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The other day I was talking with someone here in Estonia who is working on a similar system that looks at real-world AWS usage and moves customer machines on to reserved instances,…

Hmm it seems curious that this attack on a successful Ukrainian startup is happening at this time. Could it be a Russian smear campaign? It seems like the sort of thing that the St…

Yes here too, and I think it's great and it's the way forward, but as with anything it requires some changes in thinking and approach. Re-composing everything into small functions,…

As the articles say, he has been under investigation for a while for his bitcoin mining work (which as far as I can tell is not under dispute). The Australian government has decree…

fewer errors ;-) Proving your point!

I know it's a bit OT but if anyone really does want to charge for offering skills in this way, you should check out a startup called www.minutebox.com which offers pay-by-the-minut…

umm... see that bit under the vote which says "xxx points"? That's how many many voted for that item!

Any word on when it will be available outside the US, particularly in the UK?

If you're still at Cal then you should talk to international house, they would know lots of good visa consultants etc -- but on the other hand they have to play by the book as they…

David Heinemeier Hansson (in London) takes on Eric Ries (via Skype from California) in their first public appearance together, at Leancamp London (http://leanca.mp) on 10 May 2010.…

For some reason I thought of this post when I read this story, so I came back to post the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-wr... It's about writing f…

http://www.geonames.org/ (download area at http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ ) Used as the placename source for http://www.dopplr.com among others. HTH, Brendan.