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Hey thanx for the tip, I did their live chat and their instances come with LAMP already set up and can use webmin/plesk. I've heard good things about them and so far they are livin…

I searched HN but couldn't find an answer to this question: has anyone found a hosting service that offers a virtual private server (VPS) running on a cloud? I ask because most clo…

I was just shocked that no language anywhere had thought of it yet. I can't even remember the last time I did a search that came up empty.

Check this out: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22~=%22 Any reason why we couldn't add ~= to the c spec so that we could say: myVar ~= myFlag; Which would do the same thing as: myV…

For me personally, there is a moral code beyond money. I think that when asked "would you rather make more money if you knew you were participating in something unscrupulous?", we …

After hearing dozens of horrors stories from the Mac App Store/Android/Amazon/Google developers lately, I got an idea for a union that would have real collective bargaining power, …

Fellow programmers make fun of me for liking Matlab. I've tried to explain it to them many times (how it doesn't need iterators, how most things are one-liners, how it's 10-100 tim…

Ya I've come to the same conclusion. I realized after posting this that there are really two concepts here: 1) earning a benefactor and 2) my life lessons, which for the most part …

Everyone always asks "where can I find a technical cofounder?" and it surprises me because I'm surrounded by technical people and I've known many teenagers with more technical know…

I just spent the last several days setting up an SVN server and configuring Xcode to use it. It's a shining example of a task that should have been quite simple but is fraught with…

Hey I went to UIUC for Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), the best 4 years (and decision) of my life :-) Of course, it was 95-99 so some of the headiest, fastest paced year…

I just quit my job over a similar issue. I was doing tech support and repair work but the bosses insisted on having all of us do everything with no division of responsibility. So o…

Ya, the fewest lines of code submitted is often the best result (counterintuitively).

That's cool. Ya I was thinking that it would have to work similar to real employee-owned companies. There would be votes to determine tiers of pay, or equal pay for everyone (which…

Ya that's my thought too. The logistics of running a business are different (and in my mind easier to solve) than the logistics of programming, and should be solvable in a more gen…

Startups seem to be hiring more developers this year. And developers are leaving their day jobs in droves. This presents a strange paradox. What does everyone think about programme…

http://beginwithyou.org/2010/11/03/the-next-ebay/ Disclaimer: this is my site, sorry for the shameless plug. Like you, I have hundreds of ideas just like this one that are eating m…

http://beginwithyou.org/2010/11/03/the-next-ebay/ Disclaimer: this is my site, sorry for the shameless plug. Like you, I have hundreds of ideas just like this one that are eating m…

I have always been in a different boat (I'm 32 now). I always knew precisely what I wanted to do, and knew it would be something nontrivial and...transcendent I suppose is the word…

Ya the styling works properly, it's just that, when every other link shows as read, it gets more difficult to sift through them. As an experiment, I just tried saving this in a fil…

I absolutely love Hacker News, but I find that the more I read it, the more I have to switch to the "new" section because I've clicked most of the links on each page. Then I read t…