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I confess. I have a quick trigger finger. On more than one occasion, somebody on HN has said something that caused me to vote them down, sometimes, even before I finished reading their comment. On other occasions, I've…

Don't confuse your users with a URL that doesn't belong to you. The small percentage of folks that need to use your content on a secure site are not worth it.

Find a way to do both. Add a menu option to ask if they intend to use use https, and if so, host their content in a bucket that you don't CNAME. Host everybody else in a CNAME'd bucket. Don't worry about the extra…

I am struggling with whether to hide my use of Amazon's fine S3 service by use of a CNAME, on a widget I am designing. My dilemma is that some of my users might choose to incorporate my widget on secure sites, which…

Don't sacrifice functionality trying to make yourself seem more professional. Use the amazonaws.com URL. Nobody will decide not to use you because they see amazonaws.com instead of cooldomain.com in the URL.

I'm a coder, not an artist. I find myself spending too much time agonizing over how to make my sites look. I thought I'd ask folks what they preferred. For example, what width? I've recently begun using the 960.gs grid…

My understanding, based on nothing but some reading, is that as an engineer, I have zero credibility when it comes to VC's. They see me as something like a janitor or an electrician, or any other skilled craft. "You…

In many areas of my life, I enjoy the efficiency of moving from uncompleted task to uncompleted task, as I get bored or hit a mental or physical stop. I am cursed with rather a multitude of web application ideas, and…