268 Sweet! I love the new sidebar design for 8aweek. Sweet! I love the new sidebar design for 8aweek.

]]> Comment on Working from the Django Trunk by David K http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/07/09/working-from-the-django-trunk/#comment-3260 David K Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:11:49 +0000 http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/07/09/working-from-the-django-trunk/#comment-3260 The file upload changes were one of the most annoying ones I've had to deal with in the few months I've been using Django. It just goes to show, if you're going to be working from trunk, you have to subscribe to the mailing lists to see when changes like that happen. The file upload changes were one of the most annoying ones I’ve had to deal with in the few months I’ve been using Django. It just goes to show, if you’re going to be working from trunk, you have to subscribe to the mailing lists to see when changes like that happen.

]]> Comment on Session Based Load Balancing with HAproxy by Brian Gupta http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/03/session-based-load-balancing-with-haproxy/#comment-2705 Brian Gupta Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:03:34 +0000 http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/03/session-based-load-balancing-with-haproxy/#comment-2705 We use nginx in front of haproxy for a couple of reasons. 1) SSL proxy 2) We can catch certain URLs and redirect/rewrite them before they get passed to haproxy (eg: We can directly serve images or cached html out of nginx and only send dynamic content to the load balanced appservers.) We use nginx in front of haproxy for a couple of reasons.
1) SSL proxy
2) We can catch certain URLs and redirect/rewrite them before they get passed to haproxy (eg: We can directly serve images or cached html out of nginx and only send dynamic content to the load balanced appservers.)

]]> Comment on Session Based Load Balancing with HAproxy by Leaving Corporate » 8 thing you should know about Amazon EC2 http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/03/session-based-load-balancing-with-haproxy/#comment-2349 Leaving Corporate » 8 thing you should know about Amazon EC2 Tue, 13 May 2008 20:28:07 +0000 http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/03/session-based-load-balancing-with-haproxy/#comment-2349 [...] load balancer such as HAProxy or nginx.   With notes from my friend Justin I wrote a cookbook for setting up HAProxy previously. 8.    Images taken from a Small instance cannot be loaded on L or XL instance, and [...] […] load balancer such as HAProxy or nginx.   With notes from my friend Justin I wrote a cookbook for setting up HAProxy previously. 8.    Images taken from a Small instance cannot be loaded on L or XL instance, and […]

]]> Comment on Session Based Load Balancing with HAproxy by Ilya Grigorik http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/03/session-based-load-balancing-with-haproxy/#comment-2108 Ilya Grigorik Sun, 04 May 2008 16:53:44 +0000 http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/03/session-based-load-balancing-with-haproxy/#comment-2108 Thanks for sharing these Dave, very helpful! Thanks for sharing these Dave, very helpful!

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]]> Comment on How to get accepted for a Y Combinator interview by Andrew Lee http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/24/how-to-get-accepted-for-a-y-combinator-interview/#comment-17 Andrew Lee Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:00:32 +0000 http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/24/how-to-get-accepted-for-a-y-combinator-interview/#comment-17 For more advice, check out Matt Maroon's advice (YC Founder of DraftMix) on YC apps: http://mattmaroon.com/?p=247 We didn't make it in, probably because we were much too focused on politics and we submitted our last application fairly late. But, we're taking this advice to heart. Focus on making something valuable in the world and the rest will fall into place. Great advice Zack! For more advice, check out Matt Maroon’s advice (YC Founder of DraftMix) on YC apps:

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=247

We didn’t make it in, probably because we were much too focused on politics and we submitted our last application fairly late. But, we’re taking this advice to heart.

Focus on making something valuable in the world and the rest will fall into place. Great advice Zack!

]]> Comment on How to get accepted for a Y Combinator interview by SpellCheck http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/24/how-to-get-accepted-for-a-y-combinator-interview/#comment-11 SpellCheck Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:45:21 +0000 http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/24/how-to-get-accepted-for-a-y-combinator-interview/#comment-11 Make sure you run spell check "alot." Nothing looks worse on an application than "alot" of spelling mistakes. Make sure you run spell check “alot.” Nothing looks worse on an application than “alot” of spelling mistakes.

]]> Comment on Fast Django Deployment by Timothyyb http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/02/28/fast-django-deployment-2/#comment-10 Timothyyb Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:54:09 +0000 http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/02/28/fast-django-deployment-2/#comment-10 omg.. good work, man omg.. good work, man

]]> Comment on 8aweek and RescueTime by Tony Wright http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/04/8aweek-and-rescuetime/#comment-7 Tony Wright Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:59:30 +0000 http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/04/8aweek-and-rescuetime/#comment-7 Amen to that. I'm always blown away about how many people focus on their competition-- in 3 person startup like RescueTime, any attention we give to our competition is taking away attention from our users. That doesn't mean we don't care about differentiation-- it just means that we have an army of excited users with GREAT ideas and that's what we need to focus on... Almost exclusively, for the time beng. I think your spot on with your compare/contrast. RT is a "knowledge" tool with a bit of behavior modification/feedback thrown in. 8aW is a "behavior modification" tool with a bit of knowledge thrown in. We're both making people more productive-- we're just taking different paths. I would add that one of big differences I see is that RescueTime focuses on online and offline activity. We're even playing around with the idea of data from phones and calendars. 8aWeek focuses on the browser, and honestly does a much better job at shaping browsing habits (and always will). "A rising tide raises all ships"-- I think competition raises awareness and that's a good thing. FWIW, I've never heard anyone say, "I'm leaving 8aWeek for RescueTime" or vice versa. I think they scratch fundamentally different itches. Amen to that.

I’m always blown away about how many people focus on their competition– in 3 person startup like RescueTime, any attention we give to our competition is taking away attention from our users. That doesn’t mean we don’t care about differentiation– it just means that we have an army of excited users with GREAT ideas and that’s what we need to focus on… Almost exclusively, for the time beng.

I think your spot on with your compare/contrast. RT is a “knowledge” tool with a bit of behavior modification/feedback thrown in. 8aW is a “behavior modification” tool with a bit of knowledge thrown in. We’re both making people more productive– we’re just taking different paths.

I would add that one of big differences I see is that RescueTime focuses on online and offline activity. We’re even playing around with the idea of data from phones and calendars. 8aWeek focuses on the browser, and honestly does a much better job at shaping browsing habits (and always will).

“A rising tide raises all ships”– I think competition raises awareness and that’s a good thing.

FWIW, I’ve never heard anyone say, “I’m leaving 8aWeek for RescueTime” or vice versa. I think they scratch fundamentally different itches.

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