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You don’t have nearly as much “optionality” when you have to come up with $X00,000 within 90 days of leaving your job or forfeit your equity

> Bank Simple doesn't appear to bring a whole lot new to the table. BankSimple, unlike Mint/Wesabe, is an actual bank* (*ok not techincally for regulatory reasons, but you will sto…

Streaming doesn't come from AWS, they have agreements with CDNs for that

not working for me either (Also SF). From here, blog.crohnology.com CNAMEs to sfibd.posterous.com, but that doesn't work for reason's unknown to me (IP returned is 184.106.20.99)

Looks like a great site. I'm very fortunate that my Crohn's is doing well enough that I'm not particularly looking for more information, but I'm very happy to help others.

Care to explain in more detail? (I moved from GoDaddy to 1&1 a few months back)

Yep, the Fremont DC has been down at least 3 times in the past year. I still love Linode, but i'll probably move my (personal) VPS to another of their facilities.

Complete guess: they paid her to shut up (with some sort of NDA)

Yes. 1) Its some extra work for what is likely a tiny portion of their target user demographic (note: this isn't the demographic that would use a normal signup if it was an option …

This is what, the 3rd? 4th? power outage in that facility in the last year? I realize that it's not directly Linode's fault, since this is Hurricane Electric's facility that they l…

While you are here....Why only a single boot drive? It seems like an obvious failure point, and at only $40 per drive I would think soft raid 1 would be no-brainer for reliability.…

You are also paying for 1) their software work involved and 2) running on multiple hosts, which is a must for any non-trivial environment

yea, I deleted my parent comment for an obvious lack of math. you are absolutely correct

Sounded like standard bland pr-speak to me. They didn't specifically address any of his points and it comes off as extremely impersonal. I hope for RIM's sake they are sending arou…

As someone who works on search and is a scala fan, I'm super impressed. Next obvious question: how many lines would it take to add some sort of stemming?

Have you seen squeryl? Its not quite as nice as LINQ, but its definitely a useful DSL

The unmentioned big issue with truecrypt is that encryption messes up dropbox's ability to do just do diffs, so syncing is noticeably slower. I'm fine with that though, because the…

Not only is there no free magic Android tablet, customers don't have to worry about carrier lock-in. I would guess some non-trivial portion of the Android customers on T-Mobile/Spr…

If you have that concern, you probably aren't investing in the right mutual funds. Almost all 401(k)s have a very low cost index fund that will mirror the s&p 500.

Presumably because, like many a previous startup, revenue growth is fantastic. I agree with the HN consensus though-they have no real way of differentiating themselves from LivingS…

On top of that, a lot of companies have the requirement that once you hook up your corporate exchange to your iPhone, you have to have a >4 digit password (as in the iPhone forces …