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Nice.

The ability to use transforms without constructing huge stylesheets for x-browser compatability is nice.

Thusfar, I've been using Compass helpers to accomplish things like this — although since you can manipulate the rest of your styling with jQuery, it's nice to have the ability to work with transforms as well.
It's not Valve that gouges non-US customers, it's the publishers. Having travelled to the US with a gaming capable laptop I was unable to purchase games via the US Steam store, but instead had to pay a significant amount more (in USD) to buy it from the Australian store. Just as an example now - even though the AUD and USD are hovering around parity - Deus Ex is $90 here, and I'm sure it's around or under $60 in the US.

As for problems with not being able to re-sell or rent games, that's not so much of a problem for me because I don't do that anyway. I would only really need to sell such games when they take up too much physical space, and with Steam and digital delivery it's not an issue.
They are talking about 'cross functional' teams. So Devs/QAs/Ops can be in the same team, even the same people. Because they (Heroku) are handling all the edge-knowledge of server setup/maintenance etc.

You only need to track revision number, in a single repo (maybe with branches, sure). I'm not sure what you mean by "code split into several repositories" ?

The difference is deployments become cheap thus "delivering software" becomes cheaper.
I think it is time for the major forums software providers to really give a hard look at MongoDB and other NoSQL soluations. I'm looking at you Vbulletin and phpBB.

We use MySQL extensively on our platform and much of our data is relatively key=>value type stuff. So it makes since for us.

I don't mind migrating our primary business operations to MongoDB (we already have moved some data as a POC), but it would be nice to have our forums supported so when we ultimately create our future MongoDB cluster, I'm not having to manage a MySQL instance for VBforums.
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It's true that one of the most productive things to do during a large meeting is program.
I want the ATDN part: http://www.atdn.net/network_map.shtml

No joke they could make an amazing CDN out of that.
Now in the US litigious society, could they be sued for this - removing the coupons from a product?
I think the implication is that pg would be too busy running YC to code. Even if it doesn't happen to him, it happens to a lot of founders.
Yes, a thousand times.

And I can also vouch for LeaseWeb. Their signal-to-bullshit ratio is indeed as excellent as their bang-for-buck.
What happened to K5?

I was one of the "cool kids" who switched from Slashdot to K5 back when it started (back then we had 3 digit K5 id numbers, now we have Klout scores)

I stopped visiting it, but I am curious why it seems to have half died, but is still running. What's the story there?
Thanks for the perspective. I'm always leery of assuming the person I'm talking to knows who the X in "X of Y" is - hearing that the comparison trope sounds derivative is an interesting data point.

I'll definitely stick to the simple description, thanks.
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Their certificate expires June 12th of 2012. They haven't missed anything.

It looks like their javascript isn't served via https, which is a bit of a mistake, but their SSL cert is totally fine.
Try looking up the word "connotation"
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Unfortunate to see it still has the global lock pair and lack of online compaction.
I've been dying for an app like this. Yelp's recommendations aren't very helpful for me because the reviewers rarely have the same tastes I do. I'm not a foodie, but I know what I like.

I'm a little bummed that I couldn't find some places I've been to on Ness. Maybe their locations DB isn't complete yet.

I found it interesting that I wanted to rate non-food places too, like coworking spaces I've been too. It certainly fits within their "organizing the world's opportunities" goal.
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Speed. The "trick" breaks down the problem so there's always a simpler summation to perform. In half of the possible products, one only has to add the sum of the digits to zero. For the rest, just slot the 2nd digit of the sum where the zero goes, and add 1 to the first digit. Most people can do either of those two simple additions faster than they can do sums like 210+21 or 390+39. If one is already quick with the latter kind of addition, then the trick is unnecessary.
The college is expensive mentality is certainly real. "US-centric" just isn't an especially accurate characterization.

The mentality comes from a few places:

1. Discussion of US Private Universities like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Cornell, and Stanford, many of which have international reputations and attract students from all over the world, or the elite Liberal Arts teaching colleges like Williams, Amherst, Colby, Hamilton, and Colgate which attract the wealthiest Americans.

2. The real cost of college, in general, in terms of where the money goes (salaries, technology, infrastructure, etc.) rather than the sticker price, which may be subsidized.

3. People who rule out state schools for spurious reasons, as if failing to go to Stanford or CMU somehow means that you might as well not bother at all. (And many other reasons, high school kids are heavily marketed by universities and the kids often make the decisions themselves without thinking much about the finances.)
Sarcasm carries poorly in text.
I almost did a deal to write a book for a well-known technical publisher. (A hurricane intervened.) The advance was only $8k, which would have probably worked out to less than minimum wage. I'd check the advance amount pronto, as that will probably put you off the deal regardless of the dicey co-author problems. Don't expect to get paid more than the advance. (And "advance" is kind of a misnomer, as you'd get this amount after delivering the manuscript.)
At 13 I was interning at our local newspaper and they were running 0.91 beta kernel of Linux on the machine that extracted data from a PDP-11 (via serial) and parsed it for saving to the Mac's for QuarkXPress. My first Unix experience was debugging parts of that system for a new version of Quark.

