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I don't think protesting these companies is a good long term solution. We need a protect DNS act or anti-censorship bill. Big tech has more money and power than hollywood. They sho…

Shouldn't Google, Facebook, and others have more money and lobbying power than the MPAA and RIAA?

I agree. I'm a 37s fanboy. Web tech has made a quantum leap in the last year. The difference between rails 3.1 and rails 2.8 is huge. Not to mention html5, css3 and new javascript …

DHH's Twitter suggests otherwise. He talks about the joy of starting from scratch developing with rails/master. Can't link to it because I'm on a phone.

I am surprised, I thought 37s was against rewrites.

Happy to see that Salesforce is releasing its own apps on Heroku. It shows they are serious about using the platform as it is, instead of turning it into something enterprisey.

I really enjoyed reading this. Especially the section about bravery, "the opposite of fear is initiative not courage". Well said. I'm leaving today for a big wall climbing trip and…

Also living off Facebook apps from 07. Biggest downside is having too much free time and working alone. Right now im studying for the MCAT

Amazing. Way back in 2007 I taught myself how to code by making small Facebook apps. I started out by editing live PHP files on a shared server from A Small Orange ($3.33 a month!)…

Last night I visited my uncle, a 50 year old rancher in Eastern Colorado. He wanted to show me videos of him calf-roping with a rodeo celebrity. I was very surprised when he brough…

Y'all don't know my struggle Y'all can't match my hustle You can't catch my hustle You can't fathom my love dude Lock yourself in a room doin' five beats a day for three summers Th…

About $10k a month from an old Facebook quiz app. I haven't touched the codebase or worked on said app in 8 months.

Back in the day, I had a Facebook app called Quiz Monster that was utilized by lots of people all over the world. The app had international appeal because quizzes could be written …

They should highlight this to new viewers, I was about to complain about the lack of scrolling.

This doesn't work at scale. The IO performance with LVM is terrible. I lost a lot of money trying to implement this. Percona wrote Xtrabackup as a replacement for LVM. Documentatio…

They do. I think Heroku is the best thing for new apps / developers. You can launch your app for free. Your app would have to be rather successful (and hopefully profitable) to out…

I can't imagine life without RDS. I'm a solo developer responsible for a large web app. Before RDS I hosted MySQL on dedicated hardware from Softlayer. I had a dedicated box for th…

Your's truly just applied to be a beta user. The product looks awesome. I would love to try it with my app.

I also like to cache resources as JSON and then render them into a template with Ajax.

I started building a new app and was bummed when I discovered Chrome didn't support the Html5 File API. The next day Chrome 6 was released along with said API support. Now the cana…

> The average salary at Goldman Sachs in 2005 was $521,000 Wow. New title suggestion: "Working at Goldman Sachs will earn you enough money to found a startup with zero revenue."

> Could this be any more self-righteous? I believe this self-righteous attitude regarding acquisitions comes from being a bootstrapped startup. When you bootstrap your company star…

Wow. Great work guys. I am impressed with the data collection, but even more impressed with the attention to detail given to the interface. I love how big circles represent better …

But he is leaving at the worst possible time. A big upgrade requires months of follow up work and he should know that. I'm not usually an internet tough guy, but this is outrageous…