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We're on Amazon EC2, we have 10 instances, and we're having a problems with our Glassfish, OpenMq, and MySQL configuration. Additional info is available if you want to send me an e…

Our web apps have been having some serious issues over the past couple of days and the individual who wore the sys admin hat left the company. We're a 3 person company (just hired …

Can this be patched through a software update?

Using Moore's law does that mean Google's development is approximately 6 years ahead of MS? (8 times faster code doubles the speed once, doubles the speed twice, and doubles the sp…

If determination is so important then are founders who've applied to YC several times given an advantage in future rounds?

Amazing application. Out of curiosity, how much equity did YC take? (6%)?

The consumer business model that you described is a small part of JobSpice's potential. The goldmine comes from getting companies to use JobSpice to recruit new hires. All individu…

Daniel Lyons, (aka. Fake Steve) also wrote this article for Newsweek called "Lyons: Why Good Web Sites Should Not Be Free". Lyons pandered to the Newsweek demographic which for the…

What about the first post for someone selling their username on eBay?

It looks like a real-time news aggregation service. Very good, would benefit from a search bar on the homepage and integration of real time comments from social sites such as digg,…

if you don't mind me asking, how do you enforce the site licenses? Is there a setting in creating a pdf that only allows you to make 100 copies or do you lock the pdf and issues 10…

When our apps were running 50K+ visits a day 99% of my time was spent policing our users. And I wasn't even on salary :(

This is going to change the world, sadly, only 9 points in 4 hours.

"Also – our CEO is named Trip Adler, not Trip Adkins." big lols.

Not having the chance to try Google Checkout as a Canadian merchant (it wasn't available to Canadian merchants at the time we made our payment solution decision), I'm reminded of a…

... and here I thought a health related topic got to #2 on Hacker News based on the merit of maintaning a healthy lifestyle in addition to being a successful worker. FWIW, if anyon…

Just got back from Melbourne, (Toronto, ON), loved it and will return, and I just kept thinking 'If there was a start-up culture in Melbourne, I'd move there in 2 seconds!' - and n…

This bug has been around for at least 6 months, ever since just after the last major Facebook Profile redesign that moved profiles towards the 'Boxed' design. For me, the bug laste…

Leave it to Matt to always go against the grain of conventional wisdom. I definitely agree that Facebook has balls pulling out this redesign but I do not agree that the design is f…

We paid $420/mo. for shared office space at the heart of Toronto's tech centre, courtesy the great guys at Lyricfind Inc. We had more than enough amenities wise. In fact all we nee…