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iChromy tells me username and pass are incorrect,
@diigo iChromy tells me username and pass are incorrect, won’t let me log in. login credentials are correct, however. user: TransTracker
Archive for June, 2011
My daily readings 06/30/2011
June 30, 2011My daily readings 06/28/2011
June 28, 2011-
Announcing Add-ons | AppHarbor Blog
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Adding an add-on to one of your applications is very simply: Simply select ‘Add-ons’ from the application menu on appharbor.com/, find the add-on you want and then add it. This causes AppHarbor to provision the resource with the add-on provider so that it is ready for your application to use. The next time you deploy your application, AppHarbor will inject the required configuration information into your application so that the service can be consumed. You can find more detailed information on how that works for the various add-ons in the add-on section of the knowledge base.
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Founders reveal books that changed their lives | Business Tips
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Hello my name is Aditya Shukla and I’ve been asking past mixergy guests to recommend books which they have found useful in their entrepreneurial journey and how it has influenced them.
Read through the list and let me know what you think, in the comments.
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these are good resources
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取代iPad 內建Safari瀏覽器的兩款選擇： Sleipnir Mobile、 iChromy | 電腦玩物
取代iPad 內建Safari瀏覽器的兩款選擇： Sleipnir Mobile、 iChromy | 電腦玩物 http://t.co/ZKg1nMX
My daily readings 06/27/2011
June 27, 2011-
纳斯达克中国首代：中国概念股坏苹果是极少数_互联网_科技时代_新浪网
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在谈到此次中证—纳斯达克金牛上市公司奖的标准时，郑华表示，51job之所以获得最佳平衡收益奖，是因为从上市到截止日，它的股价涨幅在所有中国概念股中最高。百度之所以获得最佳技术公司奖，是因为它拥有自己的自主创新技术，同时还在不断创新。新浪在产品和业务上取得了非常大的成功，尤其是它的微博处于国内领先地位，这是它获得最佳创新奖的原因。
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她表示，纳斯达克其实并不是人们印象中的创业板，而是美国最主要的主板市场，也是全球目前上市条件最高的市场。目前，纳斯达克市场分三个层次，最高层次是纳斯达克全球精选板，第二层次纳斯达克全球板，第三是纳斯达克资本市场板，其中纳斯达克全球精选板是目前世界上上市条件最高的市场。目前绝大多数中国公司通过IPO进入纳斯达克中间板块上市。
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Hi, too expensive
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How to enhance your twitter experience using Diigo: an efficient knowledge sharing tool http://bit.ly/kFK4d0
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Best content in Medical Education | Diigo – Groups
Turning your social network into a learning network: are @diigo potentials undervalued?A great example is #meded group http://bit.ly/lyqDfK
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Two days in a row with no group subscription upda
Two days in a row with no #Diigo group subscription updates? Just me or is it broken again? @Diigo
My daily readings 06/26/2011
June 26, 2011My daily readings 06/24/2011
June 24, 2011-
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When police cars, lightbars on, pulled up outside her house in the middle of the night, a Rochester woman began filming the traffic stop from her front yard. She was arrested and taken to jail by a police officer who first said she was “anti-police,” then claimed to feel “threatened” by her; and ultimately told her that he didn’t have to explain himself at all. Her arrest, which required the officer to enter her property without permission, was on a charge of “obstructing government administration.”
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Shazam CEO Talks Android vs. iPhone And How They’re Listening Their Way To Success
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I also took the opportunity to ask if Fisher has seen any trends emerge on each mobile platform — after all, Shazam has a universal appeal (just about everyone likes music and wants to figure out what they’re listening to). Fisher shared some interesting data points, including the fact that “iTunes is the dominant platform in terms of user propensity to purchase…”. In other words, iPhone users are far more likely to purchase songs than users on Android and other platforms. That’s not a huge surprise, but it further supports the claims that iOS users are more accustomed to buying content on their phones.
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My daily readings 06/23/2011
June 23, 2011-
Hacker News | 85% Firefox Users Use Add-ons, Only 33% Chrome Users Use Extensions
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Chrome numbers are from Dec 2010 as compared to June 2011 in case of Firefox. I don’t think it’s valid comparison.
