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"In the Central Valley, for instance, regulations designed to save certain fish species have required 450,000 acres to go fallow."

Who could support "impoverishing whole regions" this way? Those who understand ecology. If the Delta Smelt goes extinct, a whole chain of species, fish and otherwise, will likely go with it, with unknown consequences. This is to human Californians' detriment, to say nothing of those species. Extinction is forever.

Give the subjunctive some love: "If It Were My Home"

I've been trying to change hostnames for >30 minutes now. They've progressed from completely out from interminable delays now.

Take Startup School. Did you hear anybody mention anything about scarcity?

The community of hackers seems to be in as much denial about impending energy shortages as classical economists. A shame, because hackers are good at finding novel solutions.

There's some secret practicality in there: select and start typing, and it will write over.

It is possible to see what other editors have done--it's a checkbox that the document owner sets.

There's version control here, but not git/svn.

OpenOffice.org. It outputs nice, standard XML and keeps tabs on the bewildering variety of things that ".doc" can mean.

The part that looks like Word is TinyMCE. It's a great package, the best of the many editors we tried (including homegrown, twice.)

That's very helpful, thank you.

This is what I love about HN: a few minutes after posting, someone has clearly used the app more and thought about it more carefully than some of the tech bloggers who actually covered us.

There's a problem when your software doesn't fit into an existing category. You have to simultaneously explain what it is and why it's good. Revizr reminds some people of Track Changes in Word, and other people of wikis. It's neither, but a whole new way for readers to communicate with writers.

No matter what you think of Revizr, I'd like to say thanks to the HN community for pointing me to so many useful places on the web. I'm also grateful to YC putting on Startup School '08 which gave me the confidence to work on this full-time.

Because if you have more than one machine running your app, you've got to reinstall the crontab everywhere. This keeps it DRY.

Right--whatever your session cleanup strategy is, it's got to be run from cron.

It's great that the author includes a cap task in the documentation, though the role should usually be db, not app.