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- CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38Yeah well when you're a 23 year old self made millionaire you probably don't understand why other people can't do the same. Unfortunately for the rest of us, we do understand why we can't do the same.
- RatherDashing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29Drinking....heavily
- gregdlewis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27i've only been 21 for a week. i could still theoretically catch up to him.
- Lacero, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27from the article: [Matt] says, “do what you love, what you can’t not do, and the money will follow.”
I love digging stories and commenting on them, but I don't think I can make a load of money doing this. :?? - geometry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I hate hearing people say things like that, especially celebrities now. They're always going on about how they worked so hard to get where they are and that's all it takes, hard work. In reality it's like winning the lottery. Yes, hard work is part of it but luck is just as big a part. But when I was his age I though very similarly. But at the same time, we live in America and just about everybody has the opportunity to make something of their life, I don't mean becoming millionaires though.
- Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Thanks matt! Without you no one would have invented duggmirror!
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I managed to live to 21.... isn't that amazing enough?
- psyanyde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12site's down. let me guess, it's a wordpress blog right?
- dandyhighwayman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13The web wasn't around when I was 21...
- anitab83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@ddn3d:
If you're using Wordpress, look at the "wp-content/cache" directory from your web root. That is the default Wordpress cache, and it's pretty shoddy, particularly compared to WP-CACHE. Before I got WP-CACHE my site could handle ~200 visits per hour. With WP-CACHE I've received 30,000 visits (over 1,000,000 hits) in an hour with no problem. And that's on a cheap shared host costing $7/month. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Small world time: My brother and he went to High School together. In addition to being friggin' insane with all this web stuff, he's absolutely NUTS at jazz and economics. He's one of those people that's good at everything.
He's one of those people you like, but are secretly insanely jealous of.
...or not so secretly. - fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10i'd say duggmirror is wordpress's greatest achievement. hell, we all use it everytime a wordpress story gets more than 7 diggs.
- dude187, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Thats a sarcastic comment right? I feel like I'm correcting people who say this every other digg, do that many people honestly believe that Wordpress somehow crashes and thats why people's databases go down? The Wordpress error about connecting to the database is caused by their Mysql server going down, and NOT Wordpress itself. Thats like saying Windows crashed because your ram is bad, because all you see is the BSOD windows puts out.
- polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Ohhh if only I can make millions by only sleeping and masturbating...............
- Anrkist, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Digg is a much better place with all the Blog posts here, thank you Matt!
- ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Actually, its because Wordpress thrashes the database. So, its more like saying Windows sucks, because it crashes your computer. Come back when WP handles connections better, and has caching built-in.
- FearNLoathing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I think the title of this is really pompous. There are plenty of people 21 (and younger) doing amazing things, even if they're not millionaires.
- ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Yeah Wordpress is so earth-shattering that the blog this story is written on is trashed.
For all you jerk offs who are going to go off on how its not the software it's the setup: until Wordpress has better database connection handling, and caching BUILT-IN, the fault is still the software. - roprot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Actually, at age 21 I was involved with starting Earthlink. I wasn't changing the web - I was giving birth to it (in SoCal), for thousands of people ..
- patm1987, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7What were I doing at age 21?
Playing Duke Nuke'em 3d on my Sandbenders in my flying car powered by nuclear fusion. hey, I have 2 years, I can still dream. Then the beer will legally do my thinking for me. - tomarocco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I was busy changing the bong water when I was 21.
- No1nose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Lester: When I was your age, I flipped burgers all summer just to be able to buy an eight-track.
Ricky: That sucks.
Lester: No, actually it was great. All I did was party and get laid. I had my whole life ahead of me.
--American Beauty - imikedaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"What were you doing at age 21? Probably not changing the Web..."
Well I'm a bit busy changing the game industry, give me time... - frequeniquity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was in a class with Matt at the University of Houston. It was our freshman year and we were in a class in the Honors College called Human Situation which is basically a History/Philosophy/Psychology/English class on steroids. We would have a large lecture one day and small sessions discussing what happened in lecture and in the readings on another. That class was extremely challenging not only because of the material but because it was a huge leap from my AP English class (and I got a 4 and 5 on those exams). Anyway in the small discussion groups of about 20 people Matt would say some of the most profound things that he would grasp from the readings. Needless to say, it was very impressive. I figured he would go on to be a philosophy or English major. It wasn't until a few years later that I saw that he was working at Cnet and that he had developed Wordpress. Just goes to show that this guy is not only a good developer but a well rounded, well spoken, scholar.
- dlsspy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@dude187
I don't like mySQL, but there are sites running it that don't crash constantly under load. The publication software is responsible for consulting the database to determine what to display and then doing whatever formatting it needs to do to that data for display.