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Same here. I believe they have a different “calling”, Chrome is meant to be fast,light and simple.
Firefox feature-heavy and complex, a sort of web swiss knife.
While they are evolving towards implementing each other’s strengths (Firefox more streamlined, Chrome more feature-laden) they kind of stay true to their origins.
I tend to use Chrome a lot more, but I always keep Firefox installed and updated as well.
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How many Firefox users have add-ons installed? 85%! | Mozilla Add-ons Blog
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We’re very excited to report that 85% of Firefox 4 users have chosen to install an add-on — that’s more than 60 million users every day! This number doesn’t include Personas, and even excludes popular add-ons bundled with other software that the user hasn’t actively agreed to install.
Firefox 4 desktop add-on usage from March 22 through June 19, 2011, excluding Personas and several commonly-bundled add-onsWhen we first saw this number, we expected it to drop as more and more users upgraded to Firefox 4; remarkably, it has stayed between 89% and 85% since launch in March. It’s also interesting to note that on the weekends when Firefox (and Internet) usage slumps, the percentage of users with add-ons increases, indicating those who browse on weekends are more likely to have customized Firefox.
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We’ve also learned that on average, users have 5 add-ons installed, with the following distribution:
Firefox 4 desktop add-on distribution from June 19, 2011, excluding Personas and several commonly-bundled add-onsWith more than 2.5 billion downloads and 580 million add-ons in use every day in Firefox 4 alone, there’s no better time to browse our gallery and make Firefox your own.
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Shazam Raises A Huge Round To The Tune of $32 Million
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Shazam surged to popularity on the iPhone and is now also available on Android, Java, BlackBerry, Windows, and Symbian, and has been used by nearly 150 million people since the application launched. And its growth isn’t showing any signs of waning: the company says that it’s seen weekly installs double over the course of the last year, and that users are now tagging four million songs per day.
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Through a program aptly titled Shazam for TV, the company is working with select partners including MTV, NBCUniversal, and various advertisers to integrate Shazam with their content. TV shows are prompting users to ‘Shazam’ a certain segment by firing up the app and holding it up toward screen, and ads are beginning to do the same (see the video below for some demos).
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Box.net Ups The Ante Against Microsoft With In-Depth Google Docs Integration
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Box, which has 6 million users and stores 300 million documents, is a cloud storage platform for the enterprise that comes with collaboration, social and mobile functionality. Box has evolved into more than just a fils storage platform, and has become a full-fledged collaborative application where businesses can actually communicate about document updates, sync files remotely, and even add features from Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite, Yammer and others.
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Box, which just raised $48 million in new funding, sees this functionality as an alternative to Microsoft’s cloud document platform, Microsoft Office 365, which will come out of beta next week. Clearly teaming up with Google is part of Box’s strategy to gain marketshare from Microsoft SharePoint
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Hacker News | Using Chrome Web Store for App Distribution (by the numbers)
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Scalability Isn’t About the Size of Your “Equipment” – Server Fault Blog
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The first reason is that system itself might just break down because it is the wrong way to do it. Sam Saffron put this perfectly when he was interviewed at MIX: “By adding more servers all we would really be doing is distributing the slow”. (Why is turning non-nouns into nouns so catchy?). The other reason is that the cost to throw more hardware at the problem starts to become untenable.
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- Code and script management tasks. When you have 3 servers you may not need to do this, you can probably do it by hand. However, when you have 100 you will have no choice.
- Use algorithms and data structures that are efficient.
- Use caching effectively.
- Document tasks so you are not a single point of failure and so you don’t have to relearn things every time.
- Use centralized authentication, configuration management, updates, etc.
- Use automated building and deployment processes.
