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brett | 11 years ago | on: Is there a way to edit my YC application?

Email [email protected] with questions like these.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

brett | 11 years ago | on: Applications for YC W15 are open

I found a bug I think is related and fixed it, so hopefully this should work now if you try again.

Thanks for letting us know!

brett | 11 years ago | on: Applications for YC W15 are open

This should be fixed now. Thanks a lot for the report!

brett | 12 years ago | on: What does a 200-Page Legal Bill Look Like?

Hi, I work at Posthaven and we host his blog.

Odd, video on the site works for me on Firefox (25.0.1 on OS X), and we're actually using mediaelement.js which is listed on the page you link to. What OS/version of Firefox are you using?

brett | 15 years ago | on: Dropbox and why you should invest in people

I don't think it's an argument against Dixon's point, but I found this funny because I remember being so impressed with demo of Dropbox at the time. I remember knowing nothing about who Drew was, seeing this on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 and thinking something along the lines of, "that's brilliant, I hope he gets funded so I can use it."

brett | 15 years ago | on: Anyone know of an app that provides daily check marks?

http://dontbreakthechain.com/

brett | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who's hiring?

Posterous! http://posterous.theresumator.com/apply/

brett | 16 years ago | on: SEO for Startups: Top 7 Lessons + A Trip to Y Combinator

That has not been my experience. While no one here would correct you, I've never heard it pronounced otherwise except when discussing the pronunciation (which comes up a lot).

brett | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

Posterous http://posterous.theresumator.com/apply/

brett | 16 years ago | on: GitHub's Unicorn Setup

He has been kind enough to share about his setup quite a lot about lately. In fact, looks like it's on the HN homepage right now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872301

brett | 16 years ago | on: How Ravelry Scales to 10 Million Requests Using Rails

It's better at load balancing. For example it handles app servers that have gone down more gracefully. Also it generates an awesome stats page that gives you way more info about what's going on than you can get from Nginx.

brett | 16 years ago | on: How Ravelry Scales to 10 Million Requests Using Rails

Having Nginx in front is a lot more flexible that just having HAProxy listen on port 80. For example, it can serve static files and do redirects both of which don't need to pass through the whole load balanced stack.

They could use Nginx -> HAProxy -> Nginx(w/ passenger), but the Apache version feels slightly more mature (e.g. it has some config options that the Nginx version lacks) and it's likely they were already using it before the Nginx version came out.

brett | 16 years ago | on: Updated YC Company Hosting Stats

True. They're linked in the FAQ: http://ycombinator.com/faq.html

brett | 17 years ago

How should applicants contact you?

brett | 17 years ago | on: Ask YC: Angel investing, where to start?

http://www.justin.tv/angelconf

brett | 17 years ago | on: Show HN: Our new online face recognition demo

It was certainly the first thing that came to mind for me. After seeing the URL, I was pretty disappointed not to find a magical nonthreatening pansexual spokesthing on the actual page.

brett | 17 years ago | on: Custom Reddit Site Builder?

Let us know if you need help. [email protected]

brett | 17 years ago | on: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

This worked for me:

  (attribute a          title          opstring)    
  (def byline (i)
    (pr " by ")
    (let u i!by
     (tag (a href (user-url u)
             title (string "karma: " (karma u) 
                           " | created: " (text-age:user-age u)))
          (pr u)))
    (pr " " (text-age:item-age i) " "))

I didn't really look into the performance cost of calling uvar for every byline; that's probably not ideal.

brett | 17 years ago | on: Innovate Like Chris Rock

I've assumed that this was how all good stand-up comedians come up with quality new material since seeing Comedian, the documentary about Seinfeld.

brett | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Slinkset or not?

We're working on making things more flexible. If you have any specific questions about what you need please feel free to email me, brett at slinkset.