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Or you can do this on the Rack level: https://github.com/juliocesar/rack-pagespeed

Around 30 minutes after I eat dinner, which I usually do around 8:00 PM, up to or through midnight, thereabouts.

Her.

Our privacy policy is now up.

*policy

Advice is always welcome :). We're working on a privacy police as I type this.

I truly hope that Zed has some "just fucking do it" left in him after the slaps in the face he's taken from some of the Ruby/Rails community. If he makes good on his plans, stops talking about himself, and lets his actions and intelligence speak for themselves, I'll gain a world of respect for him.

Oh, and Zed: "Any more" is written "any more" when referring to additional items. "I will not write rants anymore" would be grammatically correct, however. Just a bit of constructive criticism. :)

Generation Y by birth, though I feel like I can appreciate aspects of each generation listed. 90's indie music had a big influence on me too, and my parents are Baby Boomers (yes, they had children late in life). Perhaps I'm transgenerational?

Facebook called, and they're flattered.

Three separate Postfix instances running on the same server, albeit bound to separate IP addresses and tweaked for their particular use.

22, B.S. in "Computer Information Systems".

Being given a Sharp PC-1500 pocket computer at age 6, and messing with it enough to learn BASIC via "brute force". A few months later being given a manual that filled in some of the blanks.

I has joined your group.

Also, this is me: http://www.last.fm/user/codepolice

I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone's implying that these sites' success is due to their backends. However, backend choices do affect uptime, scalability, ease of development, ease of finding/fixing bugs, etc. So I would certainly take issue with your claim that "this sort of stuff is irrelevant".

> Of course, this works just fine in Mathematica...

Works just fine in bc(1) too.

Thanks for the blunt comment. It's what I was looking for, and much appreciated.

I will attempt to let you all know how this pans out.

Good comments. I think I had some of those thoughts early on (specifically referring to your first paragraph), I must have just gotten disillusioned with them. I will attempt them again.

As far as getting him to stop looking at competitors, 100% agreed.

We are all idea guys in one sense. The reason I've been referring to one guy as the "idea guy" is that he's not a coder and if I were to gauge the number of ideas each of us has put forth, he would easily take the highest percentage. So because he mostly talks to clients on the phone, does other PR-related things, and brainstorms ideas, I find it easy to refer to him as the "idea guy".

> It sounds like what you've got is more of a painful group hobby. I think it might be time to consider a better format for being productive.

I think you're right, at least for my part. One problem is that the idea guy IS my friend, but I don't think he shares my point of view about this. I wrote up the blog post in order to collect my thoughts to relate them to him.

Will do.

Your point is well taken. It wasn't my "secret" blog, really, until I typed this particular post. I had not revealed its existence to any of my coworkers, but as you will notice, none of the other posts are particularly charged as regards business or business politics.

I do want to be open and honest with my coworkers, and I've already had one (one of the designers) have a look at what I wrote. I am going to present the ideas contained therein, to the group, ASAP--it's a matter of finding time to meet and talk about "serious stuff". I was hoping to get some feedback from YC readers because I trust their opinion and ability to perceive when someone has gone off the deep end as regards ideas, reasoning, etc. In other words, I'm hoping that if I'm smoking crack, or if all startups are this way, someone will tell me before I unveil it to my coworkers at large.

I am certainly not trying to get at my coworkers. The stuff at the top is in case it's discovered by a certain coworker who i would rather heard it from me, not the blog. He's been known to read YC news once in a while, thus the precaution.

Agreed. In our defense, he was (is) a friend and got the same deal we all did when we agreed to work on it.

I have a day job, for which I "telecommute", and sadly that's not working out too well. My day job folks just asked me if I would be willing to relocate, and I've been considering it. It would mean much more work from them, which would mean easier payment of bills, etc. I would be living near the job that pays me, not the other way around.

I should probably have been more clear about this--no one has ever received any type of salary. Our media production side of things has generated some money (unrelated to the startup) and that has allowed for us to be paid a little (i.e. $500 a month) here and there.

Thus my beef about venture capital.

I typed this up in order to collect my thoughts, in hopes of eventually showing them to my coworkers. I am totally open to questions, comments, and suggestions, especially from YC readers.

Being the constantly proofreading sort, I'm not sure why you're capitalizing random words and phrases, like "Print" and "On Demand".

Also, I really didn't want to fill in my name, email, and URL, but I clicked the "Yes!" box to see what would happen. Now I have an overlay window occupying the center of my screen, with no way to get rid of it save by entering the aforementioned info. That's annoying.

Now that that's out of the way, one question: Will people actually pay for this? I mean, pretty much the only time I read a print magazine is if I'm really bored at the airport. Otherwise, the Web is all I need.

The article failed to mention Shoutlife (http://www.shoutlife.com), probably the biggest Myspace-act-alike Christian social networking site.

Typo: Should say, "Build your store for free!" under the grey "Coming Soon" button.

Also, your demo sites don't seem to be loading.

Edit: They just took quite a while to come up.

What you want is something that capitalizes on a basic human need, whether that means validation of existence or sex or facilitation of work, etc.

For me, it was dealing with frustration (http://ventations.com/), although that site's not really a startup. More of an almost-joke.

The parting line confirms my suspicion that marketing and SEO types secretly worship/unconsciously patronize Googlers and their ilk. Frankly, I don't care whether or not I have what it takes to work at Google.