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I teach a class at Arizona State University and one of my students asked why my laptop screen was pink. I then proceeded to give the class a 10 minute sales pitch on f.lux and how blue light inhibits melatonin production. It still surprises me what a profound sales channel raving fans can be.

I think it's relevant to point out the potent anti-depressant effects many people experience with natural supplements such as sam-e and 5htp. It's unfortunate that these drugs are rarely prescribed (in the U.S.). Few clinical studies have been done on these and there is little economic motivation for drug companies since these are un-patentable substances.

I'm curious of the different impact between normal sleep deprivation and primary insomnia. It's common that insomniacs don't feel sleepy during the day as compared to a normal sleeper that simply didn't get enough.

> We charge the equivalent of 2 hours from a professional developer.

I would say 1 hour, i.e. $99/hr, is a more accurate statement. This would also help make the product appear more affordable, and as a better investment.

I, too, experience this. I believe it is related to cortisol spikes similarly to the increased daytime cortisol levels seen with insomniacs.

Thanks for the tip. After reviewing Ryan's logs, it turns out a software security layer, Sentinel, was detecting the load test as a DoS attack since LoadImpact was sending all traffic from a single IP.

Hi Ryan, my name is Sean. I'm the GoDaddy product manager in charge of WordPress hosting. Thanks for including us and I'm glad we could surprise you with some fast speeds. In the past few months we've really made some huge strides in reducing page load times and are at some impressive speeds across the board right now. However, seeing your response times fall off a cliff surprised us too. There's been a big email thread going on this weekend to nail down exactly what happened so we can fix it :) I'd love to talk more and share some of the details around a new WordPress experience we're delivering in a few months. My email is in my HN profile.

This is a great example of the innovator's dilemma.

I used Laravel for a small project for the past couple months. Although I started web development in PHP, I am strictly a Ruby/Rails developer right now and I have to say working in Laravel felt very natural and right at home. I'm not saying that being Rails-like is merit in it's own right, but I had that same feeling with Laravel as I did when I first started using Rails. I'd highly recommend trying this framework and hope with more projects we can see some solid documentation grow.

To your latter point, it's certainly possible. You could replace "Ford or GM" with a large 90s computer manufacturer, e.g. HP, but Apple eventually decided they wanted to via Apple stores.