DISQUS

I've got a Storm..

I think the platform has potential, but like the ORIGINAL iphone the OS has some bugs to be worked out. Apple has had a year or two to work the bugs out, while RIM has only had 2-3 months.

When RIM gets their first real OS upgrade out for it, and when more software becomes available, user satisfaction will improve dramatically (..it took google almost 3 months to release a version of google maps for it; just released a couple weeks ago! ..most other blackberry software has to be updated to handle the changing screen orientation effectively [but there is a 'compatability mode' that can be set / unset for legacy programs).

As far as one handed usability.. It works fine for me, BUT.. with two hands you can do everything 2-3 times faster.

Just found your podcasts. Very cool, but you guys really want to improve your sound quality...

Go back to school, learn something else, and get a job in a different industry.

Very timely post. I woke up today feeling overwhelmed with the "messiness" of my company. We've focused on growth to the exclusion of building infrastructure. And while we tripled our revenues last year, now we find ourselves undercapitalized and understaffed, without the proper sales staff and processes to handle all our incoming leads, without enough technical people to handle all our support requests, and releasing buggy products to drive growth and meet customer demand. It's only working because we're solving a real unmet need, so our customers are willing to give us some slack. But that won't last for long. I can already hear the rubber bands holding everything together snapping.

I get the need to hire some operational people to put infrastructure in place. But hiring people requires money. And money requires talking to VCs. And talking to VCs takes time away from the business, causing more of a mess. And it seems VCs want you to have solved all your messes before they invest in you.

So, while I agree great messes can become great successes, when you're in the morass, how do you raise the money needed to get out without scaring away the only people who can help?

Someone asked, "simpledb will be altenative way of RDBMS, right?" Yes, it will be the alternative: the alternative for illiterate programmers.

Some people just don't get it. RDBMSs are based on **set theory** and, as such, support many operations that simpledb requires you to do manually. RDMSs are to mathematics what simpledb is to basic math skills. Sure, you can do many things in the world only knowing addition and subtraction, but if you actually knew algebra, then you could do a lot more.

Do you guys really want simpledb because it is actually is a good fit for your application, or are you just scared of learning SQL?

Or, could it be the part of Google's plan to take over Facebook??

I got goose bumps and wet myself when she hit that high note

Eric,

All children in all countries are equally morally worthy. But we can try to help children in this country without engaging in a shooting war. We don't have that kind of flexibility in Darfur, which makes it a much harder problem.