I guess the rule is that you know you're making it as a startup when somebody sues you. You know you're making it as a website when they DDOS you.
Geesh.
Geesh.
Assuming the happy path is the road to ruin, even for spammers.
The keyboard is a very interesting idea. There's a free version too.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517?m...
Would put a smile on my face too but... I decided to make part of the computation on the server-side so that my desktop software cannot be cracked without rewriting what the server-side does. My desktop app only makes sense when the Internet connection is up and doesn't "phone home" too often.
If users don't like that they can GTFO.
If pirates don't like that it puts a smile on my face ; )
"Hey, this is on Maxis. EA does not force design upon us. We own it, we are working 24/7 to fix it, and we are making progress"
But well, I may be wrong, and Maxis is simply no longer the company that it used to be.
HN has a big table of closures representing actions a user can take. Loading certain pages, such as the reply link on a comment creates more of them. They time out after a while, which will get you "unknown or expired link". Intentionally creating a few million of them ought to fill up the server's memory and would be a more effective way to to impair the server's functionality than simply requesting the home page a few billion times.
Which is to say the blog post about it probably wouldn't be worth reading :)