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   by whit537 14y ago

   Whoa! Nice! Gittip better up its game. :^)
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   by whit537 14y ago

   After following Aaron's career for a decade, I just interacted with him directly for the first time four days ago, in what seems to have been his last day on Twitter. :`(
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   by whit537 14y ago

   "Thus Master Wayne is left without solutions. Out of options, it’s no wonder the series ends with his staged suicide." :`( [Edit to note that this is his final blog post, per http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5047440 .]
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   by whit537 14y ago

   Fair enough. I've added a +1 for you here: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/5
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   25¢ Growth Special(blog.gittip.com)

   15 points by whit537 14y ago|4 comments
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   Help me pick an int'l payouts vendor for Gittip, eh?(github.com)

   3 points by whit537 14y ago|1 comments
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   by whit537 14y ago

   Hmmm ... what if there were someone doing this in every state?
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   by whit537 14y ago

   "A simpler variation on the deathtrap is the villain speech, also known as monologuing. The villain, after having captured the hero or another victim, gives a long speech [...]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathtrap_(plot_device)#The_vi.
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   by whit537 14y ago

   Here it is for sale on Tufte's site: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint And here's his sample: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Love these! This is exactly what I find myself thinking every time I end up in a church listening to a sermon or a classroom listening to a professor. For me, the point of bringing people together is something like finding the serendipitous
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    Julython in January?(blog.julython.org)

    2 points by whit537 14y ago|0 comments
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    Gittip and coderbits(coderbits.com)

    3 points by whit537 14y ago|0 comments
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Thanks npcomplete. With the current volume of growth I'm able to keep up with Gittip's fraud review dashboard pretty easily. As we scale let's start looking at more signals in an automated fashion.
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    by whit537 14y ago

    I expect it will move closer yet before all is said and done. E.g.: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/316 However, the primary distinctive is that Gittip is funded on itself, whereas Flattr is for-profit and takes a hefty c
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    by whit537 14y ago

    The minimum got upped to $1/week: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180 The tip structure needs work. Hoping to revisit after landing international payouts and visual revamp.
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    by whit537 14y ago

    I bet they'd be disappointed if Oprah confused the two. :^)
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    by whit537 14y ago

    We had a big go-round on the name a while back: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138 We decided (in part) that "gittip" doesn't mean anything at all to non-geeks. "All names are stupid until you become rich and famous with
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    by whit537 14y ago

    The long-term vision is for Gittip to be general-purpose. Of course, with only a few hundred active users, Gittip has barely scratched the surface of the open source world, and it's possible that now wasn't the ideal time to cast the net wi
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    by whit537 14y ago

    I like the "p + p" trick to not text-indent initial paragraphs: http://kaikkonendesign.fi/typography/section/7 Looks like that's an "adjacent sibling selector": http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#adjacent-selectors And it looks li
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    Gittip Anyone on Twitter(blog.gittip.com)

    56 points by whit537 14y ago|15 comments
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    by whit537 14y ago

    WePay: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/69 Authorize.net is pretty old-school, aren't they? I think of them as complicated credit card payments. Do they also do payouts?
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Word. I've added an update to the blog post with a link to Stripe Connect. :)
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Thanks, amfeng. Does the chargeback liability hit end merchants, or is that absorbed by Stripe? With Balanced, Gittip is responsible for it, and can choose whether to pass that along.
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Good to have this on the table, thanks. This was in private beta when I was working with Stripe. The two limitations here for Gittip are: - Stripe Connect is not white label. All recipients (aka sellers, merchants) have to set up an account
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Marketplaces are higher risk and don't fit the agreements that Stripe has with their bank partners. Deets: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/67
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    by whit537 14y ago

    I was wondering where you got that phrase. Too good to be true that you pulled it out of thin air on the spot. Sounds like Balanced should be a case study in your friends' book. ;)
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    Why I Love Balanced(whit537.org)

    67 points by whit537 14y ago|23 comments
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    Hacking Happy(hackinghappy.com)

    22 points by whit537 14y ago|18 comments
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Yeah, I was worried there for a sec. :^)
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    Encouraging Nigeria(whit537.org)

    1 points by whit537 14y ago|0 comments