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I tried Hittail a year ago, and didn't quite work for me. I ended up writing a few scripts myself. But I heard in Rob's latest podcast that Hittail is growing 30% per month.

"Everything stupid in life has a legal or accounting reason behind it." -Unknown

There are different levels of scaling, and for different kinds of apps, the trade offs that you can make are different. Unless you are making a really huge leap, most of the time i…

I have been brainstorming something similar for a different country and vertical, and I am seeking for some ideas. Do do have an email?

May I ask what you are using for the site?

I wonder what they use on the backend to power this. Anyone knows?

Groovy doesn't get enough press in HN but I would think Groovy is practically the most widely used of them all just because of Grails. I prefer Scala when I am doing backend stuffs…

I built http://www.onesong.me in appengine using the java playframework, and I quite like what I get for free.

I used JSR-168 (JBoss Portal) back in 2006/2007 and was my worst programming experience ever. Web development has only gotten better since 2006, so there is no reason why you shoul…

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/tool/tool_06.... Can programmers even apply under the skilled category anymore? I thought Canada only wanted computer managers since …

HTML, CSS, Javascript, browsers, database, IDE, at least one server side language, and hosting for a simple web app. Web development sucks. We are just used to it.

Don't get into the Rails vs Django war. Just pick up any one of them and start coding. Both frameworks are highly productive and very easy to pick up. If you go with Rails, you can…

You can own or start a company, but you cannot work for it until you have proper authorization, ie. CPT, OPT, H1b, Green Card, etc. If you are found to be working for any company i…

Working on http://OneSong.me - an app that lets you describe your friends in one song, just like ThreeWords.me.

I cannot bring the page up. Looks down to be.

I agree on the design. I am not a designer myself but I will see what I can do without spending absurd amount of time. Thanks.

Clickable: http://OneSong.me

If you were to describe your friend in one song, what song would it be? Thats what http://OneSong.me is. Not to forget, it was inspired by ThreeWords.me and Gabriel Weinberg's post…

Oh Google!

There can be no explanation for this. I think we should all boycott GoDaddy.