austinlyons

consider webapp2 if you are looking for something lightweight

python on google app engine

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview

Easy to use, can support what you want to do, easy to maintain, easy to scale.

I second this. I'm on a Clojure kick right now and am enjoying finding useful examples on HN.

The idea of a reactive IDE just seemed so interesting that I downloaded Light Table last week even though I don't know Clojure. It's wonderful. I've started reading up on Clojure, which turns out to be wonderful too. And then I discovered Noir! How did I not know about this stuff before?

+1 for champaign il devs

I like the idea of a tablet/laptop hybrid with a touch screen, but I would want the "convertible" form factor.

The supplementary information from the original journal article has some cool videos. Check out video #2 - a beautiful video of a bouncing microdroplet on a superhydrophobic surface

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat33...

Thanks for posting. It would be fun to see the ages of accepted YC applicants compared with the rejected applicants. I'm not sure how easy it would be to get the data of the rejected applicants though. Maybe they would self-report their information if you posted something here on HN.

Sridatta, thanks for taking time to articulate your ideas on how to improve Hacker News. I enjoyed your post and really like the idea of distinguishing veteran users.

Vim is one of those tools that I shied away from because of the steep learning curve. A co-worker convinced me to give it a try, and now I use Vim everyday. I'm constantly discovering useful commands and tricks. Looking forward to learning more from this free book - thanks Amazon.

+1 to devs in Iowa!! But maybe if Iowa wasn't so cheap, they would have started by charging for their app out of the gate.

> "I had learned that, with half the time you get half the results so, for HireVoice, I was all-in, committed to success or, at least, piling up debts."

If you look at the author's LinkedIn, you'll see he started another consulting job after four months working on HireVoice full time. Is this because he realized the initial idea wasn't going to pay the bills?

I wonder if he would have been better off getting a full-time job first and iterating on this idea as a side project? It seems like someone who is fully employed would be more rigorous in choosing which idea to spend their precious spare time on.

I keep pulling even though my repo is up to date. These facts are addicting.

can you use dwolla to reduce your costs?

http://developers.dwolla.com/bd/why