Do more with less
You can start to become scalable very early on, even with only a few servers. There are lots of ways we generally practice scalability, a few examples are:
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You Will be Assimilated – Server Fault Blog
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Why disgusting? Personality is the antithesis of scalability. With a large number of servers, each with their own personality, you will need more administrators, and a chaotic management structure. The Borg are the good guys. This is because of some of the distinct advantages of being more like the Borg:
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At Stack Exchange, we have done a good job at achieving this with our web tier. We do have 1 staging web server, but for our other 9 web servers, the seventh is just seven of nine. George has made a deployment process which includes everything we need, making any web server disposible, and a new one ready for assimilation. Should one of them be destroyed, the others will automatically take over without concern. However, in some areas we are still more like the Federation. We have 4 database servers, and we have noticed areas where our db01/db02 pair is unlike our db03/db04 pair. If one of our primary servers fail, we will mourn the loss as we carry out a manual fail over process. If we were more like the Borg in this area, we could initiate self destruct on one of these servers without a care as the Borg queen would do.
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Stack Overflow’s New York Data Center – Server Fault Blog
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- Dell R610
- 1x Intel Xeon Processor E5640 2.66 GHz Quad Core with 8 threads.
- 16 GB Ram
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About 1400$
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We now keep all the web server configs the same so adding another server for a site is just a load balancer change. So currently stackoverflow.com runs on 6 servers (3 servers dedicated for stackoverflow only).
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- Dell R710s
- 2x Intel Xeon Processor X5680 3.33 GHz
- 64 GB of RAM
- 8 Spindles
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From a sysadmin perspective, all that ram gives us the ultimate log analysis playground real estate.
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We scale in three directions up, out, and awesome people. We don’t have lots of small weak servers (out) nor do we have a couple of monsters (up) — rather we strike a balance. Our third, and most import scaling direction is getting awesome people. By that I mean we have great programmers who happen to be performance junkies. They literally tune the code 24/7 and also know a lot about SQL and system tuning as well. The sysadmin team will be working with them to get the best damn performance we can from our new machines.
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Stack Exchange’s Architecture in Bullet Points – Server Fault Blog
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- 95 Million Page Views a Month
- 800 HTTP requests a second
- 180 DNS requests a second
- 55 Megabits per second
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- 1 Rack with Peak Internet in OR (Hosts our chat and Data Explorer)
- 2 Racks with Peer 1 in NY (Hosts the rest of the Stack Exchange Network)
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- 2 System Administrators
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Hacker News | Special collection of freeware tools for system administration
My daily readings 06/22/2011
June 22, 2011-
Get a Web Page’s Title from a URL (C#) – Noah Coad – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
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That’s a good idea. You can use request.Method = “HEAD” which would be faster. But it doesn’t always work so you’d have to first try it with the “HEAD” method, then upon an error with a “GET” method to get achieve reliable results. Try it with the downloadable sample code which contains a link to amazon.com to see what I mean.
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You’re right, this piece of code is obviously not designed for performance critical scenarios, but it is easy and works well for my client-side apps. If performance was a concern, one could combine it into a single request that downloads byte by byte and uses text parsing (instead of a RegEx) as the file is downloaded to look at the header and body and stop downloading after the wrong header or </title> tag is found.
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Hacker News | Google open sourcing voice and video engine for the web
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Is this Google’s response to MS purchasing skype? Seems like the classic strategy of commoditizing your competitor’s business (and they get a 2-for-1 deal since Apple is also wielding FaceTime).
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One way to decimate adversaries is to open-source your entire competitive advantage. Unfortunately that only works when you’re the market leader. So nobody cares about open-sourcing WebRTC. Something that would be actually noticeable in this field right now would be Microsoft that open-sources Skype and gives everything away under the BSD license.
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So nobody cares about open-sourcing WebRTCExcept the people that would want to use it? Think of Chatroulette.
Something that would be actually noticeable in this field right now would be Microsoft that open-sources SkypeNoticeable yes, but useful, not really.
What would be useful is for Skype to become a standard that allows interoperability with other services and protocols, such that you could build a client, like a website, that would allow users with a GTalk account to video-call Skype users. Now that would be something.
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Distimo: China Now The Second Largest iPhone App Market After The U.S.
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However, the proportion of paid downloads and the overall revenue still lag behind that of the United States and Europe. Distimo reports that customers in Asian markets are more inclined to download a free version of an app vs. pay for an ad-free version. The average download volume of the 300 most popular applications (free and paid) in all Asian countries combined is about equal to the average volume in the United States.
But for paid applications only, this ratio drops to one-third, showing that iPhone users in the United States are more eager to pay for applications. Excluding Japan, this figure even drops to one-sixth.
