Monday ain’t so crowd. Ajaxian posted two entries that make me feel dejavu. The 80/20 principles articles from YUI developer blog is now standing within Ajaxian Monday page (I’ve read it yesterday and bookmarked already). Nevertheless, it’s a good article. 80/20 principles was actually an economic principle. Taken into HTTP performance context, 80/20 principle told us that most of our effort will likely giving 20 percent result only. Thus, it was not the most exact point to focus. As we’ve have known today, a lot of effort has been done with backend processes. Using more powerful machne, state of the art server side langauge, etc to squeeze the last seconds from content generation. While, actually, the most performance optimation could be done somewhere else, i.e: the 80 percent part. From YUI blog:

Most performance optimization today are made on the parts that generate the HTML document (apache, C++, databases, etc.), but those parts only contribute to about 20% of the user’s response time. It’s better to focus on optimizing the parts that contribute to the other 80%.

From YUI blog, let’s talk again about startups. I’m so amazed by the number of startups lately. I wonder how do they begin, you know, with capital and ideas. And I wonder, how a few of them can survive. Is it all about niche market? Lucky me, here we have some of the startups founder citing their own story in particletree.

Before you get profitable and establish yourself, you’re basically walking dead and you have to realize it’s more of a marathon than a sprint

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The only way to train for a marathon is by running, and the only way to train for a startup is by starting

Uh oh, you finally realized it. yeah, cool isn’t it. Every hover upon external link in this blog will give you a screenshot of the actual site. Neat. You can have the same feature using Snap.com

Okay, last one. Slashdot is putting the spotlight on Yahoo, which apparently has started the browser war again by pushing IE7 over Firefox users.

I got the invitation to download IE7 when running Firefox on a Mac, and even when running IE5 under CrossOver; but not when running IE7 under Parallels.