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time to boycott apress, and use dollars to vote for other well behaving publishers. Big companies are known to write contracts that favor themselves, rather than the little guy.

Cool, but this looks like THEY are in charge of the servers. If this is true, no thank you. I'd like to set up and control my own servers and be responsible for my own object's pri…

I'm not sure if BCC is sustainable, look what happened to the shareware solitaire guy 5-10 years ago who claimed to earned a ton. Now with 10s/100s of clones out, where is he now? …

Those who know will not make the change. Even worse, they will actively prevent change from happening. They will milk whatever they are holding on to for as long as they can. It's …

Agree, it was a badly composed email... before reading the comments here, I comprehended the email as Slicehost was shutting down and my slice would be killed also. Quit the corpor…

Ever since it's been blocked, who's interested in creating a Chinese version of dropbox within the GFW? Let's get together and create dropbox.cn or for legal reasons, cndropbox.com…

Whoever downvotes this also believes that 9/11 incident was an accident. It was cleverly crafted as well.

Know why Japan is now clearing all this up now? Cuz the USA offered to send emergency help. Imagine the USA team going over and finding nothing really happened, an entire hoax. Thi…

+1 for good backups My strategy from now on is to to mirror the SSD to a traditional HDD. That way, in the case of a SSD failure, we can accept the performance hit and still be abl…

That explains why my server OCZ Vertex SSD died yesterday after 1 year of use... I'm eyeing a Corsair now but still kind of weary of SSDs now.

I'll start first, 8 years. Given that 25% of startups fail the 1st year, and then half of those who survived the 1st year die off the 2nd year, and the 3rd to 5th years businesses …

Correction: Make that 15 hours per month, equivalent to approx. 4 hours per week. I have no special formula, I was just fully prepared with all the right skills at the right place …

No, what I developed for 5 years is non-transferable to other industries/niches. If I were to go into other industries/niches, I would have to start from zero again. What I stumble…

Thanks. Actually, another option I'm leaning towards is to temporarily get out of the computer biz all together and try something entireley new. The only way to find new technologi…

DEAR HACKER NEWS: 5 years ago, I was lucky enough to start a non-public SAAS for a large global company. Before I showed up, they were doing things manually, spending > hundreds of…