Distimo says that Japan actually generates the majority of the revenue in Asia regarding iPhone apps. The total revenue in Asia is about two-thirds of the revenue in the United States. This figure is higher than one-third due to the higher average selling prices of the 300 most popular applications in Asia ($2.62) compared to the United States ($1.48).
Moreover, in-app purchases have not yet taken off in Asia. For example, in China only 34% of the revenue from the 200 top grossing applications originates from applications that feature in-app purchase. But that doesn’t mean that in-app purchases could quickly scale in Asian markets in the coming year. In the U.S., in-app payments nearly doubled in a year. Distimo says in June 2010, revenue from applications that feature in-app purchase in the United States was only 39%, however by May 2011 it increased to 68%.
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Hacker News | You don’t understand something until you think it’s obvious.
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吴鹰：孙正义马云和杨致远不得不说的故事_互联网_科技时代_新浪网
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马云总是要闹出一件事情来玩，说来赌，我们一杆定输赢。前一天晚上就定好了，我们是要去那儿比赛的，参会的人来下注。当时就是100美金一杆，谁打得远，谁赢，每一注是100美金，一半人下在我身上，一半人下在马云身上。当时会打球的人，全是赌马云赢；不会打球的人，赌我赢。因为我比马云高大一些，认为我一定会打赢。其实他们懂的人知道，一使劲那个球肯定打不着。
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雅虎的杨致远在那儿花时间跟马云有一个私下的交流，当时有个细节一般的人不太知道。当时eBay是很大的公司，现在eBay也是蛮大的，是个大概300多亿美元市值的公司，当时他们的市值还要高。因为当时互联网泡沫，他们大概是500多亿美元的市值。那个时候如果eBay跟阿里巴巴打，阿里巴巴很害怕，高盛那些公司都很害怕，都要跑，根本打不过，马云需要钱。
银行不给他钱，当时中国PE、VC的规模都很小，哪怕我们也没有这么多的钱给他去做，他需要相当多的钱来做。最后，就是雅虎看中了他们。杨致远的一句话打动了马云，“咱们都是中国人，一块儿做点儿事情。”
当时雅虎投资了10亿美元，这个(单笔融资额度)纪录保持了很久，一直到今年初，京东商城拿了一个15亿美元的投资，才把除了上市之外的、民营企业的私募资金纪录刚刚打破。10亿美元投资，雅虎占股43%，投票权37%。
10亿美元的投资，同时又收购了雅虎中国，这对阿里巴巴来说，是特别重要的一个发展。他有大量的资金支持，运作非常成功，管理也很好，真的就把eBay打得在中国的占有率非常地小了。
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神州数码10年艰苦战略转型:郭为从边缘回到中央_业界_科技时代_新浪网
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事后复盘，郭为认为如果回到10年前，他最想避免的一个错误就是在神码成立之初没有做减法，导致了2003年的一系列危机。“我那个时候如果踏踏实实的，集中全部精力把代理分销进一步做的更漂亮，我觉得后面向IT服务转型可能会更轻松一点。”神码所提供的IT服务其基础就是自己所销售的产品，而它的优势也在于对诸多厂商和品牌的了解。虽然不再把业务重点放在代理分销上，但是对于这些产品和业务的梳理足够精细，在提供IT总包这样的服务时，其沟通成本就会更低，而IT服务又是智慧城市的组成部分，求变的同时如果专注于分销业务这一基础，显然神码的路会更顺利。
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My daily readings 06/21/2011
June 21, 2011My daily readings 06/19/2011
June 19, 2011-
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- Directives with the “=” prefix that match the query exactly. If found, searching stops.
- All remaining directives with conventional strings. If this match used the “^~” prefix, searching stops.
- Regular expressions, in the order they are defined in the configuration file.
- If #3 yielded a match, that result is used. Otherwise, the match from #2 is used.
To summarize, the order in which directives are checked is as follows:
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Note that you could define these 4 configurations in any order and the results would remain the same. While nested locations are allowed by the configuration file parser, their use is discouraged and may produce unexpected results.
