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   by whit537 14y ago

   Gifts don't count as income in the US. There's a gift tax on the donor, but that doesn't kick in until you give $13,000 per person per year. Not sure about other countries. Widget: Heck yeah! Wanna write one? :-) Intended to be mainstream,
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   by whit537 14y ago

   :D
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   by whit537 14y ago

   a) Eating isn't a one-off option. Expenses are recurring so income must be too. I can imagine a one-off option down the road. b) Yes, it's trivial to stop. And because tips are anonymous, there's no social awkwardness to stopping a tip.
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   by whit537 14y ago

   Hmmm ... I imagined money accumulating over time until it was significant. Then finding out about it would be like getting a call that you won a genius grant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program I could see this as a po
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   by whit537 14y ago

   First off: Yes. The premise is that you can tip people without their knowledge, "crowd-sourced genius grants." https://www.gittip.com/about/ I see a few differences with Kachinga: - With Gittip, recipients receive the full face value of t
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   by whit537 14y ago

   Thanks for the link. Reading now ...
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   by whit537 14y ago

   I mean, it already started happening with github.
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   by whit537 14y ago

   What he said. :-)
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   by whit537 14y ago

   You know, I thought the same thing. The idea started as a tipjar for Github and I bought Gittip.com, but then I realized it was much bigger, so I decided to use Logstown.com, a domain I already own. But then I was talking to my bro-in-law t
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    Why I am Renaming Testosterone(github.com)

    14 points by whit537 15y ago|9 comments
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    by whit537 15y ago

    Thanks for the feedback, definitely a problem.
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    by whit537 15y ago

    Can you drill down by category on your bank's site? What's the categorization UI like? That's something I'm optimizing for here. Also, the idea is to add columns to the "summary" table on the right that answer the questions you want answere
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    Personal finance for geeks: IHasAMoney.com(ihasamoney.com)

    1 points by whit537 15y ago|4 comments
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    by whit537 15y ago

    What are the arguments? And FYI, this isn't the only interview we do. It's one data point. I go back and forth on the question of "snags that aren't really technical." The fact is that on a distributed team with multiple projects going, set
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    by whit537 15y ago

    :) With the first round of hiring I looked at how far the candidate got in fixing the bug. There was a workaround and then there was a fix for the root cause. If the candidate found the workaround quickly then that was equal to fixing the r
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    by whit537 15y ago

    You're right. If someone thinks that writing code for an hour is a tedious act of desperation, they are not the right candidate for us.
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    Hiring Tip: Pair Program on Open Source Bugs

    18 points by whit537 15y ago|7 comments
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    Ultimate stand-up desk: table-sized iPad, only $17,950(ideum.com)

    3 points by whit537 15y ago|1 comments
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    Python web micro-framework battle(slideshare.net)

    100 points by whit537 15y ago|57 comments
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    by whit537 15y ago

    Fuck yeah, jnoller.
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    PyCodeConf, PyOhio, and Airbnb -- "Don't Forget the Humans"(blag.whit537.org)

    4 points by whit537 15y ago|2 comments
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    by whit537 15y ago

    I'm at MongoNYC today if anyone wants to discuss in person.
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    Mongs, a web-based data browser for MongoDB(whit537.org)

    7 points by whit537 15y ago|1 comments
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    by whit537 15y ago

    Yeah, I can see that. Thanks.
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    by whit537 15y ago

    And I've tacked this onto the top of the page: http://www.whit537.org/et/
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    by whit537 15y ago

    The main meme I want to spread is that Tufte should invest his money in a non-profit Foundation for Beautiful Evidence.
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    by whit537 15y ago

    I mean, wouldn't it be awesome if he took his money and invested it in a non-profit Foundation for Beautiful Evidence?
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    by whit537 15y ago

    His overt message is: science is better than pitching, public interest is better than private interest. Is his art career consistent with that?
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    by whit537 15y ago

    The suggestions are Tufte's own. He spent six hours telling me to do science instead of pitching, and to work in the public interest instead of a commercial interest.
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    by whit537 15y ago

    tl;dr--Tufte, you're brilliant. You worked hard to build a powerful brand, and now you're very intentionally using that brand to make a crap-ton of money on the contemporary art market. Well played, sir. But didn't you say that people worki