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I'd like to see how your face would look on a replicant...

It's amazing, the variety of attitudes and opinions on this thread. People don't spend this much energy arguing the fine points of war and yet, it really is just a watch. The promo…

Well written, but what I really appreciate is succinct.

A frivolous addition with no facts to check. Admitted. Give it twelve weeks. The point is that Heroku can do better. No offense meant to sales force or it's employees, just honest …

What's the best way to muster an engineering team?

Heroku support options have always worked to shelter their employees from customers and as has been pointed out, despite the steep decline in costs, their prices have not changed. …

Thanks for the information. Sounds like they took the personal journey approach and it also sounds like you enjoyed it, which would indicate that they did a good job, including the…

Anyone who has seen a Vermeer painting up close, knows how hypnotic the experience can be. Is it true that in the movie Tim never gets to see the original and is reproducing based …

It costs a lot of money to make a film. I don't know Tim and I suspect he's a nice and interesting guy, but movies that lack broad appeal are sometimes referred to as vanity projec…

Just my humble opinion, but it doesn't matter how the artist achieved the results. The work speaks for itself. Tim's Vermeer is probably a lot like watching a behind the scenes vid…

I was recruited to work as editor on this project about two years ago. My reason for not taking the job at the time was that it would be hard to make the ending interesting enough …

The problem is sufficiently complex and boring to favor Comcast. What I would like to know is this: It is already a regional monopoly in high speed internet because no on can touch…

Where there are banks, there will always be bank robbers. This will never cease to be the case and the banks will always lose money this way. It's inevitable. So, the problem becom…

Being purveyors of good taste, leaders have to take action. Despite my karma score (73) I support implementation of a solution to a known problem, despite the risks. It provides a …

Cloud storage is not going away. It's just getting massively cheaper and will continue to do so until the team at dropbox gets bored with running a commodity business and turn to c…

How very Kafka.

Loves power when wielding it, hates its being wielded against. It's not hypocrisy. It's human.

Loves power when wielding it, hates its being wielded against. It's not hypocrisy. It's human.

It takes tremendous self-knowledge and insight to take a step like this. It's what makes Paul Graham, Paul Graham and it's incredibly inspiring. Welcome to YC 2.0. Looking forward …

That's great, Now, if only Heroku were 40% less expensive...that would be progress.