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My city is currently soliciting ISPs to build a city-wide fiber network, and I'm wondering if there are any ISPs that have alternative business models. The only ISPs I can think of that have alternative business models…

There was an article [1] on Quartz yesterday that says, "Managers are judged on the productivity of their teams—Google has a highly developed internal analytics team that constantly measures all employees’…

This weekend a well-known comedian was live-tweeting sardonic commentary for a new Lifetime movie. It got me thinking that it would be cool to be able to replay his tweets later so that someone who missed the live show…

I work at a large (Fortune 100) company, and I'm interviewing for an architect position, and from what I'm hearing, the company simply does not provide raises that would take employees to the market rate for their…

From what I'm seeing, I think Apple accidentally deleted the page that iOS uses to check network connectivity. It's returning 404 right now: http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html When iOS can't connect to this…

I've been playing around with this today, and it's a really great app. It's obvious that it was built by a company that gets photography. On a HN-related note, I think this is a clever way to get SmugMug's name out…

I am posting to see if there's any interest in buying my first commercial project, Certician (https://www.certician.com/). Certician is an SSL monitoring service that checks customers' SSL certificates for upcoming…

Has anyone seen a syllabus for Code Year? I have a friend who's never programmed asking me if it will help him gain a working knowledge of web development. I'm not sure what to tell him. The site says, "...you'll be…

I recently launched a new service for monitoring SSL certificates [1], and I'm trying to figure out how to find customers. I built this service because of a need I had, one that I thought others would have as well. My…

Hello HNers. I'm launching my new service, Certician, and I'd love some feedback from HN users. A while back, I asked if anyone knew of any good, simple tools or services for monitoring SSL certificates [1]. I didn't…

I'm getting close to launching my first startup, and I've been planning on using AWS to host. But after this week's issues, I think I'm obligated to ask whether or not that's a good decision. The AWS outage spawned a…

What's up with named-anchor URLs breaking the back button? I was reading a different thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161405), and when I followed it, I was taken through a series of redirects:…

I'm hoping that someone here might know of a service that monitors for SSL certificate expirations and provides notifications, much like Pingdom does for downtime. I've seen some nice scripts that do just this, but my…

I recently learned that my city's web site [1] was upgraded at a cost of $75,000 [2]. Given the budget, the work described is not impressive. But as a developer, I understand that there are lots of ways a project can…

I posted a question/rant over on Reddit, and I'd be curious to get the perspective of some HNers. In summary, do too many Web developers lack a fundamental understanding of underpinnings of the Web?…

I was looking at my old high school's computer science curriculum, and I saw that Java is their language of choice. Upon further inspection, it looks like The College Board, the company that oversees the Advanced…