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This is an ok home page. Your idea could be very good or very bad, depending on how your service works. But right now, there is no way to tell because it shows nothing at all. You …

These tips are good practices, but they are micro-optimisations. The function strtr might be 4 times faster than str_replace, but the time saved by using strtr will represent a tin…

You have to be more specific about the VPS part of your question...

By the way, since we're on HN, there's a multi-billion dollar idea here : Create a way to add OpenId to any website, that is easy and fast to implement and friction-less for users.…

I recently had to choose a way to authenticate users for a prototype web app I was building. My first choice was OpenId, because the promise behind it is awesome (1 login everywher…

The first rule of the cloud is : If you think your data requires a high level of privacy, don't store it on someone else's platform. The second rule of the cloud is : Paying for a …

Thank you !

http://www.weekendhacker.net/ might be what you're looking for. I think I learnt about it on HN, too.

On your GitHub readme, the link to the paper is broken : http://www.math.admu.edu.ph/~raf/pcsc05/proceedings/AI4.pdf Is the paper still available online ? Do you have an alternate …

The AWS website has all the informations you need. The http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/ section provides 5 diagrams : ==> Web Application Hosting : http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfr…

Being able to provide you with your password in plain text doesn't mean it's stored in plain text. There are very efficient and secure encryption algorithms that are reversible, ou…

Looks like you somehow remove the '-' characters in the domain names.

- read SMS or MMS Allows application to read SMS messages stored on your device or SIM card. Malicious applications may read your confidential messages. - receive SMS Allows applic…

http://panoptikos.com/ did this pretty well for me in the last few months, but it's always nice to have several choices :) Care to share the tech behind the site, and how it works …

Anyone has experience with Foundation ? Is it any better than Bootstrap (Twitter's) or any other framework of that kind ?

I am looking for a simple script that would minify the CSS or JS file given as a parameter, in an efficient way. I know about Yahoo's Java tool but it's overkill since I don't use …

It would be nice to have some specific informations about what you guys are building, on top of the utopic vision email you send monthly. Many people are interested by the project,…

Maybe they have per-country data, and since Africa is not a country but a continent...

What does BCC stand for, please ? (I might sound dumb but I couldn't figure it out :)

There are two main options, when it comes to making money from an app : 1- sell a small (cheap) app to many people 2- sell a big (expensive) app to a few people While it is true th…

The problem is that many legit people with perfectly legit businesses have seen their account frozen for 180 days without any reason and without any human being to discuss the issu…

Your Paypal story is exactly what makes me want to partner with someone else. Amazon and Paypal solutions sound great but they are both limited to US and UK :(

These are both great solutions, but there are strong geographical limitations for both of them (US or UK only).

Paypal is the clear leader in the "Buy button" field...it's easy, quick, and it just works. And also, you can use it if your company is based in Europe (mine is). But the company's…

There are many ways to share knowledge. The most obvious would be "write a blog". But to be honnest, you may as well use your knowledge in the process of building a tool to share i…