tbrooks

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by tbrooks 14y ago
Not necessarily. You could say, I have a bunch of documents that implicate you and they'll be sent out to authorities should I not answer my email or phone at N time.
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by tbrooks 14y ago
I get an error message from Heroku after trying to authenticate.
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by tbrooks 14y ago
Stripe, hands down. If you are just starting, go with Stripe because it's easy to get up and running and the documentation is great. And it's designed beautifully from the API to the dashboard. I want to work with companies that make great
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Show HN: HoundSleuth, a hosted search API with IndexTank support(houndsleuth.com)
11 points by tbrooks 15y ago|1 comments
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by tbrooks 15y ago
I believe he's more than a mentor - he founded TechStars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techstars
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by tbrooks 15y ago
By Sean Parker's advice.
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by tbrooks 15y ago
This one: http://www.facebook.com/groups/austinstartups/
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by tbrooks 15y ago
No, the individual developers from Gowalla were involved in the Rails community. Gowalla, as a company, was not.
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by tbrooks 15y ago
There's a political saying that should be heeded, "never attack downward." You risk more by attacking downward and you have less to gain.
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by tbrooks 15y ago
How is this a big loss for Austin? Gowalla isn't involved in the community.
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by tbrooks 15y ago
I'm sure this has made the rounds before: http://rubular.com/
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by tbrooks 15y ago
Because people don't say "he died suddenly" without saying the cause unless it was suicide.
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by tbrooks 15y ago
In.
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by tbrooks 15y ago
That's fair. I guess my larger concern rewriting the codebase, is they lose a lot of learned assumptions from users. For example, under the new delicious, if I click a tag in my tag cloud. And say it takes me to '/photos' and then I click a
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by tbrooks 15y ago
The new Delicious is case in point why you should never write a codebase from the ground up. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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by tbrooks 15y ago
I hate the term 'giving back'. What has someone given you that you should give back? Why not just say, 'give'?
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by tbrooks 15y ago
Hipmunk's key differentiator is design. It's a pain in the ass to book flights and hotels. Hipmunk removed that pain by making it fun. Google's flight search doesn't look fun.
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5 Companies from Capital Factory's Demo Day(techcrunch.com)
1 points by tbrooks 15y ago|0 comments
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by tbrooks 15y ago
A subversive looking Alexis that is...
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by tbrooks 15y ago
Every startup prides themselves on being the disruptor the industry until "me-too" clones come along and they get pissed because the disruption is short-lived. Build a good product users want, treat those users well, and you'll be fine.
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by tbrooks 15y ago
Seems to go against your past philosophy. If Wufoo is kicking ass (which they most definitely are) and their profits are healthy (how can they not be?), then why sell out? Take money off the table? Investor pressure? With our powers combine
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by tbrooks 15y ago
Snarky 37signals post in t-minus...
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by tbrooks 16y ago
My favorite quote from _why: "when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."
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by tbrooks 16y ago
http://www.anybots.com/ YC shares offices with Anybots.
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by tbrooks 16y ago
True story. Jack and I politely declined the 4loko and opted for beers instead. The Holson Farm was great!
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by tbrooks 16y ago
Downstairs or upstairs?
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by tbrooks 16y ago
Any meals planned for Saturday/Sunday?
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by tbrooks 16y ago
Ning cut 40% of it's staff in April. Why are they hiring new outside developers?
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by tbrooks 16y ago
Pretty simple. This does the trick: body{text-align: center;}
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Ask HN: Should you pay your formal advisors?
2 points by tbrooks 16y ago|1 comments

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