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CodeArtists: How to directly upload files to Amazon S3 from your client side web app
Why you need this?
You don’t want your heavy-weight data to travel 2 legs from Client to Server to S3, incurring the cost of IO and clogging the pipe 2 times.
Instead, you want to ask your server to give your client one-time permission to upload your data directly to S3. The process is still 2…
“ The consumer startup era is ending.
Startups Have Gotten Very Boring - Business Insider
“ They erect this fence,” he said, “only to go out there a few days later and discover that these guys have a catapult, and they’re flinging hundred-pound bales of marijuana over to the other side.” He paused and looked at me for a second. “A catapult,” he repeated. “We’ve got the best fence money can buy, and they counter us with a 2,500-year-old technology.
How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions - NYTimes.com
“ I thought I was hot shit too when I ran a Newegg server off my parents’ internet connection, but come back when you’re pulling down a megawatt and tell me the cloud sucks.
The Cloud Is Not for You | Hacker News
“ Two visiting consultants are waiting for the elevator at a big company’s headquarters. One is from HP, the other from IBM. The consultant from Big Blue pushes the up button to visit the CEO on the top floor. The HP man, by contrast, hits the down button to see the IT guy in the basement.
How Hewlett-Packard lost its way - Fortune Tech
STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 (by Peter Samuelson)
“ Thumbkiss — A unique Pair feature which leverages the iPhone’s touch screen and vibrates every time a given couple’s thumbs kiss. Seriously it is the future of communication.
Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M | TechCrunch
