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jvc26on Hacker News is down, so we made five issues free

This happened last time there was a big HN-Monthly giveaway ...

jvc26on Jekyll CMS on Amazon S3 and MaxCDN

Um, you can use Markdown, and in the context of Github pages (http://pages.github.com/), that is exactly what you're talking about ...

jvc26on Nginx Requests/Second – RaspberryPi vs Amazon EC2

Google Cache link - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... currently main content not working for me.

jvc26on Dear Apple: I give up, WireframeApp will become open source

For 60k/yr paying a fee of even 1000 to get a DUNS number seems negligible ...

jvc26on Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released

Spherical Cow? Well that's a new one!

jvc26on Show HN: My first RoR project. Domain appraisal engine

I assume it is a CC-Licensed image?

jvc26on Show HN: My first RoR project. Domain appraisal engine

Same here, still looks to be down ...

jvc26on The problem with open source

Heh, awkward. - Hadn't seen your site's ?recent? makeover, looks nice! Also, his page suggests he's a 'Developer at Github'?

jvc26on Selling a website for charity

OOI, if they don't get a CMS/similar included, how do they update their pages in the future without technical know-how?

jvc26on The Django Book

[1] is great - thanks a lot!

jvc26on Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5

I don't think the accounts were 'taken', I thought he just had some of their data ...

jvc26on Vim as you IDE

Well said.

jvc26on Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU

To my knowledge bitcoin farmers found the hash rates of the Tesla based ec2 instances far slower than consumer grade high performance graphics cards

jvc26on Ask HN: Learn Subversion or Git?

Git. Don't bother with subversion.

jvc26on Government: we can freeze Mega assets even if case is dismissed

'U.S. companies in China' ... doesn't look like it.

jvc26on Amazon Career Choice Program

$2k won't buy anything like 95% of tuition in the US will it?

jvc26on Just pay me.

I'd go further than disagreeing with his scheme, there is a reasonable chance it is illegal to charge such an extortionate interest rate, and may constitute usury...

jvc26on Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass

Um that clearly isn't true. Temporary contracts may be less secure, but employees have considerable protections in the UK.

jvc26on Build muscle memory with your favorite editor

Brilliant piece of work - nice one!

jvc26on The Whisky Rule

Though it's generally thought that Whisky doesn't age in the bottle, rather the cask. (Though there are plenty who disagree/are unsure!)

jvc26on Beautiful Tools

Have you considered using vundle? That removes some of the submodule requirements. https://github.com/gmarik/vundle

jvc26on Extreme JavaScript conferences (Eiffel Tower, Antarctic, etc.)

I can only assume so.

jvc26on Extreme JavaScript conferences (Eiffel Tower, Antarctic, etc.)

The floating stuff on the backdrop of the website is very distracting!

jvc26on Static Sites on Heroku

The only issue with S3 I've found is the lack of naked domain support, so you need another service for redirects to your *.domain.tld.

jvc26on What's this programming language?

Its a neat idea but seems to struggle - misidentifying PHP as BASH, and struggling with Haskell, Go, Clojure, and told me Bash was PERL. I pulled some test code from the What's That Programming Language site which appeared on HN a few weeks ago http://wtpl.heroku.com/.

jvc26on Bitly Goes Beyond Link Shortening, But Users Not Amused

There are other services - like http://pinboard.in which serve the same purpose.

jvc26on Lib-Ray: Non-DRM Open-Standards HD Video Format

Not that everyone uses VLC - I thought the intention was something a little more flexible.

jvc26on Engadget's Samsung Galaxy S III review

Sounds like you've got a faulty handset - my first reaction to non-functional GPS would be to take the phone back?