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by tdavis 16y ago
You were charged. That it was a negative amount is a worthwhile distinction. http://blog.wakemate.com/2010/08/06/paypal-refunds-complete/ If that isn't the case, PayPal is stealing from you. Though we are pretty damn close, regardless.
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by tdavis 16y ago
So instead of replying to the people who are too lazy to check their Twitter page / follow @posterous they should... not do that? Oh, and if you took two seconds to click the "more" button, you'd see they have posted a link to the instruc
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by tdavis 16y ago
This is a common mistake people make, I think. Just because an ecosystem is smaller does not mean it is inferior (or less practical). In fact, the opposite is routinely true. Is it harder to find tutorials for PostgreSQL? Yeah, maybe. Is
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by tdavis 16y ago
When I first joined the company I felt the same way. Then I was told the whole story and it made a lot of sense. Basically, without pre-orders, there would be no WakeMate. They were in the tough position of having to prove the product's via
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by tdavis 16y ago
Did you confirm the charge was never returned? That's how the $1 authentication charge works on our new store; we charge $1 and if the full amount isn't settled within a couple weeks the $1 is returned and we're charged a small fee (so pre-
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by tdavis 16y ago
Somebody wrote up a few paragraphs; it was mostly a joke. The link you're commenting on gave information on said product work so I don't really understand the hostility.
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by tdavis 16y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Documentation of the whole process is underway, including the lessons-learned along the way. "WakeMate: Origins" is a vast undertaking and I've only been here since January. The original founders have even more st
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by tdavis 16y ago
I'm confident that Craig could have spent all his time soldering, but then we'd have a far inferior product right now. Obviously the initial delivery estimates were way off but we have a much better product for Craig's efforts sans solder
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by tdavis 16y ago
That's odd; we reply to all emails. Where did you send it? Also, check out help.WakeMate.com; we're very good about managing that as well. I clarified your question in an above comment.
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by tdavis 16y ago
To follow up on that further: PayPal quickly limited the account, hence the move to Google. PayPal funds remain in PayPal and are used to process refunds. To make it 100% clear: the only entity to profit from pre-orders has been PayPal, fro
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WakeMate Update(blog.wakemate.com)
57 points by tdavis 16y ago|46 comments
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by tdavis 16y ago
There's a lot I'm excited about in this release. Many convenience methods and classes have been backported from py3k and some really useful new modules, too (argparse stands out). There are also a few notable bug fixes and enhancements to e
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What's New in Python 2.7(docs.python.org)
46 points by tdavis 16y ago|3 comments
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by tdavis 16y ago
Ah, fair enough. Generally, you want to stay out of insert mode as much as possible (memorize most of the movement commands and use them), use splits liberally (if you have a big monitor) and use generic awesome plugins such as: NERDTree, s
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by tdavis 16y ago
Because deb and rpm repos lag behind releases, install packages globally, and don't lend themselves to portability. Setting up a private deb repository is still prohibitively complex even for those of us who only target one platform and arc
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by tdavis 16y ago
The only problem with Vim is that there's so much you could do, but only so much you can apply to muscle memory. In terms of "wielding it much better", what are you trying to do? Ask yourself, "What situations do I get myself in where I i
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by tdavis 16y ago
So much for bit.ly. And this is great news, as far as I'm concerned. Generic shortened URLs are becoming a plague upon the web and are marginally useful at best outside of Twitter. Even more props to Twitter for demystifying links where a
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by tdavis 16y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't really hold my breath for one, either. The closest anybody has come as far as I can tell is here: http://github.com/alphabetum/rbst and all that does is wrap docutils' reST processing.
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by tdavis 16y ago
Posterous was in my YC batch and the first thing I suggested to them was reST support. They've obviously had bigger fish to fry. Meanwhile, instead of taking an hour to implement a simple script to process markdown files into HTML and send
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by tdavis 16y ago
"Professional strength" velcro is some tough stuff. Kept a huge board heavier than an iPad on the wall for two years; when I had to remove the velcro from the wall, it took chunks with it.
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by tdavis 16y ago
More curiously, he also admits several times that he had absolutely no interest in the page and probably would have never visited it again. Besides the lack of mystery, I also see a lack of anybody being hurt.
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by tdavis 16y ago
Firstly, the hypocrisy of a URL shortener blocking another URL shortener's links because they can't be verified is hilarious. Secondly, if a person goes as far as to shorten every link they copy from their browser and use a Twitter client
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by tdavis 17y ago
What he wants is The Week ( http://theweek.com ) and I must say it's a very good publication; quite subscription-worthy.
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by tdavis 17y ago
A small number of boutique advertising networks have successfully tackled this challenge and are making quite a lot for their trouble. For instance, The Deck ( http://decknetwork.net/ ): 30 ad spots per month, currently $7,900/ad, equals $2
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by tdavis 17y ago
I believe he's trying to use "unnecessary" to mean Gruber finds it unnecessary because Apple products are so superior and always will be. This is used to: 1. Nullify all the arguments in the post because people imagined wearing mon
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by tdavis 17y ago
Wow, this is utterly absurd. I'm no lawyer, but couldn't this set a dangerous precedent that could find people being federally indicted for circumventing CAPTCHAs and the like? As far as I'm concerned, a program which automatically purchase
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by tdavis 17y ago
I am indescribably jealous. I've been waiting for this game for so many years. I found out the Beta launched late tonight and have stayed up watching live streams while frantically refreshing my inbox.
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by tdavis 17y ago
We mitigated these sorts of issues in TicketStumbler by having clearly-drawn lines for who was responsible for what. This was easy for us because we had a two-man team consisting of one technical person (me) and one business/everything else
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'm so glad it touched you and that you got something out of it; that's the best compliment my inner writer can receive :)
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by tdavis 17y ago
I love that quote; the more I read it the more I'm touched by it. For the record, my girlfriend recommended it for inclusion.

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