"StartPage protects you from NSA surveillance and spying": And how do you save me from NSA owning CA's and decrypting the SSL Traffic from you? Please explain. (I wish https was any good against NSA - is it?)

Just curious: Does anyone know his GPA @ Wisconsin–Madison?

He went to Wisconsin Milwakee not Madison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella#cite_note-16

But he is still wicked smart, i think :)

We used Persona for http://bit.ly/blibonline - and one of the problems we faced was that we would have liked the registration process to let our users tell us the name / icon (avatar), which was missing in Persona then. Any news on the timeline for these additions to Persona? (OpenID gives those two elements from registration/usage)

I think the preferred way to implement this is with an interstitial after the login, and then they can be changed from the settings page, as usual.

I've not tried Azure yet, but Digital Ocean we have been using for a few months. No complaints there.

Hopefully someday we can use this to help: http://bit.ly/blibonline

is this open source? What tech stack did you use? How much time did it take to code up?

I used a mix of golang and nodejs. It took a little less than a week to go over the literature and implementation.

Most of these books are not PDF, but if you own PDF books, here is something you can try to organize/search them: https://register.blib.us (and access them from anywhere)

Is there a way to replace this robots.txt with a null robots.txt? :)

You just ignore the robots.txt file, crawl slowly, and from distributed virtual machines.

Not that you should do that. Robots.txt is a nicety though, the client doesn't have to respect it, and the server doesn't have to allow your HTTP requests.

How many bitcoins does the writer/his friends/investors own? BitCoin Bait? The Bitcoin bubble will burst - there are enough reasons for that as well.

What about surveillance by Google itself? What we should be asking ourself is how do we improve https://duckduckgo.com ? or something similar.