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Of course they can, their whole business is designed around service.

Every single product including the ones that go hockey-stick start out as prototypes that don't need to be prematurely optimized for scaling. That doesn't mean you shouldn't plan a…

Hey pmlnr, author here. I think what the post is trying to say is that the ops team will still be at the company, but the communication overhead across teams will be less of a burd…

Feras from buttercloud here (author is my co-worker). We have a complex application that heavily interacts with webhooks - that's what prompted us to create StripeTester. We can no…

Lenovo Thinkpad X220.

You could run something like Autotest for continuous testing & quality control: http://ph7spot.com/musings/getting-started-with-autotest You can run Capistrano for continuous deplo…

I think goals are valuable if you set them right. An overarching goal can be to have 1 of the ideas implemented, and then you can refer back to the goal at the end of each month an…

What about this? http://www.typetester.org/

I've been using Remember the Milk for GTD: http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2008/05/guest-post-advanced-...

I have an x200. The screen isn't amazing but the build quality and warranty are incredible. I got the protection plan, managed to spill water/coffee on my laptop in two separate oc…

Don't feel bad about using jQuery or any other library. These libraries have been built for re-use. Once you get more familiar with the basics and build a few apps, you can start l…

I'm not sure why, but the video doesn't load in Chrome.

I think you should have a longer delay on each book preview in the scrolling list of books at the top. I made it through half of one and then it switched over. 5 more seconds would…

Another option is to collect a group of your friends, family, and various non-technical users and just give them a few tasks to do on your website. If the site is usable then most …

Sweet, I use the "site" operator a lot but I've never actually used the intitle one.

Bookmarked! My usual approach of finding these was to google for topic + Hacker News + Ask.

Long time lurker here =). Agreed, I'm doing an M.S now (non-business) and I've always been under the impression that the MBA crowd is a little bit older - not too old, but people t…