http://www.joehruska.com What do I want to be when I grow up? Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:04:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are not too pleased with GoDaddy right now. We had the RescueTime.com domain set to auto-renew every 2 years.  The credit card they had on file was no longer valid (one of the frequent instances where banks randomly send out new credit cards and invalidate old ones to keep ahead ... http://www.joehruska.com/?p=14 I've had a few of my friends ask me what Y Combinator was all about and what I've been up to. Y Combinator (YC) provides mentorship and seed funding for early stage tech startups.  Twice a year, they accept applications from thousands of prospective startups.  Out of those thousands of applications, ... http://www.joehruska.com/?p=9 Someone asked for a sample InnoDB configuration and since nearly all of the MySQL tables in RescueTime are InnoDB, I thought I would post this. ################# /etc/my.cnf ################### [client] port ... http://www.joehruska.com/?p=7 Recently we experienced an issue with a high level of IO waits on the primary RescueTime.com database server, which resulted in our MySQL DB being the major bottle neck to good performance. RescueTime essentially serves as a large data warehouse for thousands of users who send us application and website usage ... http://www.joehruska.com/?p=6 Testing a fellow YCombinator.com startup - TipJoy.com Trying to add Tip button... http://www.joehruska.com/?p=4 Not much to say for my first blog post - so I'll just say... #include <iostream> int main() { std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl; return 0; } ------------------------------------------ SELECT 'Hello, world!' FROM dual; http://www.joehruska.com/?p=1