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Bench - Vancouver, BC We’re Bench, and we’re hard at work turning something really old (bookkeeping) into something new and appealing. As part of the engineering team, you’ll help …

A really great documentary that partially covers the history of suburbs is called "end of suburbia". Its mostly about the theory of peak oil, and how that would destroy the "americ…

How terribly disappointing. If you're going to get all nostalgic about running Amiga applications then you may as well just go and download the original kickstart and workbench ROM…

See original discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684318

You don't ever seem to find startup ideas. Startup ideas seem to find you. That's why it's important to always be listening - if you listen often enough then problems will "appear …

Vancouver has quite a few talented engineers but the teams can be a bit insular. The meetups are good and you should definitely go to either the Ruby on Rails one, or Node Brigade.…

The rumour circulating around is that they have the ability to detect which other applications are running or installed on a mobile device. Certainly for applications that have thi…

It depends how far away from land you are. A Tsunami has tons of energy, but it only really gets 'big' on the surface when that energy is constrained by the depth of the sea floor.…

By your logic I'd be running a WAP site over Gopher to satisfy the progressive enhancement ethos. At a certain point it's absurd to assume javascript isn't there. [1] What brought …

Also: http://harp.io

Actually, linode has an API but doesn't do metered billing - thats really what you want for your particular use case.

Manta is an Object Store with Compute in-situ. The client is OS agnostic AFAIK - you can use a linux instance as your client if you want. http://apidocs.joyent.com/manta/commands-r…

Official Announcement: http://www.joyent.com/blog/hello-manta-bringing-unix-to-big-...

You'll probably hear this alot: Just dont do it. Seriously. Running a mail service is complicated and on your own it's barely worth the effort. But if you're serious about it then …

I really like using Restdown https://github.com/trentm/restdown It's markdown with a few more conventions. Really handy.

Honest question: Is it possible that they're not worried about sharper images of distant objects insomuch as being able to survey much larger portions of the sky with a large array…

Excellent advice. Quite often when technical founders aren't quite sure how to go about the validation process, we tend to double-down on development. Instead the exact opposite is…