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here I'll summarize the article for you in one sentence: just think of the earth as it is, only with 8 huge mountains one on each corner.

Well, not defined but I would say it is a pretty good indication.

How's this on HN... oh it's YC startup!

you mean having dramatic background music played while pitching? ;)

I don't think the quality of your code has anything to do with your ego. You can be a total jerk and yet a brilliant programmer. Not even correlated based on my personal experience…

I use eclipse mainly because of auto complete, it saves me a lot of time, and I see and correct my mistakes immediately (tight feedback loop). If this is a serious project for you,…

The point is that they are not backing up your data they way they advertise it. The whole point of physical redundancy is to eliminate single point of failure yet from their email …

"You can't outsource your liability" I have to disagree. You can define any part of your business as a "liability", so in that case you don't have to outsource anything at all. In …

Sheldon, is that you?

No, there wasn't much user generated material at the beginning. I remember when I discovered youtube, I was shocked that how they were allowed to put so much copyrighted material o…

I had a similar experience... I have tried to switch for the last few years, unsuccessfully. Until a month ago which I installed 9.04 and it pretty smooth. The only reason that I b…

you can also keep track of how people browse the site from page to page, etc. and draw lots of good stats. e.g. similar to amazon's "people who bought these also bought..." or "peo…