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michaelkscott··on Ask HN: What web hosting do you use for your personal sites/blogs?
If it's static HTML, you can use Github Pages.
michaelkscott··on Your life's work
You know the authors never submit the blog posts to HN, right? It's other HN members who are a fan of 37 Signals who submit their blog posts to HN.

So, are you complaining at 37 Signals for writing on their own blog, or at HN members for submitting something they thought was interesting?

Also take note that the term "HN-worthy" is highly subjective. Submissions make it to the front page of HN not because they're HN-worthy but because many people vote them up.

michaelkscott··on The Best of Kickstarter 2012
To be honest, same here.
michaelkscott··on Trello celebrates One Million Users
I think you mean, July of last year.
michaelkscott··on Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk
http://contrastrebellion.com/
michaelkscott··on What Is It Like To Be an Adult and Not Have Kids?
Protip: have or not have kids.
michaelkscott··on The day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3596124
michaelkscott··on Get off HN and work
This might help: http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/Howto_use_find_and_sed_to_make_...
michaelkscott··on Ask HN: Where to write and publish simple post?
These were on HN a couple of months ago:

http://authpad.com

http://throwww.com

michaelkscott··on Show HN: We're siblings in high school taking on SongPop, thoughts on our V1?
Cool stuff but how is "in high school" in any way relevant?

Is it a new trend on HN for young folks to include their age (or some kind of clue) along with what they've shipped?

michaelkscott··on Twitter is Pivoting
If you want more insights about the things discussed here, there's an interview that Mark Suster did with Joel Spolsky last year where they talk about the "API wars":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZWBtfSBlp8#t=2240s

They cover everything from the early days of Excel's API to the downfall of myspace and the rise of YouTube and Photobucket, and how twitter took off. It's worth your time.

michaelkscott··on Show HN: Showing HN
http://contrastrebellion.com/
michaelkscott··on The Best Groupon Deal Ever: 86.2% Off On GRPN at NASDAQ
I can't stop laughing at that great title. Seriously.
michaelkscott··on Patent US4022227 - Method of concealing partial baldness
This is shocking. Why would you ever want to do something like that?

And if you succeed, what would stop someone from patenting existence?

michaelkscott··on Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-JVM move
I don't think pushing tweets to every user is a scalable approach. It would seem more sensible to read rather than push tweets associated with a user. I don't know about Twitter's infrastructure, but storing more than 1 copy of the same data wouldn't make that much sense.
michaelkscott··on Simplicity
The best

Simplicity

Loving all the great minimally titled posts coming out of sbvtle lately.

michaelkscott··on Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN?
patio11
michaelkscott··on Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Khosla fund LightSail Energy in $37M Deal
I think you meant 'she'.
michaelkscott··on More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed
Actually, that's more accurate.
michaelkscott··on Ask PG: Is Founders at Work 2 still pending?
Nice try, netlink02-20.

Here's the link without a referal tag for anyone interested: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590597141/

michaelkscott··on AWS outage summary
For anyone interested, here are the comments on the App engine outage: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4704973
michaelkscott··on About today's App Engine outage
For anyone interested, here are the comments on the AWS outage: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4705067
michaelkscott··on How I automated the boring parts of life
It looks like the HN bot killed tedroden's comment because it might have looked like a spammy promotion (e.g. we get up to 15% off flower purchases), though clearly it wasn't.

Here's the whole comment:

    Nope, at this point, we don't take any percentage or fee. We even pass along any discounts we receive (we get up to 15% off flower some purchases for example and we pass that along to you).
michaelkscott··on Kim Dotcom
Well, you can always use your flagging powers.
michaelkscott··on [dead]
Probably. It would be seriously sad if the people who set it up thought it was the official apache though. I hope it isn't a malicious fork, y'know.
michaelkscott··on [dead]
Yes, in fact, it implies technological illiteracy. But I can imagine what kinds of people would say that.
michaelkscott··on Free Textbooks on Machine Learning
Hmm, it looks like "Free Textbooks on [choose subject]" submissions are an easy way to get some link karma on HN.

I've seen this happen quite often lately, and usually these kind of posts go up in the ranks pretty quickly -- they also generate near zero discussion :-)

michaelkscott··on What I found about having good discussions
...funny how I ended up on your profile from a random query on google and was just reading the bottom half of it and clicked comments ... and I find this.

I really support what you're doing by the way.

michaelkscott··on How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Productivity
Thank you!
michaelkscott··on Pathjoy (YC S10) Offers Affordable Housecleaning With Easy Web Booking
Good name, GetMaid, but I think I read it wrong at first...
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