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Don't feel bad about not creating a "profitable side-businesses after one marathon 48-hour coding session in a single weekend". I bet a lot of side projects posted to HN took much …

Good point. The whole reason we have patent law in the first place is to promote the progress of science. Patents still have a role in some industries where inventing is expensive …

You did it right. HN allows you to submit a URL or Text, but not both. It's customary around here that someone replies with the clickable link. Nice job on the app by the way. If y…

Clickable http://www.typeli.com http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typeli/id503079958?ls=1&m...

Many of the comments I'm reading here assume a much higher level of ignorance on the part of small business owners than is really the case. While it's true the average SBO typicall…

I'm curious, how are you handling the time-zone issue? For example, MTV runs an East and West Cost feed. Usually those are just time-shifted mirror images (but not always). Fox oft…

Personally I feel this kind of tactic has the potential to backfire. The efforts by Tumblr (phone campaign), NY Tech Meetup ( http://nytm.org/sos ), and the boycott of Go Daddy rep…

Nice job on the resume. It's unfortunate the applicant systems preferred by big companies (Taleo, Brassring, etc) do not give candidates a channel through which to differentiate th…

Actually he was initially a Marxist, then a Libertarian, and then a Marxist again. I tended to agree more with his Libertarian side but no matter what his point of view I always en…

I agree. For many people the smart escape path is to continue working your soul-sucking corporate job while building your startup on the side. Quit only after you've succeeded in c…

I agree with a lot of that. Most people who choose Node are going to feel more at home with EC2. However it's not so far fetched to think that one might choose to pair Node and Azu…

As compared to what? Azure is Paas and, for what it is, seems to be a reasonable value. Of course there are ways to do things cheaper and/or more secure but often I find those comp…

I would say cost (referring to license fees) is more relevant in deciding whether or not to choose the .NET stack in the first place. You're not going to avoid license fees by avoi…

Amazon has very good .NET support. So does Rackspace. So does Azure (obviously). In my personal experience the quality of cloud platforms has been comparable for both Linux and Win…

Very nice. Hunting for the perfect plugin is very time consuming. Thanks for doing the leg work.