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stu.mp
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stu.mp is a personal blog at stu.mp about startups and business. Since 2009, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Disk IO and throughput benchmarks on Amazon's EC2”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The stu.mp blog is linked for posts on disk I/O and throughput benchmarks, recruiting developers, and why the author dislikes the AGPL. Commenters cite these posts as sources or background for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Disk IO and throughput benchmarks on Amazon's EC22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-09
- The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-25
- How To: Spend your investors’ money2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-08
- Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-22
- Joe Stump: Your city sucks (And so does mine)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-04
- HOWTO: Recruit Rock Stars 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-23
What Hacker News says?
based on this, it shouldn't take more than half a day under the worst circumstances (single EBS drive with crappy performance), and if you Raid together enough drives, you can do it in about an hour. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you pay for EBS by size, not physical disks, so the more you can split up your data in blocks, the more performance you're going to get. http://stu.mp/2009/12/disk-io-and-throughput-benchmar…
Comment linking /2009/12/disk-io-and-throughput-benchmarks-on-amazons-ec2.html
on “New High I/O EC2 Instance Type - hi1.4xlarge - 2 TB of SSD-Backed Storage”Submitted Joe Stump: Your city sucks (And so does mine) as a story · 162 points
HN discussion"We" looks like a bunch of Twilio people. Jeff, it might speed things up to bring on Joe Stump as the next Y! CEO - he's applied in the past so they're already familiar with his style ( http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.ht... ) He also looks a lot like this Sean McQuillan fellow. An awful lot alike. Weird... Anyways I'll take 15% of his first year's salary to make the intro, and I'll donate h…
Comment linking /2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.html
on “Help Us Buy Yahoo”Submitted NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Let the flames begin as a story · 145 points
HN discussionI read the linked article and was immediately turned off the by narrowed minded comment under cons. Just because someone disagrees with the authors personal political ideology does not necessarily make them narrow minded. If he was simply talking about racists, bigots, and the like then you can find those in any city as large as Atlanta. This author based his idea on the post here: http://stu.mp/2010/11/your-city-su…
Comment linking /2010/11/your-city-sucks-and-so-does-mine.html
on “Your City Sucks: Altanta”Submitted How To: Spend your investors’ money as a story · 128 points
HN discussionI think this is a decent summary. http://stu.mp/2010/02/why-i-hate-the-agpl.html
Comment linking /2010/02/why-i-hate-the-agpl.html
on “RhodeCode Goes Open Source”Submitted Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO as a story · 119 points
HN discussionJust stumbled on these links while reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253411 . While not strictly about interviewing, they might be of interest to you in your quest for developers: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper... http://stu.mp/2010/03/howto-recruit-rock-stars.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1451216/how-to-recruit-gr...
Comment linking /2010/03/howto-recruit-rock-stars.html
on “Ask HN: How to interview programmers”Submitted Why I’ll never own another server as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted To raise or not to raise as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disk IO and throughput benchmarks on Amazon's EC2 as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you should probably have an LLC for side projects as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted My patent-pending three-question technical interview as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to spend your investors’ money as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributed Vs. Fault Tolerant Systems as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted HOWTO: Recruit Rock Stars as a story · 2 points
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