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I voted it up because its a pain point that I experienced recently. I suspect anyone who tries to map out a schedule for a project has in the past searched in vain for something like this.

I ended up buying OmniPlan. But maybe that's not necessary anymore! Good luck to the team, it certainly looks useful and promising.

CNAMEs totally work -- the problem is that they override MX records. Earlier on we used to encourage users to use CNAMEs, but then they would inadvertantly lose ALL their email, even if we tried to explain to them that they shouldn't use CNAME's if you have MX records on there. So we stopped telling people to do that.

Sorry you feel that way. A lot of our users have been thankful for a personal response. I think we can agree to disagree here.

How Microsoft may interview candidates has no bearing on what they may direct them to do once hired.

Posterous is hiring frontend and backend engineers, Rails preferred but not required -- http://posterous.com/jobs

Located in the Mission, San Francisco. Great warehouse loft space, all you can drink beer, soda, juice, competitive salary and generous equity. YC-funded!

My faves include http://jamlegend.com http://gotreehouse.com/

Added. This is a great option.

SOMA just has a rather metallic personality. The rest of SF generally has a lot of history and character. SOMA is mainly young urban professionals, many of whom commute to Silicon Valley or peninsula jobs via Caltrain or driving (easy access via 280). Restaurants are on the expensive side, and often overpriced (though there are gems) and I just didn't enjoy living there very much compared to the Mission or even Castro St in Mtn View.

Thanks, you're right. Fixed!

I've never lived in Sunnyvale. Where would you recommend? Near downtown?

Also agree about Millbrae being boring. I put it there because its kind of a sweet spot due to multiple transit options (both Caltrain and BART). Most startups will be either heads down coding, or heading to meetings. Mainly good if you don't have a car.

Added! I agree, Berkeley rocks. But very far from Palo Alto / Sand Hill.

A whole class of Internet startups, including AirBnb (YC-funded) are affected by this anti-competitive legislation pushed forward by big-money NYC hotel interests.

This is great feedback. We hope to get this in soon. Thanks very much for the support and suggestions.

Amen.

Warm intros from influentials. YC helped us a bunch, as did our existing network.

Here's the official response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443143

The exploit only involved a limited set of users and was fixed within hours of discovery.

I hear you on the email cleanup thing. We've put some measures in place to clean up markup, but there's much more to do here. If you have more feedback, I'd love to hear it -- my email is garry@posterous.com

We're a work in progress like any other. But we're iterating as fast as we can.

I'm a hacker, just like all of you. It's hard for me to avoid having an emotional response over something I've poured my soul into.

Mea culpa. Edw, you're right. Pclark, thanks for the feedback.

Actually on day one every single theme that we launched, I designed.

We gradually added the best themes that we liked the most, some of them were Tumblr themes, and others were created by Posterous users, e.g. http://corywatilo.com

I have a major bone to pick with your characterization of Posterous themes. I hardly think the theme community is unhappy about suddenly being able to use their themes on millions of other blogs that aren't Tumblr.

Also, the themes that we build into our service are 100% licensed via partnership with the theme designers.

Attacking the ability to use Tumblr themes in Posterous is absurd. It's like saying Google Apps isn't allowed to open Microsoft Word documents.

You stack meetings so that you can get your fundraising done fast. If you're doing it right, you'll get enough people ready to go that you'll be done in a few weeks of hardcore meetings. Then you go back to product. This is win-win for you and your investors.

One buyer equals a ripoff. Many buyers equals a market, and a fair value for your startup's equity.

Um, not anymore actually. And also it only worked because Dustin had no SPF records -- again vast majority of users were unaffected.

Actually it was a bug, and its now fixed.

Oh, we do that. This was a specific bug that is now fixed.

This is changing soon! It's on our roadmap.

Actually that's not going to work. This sort of approach would definitely hit our spoof filters.

We hear you. Listen, security is a super important piece of our product. And we wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night thinking about product.

We do kill it and we're building a comprehensive spam killing system too. SEO spam is not welcome on Posterous in the least.

Thanks for the bug report. This bug is now fixed.

We do use SPF. It was related to the bug that caused this. It's been fixed now.