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Re:Serial cable for iPod approved by Apple on Saturday July 23, 2011 @12:04AM (#2796107)
The same company makes a console cable: http://www.redpark.com/c2rj45.html
Re:Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions, 2010 edition on Friday January 07, 2011 @02:08PM (#2080690)
Any data on Amazon's route53 DNS offering?
Re:Ask HN: What length do you choose for email fields? on Thursday December 09, 2010 @09:55PM (#1990390)
Default max length of an email field in Django is 75 characters.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/models/fields/#emai...

Re:GitHub is Down Track its status here ... on Sunday November 14, 2010 @03:39PM (#1904070)
or better yet, how about their own status page?

http://status.github.com/

With Amazon's SimplePay subscriptions, you can offer a free trial or a promotional period at the start of the subscription contrary to the what the author of the post says.

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/asp/subscript...

Re:Ask HN: What makes a great Web app home page? on Monday June 21, 2010 @01:48AM (#1448104)
Create 2 versions of the home page that you like and then A/B test them to see which one performs better. Go with the one that performs better or add some more tweaks and more A/B testing.