andrewpbrett

Yes that worked!

I wrote 500 words yesterday but the calendar date is still blue... any chance you can take a look @nickagliano? The text appears when I click on the date.

This may be apocryphal but I've heard that "howdy" is essentially a contraction of "how do you do"

Edit: Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy

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Thanks! It currently does save and prefill URLs but you’re right, it’d be easy to hardcode the URL if you always want to use the same one.

Yeah this is what I wrote to receive the images: https://github.com/andrewpbrett/admin.andybrett.com

Thanks for the kind words! That was definitely my intention with making this. It’s open source as well so let me know if you have any feedback or feel free to just fork/PR.

I made this! More background here: https://andybrett.com/writing/send-as-post

Has anyone else had the experience of seeing almost zero ads on Instagram since they introduced them? I can count the number I've seen on one hand. I marked the first couple, right after they launched them, as not relevant (they weren't) and since then I think I've seen two, one in the feed and one in their Stories feature.

Spelling - it's John Maynard Keynes, not Keanes :)

Beeminder, as others have mentioned, handles #1 and #3 pretty well (minus the donation to the KKK part - the money for failing goes to Beeminder).

I built GTBee[1] using the Beeminder API which is pretty much #2. Again, the punitive thing is taking your money, starting at $5 and escalating from there.

This isn't to say that it wouldn't be a fun project to build things that do this though!

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/tc/app/gtbee/id779525180?mt=8

Boom, #88.

"You could parachute [Sam] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king." - PG 5.5 years ago[1]

Congrats Sam.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html

Lest anyone think this is exaggerated or linkbait-y, I've personally seen them do this, a lot. For example, a $100 gas purchase was immediately resolved using a method similar to what's shown in the video - had the number come up, $1000 would have changed hands (it didn't, much to my chagrin).

Just made two loans. I really love this idea and Zidisha does a great job of giving you all the information about the project and the person you're making the loan to. Congrats on the launch.

There's another PG essay that's relevant to this, "What Startups Are Really Like":

http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

The URL is apt, since I parse it as "No, really, this is what it's like. So, really, you should do this".

Posting public updates, and having some way to commit to continuing to do so (whether it's Beeminder or something else that works for you) is something you should really do.

We are in fact polling using the GitHub API, but it should be hourly, not daily.

Right after I finished this we noticed that we could also do this with a post commit hook, so we're planning to implement that as well.

Feel free to post details on any errors. Issues page on github is probably the best place, once it's back up.

> Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death.

Damning

One design dilemma we ran into when building this out is the "username" endpoint. When a user grants access, the OAuth default is to just pass the token back to the client. But to access other endpoints, the client needs to know the username of the user that just granted access.

So we added the "username" endpoint, but weren't (and still aren't) quite satisfied with that as a solution. Have other API designers run into this same issue? Seems pretty common - would like to hear what HN has to say about it.

We used it when I worked for TechCrunch (way back when). It's perfect for that setting: lots of writers, coordinating coverage, sharing interesting bits of information that you're not exactly sure who will find interesting. Etc.

It's not a good tool when it gets bastardized into a product management/planning/feature request tool. As a developer for them I was keenly aware of this flaw.

I've tried it in other contexts since leaving and it hasn't been a fit. Prefer HipChat/Trello.

I've found this to be absolutely true as well. It's astounding what a boon it's been to get on an early schedule where I 1) wake up without an alarm, 2) watch the sun come up, and 3) deliberately avoid mail, news, twitter, etc. for the first several hours that I'm awake.

The most recent experiment has been a regularly scheduled nap in the afternoon, which I find allows me to get to bed later but still feel rested when I wake up.

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See footnote ;-)

I really like that, thanks. It would have fit well, and I remember reading that post, so I'm a little disappointed I didn't weave it in somehow.

Same here - I like both actually. If you foul out in basketball it indicates that you were playing a hard, scrappy game, so again, not too far from the world of startups. The baseball interpretation has the added implication that instead of "hitting a home run" or even a "single" or a "double", you got things off the ground but didn't get past that.

Kudos for having the gumption to write this all down. Best of luck at Twilio. They're lucky to have landed you.

Cake Health is looking for our first full-time employee to help us tackle the huge problem of health care costs in the US. We're in the Bay Area (San Francisco, Mountain View, Palo Alto for the Ctrl+F'ers).

The product to date has been built on Ruby on Rails + mySQL + jQuery, so fluency with those is a plus. We're moving on to tackle some larger problems, though, so I'm far more interested in what you've done than what you've done it with.

More info at http://cakehealth.com/jobs

Bay Area, CA

Cake Health is building tools to make the health insurance industry more transparent. We help people and companies make more informed decisions about their health care.

We're built on Rails, mySQL, HAML, SASS, and jQuery, and we use Git and Rspec to keep us sane. We're looking for people who can speak the language fluently in at least a few of those areas and can order dinner in all of them (or could at least ask for directions and figure something out).

More at http://cakehealth.com/jobs

This is a great point, and something we're definitely aware of. The short story is that we think it's worth the trouble to build something that provides this for the end user, and we've made some significant progress on that path already. As a shameless plug, if you're interested in helping us get there, we're hiring: cakehealth.com/jobs

He's actually moved on to Google Ventures: http://www.google.com/ventures/joe-kraus.html