There's also OpenCoffee, but I never manage to trek out there. http://boston.going.com/event-122245;OpenCoffee_Club
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On another note, I like that I'm able to find out about this stuff from HN. I consider it a triumph of social media.
Edit: Realized I misread your comment. Yes, the problem is with some plastic products, which use these chemicals (but not all, since the video mentioned that one hospital using safe plastic products).
Seems like it was an easy bug to find and temporarily patch. An official fix will probably come soon.
Overall though, I find out about a lot of cool things just from the comments on the php.net site. For example, I learned how to use pcntl_fork from the socket_accept page, and then I found out about socket_create_listen from one of the process control pages.
My approach is basically just to figure out what I want to do on a higher level, and look for sample code on all the individual parts. Then who knows, I might discover something amazing.
I'd say it's a must read for any aspiring entrepreneur. It gives you a lot of perspective and a decent introductory exposure to the process.
I've nearly stopped listening to my entire music library, using this instead.
It's run by the same management team as ThePlanet, which is another great service, from what I hear.
My co-founder and I are moving forward regardless, since our only real expense is server fees and advertising costs. We've also joined both LinkedIn and Doostang and I've begun trying to tap all of my friends who are either smart, connected, or entrepreneurial to get together over lunch and discuss things. As a younger founder, it's great to still have the parents to fall back on for expenses. :$
However, there is the issue that your typical user interface is becoming more and more graphic intensive. And there's always that end consumer that runs a million apps and never closes them. A few of my non-computery friends are like that and have a bajillion things in their system tray. They too will probably see performance improvements from multiple cores, long before the apps they use take advantage of it, simply because of their habits.
I really like NameCheap's simplicity. GoDaddy's domain controller is horribly inflated and annoying to navigate.
I see little reason to implement it if your most of your users will be unaware of it. On the other hand though, having the support for it (and similar providers) may help you attract those users who do use them. If you do implement support though, make sure it doesn't obfuscate your registration and login processes.
It probably wouldn't help too much on the front page, since that'll update constantly and therefore just be a waste of overhead.
But definitely, robust database design is among the hardest things I've had to do. I mean, it's one thing to just set up a couple of tables and write queries to get your desired data. It's a whole different ball game to ensure that it'll be scalable, and designing with consideration that you'll eventually have to split your database into shards as it grows.
In a way, it's a subcategory of what I think is the hardest thing, which is designing for scalability. Just because something works with a handful of users doesn't mean it'll work when you have millions of users and hundreds of simultaneous connections, which most of us are striving for.
And so do most amateurs web programmers.
Facebook is pretty secure. Its apps vary.