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Comment on One-question daily SCRUM by Kamal

Kamal — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:41:26 +0000

The beauty of the question “What are you going to do today?” is that it automatically covers the other two to an extent. You knew on which module a developer was working on (from yesterday’s scrum), if he is not repeating that answer today, you know what was accomplished. If developer repeats the answer, you know he is stuck on something :). On an additional note, I will actually focus on creating a friendly and open atmosphere in team where they can admit easily if they are not able to solve a problem themselves and need hemp. Also a little self praise (people do that when they feel they solved some difficult problem) is not bad at times.

Comment on One-question daily SCRUM by Jabe Bloom (@cyetain)

Jabe Bloom (@cyetain) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:55:00 +0000

If you have a kanban board for your team this becomes even easier. Just review what is in progress.

Comment on Gaming the Amazon Spot Market by Michele Mazzucco

Michele Mazzucco — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:11:34 +0000

Hi, as you pointed out your approach works ONLY if the other users will not use the same strategy, otherwise the price will grow (how much it grows depends on how much the other users bid).
I have been working on this problem for building reliable services, e.g., I wanted to answer the question “Can I use spot instances for achieving 99.999% availability without over-bidding?”
Apparently it is possible. An overview of my findings is reported here http://cloud-computing-economics.com/business-benefits-applications/delivering-reliable-services-spot-instances/
while the technical paper is here http://math.ut.ee/~mazzucco/papers/hpcc_2011.pdf

Comment on How SlideShare Uses Amazon Web Services by Cloud computing: still unattainable? « CUBRID Official Blog

Cloud computing: still unattainable? « CUBRID Official Blog — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:28:31 +0000

[...] SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net), which I use productively from time to time, is a service provided by way of AWS’s EC2, S3, EBS, SQS, MapReduce, etc. With Cloud, Web service vendors can now do [...]

Comment on SlideShare video launch: interview by Kerry Craig Walker

Kerry Craig Walker — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:51:32 +0000

Why is this big box of info blocking my book on SlideShare??? and how does one get rid of it? Is there something wrong here?

Comment on Cloud computing fiascos by Terry J Leach

Terry J Leach — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:05:12 +0000

Thanks!! Very useful information. I believe I have a very low solution to avoid such mistakes on Amazon cloud. I’ll do some investigation.

Comment on Why Amazon Reserved Instances don’t make economic sense for startups by Asher Bond

Asher Bond — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:23:13 +0000

For 24/7 it makes perfect sense and I think these are the people being targeted. It makes sense for web software dev because you start out small and learn to scale the app layers before you go to m1.small or m1.large…. I’m also experimenting with auto-scale clustered t1.micro using custom images. That’s a nice way to spin it. [:

Comment on First thoughts on the Android App Store by Dantv

Dantv — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:56:38 +0000

Why is everyone spending so much time worring about the copycat when they can have the original iPhone.

I spent 10 years with Windows Mobile before the iPhone came along and blew it out of the water. I was happy to abandon WinMo and all the apps that I had spent good money on to move to the innovative iPhone. Now I am a HAPPY iPhone user with a good investment in apps. I will never switch to another platform unless something NEW and INNOVATIVE comes along that blows the iPhone out of the water. Android is NOTHING new. Google basically copied the iPhone. If Microsoft had done Android can you imagine that hate that would be spewed out on Microsoft. But Google gets a complete pass on this…

Comment on First thoughts on the Android App Store by Kingsley 2.0

Kingsley 2.0 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:39:53 +0000

iPhone app store has a prominent “featured” list which acts as a seed in many ways. An alternative is some kind of social discovery system, like on facebook. Popularity indices without either of the 2 will make the top lists driven almost purely by chance.

Comment on First thoughts on the Android App Store by admin

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:01:54 +0000

Wow great description. Sounds like android should kill the return policy … just a bad idea to let people try out and return a product that only costs $1.

Not sure about chaotic/static thing … I look at top 10 lists for categories on iphone, which are ranked purely by sales (I think). Not sure why curated would be better (though I can imagine winners staying winners, so I could imagine it being static.