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Glad to see you guys continually innovating. Wish you the best of luck. -Gil from Gilded

What about all the copyright holders, such as Getty Images, that are circling the water, waiting for Pinterest to start making money so the rights holders can charge licensing fees…

I implemented exactly this for our application about a year ago. We managed to speed up the average backend response times for the entire site by about 500ms. Unfortunately, the co…

Logicworks in New Jersey/NYC and Peer1 in Atlanta.

I also use SQS from a non-EC2 app server environment. It's one less service I have to administer, and in my case the latency isn't an issue.

There's nothing stopping you from using a traditional CDN vendor as an application CDN. I spoke to the folks at Edgecast about this a year or two ago, and they didn't have a proble…

I second this

Last time I checked, at that volume one could get much better pricing by committing to a yearly contract through a traditional CDN vendor.

I encountered these types of problems on Cloudfront-powered sites all the time when I lived in Colorado. I frequently had issues using GitHub, Basecamp, etc. Only solution was to w…

I'm glad that you offer the badge option, but I wish that was in addition to a $30-80/mo plan that I could pay for with cash...

It's exactly the same amount of effort to setup. I use both GA (for pageview tracking) and Mixpanel (for engagement tracking). Mixpanel's funnel tracker is more robust, and there i…

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Yawn

Your salary expectations are awful high for a telecommute position. Next time you could consider letting them warm up to you before throwing that out. Also, how can you have expert…

I run a site which triggers POSTs via Ajax for visitor tracking. We explicitly disable crawling of the Ajax directory via robots.txt and have not observed Googlebot crawling these …

I wasn't suggesting that taking a cold shower makes you like a Navy SEAL. I was suggesting that if you were training to become one, taking cold showers would help you prepare for t…

Another method is to pause for an exponential delay after each failed attempt. This makes it prohibitively slow to brute force.

Yes! Thank you for putting this together.

They use Amazon SimpleDB as their primary database.

We're hiring contract web engineers at Squidoo. http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-web-engineer .