jjmardlin

I think the reasoning would also be fairly similar to the reason that the big players are unbundling their apps.

The most valuable real estate is the homescreen of your phone. A website bookmark isn't likely to get that placement. A website bookmark that you can download from the App Store on the other hand...

I can't speak for Tinker, but they are friends of mine.

As I understand it, their intent is to help people get their first bitcoins really easily. Most services require that you scan and upload a lot of documents. This is quick and painless.

Though they're not selling so hot, any suggestions? Places to go market?

Especially since this appears to be the full funnel, from visit to paying, this is not bad at all.

wow, hidingmyname, if nothing else, you've inspired one of the most positive and supportive threads I've seen on HN (don't bother checking, I'm still a pseudo-noob).

I can only echo what many others have said in one way or another: be at integrity with yourself, do what you can to support your team and maintain your honour, and I believe that you will look back at this, in 6 months, with some kind of gratitude.

You lived it. :)

Despite the comments that the slogan predates advertising, there is something to the parent commenter's thesis, though it's certainly not pure cause and effect.

This is a commonly discussed psychological phenomenon; if you focus on avoiding the negative, you accentuate that. You're not saying "Be Good", it's don't be evil, and so you not only name the elephant in the room, you chart the path around her periphery, and may actually crash into the elephant of evil.

In other words, as taken from a parenting site:

State Requests Positively

Positive requests are more effective than negative commands. For >example, your child is more likely to respond to, "Please use your >spoon." than "Don't eat with your fingers."

This is really the use case that http://PMRobot.com addresses, keeping set up fairly simple, while allowing clients to be as involved as they want. Either dealing with everything from their email, or else just logging in and submitting issues as they wish.

Well put Jacques, I couldn't help but reblog this! :)

http://johnmardlin.tumblr.com/post/51994252739/humans-are-no...

I've been using this all morning to write a blog post. Found it awesome!

I don't really know the better way, but when I have more than one page of text, I end up with two scroll bars.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37659951/WideArea%20-%20...

Non-ideal, perhaps a different style of scroll bar, or pushing it right to the edge.

Wow, what an excellent zen writing resource. Will be using for longer writing projects I'm sure!

+1

"X"s are frightening. You might just give it some tooltip text.

It's great to see a reputable organization finding use for Tor and online anonymity. Innovative, advantage gaining move in a not so innovative industry.

Amazing, totally rethinking the experience. Typically brilliant of Elon.

He takes a typically irritating experience and makes it delightful.