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teoruizon Startup Hipmunk offers dazzling new view of flight search

I can see you are using Amazon EC2.

Any other comment on the technology used?

teoruizon My experiment with smart drugs (2008)

Does anybody know whre to get Provigil (or modafinil, for that matter) anywhere online that ships to Europe?

teoruizon Announcing my bootstrapped startup: RestBackup

Would you tell us more on how you are going to bootstrap the company? I mean, with no VC money involved, are you investing yourself in the EC2 instances/space that you need in advance? Do you have a day job?

Good luck!

teoruizon Ask HN: where do you get your SSL certificates?

This can be read in the process of issuing a wildcard certificate a Trustico: https://www.trustico.co.uk/geodirect/order/step1.php

The server count option tells us how many physical servers you intend to install RapidSSL Wildcard on. A licence will be activated for each physical server installation and you must pay the full product price for each additional server installation. Most customers choose to install RapidSSL Wildcard on 1 physical server only. RapidSSL Wildcard includes 1 server licence free of charge and can be installed an unlimited number of times on each licenced physical server.

Licenced SSL certificates per server? Come on.

teoruizon 'Remove Google Background' surges to number 2 in Google Trends

From their blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/art-of-homepage.html

Update June 10, 11:31AM: Last week, we launched the ability to set an image ofusers’ choosing as the background for the Google homepage. Today, we ran a special “doodle” that showcased this functionality by featuring a series ofimages as the background for our homepage. We had planned to run an explanationof the showcase alongside it—in the form of a link on our homepage. Due to a bug, the explanatory link did not appear for most users. As a result, many people thought we had permanently changed our homepage, so we decided to stop today’s series early. We appreciate your feedback and patience as we experiment and iterate.

teoruizon What do Bill Gates and Richard Stallman have in common ?

Shouldn't that read "What do Bill Gates and Richard Stallman have in common"?

teoruizon 'Remove Google Background' surges to number 2 in Google Trends

Funny, there is even a Google Chrome extension named "Remove Google Background": https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gihbmmifmldhookm...

But what I have found out is that I rarely use the Google homepage any more. I usually search through the search bars on Chrome or Firefox, so I didn't notice the change until I saw it on Twitter.

Anyway, this nightmare will be over tomorrow.

teoruizon Poll: What database does your startup use?

PostgreSQL here, but full speed on our way to HBase. Why is it not on the list? It is quite big already.

teoruizon One-Day Company Setup (Ops and IT)

There are still some major operations details up in the air:
# I’ve talked to one bank about business banking, checking, credit cards, and so on, but need to check out a few more.
# Accounting system: This is a big question. Quickbooks? An online system like Outright or Freshbooks? I need to talk to an accountant first.
# Final decision on legal structure (LLC vs. LLC taxed-as-S-corp vs. S-corp) and registration with the IRS, the state, and so on.
# Benefits planning (health insurance, 401k) and thinking about future tax implications.

# Various legal questions I’m working through.

Respectfully, those are the difficult things. We "all" know how to set up Google Apps for your Domain.

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Their blog is hosted on Blogger, not AppEngine, which is also part of Google.

teoruizon Faster PHP fo shizzle

It seems the code will be out "soon":

We're in the process of opening the list and approving members to the group. Code will follow soon after any recent cherges have been merged to the branch and we're sure that anything Facebook specific is removed.

More in the HipHop mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/hiphop-php-dev/browse_thread/...

teoruizon Facebook makes HipHop for PHP open source

I guess they transform complete PHP libraries to C++, they build them and then they "require" them from some other PHP code.