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   by ivey 18y ago

   No one from Twitpay is complaining. Ivan gave me a heads-up about this a few days ago. TipJoy is a social platform for tipping people, that now has a Twitter hook. Twitpay is a payments platform built exclusively on Twitter, with some othe
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   Now or Never(terralien.com)

   2 points by ivey 18y ago|0 comments
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   by ivey 18y ago

   Actually, Nate's article (first link) was a direct inspiration for Twitpay.
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   by ivey 18y ago

   They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so we at Twitpay are taking it as a compliment.
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   by ivey 18y ago

   They're also good people. And they read HN, so you may already have refund or something. Seriously, they're good people.
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   Metadata: An Invisible CAPTCHA(forbes.com)

   4 points by ivey 18y ago|2 comments
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   What the Bilski decision means for software patents(blog.gtventurelab.com)

   1 points by ivey 18y ago|0 comments
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   by ivey 18y ago

   Yes.
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   by ivey 18y ago

   I can only speak for Twitpay, and have no knowledge of what other companies have done. We decided to set aside 10% of the company for ASW2 participants. We had 9 team members, plus some people who helped ahead of time, and so we divided i
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    How to launch a tech company in one weekend (CNN on Atlanta Startup Weekend 2)(cnn.com)

    38 points by ivey 18y ago|30 comments
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    by ivey 18y ago

    We're in the same boat Tipjoy was when they started: there's a ton of legal stuff that goes with cashing out, and we've only been around a few weeks. It is absolutely on our list of priorities.
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    by ivey 18y ago

    gist.el is available on GitHub
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    by ivey 18y ago

    I already follow many of these people, and a lot of us are pretty boring. Follow because you care about what we say, not because you might learn a neat Ruby trick.
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    by ivey 18y ago

    I have heard rumors of such. I hope that will be the case, so I can stick them on the iPhone.
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    by ivey 18y ago

    And Merb gives you that, with the basic Merb stack. And then when you change your mind later, that's cool too.
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    by ivey 18y ago

    2 things. 1) many people who use GitHub do not understand distributed VC, and treat it as a central repo. GitHub is trying to do education here, and has published the disaster guide sant0sk linked to. 2) GitHub is more than just a git rep
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    by ivey 18y ago

    "Focus on speed of iteration rather than utilization of every function. Let people go idle, if they can't help the current iteration succeed.... By letting them focus on the success of their team exclusively, you empower them to do whateve
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    by ivey 18y ago

    This was published in 2004, and has a note from the author: This Manifesto is deprecated. My views have evolved, and a new version will be released “real soon now”.
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    by ivey 18y ago

    I installed Emacs to install SLIME so I could play around with Lisp. The REPL-in-a-buffer is so phenomenally powerful that I immediately missed it in TextMate when coding in Ruby. Thus began my descent into Emacs madness, and my new favor
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    by ivey 18y ago

    The physicists from the future will never allow it to collide particles.
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    by ivey 18y ago

    Physicists from the future strike again! "It was speculated that all accelerators producing large amounts of Higgs particles like the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC for short) would call for initial conditions to have been so arranged
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    by ivey 18y ago

    I normally don't click TC links, and I normally don't agree with Arrington, but this is 100% spot on. Even if Apple used a completely random method for approving apps (you have a 74.2% chance of approval, regardless of quality or content) p
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    by ivey 18y ago

    From the FAQ: What is "The Smalltalk for those who can type" supposed to mean? It is a pun on the usage of a text editor (and thus using the keyboard more, and the mouse less) to write programs for GNU Smalltalk, which sets it different fro
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    by ivey 18y ago

    Myspace, on the other hand, is harder to get through than mobile carriers. I've basically given up.
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    by ivey 18y ago

    Best line in the article, re: Carrier forking from Pidgin: "A fork (initially called Funpidgin) was done of Pidgin 2.4.0 because there were disagreements about the size of the text entry field."
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    by ivey 18y ago

    For the 80% case, cap works fine. It's when you need to do stuff in that last 20% that you have real trouble.
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    by ivey 18y ago

    Startup Riot 2009 will be in February. Details should be on http://startupriot.com/ soon. It's in Atlanta, free to present, and cheap to attend, not like the $1250/seat TC50.
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    by ivey 18y ago

    Are you saying you would have turned down the 4.2 billion dollars of stock?
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    by ivey 18y ago

    I signed up a while ago, after seeing it mentioned on This Is True. I've been underwhelmed. It's a lot of email (3 or 4 a day) and takes too much time to digest. A sample from today^Wyesterday: "Looking for a woman cheesemaker to profile
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    by ivey 18y ago

    I trust Schneier's take on this type of calculation more than I trust the people inside NatSec/InfoSec.