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I have a long, random password for every site, it is never the same. I have a long pass phrase that unlocks the encrypted records of said passwords. For most sites (most are not im…

I couldn't comment on anything specific to lights, but I can comment as a web user. Sometimes it's the little things... I was a bit jarred by your website being so dark. The menu b…

I have an extra server that I cannot justify colocation for anymore (everything it runs can fit on a slicehost $20/month). I have about $600 in payments left in the colocation cont…

I liked that talk -- but I've read that infant mortality rates are a misleading indicator and I really want to know what Mr. Rosling think about the subject. The U.S. brings far mo…

AWS is a separate wing from the Amazon site, they buy their own servers and datacenters. There have already been numerous S3 and EC2 outages. You won't get any support at AWS unles…

SimpleCDN looks like it's already done something like this ("easy API, democratizing the CDN"). While I'm not a customer of either SimpleCDN or CloudFront yet, this looks easy enou…

The one with the weevil ("snout is just over 100 microns wide") blows me away too.

I close almost any window with the word "rockstar" in it these days. No thankyou.

It's too bad that "flu" is often used for many things besides influenza, most notably the stomach flu which usually lasts 24 hours. That's way more common than influenza. I run acr…

If you liked that, you will REALLY like http://www.gapminder.org

I'd take two billion too, set up the rest of the money as a trust to fund four specific areas: 1. get people in the developing world clean water, access to enough food, and healthc…

site's unusably slow (right now)

People are on their way to addressing the problem: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2008/9/12/327...

Here's the main thread on swype: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299938