I wouldn't rule out using a separate search engine. Yes, you'll probably have to keep the index in sync with the db manually but I found that it also gives you much more flexibility. I personally use Solr with MongoDB…
Since you are in the early stages, go with 1/3 each, anything else will potentially cause a lot of headaches down the road. Having equal equity creates a healthy environment where everyone feels that they should put in…
What about the little 'favourite star'? Surely that achieves the exact same thing ultimately? The favorite button in it's current form is more like a bookmark button in my opinion. What's missing is that can't see who…
So for $150-$300 upfront and $60-$100 monthly, you can have a capable server hosted at a good facility at a much cheaper cost than the equivalent "rented" server. If you're OK with the servers being hosted in Germany,…
It's hard to tell since Twitter is not releasing any meaningful statistics about this. A couple of weeks ago they released a graph suggesting that 78% of all users use twitter.com…
That's forbidden by the Twitter API TOS. See http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms Section IV.2.
From what I heard there are quite a few startups that are willing to sponspor an H-1B for the right candidate. You might want to look for those that have received some funding, but other than that just look for startups…
I wouldn't rule out using a separate search engine. Yes, you'll probably have to keep the index in sync with the db manually but I found that it also gives you much more flexibility. I personally use Solr with MongoDB…
Since you are in the early stages, go with 1/3 each, anything else will potentially cause a lot of headaches down the road. Having equal equity creates a healthy environment where everyone feels that they should put in…
What about the little 'favourite star'? Surely that achieves the exact same thing ultimately? The favorite button in it's current form is more like a bookmark button in my opinion. What's missing is that can't see who…
So for $150-$300 upfront and $60-$100 monthly, you can have a capable server hosted at a good facility at a much cheaper cost than the equivalent "rented" server. If you're OK with the servers being hosted in Germany,…
It's hard to tell since Twitter is not releasing any meaningful statistics about this. A couple of weeks ago they released a graph suggesting that 78% of all users use twitter.com…
That's forbidden by the Twitter API TOS. See http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms Section IV.2.
From what I heard there are quite a few startups that are willing to sponspor an H-1B for the right candidate. You might want to look for those that have received some funding, but other than that just look for startups…