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Awesome project. Browser technology is on a tear recently, and terminals are ripe for innovation. For a newborn project, this is an impressive mashup. The number of dismissive peop…

Full stack web servers like Mongrel or CherryPy. Server fabrication and automation tools like Chef, Puppet, Fabric. Process management tools like God. Parallel worker systems like …

Has anyone ever experimented with deleting/disabling features on an Android phone? I'm always curious what it'd be like to have a "smart" phone with no email or web browser, but st…

Hiring only the best is impractical unless you are Google and can pay the best for the best. A much more practical strategy: hire people that can learn, and train them in best prac…

Food for thought for sure. True, nothing can get better forever... But do we believe in "economy of scale" for computer and Internet systems in this age? Google, Amazon, Facebook, …

These outages are very rough. Clearly a lot of the Internet is building out on AWS, and not using multiple zones correctly in the first place. But AWS can have multi-zone problems …

I see your point, but who is uploading videos to Google then deleting the source? These services are for sharing and streaming, not archiving. I don't work for Google but I do work…

There is so much abandoned and bullshit video on there, it couldn't possibly be worth it.

Respect. Edit: not a good comment for HN. More: it was a great service, and it had a good run. And mad respect for Google for running it well but shutting it down gracefully.

In thinking back, that's exactly why I picked 4. I just clicked whatever was closest because I wasn't even thinking about the exercise.

No problem. Love the script.

If it's static, serve it directly from S3, and turn on cloudfront for even better delivery.

Congrats! I hope OKCupid still publishes those awesome posts about the statistics of dating, those are fascinating.

Companies reserve the right to fire customers. I respect this attitude.

This looks really great. Kudos to the designers and programmers.

I think I have more than 20 components using Sendgrid. I forget what and where because it's been working like magic for so long. Also the free Sendgrid addon for Heroku is a dream …

Great read. I agree with less immersion in 3D films. I saw Pixar's "Up" in 3D. Such a touching story. But at the sad scenes, when my eyes started to water up, I became super consci…

I'm quite tired of these posts, but HN appears to love them. If you don't like a company, don't invest in it, and don't use it's products. But it's not your duty to scare other peo…

The only problem I see is the iPhone and iPad. All other browsers are open enough to get native support or have a plugin. Android phones will have support. Who knows or cares what …

I've been feeling that the Internet hurts my mental health. Filling my brain with HN, Reddit, DrudgeReport, Twitter, Facebook, email, chat, etc., is exhausting. And this is on top …

A tautology, no? He wouldn't use Debian if he did have problems. I get neck deep in large Ruby deployments and the issue is clear to me. Ruby is evolving at a breakneck speed but a…

You can still hook up rspec or test::unit to rails 3...

Can I get a discount on this app?

It's a matter of risk. Think of it like a house... Renting vs buying vs building one. All strategies have their benefits. Renting you let someone else maintain the property and can…

Pricing?