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How long would it take to finish the book?

Is there any way to postpone the 30 day countdown? It's going to be a terribly busy month for me as the finals are coming up.

A little off-topic: Doesn't it bother you that with Node.js, a lot of the basic functionality needs to be coded (even with a framework like Express), while a framework like Django basically offers almost everything that you need? I really love the simplicity of Nodejs, but sometimes I just want to get things done instead of reading source code and trying to figure out how something works.

I'd like to see some proof as well. While there is some tracking involved in Chrome, I doubt they track browser history as well.

Out of pure curiosity, how is this in any way related to start-ups or technology?

You should focus strictly on theory and css. For example, you can give advice on how to align certain things on a web page in order to make it visually appealing. Then you show the css required to make it happen.

There will be pros and cons to every system. How else do you think we can decrease the growth rate of the HN userbase, which is probably the root cause of the decline in quality comments and threads

HN would still be open for everyone to see, commenting and submitting threads would be invite-only.

Make it invite-only to post threads/comments and quietly associate the inviter with the invited person.

I think the best solution would be to make HN invite-only.

How do you know your skills are good enough to take on a $XXXX project? I've never done freelance work, but I would love to start doing some work after school and earn a few bucks along the way.

Clickable: http://www.suggester.me

Getting something up and running on Amazon EC2 is actually quite easy. Had zero sys admin experience as well, but managed to run a simple app on my free micro instance in less than a day.

Another popular option is Linode.

EDIT: There's also http://stable.io/, which is kind of similar to Djangy, but it's not ready yet so keep an eye out.

Is it really that easy to charge $50-75/hr without being recognized as a decent developer?

Imagine the increase in development speed of projects that aim to create a true decentralized internet, if the bill passes. The killswitch might not be so bad after all.

Making 2 threads in under 4 hours on HN about your website/portfolio seems like a pretty good marketing strategy to me.

/s

Question: Will I get billed for a FreeBSD micro instance or does that fall under the 1 year free hosting?

On the other hand, giving the president an internet kill switch will drastically increase the development speed and popularity of systems such as the mesh network or something similar.

There was someone on HN a few days ago who owned a .co website and said that he received a lot of emails from people telling him that his logo was missing an 'm' after '.co'

That's why I think a lot of people would append an 'm' to links to your website, assuming that you made a mistake when typing the link.

Great way to get sued.

I completely agree. I think the high standard of living is also the reason why we'll lose the fight against the government regarding our privacy on the internet. The larger part of the population just doesn't give a damn about anything other than their own comfort.

How much bandwidth would be required to let this run for a week? Mine's capped at about 50GB.

I honestly think going from 0 to 2500 will be harder than 2500 to 10000. Lots of people don't get to that first 2500 because their products aren't in demand, but if you do, you'll realize there is demand for your product and from then on you start scaling.

I think Django would be too complicated for me. Hadn't thought about Flask before. Thanks!

I'd like to learn more about HTTP, web servers, etc... Which open source project should I start with?

The search results to amazon are affiliate links. I'mbassuming they have other methods to get revenue as well.

I don't think it's a good idea to jump from language to language. If you want to get something done, pick one (maybe two) language that will get the job done.

It's only natural that we feel we're more important than we actually are. 99.99% of those who have access to your inbox either don't know who you are or they don't give a damn about you or your startup.

Why use this instead of Reddit?

Map with HN users? Hackernewsers.com