Perhaps her real name is kinda hard to use as a handle.

Hint: whois query

All the best, woman.

2 days, 16 hours ago onHackernews in news.ycombinator.com

This is something that Gmail does really well right now, what with the new 'Send via SMTP' feature. When I use a secondary account to send from my 'control center' account, the email appears in the SENT items in both accounts. Double Win for records.

1 month ago onHackernews in news.ycombinator.com

Any improvement over Gmail/Apps search index is worth a look. Thanks.

1 month ago onHackernews in news.ycombinator.com

I've run this argument through my head several times.

Here's what you should like about Gmail:1) Google infrastructure is probably more secure than any server you could set up quickly.

2) Google handles all those pesky issue with IP blacklists, Spam, etc that you'll be forced to deal with on a DIY server. Granted, there are solutions for each of these; Its your valuable time, in the end.

On the other hand,

for a DIY mail-server: you truly don't gain much besides having an accessible dump of your mailbox(in the event that all the gmail-specific datacenters get nuked in a single day?)

ISPs can and probably wil sniff your plain text email traffic now/in near future due to external police state pressures.

I live in India, and sadly I envision this place turning into a police state by sheer incompetence on the part of the administration who pass half-baked net-nanny laws.

The only solution to email privacy: Hard-to-reverse Encryption of the text (typically GPG).

Most of the crowd here know this well. But making email encryption transparent and easy-to-use would be a killer product for those customers that value privacy. FireGPG is trying , but Gmail code changes keep breaking stuff sometimes.(http://blog.getfiregpg.org/2009/11/05/gmail-issues-fixed/)

Redundancy/Backup is another issue altogether.

You should probably keep backup IMAP dumps in a geographically distant location if you fear Gmail will just cease to exist one day(without any warning). ... See all content Hide content

1 month ago onHackernews in news.ycombinator.com

Basically seems like a new pseudo-VC who's roped in a bunch of rich civilians into this great-YC-idea-you-know-small-stakes-small-investments-but-BIG-returns Fund.This is one of the cases where 'Launch Now, Fix later' doesn't really work out at all with your target audience.

1 month ago onHackernews in iamstarting.com

Two separate +1 's to prgmr.com for a work(1G) and personal server(0.5G) respectively. PVGRUB on their new servers lets you boot updated/patched linux kernels without any control panel pick+click from a preset list(AFAIK Slicehost uses that method). More power to the sysadmins.

The founder/boss/leadSysadmin is user lsc on news.yc

3 months, 3 weeks ago onHackernews in news.ycombinator.com

Thank you very much. This is simple and portable.

3 months ago onHackernews in news.ycombinator.com

That's true. But another generation I know of still thinks 'MUST-prepend-www.' for all things related to URLs.Personally, I never use the www as a default for any property I'm responsible for.

But, its still important to alias and re-direct the random end-user who types the wrong old-school URL out of habit.

3 months ago onHackernews in news.ycombinator.com

I'm assuming you mean a 'www.news' subdomain.

I'm not aware of any other Best practices used by webmasters to handle naive/new visitors.Also, I don't know about the flexibility of news.yc's custom Arc webserver. I suppose it might be much more work than adding a new VHOST conf file.

3 months ago onHackernews in news.ycombinator.com

That's exactly what I was quite content to think all these years. ;)But i'm growing up a bit.

Who's to say an old-school non-computing-related engineer-ish sign-up couldn't have anything useful to contribute on HN. Isn't that motivation enough to fix it?

Personally, I love reading war stories from some of the older, wiser 'beards' on HN.

3 months ago onHackernews in news.ycombinator.com