anuraggoel
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Comment · 17 years ago
You could add something to the effect of 'say nothing you wouldn't say to our face'.
Comment · 17 years ago
> Mostly only people wound as tightly as me
Isn't that demographic also your target audience for this post?
Comment · 17 years ago
Fair point, but isn't the jam example also a product aisle with 24 varieties of jam? My current frontpage recommendations include around 15 laptops and 15 books - I can't possibly buy all of them - aren't they asking me to choose? If they showed me just three from each product category, and fewer categories overall, I might actually be interested in the recommendations.
Comment · 17 years ago
This sounds reasonable. But I've always wondered about Amazon.com's UI strategy in the context of choice - they always show me much more crap than I am interested in: on the home page, on search result pages, on product detail pages, pretty much everywhere on their site. Right now I can see well over 30 'recommended' items on their homepage (and this is after the huge Kindle ad). Surely they've conducted A/B tests. Why don't they see the same results?
Comment · 17 years ago
Why did you switch to Rackspace?
Comment · 17 years ago
I might not want to swap out Django with CGI, but I might want to use RabbitMQ-based distributed tasks in Pylons. Seems like a waste to write all that code from scratch. For Django users (and I am one), Celery is clearly useful. But a distributed task processing library, even if it is a thin wrapper over RabbitMQ, should not depend on a web-framework.
Comment · 17 years ago
Looks interesting. But shouldn't a library like celery work outside the context of a web framework? I don't see a reason to call this a distributed task queue 'for Django' specifically, except for the dependencies on Django's ORM and settings definitions. Swapping out Django's ORM with SQLAlchemy (or DB-API) would make this project much more useful.
See pp (http://www.parallelpython.com/) for something similar, without the django dependency. More parallel processing goodies at http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing.
Comment · 17 years ago
On WSJ.com too: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124475525754407679.html#mod=...
It looks like Scribd is building a reader for the iPhone, and this app will also allow searching within Simon & Shuster pbooks. This is interesting because it sounds similar to what you can do with Google Books, though on a much smaller scale.
Also from the WSJ article, Scribd's PDFs can be read on the Sony Reader but not on the Kindle DX - which means they've probably adopted Adobe's DRM. Are we going to see DRM-free paid content from Scribd at some point?
Comment · 17 years ago
Great list. I would also add a box for 'Core Values'. It might help, for instance, in computing a more accurate valuation of 'Fear' as a trade object.