I was watching this Bloomberg interview with Y Combinator’s Paul Graham (“startup god”), today.
He discusses the supposed “bubble” that’s been going on, valuations of early stage startups, Facebooks valuations and other similar topics. It’s an interesting video also for the fact that he’s being interviewed with non-startup people and it’s fun to see things from the other side.
I was reading through a blog post titled “The state of HTML5 audio” and I found it very amusing. Warning.. There is profanity. Read at your own risk.
Here’s a nice (old) video for those interested in scaling/infrastructure/MySQL etc. I hadn’t seen it so it’s interesting.
It’s a very detailed talk and there are some interesting bits in there. He really likes ZFS, but that’s not available on linux so he’s able to use it on an NAS box (it would be interesting what he’d say about XFS. He also mentions some of the highlights on his blog post. Check it out:
I did a post recently about the popularity of Node.js over Clojure. I didn’t want to go into *why* Node is getting much more traction than Clojure, since I didn’t want to start a language war in that post. However, I have my opinion on the topic, so here’s why I think Node.js is becoming much more popular.
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