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I'm doing this right now, with a game site devoted to multi-player turn-based strategy games. It's still a small site (as far as the number of players go) and I'm sure it could be monetized, but I doubt it'd make much money right now. Certainly not enough to put it outside the realm of just doing this for fun.

The site's Vying Games (vying.org) if you want to check it out. : ))

I run a turn-based games site, so I like quite a few board games. Right now my favorites are probably Connect6, Breakthrough, and Phutball. I've recently (re-)discovered Dots and Boxes which is quite a bit more interesting than I remember it being when I was a kid.

If you want to try any of these, my site is Vying Games (vying.org).

Hmmm... my own list of memorable programming books would look like (in no specific order):

  1. The Mythical Man Month, Brooks
  2. Peopleware, DeMarco and Lister
  3. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, Norvig
  4. The C Programming Language, Kernighan and Ritchie
  5. The Ruby Way, Fulton

I had a hard time deciding whether or not to include the Pragmatic Programmer, in the end I decided to go with The Ruby Way because it was an unusually enjoyable read for a language book.

I know the original list was supposed to be more esoteric books, not classics, but I'm anticipating this becoming a thread of everyone's favorites. : ))

Why not just use psql and '\d my_table'?

A few sort of random selections from my bookshelf (in no particular order):

 * GEB:EGB - Hofstader
 * The Pragmatic Programmer - Hunt / Thomas
 * Peopleware - DeMarco / Lister
 * The Mythical Man Month - Brooks
 * Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming - Norvig
 * Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Miyazaki

Yeah, this seems like a brilliant way to get acquired by google.

There are a ton of sites in the multi-player gaming niche. I think there's still lots of room for competition, and many ways to compete with existing sites. Whether on game selection / implementation or technology improvements.

I, too, have often wished for the method attribute you describe.

That said, if you're already using javascript (as news.YC is), I really don't see why you wouldn't make use of xhr. In which case you could submit the request as a post.

Note: I haven't poked around enough to see if news.YC works without javascript. If they degrade gracefully, more power to them, and I can almost understand the decision to do it the way they have.

Yes, that's fine as long as your logged in users don't use some form of "web accelerator" that pre-fetches "delete" links.

Using get instead of post for these kind of actions is just asking for trouble.

Is your website about spreading libelous rumors about rich people / corporations? Are you putting up a webstore selling toys / food from China?

Seriously, IANAL, but lots of (unincorporated) websites collect email addresses (right down to everyone's personal blogs). Lots of businesses operate as sole proprietorships without problems... I may be stupid, but I don't think limited liability protection for a startup is (usually) very important. At least not in the early days.

I would love any feedback on blog entry, or more generally about the viability of the site as a business. I'm having a hard time deciding whether I broke the rule of starting a business around a hobby instead of around an idea with a lot of business potential.