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ivey

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Rioter.

Twitter: ivey Email: ivey@gweezlebur.com

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ivey··on A pull request for a privacy policy
How it should be done everywhere. So many things about your project impress me.
ivey··on Rate my startup: www.askforadeal.com
Clickable link: http://askforadeal.com/
ivey··on More on splitting equity 50/50 or not
I'm saying that the article is correct, and also that I personally only want to do companies that fall into what he calls the fairness category.

The article does not say that 50/50 makes sense if and only if you bring equal things to the table. That's an unequal split argument in disguise.

Out of curiosity, do you want a larger stake because you want more money, more control, both, or for some other reason?

ivey··on More on splitting equity 50/50 or not
I wouldn't start a company with someone where the relationship wasn't based on fairness. If I don't trust my potential co-founders enough to share the company equally, they shouldn't be my co-founders.

EDIT: s/your/my/, s/you/I/ ... my personal position may not be best for you.

ivey··on Ask HN: What's the average salary for a Web Python Developer in California?
Why do you value your abilities so little?

The company should pay you what you're worth to them, not the minimum you need to survive comfortably.

ivey··on [dead]
My Dominos does a large 1 topping for $5.99.
ivey··on Getaround: Peer-to-peer car sharing and car rental startup
I swear I thought the headline said "cat sharing" when it came up in my feed reader.
ivey··on “OK, but there are two rules…”
And now I want bourbon.

Is 1:30 too early?

ivey··on This is a news website article about a scientific paper
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1731183
ivey··on Twitter 'onmouseover' security flaw widely exploited
It's patched now.
ivey··on Startup Update: Notifo iPhone App v2, More
Congrats, guys. This is excellent sauce.
ivey··on A Hit Song on YouTube, Unnameable on the Radio
Do you mean the FCC, or are you making a trade argument?
ivey··on It’s Time To Reinvent The Signature Page
http://www.docusign.com/ was also mentioned
ivey··on Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast
Radiolab and You Look Nice Today are already mentioned several times.

Lately I've really been enjoying Risk: http://risk-show.com/ Honest stories people thought they'd never share.

ivey··on Venture Pimp: Mixest is like Pandora but without all that thinking attached
Except that T61 destroyed their usability in the name of a shiny new design, and drove away a ton of active users. I loved the old T61, but find the new site completely unusable.
ivey··on Self-Tracking
Article is much better than the title suggests. Worth a read.
ivey··on Startup banks on Twitter for online payments
Founder of Twitpay here...our RT2Give service, which we're launching as part of this transition, will be clearing the payments directly, not with PayPal. Our personal payments service (twitpay.me) will continue to use PayPal.
ivey··on JQuery 1.4 and Malformed JSON
Ah, my URL had the utm_* params in it. I was surprised it wasn't already posted. Oh well, at least more people are seeing/discussing.
ivey··on [dead]
Amen. Also, your "simple question" may have 2 or 3 varyingly complex answers, and I don't know how much info you need, and the context for your question can make it much easier for me to give you an answer.

However, I try to explain that when I ask, "Why do you ask?" so people know I'm not just being a dick. Still bugs my wife, though.

ivey··on Comparing Github and Bitbucket
So, there's not really much difference, except that you get 1 free private repo on BB, and GH likes to drink more.
ivey··on Your favorite text editor anywhere
I'm downloading the source now to see how to hack it in. Someone with Cocoa skills should be able to move that to a preference...it's ridiculous to only support autodetection.
ivey··on Using WIP branches to save every edit
Anyone have it working in Emacs? I may fool around with it tonight, if not, and see if I can get it working.
ivey··on BabyZoink: semi-unique name generator
They should do one for startups.
ivey··on NoSQL with MySQL in Ruby - Friendly
The difference is that it's schema-less on the backend. It's using MySQL to store JSON (I assume), so schema changes happen at the code level, not at the database level. Like a NoSQL approach that uses MySQL as the backend.
ivey··on Generic Actions in Rails 3
I absolutely love seeing how Rails 3 is maturing. The fact that it seems to be truly Merb-flavored probably has something to do with that.

This isn't just "Rails can do what Django does" ... it's why it can, and how that could be used to do lots of other cool stuff.

ivey··on World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem
Following the derail a little further...while you got my vote for the pedantipoint, the misuse of "beg the question" is so pervasive that I've given up. It means what people use it to mean, now. We probably need a new name for the logical fallacy, unless lumping it into circular reasoning is sufficient.
ivey··on Ask HN: What do you use for issue tracking?
We use a combination of Tender for front-end support and Lighthouse for issue management. Lighthouse has nice integration with Tender and Github.
ivey··on Text Your Bill Venmo.com
Stolen cards is a huge issue. I actually think being a smaller "Penn students and surrounding businesses" type of play would make it easier...there's less incentive for the online-only stolen card gangs to take over.
ivey··on Request for Beta Testers: TweetHook.com - twitter search webhooks
Very cool idea. I wish I had time to make a toy Compojure example tonight.
ivey··on Wherein Twestival screw us over with their egregious unprofessionalism.
And in case others missed the point, his site isn't that color in some kind of tribute...his site is that color because he's jwz, and he wrote vast swathes of Mozilla, and he can make his website any color he wants.
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