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So day 0, went to the gym. Paid all my bills online. Gonna read Beej's guide to networking (http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/index.html). Write some networking programs using C.

Objective is focus, so I will keep at the C networking, until I have some cool app from it.


Agreed on all points.


actually PG said it at the event, but to prob only a few people. It wasn't communicated well. Even though a simple e-mail, before hand could of explained everything.

Though I think they should have a special color sticker, for MBA's without programming/design skills, Managing Consultants and general Harvard douche-bags who think they are the smartest person in room.


> Though I think they should have a special color sticker,

> for MBA's without programming/design skills, Managing

> Consultants and general Harvard douche-bags who think they

> are the smartest person in room.

Seems to be a common problem over there. It is on the west coast too, but... it seems maybe not as pervasive and I think it's easier for them to realize here that their skillset isn't the most important one in the room.


I think they made themselves visible with their attire.


"Computing Power in the Cloud

EC2 servers have massive computational power. On EC2, available CPU, storage, and available memory can be orders of magnitudes larger than on mobile devices. Silk uses the power and speed of the EC2 server fleet to retrieve all of the components of a website simultaneously, and delivers them to Kindle Fire in a single, fast stream. Transferring computing-intensive tasks to EC2 helps to conserve your Kindle Fire battery life."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2#silk

What does this mean? "Transferring computing-intensive tasks to EC2 helps to conserve your Kindle Fire battery life". Are we offloading javascripting processing to the cloud and returning the results?

If so it will be different than Opera Mini.


From ArsTechnica,

"Amazon has also added a few unique twists of its own that will further improve the user experience. An Amazon engineer at the New York launch event told us that the split browsing infrastructure can even compile JavaScript to ARM machine code on the server side in situations where it will provide a speed boost. He also told us that Amazon will track whether users prefer the full or mobile versions of various websites so that they can predict which one is better to send to users."


We don't have much information on Amazon Silk. It be interesting to know how it works in depth and how web apps will be affected.


*affected


PG was correct on everything he said about NYC. When I first heard him speak at the event, I thought he was going to talk fluff about how great NYC was, but he was honest. Every point he made was true.

Haters gonna hate.


It was inspiring. I really didn't hear anything new. But it was great to finally see PG and some of the other partners.

I would recommend going to one of these if it your first time. However, if you have attended, you should be heads down creating something, inStead of just going to another start up event.

the only thing I didn't like, is people interviewing you and then walking away without telling you anything.

one guy told me "I am from Harvard". Lol


It pretty much is a digital scrapbook. I think allot of FB users will like it. I personally don't see a need for it though.

However I can see the people who currently use scrapbooks and are on fb, really use it on fb.

As a business decision, I think it's a good one. It will keep some of their customers engaged. I am curious to which demographic will really like the feature.

I am banking that fb thinks that the "popular" users will really use it. By "popular" I mean user(s) in any fb graph, that have the most profile views from other users in that same graph. The users that in a fb graph, people want to keep up with the most.

Those users I think don't necessarily have to be early adopters. They are just popular.

FB as business to grow just has

1.) Maintain Users 2.) Have Current Users use the site more and create more content on it

That is probably why we are seeing more and more features to keep users engaged.


Why did you guys go with clojure, instead of something maybe like scala?


I've had a ton of success using Clojure with projects like Cascalog and ElephantDB. It's a phenomenal language.


Nice breakthrough, this improvement is when the cell phones are using wifi. Now if the can do that with the cellular data. :)

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/16/new-subconscious-mode-cou...


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