Afterweb

After a trip to a local pharmacy, and a sticker shock from one of the prescribed medications (one that treats pimples), I decided to cool myself with bit with arithmetic.
Retail price for the medication (30x 115mg tablets of Solodyn) is $700.99Current price of gold is $1134 per ounceQuestion: What is more expensive, Gold, or medication for treating pimples?
Solution: $1134 x 1 ounce/31.10 grams = $36.46 is the price per gram of Gold$700.99/(30*.115)=$203.18 is the price per gram of SolodynConclusion: Solodin is more than 5 times more expensive!
Observation: No point of Gold prospecting these days. Just find a deposit of Solodyn!

After a complete system rearchitecture, full code rewrite, and database migration, Trusted Opinion Site was re-born.
Birth was painful (as it should be) with sleepless nights and emotions were running high. But that's pretty much what was expected. What was not expected is the huge amount of crawling traffic the site got from the second it was up (hundreds of thousand hits per hr). It looked (and still feels) like we are under DOS attack. But we are not! That's the new reality - computers are much better at networking than humans are, and by the virtue of the Internet, they use their potential to the full extend.
I like the quote from our COO Todd Greene: Launching the site these days is like giving a newborn baby a firehose to drink from"
A few lessons from the launch: What looks impossible and feels impossible, is possible as long as everyone ignores that it is impossibleFood is important! After 30 hours of work it becomes even more important than internet connectivityPeop…