austinstorm

7 ms·

31.
by austinstorm 13y ago
I love the quote "Having Mt. Gox shut down is to bitcoin what having the New York Stock Exchange shut down is to our equity market," said James Angel, a professor of finance at Georgetown University. If the NYSE was a lemonade sta
32.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Gosh, that doesn't seem like a good sign?
33.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Neat project! You should to tutorials - it's a great learning example
34.
by austinstorm 13y ago
It's a cool juxtaposition - I think it communicates the right expectations (good food in a casual space).
35.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Yeah, you clearly have never made an eBook. It's a jungle out there.
36.
by austinstorm 13y ago
I really like this piece. Something different and more 'humanities' focused than Techcrunch normally does.
37.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Yeah, if you're going to call all of these bootstrapped you could include Wordpress, which is dramatically more successful than the ones on the list.
38.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Looks good, but it's hard to give feedback on just a splash screen. I look forward to checking it out!
39.
by austinstorm 13y ago
A Composition Book (the black and white marbled cover notebooks). I go back occasionally and put stars in the margins for ideas that don't seem stupid with a little distance.
40.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Yeah, this is really confusing. Small bookstores would typically get this book through a distributor like Ingram, which might take a similar or higher percentage than Amazon. This is just a misguided publicity stunt based on misinformation.
41.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Beautiful - cheers for Stack Overflow.
42.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Dang, I didn't get 'hard sell' at all from the Pocketbook tweet. I thought it was a straightforward suggestion to try an alternative, keyword being 'try'.
43.
by austinstorm 13y ago
The kicker is at the end, when he calls the Internet a fad, "like skateboarding or mountain bikes." I hope this is real.
44.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Wasn't sure where this article was going, and then realized... oh, he's critiquing the UI. Cheap.
45.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Tragically, not scripts. Transcripts from closed-captioning.
46.
by austinstorm 13y ago
I had to email them some PDFs to get verified, but nothing compared to the hassles I've suffered at PayPal's hands over the years.
47.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Living up to his name, and yet I still want him to TAKE MY MONEY NOW
48.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Well done, I love this stuff.
49.
by austinstorm 13y ago
Apparently yes.
50.
by austinstorm 14y ago
Agreed - the way out is the way through, I think.
51.
by austinstorm 14y ago
Nobody's talking about Shelfari, which hasn't changed since 2008 when Amazon acquired it. It got frozen in time.