benhoyt

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1021.
How does PayPal calculate fees for international and cross-currency transactions?
7 points by benhoyt 19y ago|0 comments
1022.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Or put your website in your profile and have your email or a contact page on the website (if you'd rather keep track of where your email address goes and take anti-spam measures). Looking at my News.YC profile just now reminds me ... for we
1023.
by benhoyt 19y ago
I'd heard of it before, but I really discovered it when we were implementing it for microPledge. Anyway, I signed up with MyOpenID -- and yeah, I'll use it for sign-ups from now on (if the website in question supports it).
1024.
The Case for case sensitivity(blog.micropledge.com)
4 points by benhoyt 19y ago|2 comments
1025.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Unless I'm badly mistaken, that site's much more than just a handful of days work.
1026.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Do you have a link to this, ahem, "engaging" paraphrase?
1027.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Sweet. microPledge solves two problems of these problems: 1) The pay-half-now-half-later thing is solved by our staged releases. The developer can say "I'm 50% done, can I please have half my pledge money?" And he'll get half his money if t
1028.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Well, in fact our system allows for non-software projects quite nicely. But we decided our first focus would be software, mainly because we didn't want to spread ourselves too thin too quickly. Anyway, your FaceApps Developer Expo sounds li
1029.
by benhoyt 19y ago
"a bonus they receive as soon as [they] take the action"
1030.
"I trust this computer." Yeah right.(blog.micropledge.com)
3 points by benhoyt 19y ago|0 comments
1031.
Screenshots of microPledge ("helps software get made and developers get paid")(micropledge.com)
8 points by benhoyt 19y ago|7 comments
1032.
by benhoyt 19y ago
I guess it just seemed like quite a lot was going on right on the home page -- too much for me to get my head around all at once. It's possible you're trying to achieve too much: discussions/comments like News.YC, longer articles, featured
1033.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Just a bit of feedback for your ziizo demo site. A bit off-topic, but I didn't see contact details on your site (I reckon you should show your email or at least a contact form). A like the name -- short and easy to remember. Nice clean/simp
1034.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Nice look, though my first thought was, "Oh, it's just News.YC with a sweet logo." Has some cool features that News.YC doesn't, but also seems a bit too complicated. Do you intend to compete with News.YC, or try to gather a different user b
1035.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Also ensure you've got reverse DNS set up correctly for your domain.
1036.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Nice. I reckon Markdown-style [links]( http://link.com/ ) would be at least as useful, though. (I notice the paren is still included in the href -- I often would like to parenthesize links but then remind myself it doesn't work in News.YC.)
1037.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Really, really slick looking, but not KISS enough for a poll site I reckon. The main thing I noticed is that the current results -- which would be the most interesting thing to me -- are very hard to find. I reckon some indication of them s
1038.
by benhoyt 19y ago
URLs are case-sensitive, but on most sites they probably shouldn't be. For example, /users/Ben should work as well as /users/ben. This is true even if you have canonical links on your own site, because other sites may link them wrong, or a
1039.
How to make URLs case-friendly: 301 redirects, or just show the page anyway?
1 points by benhoyt 19y ago|2 comments
1040.
by benhoyt 19y ago
True, and that's definitely one of our ideas. But mynameishere's right -- it's very hard to make ends meet with just interest on funds held. Unless you happen to get really popular really fast. But in that case you'll probably need more sta
1041.
by benhoyt 19y ago
True about the better community here! I posted my recent blog entry to prog.reddit as well ... feel the love: http://programming.reddit.com/info/22sok/comments :-)
1042.
by benhoyt 19y ago
From your squeezedbooks summary: "Many web sites, especially airlines, and even amazon.com, change prices for each individual on the site based on their behavoir." Huh, I didn't know that. The plot thickens ... I'm going to be really carefu
1043.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Your "some users get different prices" is a quirky but interesting idea. Neat. I'll keep it in mind.
1044.
Is it worth also submitting to programming.reddit.com, or does everyone here read both anyway?
4 points by benhoyt 19y ago|8 comments
1045.
How much should startups charge?(blog.micropledge.com)
10 points by benhoyt 19y ago|10 comments
1046.
by benhoyt 19y ago
ZZT-OOP! Oh, the nostalgia. That was awesome. Well, not the language. Not the IDE. But the whole idea of a game having a built-in programming language. Was it the first of its kind? (Then again, in 1991, I don't suppose it was.) JFYI, FORTH
1047.
by benhoyt 19y ago
What about A, B, C, D, E, F, G, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y and Z? Seriously, they're all real single-letter languages (Google for "[letter] programming language" and wade through the results). I knew of only about 5 of them al
1048.
Patents are evil ... but head-starts are good(blog.micropledge.com)
5 points by benhoyt 19y ago|0 comments
1049.
by benhoyt 19y ago
Point taken. My morals caught up with my sense of humour and I took it down. Once might be funny, but I realised that if a lot of people did things like this, News.YC (which I really like) would be made useless.
1050.
by benhoyt 19y ago
It worked, didn't it? :-) I'm sure I'll be banned forever or get infinitely bad karma for this. :-) Update: Okay, I think I'm gonna change the title now. Had my fun, and it was just mucking up The System. :-) Title was "News.YC easter egg:

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