Sniff. I'm old.
Okay, I made the changes you suggested.

As for the matter of picking "junior" or "mid", I was hedging my bets by including both. I have no point of reference as to how good I am or if I'm good at all. I haven't worked around other developers for 2 years now. It's all been solo "side project" stuff. Feel free to shoot my an email if you want to continue this discussion. I do appreciate your critique.
Nice overview.

One note of caution: Rendering on the client side using jQuery Templates as the author suggests is great for small amounts of content, but even a list with 40 items will nearly freeze the UI while its rendered. I've experienced this on both iPhone and Android.

Also, using a cache manifest will cache your AJAX/JSONP calls. Either explicitly list these URLs in the network section of your manifest or add a timestamp to each request so its unique.
Right, the justification here is a bit blurry. The framework they present is pretty much J2EE redux. If you are going to take this angle, stick with Tomcat and its huge enterprise base. Unfortunately, this is far from reinventing Java for the web.
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I thought of giving up on my long term idea I had. I always thought that having a co-founder is a bonus but not a necessity.

Now i realize that I have been totally wrong and it makes a hell lot of a difference with and without a co-founder.

Finally before giving up on my idea i thought why not give a last try by posting on hacker news and craigslist, so here I am and I hope it is worth the try.

I know the chances of a positive outcome is very very slim but again there is a factor of Luck with everything you do.
Hopefully it favors me this time.
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New command for collection-level compaction,
Better concurrency,
Index Enhancements,
Authentication with sharded clusters,
Replica set priorities (set preference for which server should be primary),
Data-center awareness,
Polygon searches,
..a few other things...it's all in the release notes.
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Does anyone else find it amusing that it seems to have become the norm nowadays that "Release Candidates" are "Released"?
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By several repositories, I mean libraries. Maybe built by your team, maybe by another team.

And I still don't see how Heroku hosting your software affects whether you have dedicated QA staff and whether they're in your team or not.
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This article makes me wonder:

status-of-arc-p?
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If you're mostly K=>V and you want distributed, why not look into Riak? It's really easy to administer and has very nice operational characteristics.
When is the "then" on the "Linux distributions used" piechart at the end?
One other nice thing about our new site is that it's super easy for us to push changes. :)
After reading Maciej's last post about his "cathedral" of a server, I moved NewsBlur off of half a dozen Linode VPSs (512MB and 2GB machines, for app/task and db respectively) and onto a hosting provider that offered both dedicated bare metal and a variety of VPS configs.

I'm now paying $405 / month for 6 servers, and they range from 2 dedicated db machines with 12GB and 16GB of memory to 1GB virtualized app and task servers that cost $10 to $20 per month.

What I've learned is that where it really matters, in terms of I/O performance, the dedicated servers make great machines, naturally. But the insanely cheap VPSs, which I use for distributed feed fetchers (task servers) and web servers, are wonderful because they are so inexpensive. I have redundant load-balanced machines, so when I need to take down an app server or it fails for some reason, nginx immediately routes around it. And it's costing me only $10 / month per machine.

And task servers have served me especially well as VPS. It depends on the intensity of the task, but for such a small expense, you get 4 cores and enough memory to go nuts. And if you're pulling off a task queue, you can programmatically spin up more to deal with a higher queue load. When you move entirely to dedicated machines, your spin up time is on the order of hours to get it prepped and connected.

I'm just thrilled that many decent hosting providers (with <table>s for salespeople) offer both. I wouldn't last without being able to have a mixed setup.
In the terminology of Paul Erdos, people who had stopped doing math had died. People whose blood had stopped flowing had simply left.
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Show HN: SaaSaholics.com, a forum for SaaS builders
I setup this up about two months ago and seeded it with a variety of questions about stuff SaaS related but it ultimately ran out of steam. I truly think there's a need for real honest to goodness web forum for SaaS enthusiasts as forums often turn into a gold mine of quality content as the user base grows and matures.

So this is my attempt to get this thing some exposure and get some users for it. It's not meant as a replacement for Hacker News at all, as HN is a perfect platform for trends and current news. But I think it's lacking when it comes to fostering long term topic discussion because of the inherent ranking decay imposed by the algorithm that powers the site.

