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With Google anayltics, you can see the current day's traffic. You just need to manually adjust the date range to include it.

On the other hand, when I tried Plenty of Fish, the fact that they sent me my password in plain text completely turned me off the service.

Hmm...I would say my experience has been the opposite, and in Tokyo, 2kyuu is rather closer to the high end of the spectrum. When I first came to Japan, I basically didn't speak any Japanese, but mana…

As far as I understand, git actually always keeps your changes. It is just the pointers that can be overridden if you force an update. For instance, git reflog show origin/master shows even rem…

You're right on these points. Mixi is basically the same from a functionality perspective, and what kind of activities they perform. However, there is a nuanced difference with the degree of sharing. …

But for only $29/month you can. How much is your time worth? If the service saves you even an hour per month, surely it is worth it.

If your a developer for Apple, presumably you are selling your apps through the app store. Apple get's a cut of the revenue for apps. So if it was worthwhile to have a more complicated DRM scheme, wou…

On the other hand, I think fair amount of Japanese will be satisfied with this, and even like Groupon more than before the incident. It looks like similar to apologies done by Japanese executives, th…

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2087622 for the previous discussion of the same article.

It would be interesting to hear her daughters thoughts on her parenting.

We started going down the whitelabeling path with Doorkeeper, but ran into the issue that we were competing for mindshare with the whitelabeled version. I'd be interested to hear how you plan to appr…

I'm happy for Heroku that they got such a great deal, but I have to say I'm disappointed by this. Heroku seemed like they were in a great position to do amazing things. I thought they had a solid re…

Commercial piracy of software at companies is one case where I think it is completely inexcusable. As a company you are using the software to make money, so it is simply a cost of business. If Adobe C…

Additionally, I found there was too much talking in the video. It was at least a minute in when the demo started.

In the video, from the time you answered the call, until the voice started, it took 5 seconds. If that's normal for the system, I'd be worried my clients would hang up before hearing appointment remin…

Yes, you can come.

Jason and Paul from Make Leaps ( http://www.makeleaps.com/ ) have been organizing the previous HN meetups, so you could try and get in touch with them.…

My company makes Doorkeeper ( http://doorkeeper.jp/ ), which is being used by the event. I'll probably be helping out at the front, at least towards the beginning. This event is more international i…

Given that github is already completely free for public repositories, I think they already have a suitable test drive offering.

They're harder to deploy than PHP but easier to deploy than Rails, in my experience, depending heavily on how experienced you are at administering systems and how much Java enterprise coffee you want…