samratjp

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by samratjp 15y ago
After we got hosed by Paypal, I was crying over alternative solutions for creating an escrow solution for our marketplace. These guys saved us a lot of headaches dealing with escrow and helped us get setup at 2 A.M! I was a bit disappointed
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by samratjp 15y ago
Whoa! Nice work guys :-)
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by samratjp 15y ago
The former is the correct way to pronounce it :-)
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by samratjp 15y ago
My cofounder Jamie did.
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Vayable Is A Marketplace For Unique Travel Experiences(techcrunch.com)
47 points by samratjp 15y ago|12 comments
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by samratjp 15y ago
http://status.heroku.com/ for those on Heroku
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by samratjp 16y ago
This is really cool stuff! Did you come across any interesting retweeters and spam rings?
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by samratjp 16y ago
Agreed. I just went to color.com instead which does have a link to the app store directly.
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by samratjp 16y ago
Great writeup! As I read it, it also reminded me of this poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" - http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Dulce.html
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by samratjp 16y ago
Awesome! Will try to stop by :-)
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by samratjp 16y ago
Congratulations guys! I hope this means there will be some more really cool tools coming soon :-)
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by samratjp 16y ago
Sweet! Works great on iPhone 4. Background uploading is such a major pain killer that no one here seems to be appreciative of. That's a huuuge technical feat and a major head start and of course am not surprised that JTV guys nailed it. Con
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by samratjp 16y ago
I love Marcus du Sautoy's programmes - he also did some BBC Horizons ones that were particularly interesting - The Secret You was fun and Alan & Marcus Go Forth and Multiply is pretty entertaining and insightful as well.
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by samratjp 16y ago
They have an impressive NLP search powered by a crazy backend, that map will be pretty trivial for Adioso to build I'm sure :-)
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by samratjp 16y ago
Adioso.com is so much better suited for this kind of stuff.
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by samratjp 16y ago
It just depends on what you want to test for. I find balance in testing for the most important security features such as authentication and stuff that'll most likely change very little. You can speed up RSpec so much by offloading it to Spo
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by samratjp 16y ago
All you need to know via Fred Wilson http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much.htm... In short, the first few in terms of percentage, then move to Wilson's multiplier factor model.
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by samratjp 16y ago
To raise that big of a round from Sequoia AND Horowitz, Bump must have clearly shown them their numbers. Sharing alone is not the single most valuable part of Bump. Bump could very easily replace the paper anything for a lot of stuff - even
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by samratjp 16y ago
There's some good code in here. If you're of a slightly more of a machine learning bent, consider looking into Collective Intelligence (has great source code as well - http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596529321/ ). It will be a great additi
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by samratjp 16y ago
You're missing my point - a great language (whatever it may be for one's choice) doesn't get in the way of thinking clearly. If that's PHP for you, that's great. I never mentioned any context of web in my statement. Au contraire, python's g
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by samratjp 16y ago
You missed my point. I am talking about the code being cleaner to look at in general.
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by samratjp 16y ago
It's simple, If I don't indent properly - I don't get to run my code in python. Yes, I know I can make my code look cleaner in Ruby, but I'm lazy. Call me shallow, but sometimes not having to type in blocks and "end" is kind of nice because
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by samratjp 16y ago
The single most reason why a language X (it's python for me today) wins my heart is not because it's extra fancy or anything but the times when it gets out of my way to let me think about the problem and then everything else seems clearer.
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Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords & 17 Others Shot in Tucson(nytimes.com)
8 points by samratjp 16y ago|1 comments
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by samratjp 16y ago
The best part is "the car is entirely powered by silicon solar cells and produces about 1200 watts — the same amount of power required to run a toaster." That's really cool!
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by samratjp 16y ago
That's too bad. Regardless SproutCore will be huge now that they also have Katz on their team :-)
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by samratjp 16y ago
This sounds like an excellent candidate for Kickstarter - have you considered that option?
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by samratjp 16y ago
Maybe there should be an YC RFS for stuff Salesforce might buy :-)
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by samratjp 16y ago
And the tipping point is reached :-) Congrats and hope the virality ensues!
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by samratjp 16y ago
Microsoft didn't capitalize on Touch-based computing (a la Surface - didn't imply about pixel sense at all) when they had the chance before. Microsoft labs has a lot of crazy cool stuff, but they don't see daylight in the hands of the consu

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