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董明珠：在格力，有个不成文的规定，只要是从同行企业出来的，无论多能干，原则上不收留。不是说别人不优秀，但如果仅靠别人培养人才，本身就是一个贪婪的行为。跳槽的人，在原来企业“叛逃”有很多原因，但大部分都是利益上的问题，或者说个人的利益，比如个人愿望达不到满足。在珠三角，其实存在许多“商业间谍”，在原公司授意下，跑到别的公司“潜伏”几年，然后辞职，将后来公司的一些经营秘密带回原公司。别的公司有过前车之鉴，所以格力用人也非常小心。
经常有公司在格力门口挖人，但是我相信，是我的人才是走不掉的，不是我的人才也留不下。格力有自己独特的文化，通常离开格力的员工都不准再回来。而且格力培养的人才也很难适应其他企业。
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董明珠：因为格力的企业文化是不一样的。格力更多倡导文化教育，而不是经济交易。很多人说，你到我这儿来我给你高薪，但在我看来，如果一个人的着眼点就是为了能挣更多的钱，以自我为中心，永远带一种贪婪的心情去做事，很难建设好的企业文化。格力坚持培养一种奉献精神，我们的幸福感和价值观在于能够让更多人幸福起来，这就是你的价值。因此从格力出去的人，相对单纯，不会搞人际关系，因此在别的公司往往显得格格不入，很难融入。
企业高管都应该来自内部培养，自己培养的人才对企业有感情，员工也信服。有的企业好不容易挖来一个营销人才，“含在嘴里怕化了，放在手上怕飞了”，即使违规操作，企业也睁只眼闭只眼，那么这一个人就会殃及整个网络，甚至毁掉整个销售队伍。
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在团队里面就要有不同的角色，哪些人适合什么样的角色，不是说明年、后年我们准备退了，我现在再来考虑，那是不对的。培养接班人是一个长期的工作，它需要不断地去储备，我们现在都讲市场经济、职业经理人的问题，但是我并不希望这些人成为一个简单的职业经理人。我觉得他们爱这个企业就像爱自己的家一样，这样的团队对企业才是真正有意义的。
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董明珠：我对接班人的要求有三点：第一要忠诚，第二要有奉献精神，第三要讲诚信。如果这几个最基本的要素不具备，他的能力再强，对企业来说可能是埋了一个定时炸弹。我在格力倡导的文化就是“忠诚”，看到韩剧里面的警察见面打招呼就是互相说“忠诚”，这让我很得意。我希望以后格力的员工见面也是这样打招呼，从而形成格力独特的文化。我认为一个领导者应该具有一种奉献的精神，就是不能考虑个人得失，而应该将自己更多的精力全身心地投入到企业里面，把自己的生命与企业联系在一起。我想这也是企业的生命力所在。
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Nginx: An Introduction to the Nginx Configuration File | Martin Fjordvald
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The most important is that Nginx is a reverse proxy first and HTTP server second, it does not necessarily have a concept of file, this will change the way we handle our configuration a bit.
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What’s the meaning of Proxy first and HTTP server second?
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When using the official wiki the context keyword specifies in which block a directive may be used, as mentioned earlier it is usually recommended to specify the directive in the top most block.
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I don’t understand it.
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Hacker News | Ask HN: How do Tumblr & Posterous make money?
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I don’t know why they won’t use nice looking ads from sites like Carbon or The Deck, which IMO add value rather than take away.
I just read that Tumblr has passed WordPress in terms of # of installed blogs, but I believe Matt’s company makes tons more cash. Very interesting too, considering WP is OS.
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WordPress has also enabled lots of developers to make tons of money through templates and plugins. For example, woothemes makes millions/year selling wordpress templates.
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Posterous: Add affiliate links, special marketing deals with brands
Tumblr: Premium themes, featured directory listings, “digital stickers”
They could probably earn a lot more if they started with ads or premium accounts. Right now it looks like they’re focused on acquiring users, the focus on profits will likely come later.
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Two of Tumblr’s three sources of revenue (featured directory listings and digital stickers to put on directory listings) are no longer after they ditched the old directory system a few months ago in favor of a curated one.
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If they could fetch $1 cpm and sell their entire inventory they could pull $1M/day.
Correction: $1M every four days http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/tumblr-pageviews-a-day/
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