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The Reply All podcast had a pretty interesting episode on this recently: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/44-shine-on-you-crazy-goldma...

A hard-to-escape useless page, too. Don't break my back button, please.

Oh, thank god Louis CK has covered this. Case closed, then.

And, they're gone.

Completely breaks swipe-back gesture in Chrome on a Mac. In a really weird way. Left and right swiping takes you up and down the page. Really awkward.

Some people might tell you it's the only thing that is worth it. I'm paraphrasing here, but Fred Wilson just today said that the way to succeed is to work on things that nobody else things will succeed, and succeed.

> First and foremost, we will be significantly expanding our manufacturing and shipping capabilities. This process has already begun with two new manufacturers that will ramp up our production to more than fifty times its previous rate allowing us to vigorously tackle our order backlog while working toward imminent real-time shipping fulfillment.

This is a pretty great bundle, even if you only redeem a couple of the offers like myself.

Wunderlist and Scribd alone make this an easy purchase for me; I was going to buy Wunderlist Pro yesterday, so this is perfect.

> It'd probably take a couple hours to walk between Mandalay Bay and Encore

I've only done that particular walk once, but walking from Tropicana to Encore (a bit farther than Mandalay - Encore) took about 45 minutes I believe; a bit of a trek, but definitely manageable.

I think in an entire week on the strip, I took a cab exactly twice; once from the airport to the strip, and once to a shopping mall off the strip. Had Uber been around when I was there, I certainly would have used it more.

I think you know this isn't what he meant.

What an immature post. I get what they;re saying, but it really could have been phrased better.

Do you, or have you ever run a business?

Quite experienced in building developer communities around platforms. Whether you're looking to kickstart an ecosystem or grow an existing one further, I have solid knowledge of the process from a software and business perspective. I currently run Shopify's App Store ecosystem which does millions of dollars/year in revenue for our partners.

Reach out to me if there's any way I can help: blair@shopify.com

That's a whole lot of meaningless bullshit talking about how awesome you were to get to a single line of relevancy.

I love what Zapier has done for integrating services. Keep it up guys.

Just a few weeks ago, I was walking home from work and witnessed one homeless man suckerpunch another in the face, knocking him off balance on ice and causing him to fall straight back and crack his head open on the ice. There was an instant pool of blood that started spreading quickly, with other homeless people scattering instantly. A cop arrived on the scene almost immediately.

I was incredibly surprised reading this that 87% had TBI before becoming homeless. I wonder what the numbers are for repeated TBI after becoming homeless among those that had their first instance pre-homelessness.

I hired one. She got rejected from my company for a developer position, but I hired her for my team anyways for a hybrid business development/programming role.

This was ~2 months ago; she's learned enough in two months that we're going to hire her at the end of her contract as a full-time Rails developer. I'm not sure that the 10 week bootcamp was enough for her to pass our screening, but in the two months she's been here she's more than proved herself as capable.

As a business guy, I can't comment much on why she was denied originally, but so far it's worked out.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7557284

Gosh, I hope not. If anything, they should raise their prices.

This is really neat. What generation's sprites did you use? Are they all from the same generation? I wonder how, if at all, the palettes change over the years given new sprites coming out.

I would agree that the men who would hit a woman would almost exclusively fall in to the group who would grope them and say inappropriate things to them. However, I know way more otherwise well-socially-adjusted men who would make sexist comments but would never hit a woman.

I guess I'm sorry (sarcastic). Thanks for the knowledge, though. That's helpful (not sarcastic).

disclaimer: I'm on her side.

I've never really understood the potential-physical-confrontation argument. It must be a very, very small minority of men who's first reaction to being embarrassed and shamed by a woman is to physically assault her in public?

I agree wholeheartedly with this article, however I don't think it's fair to use such a wide brush. "This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at _This_ Bitcoin Meetup" would have been more appropriate. There are bad apples in every community, and it certainly sounds like the author met some, but it's important to realize that a few bad apples don't ruin the whole bushel.

You are wrong, and a part of the problem.

Seems like a cool project, but you might want so consider changing the name, given that CodeBox has been around for years: http://www.shpakovski.com/codebox/

You shouldn't, it doesn't, and they aren't.

Thanks so much for the kind words Visakan. Always a pleasure.

Feel free to reach out to me (email in profile) – I have previously organized a bunch of events and meetups in Ottawa and am fairly connected to the scene. Can probably point you in the right direction.

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