whit537

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   by whit537 14y ago

   They're potentially less free to pursue their vision for how to make the world better, because they have to answer to corporate interests.
2. 572.▲
   by whit537 14y ago

   Mind saying more or linking? I keep hearing strong opinions against bitcoin but haven't heard details.
3. 573.▲
   by whit537 14y ago

   Weigh in here if you'd like to see that: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/14
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   Is personal funding viable?(blog.gittip.com)

   66 points by whit537 14y ago|64 comments
5. 575.▲
   by whit537 14y ago

   :-)
6. 576.▲
   by whit537 14y ago

   https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/70
7. 577.▲
   by whit537 14y ago

   Sorry ... the whole post was poorly worded? I changed the comma to a semicolon, if that helps.
8. 578.▲
   by whit537 14y ago

   Sorry to be unclear: it's IHasAMoney.com that charges you $2.99 a month. Mint charges advertisers who-knows-what for your financial data.
9. 579.▲
   by whit537 14y ago

   :-( Since users have to update their info when their cards expire, can you start vaulting cards in two places, and slowly migrate away?
10. 580.▲
    by whit537 14y ago

    And I should be held accountable to dig up personal contact information before publishing zingy blog posts.
11. 581.▲
    by whit537 14y ago

    Publicity stunt or righteous outrage? I'll have the salmon.
12. 582.▲
    by whit537 14y ago

    We'll find out tomorrow. :-) https://www.gittip.com/about/stats.html And thanks!
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Thanks for weighing in, Stella. I've just heard from Sheel via email with an apology, and now I've just gotten off the phone with Sean. He apologized for the support requests that have been dropped during the transition to GroupOn. At his r
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    by whit537 14y ago

    That Louis C. K. bit helps me out in such situations. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk "And then when you ran out of money, you'd just go, 'Well, I can't do any more things now.'"
15. 585.▲
    by whit537 14y ago

    Fair enough. In the previous blog post that I quoted, I was thinking in terms of fine-grained things: "A specific human is responsible for the way issues are cross-linked in GitHub. Another specific human is responsible for the slide-out tr
16. 586.▲
    by whit537 14y ago

    Roger that. Thank you.
17. 587.▲
    by whit537 14y ago

    Can you shed any light on the future of FeeFighters and Samurai? How can users get their data out?
18. 588.▲
    by whit537 14y ago

    Stella Fayman? https://twitter.com/#!/startupstella http://startupstella.com/ http://entrepreneursunpluggd.com/ She's the only woman on their About page: https://samurai.feefighters.com/about But maybe that's getting too personal.
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    by whit537 14y ago

    :-( "I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.'" http://xkcd.com/1049/
20. 590.▲
    by whit537 14y ago

    I had a great experience with Sean and FeeFighters before they were acquired. I can understand being in a crowded market and eyeing the exit. It could certainly be handled more gracefully. GroupOn should either support the product, or at th
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    by whit537 14y ago

    I experienced great customer service from FeeFighters prior to the acquisition, so in my experience it's not true that "FeeFighters didn't go to bat for their current customers." The "enemy" to my mind is the chaos that results from not bei
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Yeah, no kidding. I ended up with a merchant account with fusty old FirstData out of the ordeal. I look at FirstData and their portal, www.mymerchantoffice.com, in a whole new light now. It may suck, but I can expect it to suck consistently
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    by whit537 14y ago

    That's who I switched to.
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    How not to get acquired(blog.gittip.com)

    120 points by whit537 14y ago|84 comments
25. 595.▲
    Want to put your favorite hacker on the Gittip leaderboard?(gittip.com)

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

    Here are a couple links to the file: http://www.mediafire.com/?n307hutksjstow3 (RAR) https://disk.yandex.net/disk/public/?hash=pCAcIfV7wxXCL/YPhO... (ZIP)
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Where I'm coming from is that I want to work on open source software, and I get really down on the hoops I have to jump through to do it--consulting, employment, starvation. I want to add value to society and I want society to value me in a
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    by whit537 14y ago

    You'll have to say more if you want to try to merge horizons.
29. 599.▲
    by whit537 14y ago

    It's also potentially virtuous. 1. Gittips aren't a paycheck, they are a no-strings-attached gift. 2. Small cash compensations will free people up to contribute to society on their own terms rather than wasting their time surfing Facebook i
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    by whit537 14y ago

    Yeah, you're probably right. https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/5