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Author lost total credibility at that point. Rails is quite elegant, and yes, it is just another tool. Totally unsubstantiated bashing. Surprised to see this on the homepage.

We're tracking this bug down now -- mind letting me know repro steps? We'll fix it asap -- garry@posterous.com Thanks Emmett!

A few weeks ago we had some bugs in new batch processing code that caused some major errors there. These bugs have since been fixed. We are definitely not as far off as 9316 vs 14 …

Our focus is on building the best product. It so happens to be that we are aware of the issue and recommend that you use Google Analytics for deeper insight into visitors and views…

If anything, our focus on email and creation tools spurs far more original content than other traditional blogging methods. We do honor DMCA takedown requests -- they're fairly eas…

This is an anonymous article on Quora -- if I could provide more attribution, I would. In fact, I have now added a ton more attribution and links back to the main quora page. I lov…

Fixed

We use Bitpusher as our vendor for sysadmin/ops at Posterous. They're a great group of people to work with, and they get to see a lot of different environments since they specifica…

At Posterous we use MySQL as a main data store but MongoDB for simple analytics and Redis for set operations around contacts and subscriptions. Redis is also great as a backing sto…

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Forced obsolescence.

Things like Airbnb don't exist without the Internet -- fundamentally they connect people who wouldn't have met any other way. It's about building communities that didn't exist befo…

For a hacker I cannot imagine a more amazing gift to oneself than the gift of ever-present Internet access via Sprint/Verizon/Whatever via USB dongle or expresscard. It's ~$50/mont…

San Francisco Posterous is hiring Backend and Rails engineers! We're a team of just 10 engineers -- 100% focused on being totally driven by great hackers who love building for cons…

I'm curious to hear what early users we got that may have helped us. OK, Arrington was a good one. =) Others?

That's why startup scenes are a bit of a mixed bag. You can meet really awesome people who can help you a lot. But you can't let it get in the way of building product.

Awesome, we will be in touch!

Posterous is hiring, and we love Ruby on Rails. Let me know if you'd like to talk. Perhaps we can make lemonade from these lemons. http://posterous.com/jobs

Software is the highest leverage profession in the world right now. Perhaps in the early 1900's it was wildcatting for oil in Southern California. It minted billionaires like Getty…