Methos

Actually I haven't read much of Ryan's blog/comments to make any opinion about him. But I definitely know that edw519 makes many interesting, informative comments on hn. And if he believes in Ryan's judgement, so will I.

Get a few EC2 instances and use MapReduce(hadoop)

yeah...i totally agree with you...rather i say, we should pass a law and punish those f'kin genius bastards for being smart. Lets just force them to innovate and sell it to the society for free...after all they owe us... hmm .. hmm .. ohh wait but what if they go on strike.. shrugs .. who cares?

I face this dilemma of using Chrome for speed and small footprint VS gazillions of firefox extensions...

I would rather prefer to type-in my contact list than handing over my password. Why don't you make that option available?

"....saving about $100,000 since installing its five boxes 9 months ago"

Might be a naive question, but can anyone please explain to me the economics behind this?

That sounds absurd. What about South Park creators? Shouldn't they be jailed by same laws?

how about a google search site:http://codinghorror.com/

and then looking at cached results?