rthng's comments

On: How to Avoid Distractions and Start the Right Company

[rthng]

If it's not too forward, what problem did you pick?

[ttul → rthng]

Well, once upon a time when I was young and stupid, I chose to make some very tiny improvement to spam filtering.

[ElzeardBouffier → ttul]

Application of Bayesian filters was not a tiny improvement.

On: Medium's in-house magazine “Matter” has shut down

[rthng]

Interesting I suppose, if you follow Medium closely. Unsurprising given the downsizing the company has gone through though.

On: OrientDB, the most versatile database I’ve run across

[rthng]

Heroku will have another Neo4j option in January that will offer an upgrade path.

Disclaimer: I work for Heroku on Add-ons.

On: Ebay Acquires Svpply

[rthng]

I really like Svpply and I don't find myself using it so much. Maybe we'll see some nice integration with eBay, or possibly keep running as it is, either way congratulations to the team.

Looking forward to what's coming next.

On: Andy Rubin: Google activates 300,000 phones every day

[rthng]

I wouldn't have thought he did last time figures were announced but he proved me wrong by making a deal about the way they counted it.

On: Ask HN: Are there any startups using/considering Windows Azure?

[rthng]

Thanks for that, I was aware of the program but I appreciate the reply.

We're currently looking at Azure for a few things and I'm really interested to hear experiences so trying HN people was my first port of call!

On: EA Artist, Soon To Be Laid Off, Burns EA Management, Discusses Failed MMO

[rthng]

There were some similarities in the situations from what EA Louse is saying to what I experienced. I'll be interested in seeing the Old Republic launch product because of that.

In respect to the RTW failure, senior dev Luke has a series of articles which explain it much more eloquently (and kindly) than I ever could.

http://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/where-realtime...

[pilkers → rthng]

RTW claimed to be of top pedigree, yet spent a long time and a lot of money to make a horrible game. Led by pretenders, I'd say.

[teamonkey → pilkers]

Led by some of the same people featured in this documentary.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1012096952890708986...