I will host it for free and have no plans to monetize the site at all. I simply love forums and want to see people benefit from a SaaS-centric board.

Of course, any and all feedback is appreciated.

You can visit the site here: http://www.saasaholics.com
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Interesting story, though it's tough to gather what your overall point is. You're saying that abstracting server and client logic into monolithic functional code gave you headaches?
Embargo related, I'm sure.
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Obviously the best solution to this kind of problem is a third-party backend storage service that all services will back up to. However, everyone wants to "own your data" so that's never going to happen. What if someone wrote an open source cloud filesystem that anyone could run on their own servers, so that you could basically point Dropbox, Google Docs, etc. to your personal "storage box" that you rented from AWS and all your storage was mounted in all SaaS apps that you use?
Porting of some C++ network code for a client.

http://olekbeluga.com/notepad/notebook_mockup.html as a hobby.
It's about demand. There is a high demand for skilled workers who are lacking. The employer has to take unskilled workers, and thus a college degree is a good base to start with.
I've had good experiences with several jruby on rails apps under tomcat using warbler and they all seem to perform fine with config.threadsafe! enabled. You should probably investigate those stacktraces, maybe they were caused by unthreadsafe gems or application code?
You were being down voted for not adding anything to the conversation.

The following will help you avoid it in the future http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In case you missed it, Forbes profiled Comex earlier this month:
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/08/01/meet-comex-...

This is how Forbes' article ends: "A postscript to Apple: Perhaps your security team could use another intern."
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In those scenarios, what you need is a systems engineer, not a sales representative. Sales guys generally don't know anything more than the price sheet and the available inventory.
Flowers for Algernon. It made me realize that my greatest fear is to leave the world and have it be as though I had never existed at all. I don't necessarily think that was the moral, but it is certainly what lasted with me the longest.
Looking back at Linus' original email, I find it interesting that there's a "Summary" header in addition to "Subject:"

> Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
> Summary: small poll for my new operating system

RFC 5322 [1] doesn't have anything to say about a summary header, so maybe it was an invention of Linus'.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6
Maybe Warren thought BOA was a good investment now that Wikileak's BOA "hard drive of secrets" has been "disappeared".
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"true"...?
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Patching is normally considered part of scheduled or emergency maintenance and therefore doesn't count against the SLA for uptime. This is fairly standard in the hosting/ISP world.

So much of this can be automated now that it is not a problem. As a provider myself, I allow customers to pick their patch day/time. They can even manually push patches themselves and be present to test when the service comes back up. Proactive maintenance(datacenter, networking, hardware, OS, and appptack/utils) should be considered a way of life these days if you're a provider. If customers don't understand or agree with that, then there are plenty of providers who don't keep up-to-date offerings that they can migrate to.
Dammit. Spelled his name wrong even after one looonnng semester with his textbook.
Is there a list of common problems Y founders make?
Real-world web-app development is much different than the ideal of HTML5.

jQuery? Just including that puts your mobile web-app at 86KB of JavaScript and you haven't even written a single line of your app's code. Rendering on the client-side with jQuery templates is not anywhere near practical for the majority of web-enabled phones – if not all of them except the iPhone. More than 100-150KB of JS and most phones will enter sluggish territory.

Something you'll notice reading about HTML5 is most books and online articles are written by people who have never built or released web-app to be run on phones less powerful than an iPhone 4. They picked up an HTML5 book and regurgitated everything and every new nifty feature into their own words and examples.

My advice?

Don't use jQuery or any framework. Use native JS and only the functions you need, don't use CSS3, keep the DOM structure as simple as possible, and test from day one. My entire web-app's JS is 60KB minified, because I don't rely on framework's like jQuery (86KB) or Sencha Touch (250KB). These sizes don't matter on a desktop computer, but on an HTC from last year running Android 2.3, size greatly affects performance.
Oh man, this kind of thing drives me up the wall!

Yes, differential pricing can be a boon to buyer and seller alike. If the seller could offer their product only at a single price point, they'd be forced to price it out of the range of some customers while leaving money on the floor from other customers for whom the expense is trivial. I get all that.

But no-one likes to feel like a chump being sized up by a con artist. Not even people with money to burn. When the default price is marked up so excessively, you're being taken for a ride, plain and simple. You should be boycotting them, not praising them. There's plenty of opportunity for differential pricing in the hosting space by offering a sliding scale of service-level agreements, higher resource limits, priority tech support, and other special features. Let's keep the douche bag negotiating tactics confined to the used car dealership lot.
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Regardless of license requirements, I think the following built in feature is interesting:

"way for your users to download the sources of the application. In fact Opa facilitates that by automatically enriching the server (in release mode) to serve the source code of the application at a special /_internal_/src_code URL."
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