socmoth

shared an office with her in 2008. ;(

thanks for taking the time to write this up. (an upvote did not seem like enough).

here is the actual speech in video form. http://t.co/9s6TZNOsJw

Going to try and answer that with examples.

Anything silly and whimsical.

If you were to look at a teenagers phone and ask "what does this word mean, and this word, and this word." That is our audience. Example: "OMG LOL FML" (clearly you know those words, but your parents may not)

Apple actually rejected our App the first time because our marketing copy was too ridiculous. This is the more reasonable version.

Typo is intentional. Based on the tone and audience we want to create.

I know that is unusual, but keep in mind nobody downloads an app because it is exactly the same as every other application.

IRC! Usenet! BBSes!

The last era of the net (since 2004) a lot of stuff went full real names, after facebook made it ok to put your name on the internet.

We've started (re) discovering ways to connect which are less about real names.

Naveen is the cofounder of 4sq.

I'm Paul. One of the creators of WUT.

You are totally correct on the cold start problem. ;)

You probably don't (but you knew that). But that is why we explicitly call it semi anonymous not anonymous. (with no quotes)

It isn't a contract just a word choice that guides people to the expectation of how the app works.

Paul here. Happy to answer any questions you may have.

facebook login is annoying but did get us out the door. poor grammar is intentional.

We used to have the words "WUT" repeated 200x in the app store copy, but Apple politely told us that wasn't good enough. We had more than a couple people tell us it was great though.

Is not an april fools joke. Was a hackday project that turned cool.

Sorry about the typo. Sadly the update button does not appear to let me update the title.

Trying to get more people to actually try out crypto currencies, rather than blog about them.

I actually did this policy to get one of my apps in the store. As more people eventually use it (and presumably good reviews roll in), I anticipate that I will be able to remove the features which I didn't think were needed.

On the other hand, I really don't like the idea of apple having editorial review over apps for being too simple. The only app which I feel might be too simple is an additional fart or flashlight app. And I'm still inclined to let those be distributed in some way (if not directly through the app store process).

Random details you may of missed:

"The integrated card reader keeps information secure from swipe to payment."

That means integrated encryption in to the stand. There are probably some other details. How to mount the thing to the table, how to connect devices.

Edit: disclaimer, former square here. Details matter.

I once had someone pitch me an idea for an app, which coincidentally I had actually built and was selling on the app store. He wasn't willing to pay 99cents for it (but had previously been willing to quit his job to make it hypothetically with me).

It is a weird world.

(for the record I like marco's work)

Rdl is correct. Smart people often get hired by small firms which do contract work for government organizations. It allows the smart people to live outside of the hierarchy imposed by a large institution.

The motivations are very similar to startups working outside of larger companies. You get more freedom in work choices and pay scale.

Oh, I've been using EC2 + S3 for five years (2007). I was looking in to the newer stuff (beanstalk, dynamodb).

Please add your feedback to the details pads so other people can use it in the future. That is why I posted it on hackpad and not my blog.

EDIT: thanks for the feedback.

Sorry if I wasn't clear of the purpose. I don't love the Amazon documentation and wish people would use Hackpad instead because it would be more up to date.

This is my effort to bootstrap that step by providing and overview and details rather than googling old blog entries ever time I want to setup EC2 with ubuntu.

You think it might be worth starting a competitors page for each service?

> were 33% more likely to achieve them than those that merely formulated goals.

I've heard this before and I've also heard the exact opposite. That telling other people your goals reduces the chances of finishing them. The theory I remember (I google but was unable to find a good link) was that telling someone a goal feels 60% as good as actually doing the goal itself. So it is easier to just tell everyone your goals and then invent new goals.

I'm not trying to contradict Alex Maccaw. I've just noticed this dichotomy before and been curious how people reconcile the two theories.

Has anyone else noticed these two recommendations or know what I'm referring to?

When I was five I asked this question and got a simple answer. I'm not an economist so it is probably incompletely or completely wrong.

If you notice that your money is worth more tomorrow, you are going to save your money and spend it tomorrow. This is true in situations of "deflation".

This sounds good to you, because all you have to do is wait and you'll be better off tomorrow. You don't even have to work to get more stuff.

However, you aren't the only person with this idea. Everyone saves their money in the bank. The people who sell goods and services, sell fewer goods, and maybe go out of business.

The economy slows down.

On the other side, if you design an economy so that inflation exists. People want to spend because in the future their money will be worth (a little bit) less.

Money flows around a lot. People who sells things make money and stay in business. People have jobs and the money is still worth something.

Remember money isn't worth something, trading good fluidly and efficiently is worth something. Money lets us do that. So a currency that lets us do that is good.

If anyone knows more about the situation, please add it. I don't know any economists so this story is probably pretty incomplete.

cmd + k (too)

Is this still available online in some form?

It sounds like their customer support failed you. Whatever tool they were using to track your email thread failed or someone acted too hastily and responded to the thread inappropriately by asking for the same information. You are right they made a mistake in sending you two emails and it is annoying they are holding your money.

I have no inside information about Airbnb, but I'd guess they are slowing moving the money to try and prevent fraud on their system. Basically, A stolen card being used for a high value amount. Obviously that is annoying to anyone who is waiting for money, but I've seen it happen in many situations where money is transfered.

Are you a frequent hoster? If you have a lot of money coming in for your apartment, it is much more likely that it would be transfered quickly.

If you are a frequent hoster, is this a unusually large amount at once? Or is it from someone who is using Airbnb for the first time?

In the end, it sounds like your experience wasn't so great. But I'd hope you remember that it is just people on the other end answering your email and trying to prevent fraud. Many of those people answer hundreds of emails a day and probably make mistakes as often as anyone else. I hope everything works out for you.

The Galago guys are good people who've put a lot of time in to their development of their hardware and IDE. If your a HW dev or just want a good kit to get started, this might be a great one.

I agree with you. It isn't obviously better to write long verbose messages. I commit dozens of times an hour and try and keep each change as small as possible. Ideally, so small a single sentence is a perfect description.

I'm fond of speaking tersely.

I completely agree. I would love to see something that beeped at me when I didn't use an aliases which is already in my system.

(disclaimer: this is my link/blog/software)

If that doesn't work for you, this might:

history 1 | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr

What that doesn't give you is the command tree, for example "git commit" vs "git checkout". It just does "git".

[edit, added gem link] The gem is here https://github.com/paulmars/huffshell

Biggest surprise to me, men spend more time on the face. (although I'd imagine men and women have different reasons to look at her body.)

Yeah, this matters way more for transactions less than 5 dollars where it starts to be a large %. If you go to 100 dollar range, it doesn't matter at all. The 10-15 cents just means they are looking for people who sell big things, not coffee shops.

CardMuch, Checks are both examples of me taking a picture of something I own (check, biz card) using my own cell phone. Card.io is someone else taking a picture of my credit card, using their cell phone. In the first two examples, I have control and ownership. In the last example, I have ownership (of the data/card) but no control of the software.

Anything that increases conversions is great! Best of luck! I look forward to seeing it in the wild. In fact, are there any merchants in SF I can watch use it yet?