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I would really like you to clarify your intentions on serving non-HTML content. I say this slightly nervously as a Cloudflare customer who serves some amount of binary data. One me…

> I'm sure it would become evident that they know more about spam and anti-spam efforts than anybody else in existence Really? I can point you to Hard Problems that have been solve…

there was also his Thaddeus Zu/Ashley Madison story, which was pure conjecture

It's a common HN fallacy that everyone here is a developer whose main life aim is to remain employable as a developer. Lots of us are here to ship stuff; to provide viable products…

Mostly, headspace. If I run my own server, I just need to apply my existing Ubuntu sysadmin knowledge. If I use AWS, I have to learn a whole load of AWS-specific domain knowledge, …

This is very similar to my experience. I recently measured the difference on my site as 10%-15% (also a non-tech site, though sadly not at $8m a year yet!)

While I don't enjoy the blog either (partly for the reason you cite, and partly for the unspoken assumption behind many posts that FAANG-like companies are a good thing and a good …

What's wrong with finding out how people use my site, so I can write more of the content they like, and make it easier for them to navigate through?

I agree. I have a big problem with UBO etc. blocking self-hosted, single-site Piwik. It feels like being penalised for doing the right thing.

> Elon Musk (right) has drawn comparisons to Gerald Ratner in recent years The 1980s British businessman who Musk most reminds me of is not Gerald Ratner but Robert Maxwell.

Other RDBMSs Are Clearly Less Egregious

Fortunately Google is consistent about enforcing encryption anywhere where passwords could be intercepted. Oh, wait. http://blog.elliottkember.com/chromes-insane-password-securi...…

Yeah, no way that would happen in Europe. Oh wait. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8438461/BT-and-Ph...

> I don't want my ISP to inject JavaScript to random pages or analyze my traffic. That should be downright illegal. They should be like water supply company: provide me damn clean …

OS X has always had it, albeit a fairly limited implementation. Try it in TextEdit.

A few years back I spoke at a conference about my product. I made some humorous, slightly disparaging comments about the Google-owned competitor. Two days later my site disappeared…

It is _already_ behind a sign-up with a checkbox. They scraped their way past that too.

We're not talking generic "bots". We're talking a custom scraper written for this site and this site only. Yes, I am expecting the people who spend hours inspecting the source of m…

The analogy was "doing something anyway because you might be told 'no'", not "my server behaves like a canine quadruped". Copyright infringement is also potentially criminal in the…

Well, yeah, like if you ask someone to sell you their dog and they say "no". Doesn't justify stealing the dog.

In what world is "engage a third-party scraping company" a better option than "drop a quick email to the site operator"?

Yes. Did that after this episode.

I built a simple CRUD app for a previous (small) employer. Nothing special technology-wise, but a good concept, sound business model, and backed up with a couple of full-time staff…

Ok, I'll take your word for it, but that said HMRC is the only way in which I ever interact with the Government online. If GDS can't get their claws into HMRC then Government digit…

It's not a message that needs to be delivered securely. It is literally just "you need to fill in your tax return by the same date everyone else in Britain needs to fill in their t…