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austinstorm··on Bitcoin near collapse
I love the quote "Having Mt. Gox shut down is to bitcoin what having the New York Stock Exchange shut down is to our equity market," said James Angel, a professor of finance at Georgetown University.

If the NYSE was a lemonade stand.

austinstorm··on Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat
Gosh, that doesn't seem like a good sign?
austinstorm··on A recreation of the first level of Super Mario Bros. in Python
Neat project! You should to tutorials - it's a great learning example
austinstorm··on The Kitchener Snack Bar
It's a cool juxtaposition - I think it communicates the right expectations (good food in a casual space).
austinstorm··on UBook – Markdown for eBooks
Yeah, you clearly have never made an eBook. It's a jungle out there.
austinstorm··on A Facebook Life
I really like this piece. Something different and more 'humanities' focused than Techcrunch normally does.
austinstorm··on Startups that have bootstrapped their way to profitability
Yeah, if you're going to call all of these bootstrapped you could include Wordpress, which is dramatically more successful than the ones on the list.
austinstorm··on Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3
Looks good, but it's hard to give feedback on just a splash screen. I look forward to checking it out!
austinstorm··on Ask HN: How do you store and organize your startup ideas?
A Composition Book (the black and white marbled cover notebooks). I go back occasionally and put stars in the margins for ideas that don't seem stupid with a little distance.
austinstorm··on Please, don't buy my book on Amazon
Yeah, this is really confusing. Small bookstores would typically get this book through a distributor like Ingram, which might take a similar or higher percentage than Amazon. This is just a misguided publicity stunt based on misinformation.
austinstorm··on Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched
Beautiful - cheers for Stack Overflow.
austinstorm··on 'Shouting' vs Conversing on Social Media
Dang, I didn't get 'hard sell' at all from the Pocketbook tweet. I thought it was a straightforward suggestion to try an alternative, keyword being 'try'.
austinstorm··on Who needs 'internet' when we have fax? An 'expert's' view from 1996
The kicker is at the end, when he calls the Internet a fad, "like skateboarding or mountain bikes." I hope this is real.
austinstorm··on Why the Internet Archive sucks and what we can do about it
Wasn't sure where this article was going, and then realized... oh, he's critiquing the UI. Cheap.
austinstorm··on Scripts from over 10,000 movies
Tragically, not scripts. Transcripts from closed-captioning.
austinstorm··on So, I tried Dwolla
I had to email them some PDFs to get verified, but nothing compared to the hassles I've suffered at PayPal's hands over the years.
austinstorm··on If I Made Another Monkey Island...
Living up to his name, and yet I still want him to TAKE MY MONEY NOW
austinstorm··on The Payphone Project
Well done, I love this stuff.
austinstorm··on Bitcoin bubble may have burst
Apparently yes.
austinstorm··on Help, I want to quit the startup I founded
Agreed - the way out is the way through, I think.
austinstorm··on Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads
Nobody's talking about Shelfari, which hasn't changed since 2008 when Amazon acquired it. It got frozen in time.
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