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fleclercon Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting?

Ok. Digital Ocean itself is supposed to come to Canada sometime this year if you can wait.

fleclercon Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting?

There's CloudA (https://www.clouda.ca/) that is similar to DigitalOcean.

fleclercon Ask HN: What's the best domain you own that you aren't currently using?

blogsqr.com

fleclercon Ask HN: Which CDN do you recommend for my application?

I checked them out. The reports API doesn't cover my needs - I need to have statistics on a file by file basis. Thanks for the feedback tough!

fleclercon Ask HN: I can't figure out how to make good UIs. How do I learn?

And Don Norman has a new (and free!) MOOC on Udacity on that very same topic: https://www.udacity.com/course/design101

I have the same problem with UI. I am more of a technical person but would like to get better at design and layout. When I visit some of HN members' web sites I am always amazed at the way they look: clean and polished. I just wish I could do that kind of stuff! I will take the Udacity MOOC for a start. Thanks to other members for their suggestions on this thread.

fleclercon How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates - then went and played for them

I agree it's pointless to fight piracy. I have a friend who took the same approach that Maiden did: when his startup consisted of him and nobody else (he was essentially developing a software at night watching hockey games), his way to fight corruption was to upload his app to all the pirate sites he could find. That helped him get his software into the corporate world (word of mouth) and today he has almost 20 employees and his company recently bought an awesome property near Montréal that was transformed into new offices.

While of course not accounting for 100% of his success, I think his strategy was simply brilliant.

fleclercon App Engine vs Heroku

Hi,

I guess I have to decide whether I am ready to pay a monthly fee on Heroku during bootstrap time as opposed to basically nothing on app engine. You said you were familiar with app engine, globally are you satisfied with the platform? I will use Python, whether on app engine or Heroku.

fleclercon App Engine vs Heroku

Hi Ben,

I know I would get to beta 1 or a prototype faster on app engine but I did not know the limitations you mention would cause such headaches. I thought we had more room.

What I like of app engine is the search service but I think it could become costly - there is no price right now but the api call limits seem rather low. And I see that you can do full text search in Postgres at no additional cost than the monthly database plan.

fleclercon Ask HN: Do any technology companies provide standing desks for their employees?

Check this awesome (and cheap) design: http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...