benhoyt

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by benhoyt 19y ago
Our cut for open source will be zero, and for commercial projects small. We're hoping the advantage of using microPledge will be that it's a central location people know about and will build up trust in. And also that the developer can focu
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Very good questions, but we've thought them through and come up with some solutions. They're solutions we think are better than anything the competition's got, but we'll see!
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by benhoyt 19y ago
You're dead right about design by committee -- the idea with microPledge is more like "funding by committee". Except that it's not a commmittee, it's a group of loosely-knit pledgers. They'll have their say in the project, but the design wi
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Heh! Well, if we do make a profit, sounds like you'll be adding $100 to it. :-) Curious what your reasoning is, though.
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How did you learn to program?(blog.micropledge.com)
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by benhoyt 19y ago
A timely post ... we're just about to release a biggish site running on web.py. Check out our blog, which I just released today: http://blog.micropledge.com/ We like web.py for its minimalism. It means we did have to write a database laye
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by benhoyt 19y ago
True, it's just that if you want those features of C++ you're better off jumping up to something modern: Python/C#/Java. Those languages (perhaps even Java) feel well-designed and friendly instead of like a hacked-on OOP addition to C. I'm
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by benhoyt 19y ago
That's a nice-sounding rumor, but I don't think its true. :-) Sounds like something you should post on Truemors. ("Rumor" without the British/NZ 'u' does look funny.)
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Hmmm, I definitely wouldn't recommend newbies learning C++. Every time I've tried to dig into C++, it's been a turn-off. K&R's great. C's great, and it's small enough to get your head around, but if you want to know a language like C++, yea
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Oh yes, and Forth has an elegant solution to Paul Graham's "accumulator generator" problem (though Forth isn't dynamically typed, so it only works for integers): : accgen create , does tuck +! @ ; From comp.lang.forth: http://groups.goo
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by benhoyt 19y ago
I learnt to program by writing a Forth compiler in assembler (Dad taught me). It was a superb way to learn. One of Forth's strengths is its ultra-simple syntax. If you thought Lisp had little syntax, think again. Forth is just tokens and wh
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by benhoyt 20y ago
I'm sure she influenced it -- she's a great mum (NZ spelling). But when I was growing up, Dad was always the I-have-a-brilliant-idea person.
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Tomizone: Nifty startup that helps you on-sell your wireless bandwidth(tomizone.com)
1 points by benhoyt 20y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 20y ago
Do you know if this is now documented anywhere? Even on a third party site? Testing: italic bold [link]( http://benhoyt.com/) -- hmmm, can you do named links?
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by benhoyt 20y ago
I'd love to see this tiny bit of Ajax on news.yc itself -- but in the meantime, good job!
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by benhoyt 20y ago
Yeah, Gmail's probably got good backups, and I love it, but I'm not fond of putting all my eggs in one basket. Plus, Gmail's down occasionally, and it's a real hassle not being able to even view/search old emails when that happens, or when
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by benhoyt 20y ago
What about using Google Desktop to index your email? I use Gmail (brilliant search) but still download my email into Thunderbird every so often for a backup. Then Google Desktop indexes my Thunderbird mail nicely, and I can find it just by
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by benhoyt 20y ago
25, and my co-founders are 23 and 32. Relatedly: two of us have wives and families, which does make things more difficult financially and time-wise. Do any other founders have families? Do you work on the startup full-time? How do you fund