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It just seems to me like relevant, interesting questions get closed all the time because just because. It's getting pretty annoying from the StackExchange network.

For human-friendly URIs, I would've liked to see Doug Crockford's Base32 encoding (http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html) instead of hexadecimal. Case-insensitive, but still more compact than hex.

I've grown more and more into thinking having a database is maybe overkill for only a blog. I do use Octopress too and it really makes you think "do you really need a DB for that?"

If you compile your posts into HTML, use Javascript for more dynamic content (like comments by Disqus or a Twitter feed, for example), HTML files take almost no resources to serve, so you can handle a huge load without many resources.

Ironically, it sounds exactly like what Apple is doing with iOS/iPhone. "All our apps should come from the app store because we review them and blah" Considering Android's position of "you can install APKs, but at your risk," I find this bizarre. Is Google slowly becoming Apple?

For quantities, yes, but for ratios, I'd prefer pie charts and knobs.

"75%/25% odds" would be nicer on a knob display, for instance.

I just tried it for some numbers around Montreal. Apart from the delayed results issue, it works.

Double-spaced Word documents... can't stand those

ahem 192 kHz. We're talking sampling frequency, not bitrate.

What's the song?

Sooo... entrepreneurs should just make money appear?