Ryan_Shmotkin

The answer is in your example. Patio's business was barely profitable for a few years until closing down.

Growth or death is true for most businesses, just need to decide on the growth acceleration

MongoDB ?

You can put money into realestate, gold, gov-bonds and hundred other places that don't have 3x monthly fluctuation.

And people in cyprus are not trying to protect their spare change, its their whole savings. Would you put your life savings in bitcoin ?

Anyone knows if there is a way to "short" bitcoins ?

He is comapring apples to oranges here.

The language PHP to the _framework_ Rails.

He didn't find the language (ruby) unsuitable, but rather the framework (rails) too heavy. This might of been exactly the same if he tried PHP with Zend/Symphony/etc.

His bottom line should of been: "Sometimes its better to work without a framework".

I am lost.. can't understand how to use it at all.

Very nice graphics but UX is terrible

Can someone explain whats the catch ?

Looks like I can host my $22 github account for free on bitbucket.

Most of my (ex israeli military) and extremely talented people didn't even look at web startups but went to work for companies "doing real products" where "there are complex challenged".

They view 99% of web startups as glorified TODO apps with the biggest challenge being playing around doing A/B on front page headlines. Hardly an engineering challenge.

They want to build stuff like Terabite-size de-duplicated storage infrastructure, or embedded devices.

And they are the majority of the brilliant people I know who all started as "programmers" (java/c/c#/etc)

Case in point HN own launched geeklist, impossible to unsubscribe and GMail spam still somehows ignores my repeated clicks.