If the publication software uses the database inefficiently, it's the publication software that's at fault.
Is there any particular reason that a large number of requests for the exact same display of the exact same content would require taxing a database to the point where you could blame it for the failure? - tbillmack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5At 21 I was playing cowboys and yellow people in the Republic of Vietnam at the request of the US government. Greetings from the President and all that. Not much money in it so I guess thats why I didn't make that first million yet.
- rune420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think it's funny that you're dreaming about Duke Nukem 3D in your flying car and not Duke Nukem Forever. I guess you gotta stay within the bounds of some kind of realism here, right?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@AndrewDBarker
I'm working minimum wage at an abusive bakery right now. Pretty much anything is better than that. ;-)
And all these people who are only 2 or 3 years older than me (I'm 18) doing all this internet-changing stuff make me feel so useless. Why couldn't I graduate from High School and immediately found a multi-million dollar business? *pouts* - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5good one :D
- g30ph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I turned 21 in 1999, so I partied like it was 1999.
Internet-wise I think I was juarezing it up on aol's Macfilez room. aol://2719:2-2-macfilez or something like that. That was the keyword for brute forcing your way into a full private room. - anitab83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Looks like I'm one of the "jerk-offs" ... I love it when guys call chicks jerk-offs - Anita =)
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -3/+5You think you're jealous of your bro?
My brother works for Google. He's one of the lead designers / engineers behind GoogleTalk & Gmail, and does a ton of great stuff for Google.
Meanwhile I'm stuck at a commission job for a retail job that says if you don't make 75$ PER HOUR you work, you don't get the commission you worked so hard for, now that may not seem like much, but it adds up when you have a very, very slow store like the one I work for. :S Granted, they pay above min-wage by hourly basis too, but the commission ratio is insane, next to nigh impossible to get. - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This guy's an inspriation, no matter what age he is.
- merr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Similar situation here... I've got about 9 months to do something fantastic to keep up.
- scotticus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was getting laid.
- Anteros, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I think better advice is "work for love not money". There are plenty of open source projects that have been lovingly developed but never really got any money for the developers. He just happened to develop an application that took off due to blogging becoming popular and mainstream, I don't think wordpress is especially innovative.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1How was the labor?
- crpietschmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://duggmirror.com
- evilbeatfarmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wordpress.. blah.. he's about as cool as the guy who invented myspace :P at 16 I was writing ATM software HAH!
At 21 I was drinking heavily because I realized I missed out on highschool by working.. but hey.. :] - evilbeatfarmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not luck or hard work. It's all about who you know. I'm guessing the connections that got him into CNET didn't hurt, or the people that he met at CNET. We should be thanking whoever encouraged him to do this because at 21 you are heavily influenced by your peers. Then again.. doesn't the web have too many blogs anyways? Thanks for lowering the bar.
- polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3^^ underline the word _theoretically_
- evilbeatfarmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish my college experience was like this.. mostly I remember people bitching about not being able to sleep in, or how drunk they got last night.
- turnuon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A thumb for this guy, but I would also like to give one for myself since at age 18 I had already got a job at McDonald and serving people fries which was a little worse than just about everyone's job. Hell I might as well find out I am on digg on day.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who did y'all have as a professor? I'm in Human Sit (team Omega) right now and absolutely loving it!
- tomarocco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I really admire your contributions to free software, xmilky. Wait...I was day dreaming... No, xmilky, I don't want fries with that...and could you ask them to go easy on the mayo?
- xmilky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2WordPress is bug riddled crap, second only to phpBB and our all time darling PhpNuke. Mr Mullenwegs sloppy coding and NIH syndrome has wasted quite 'a few' bucks with trashing web servers thanks to remote code exploits and SQL string concatenation dullness. Not really something to get off about.
(Oh, and my bet is, he's one of those Free software developers who never bothered to read the GNU GPL - except the NO WARRANTY part.) - teethman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Damn, I hate being retarded.
- evilbeatfarmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@dlsspy
Possibly.. although at some point it does become a failure of the hardware and software configuration of the database. Especially with MYSQL there is a setting called Max_Connections. If you reach this limit you're going to start seeing errors. The default is something like 100-125, max_connect_errors defaults to 1. So as soon as you reach max_connections once your database stops databasing. Most of the pages going down are due to some bad combination of the above settings. MaxClients also comes into play.
If you have static content, you're software is better off generating a static page once (per day maybe?) from the database to relieve the database from having to serve that content.
Man.. I need a job. - CedEx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Work hard and long enough at the bakery, and you two can be Master bakers!
- tomarocco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, you are a Scientologist, huh?
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