One nice benefit of doing the number first in the url is that the second time you set a timer you can just type a single number and url autocomplete will fill in the rest for you.
Back when I was running a disposable email service called dodgeit.com I settled on a similar approach. I would just have postfix drop the mail in Maildir style files, then had a perl script parse the messages one by one. I didn't even call it from cron--it would just finish traversing then start over again after sleeping for a second. This effectively scaled to thousands of messages an hour on a single dedicated host.
I played around with a number of approaches, like the author here. But the one that just trusted the mail daemon to do its thing and the Linux filesystem to do its thing worked best for me.
Lots of companies already trust AWS and host various services there. Many of those companies might not trust your git servers to be up and running 24/7 with Amazon-like SLAs.
"When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by Irvine. Pay attention and you will see this book come up time and time again on HN. I have reread multiple times.
Search Amazon for penguin mints. I used them to wean off coffee as an experiment (now I drink coffee again these days). It takes about 3 penguin mints to equal one cola beverage.
Yep - you are emphasizing my point. The default seems to be USD.
Pick a sensible default - if you get more business from the US just show dollars. Or do some simple A/B testing and see if you get better conversions with one versus the other.
On Stamplay pricing: whenever I see pricing in pounds not dollars on a service like this, I think they are not quite ready for my business. My IP address (pretty) clearly identifies me as a U.S. customer, why not present the pricing page in US dollars?
I'm willing to admit this could be a failing in me, not the website.
One nice benefit of doing the number first in the url is that the second time you set a timer you can just type a single number and url autocomplete will fill in the rest for you.