kenperkins

Good Ol Hacker News, regurgitating something from 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031699

That said, Aseem is very sharp. Nice to see this come up for discussion again.

This has been addressed on http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/

tl;dr:

In conclusion, in 1892 an important precursor of this family of expressions was published. The author was W. H. Davenport Adams, and his words may have influenced the version that T. H. Eliot published in 1920.

Full Disclosure: I'm the lead node.js developer advocate for Rackspace

As it turns out, we're announcing our node.js SDK plans (with support) today:

http://devops.rackspace.com/pkgcloud-update.html

one of the early name ideas for Clipboard was tidbit. :)

My first reaction to "Free. Open." is where's the github link? I know you're funding the development with KickStarter, but free and open projects should still having the planning and initial development in the open. That way you can get feedback more easily, solicit contributors, as well as get early adopters.

If you want me to give you money, I'd like to see progress (and provide feedback) along the way, not just wait for the v1.0 release.

So in this case, it seems like you're using "Free and Open" as a label to get interest, but you're not really that keen on actually being open.

This doesn't apply for Chrome or Firefox, as the favicon goes in the tab, not in the address bar.

I think because some class of people wonder if a $5 app would better perform. I think it's hard for 53 to succeed that way however, because you have a finite number of users.

By making features an in-app purchase, they effectively monetize users going from version 1 to version 2, and so on. If you used the up-front payment model, new versions of the app would have to be a different app to continually monetize it, which would have a number of it's own problems.

Using eBay these days feels like playing World of Warcraft.

If you're a high level eBay user, it's a fantastic place to move goods, but god forbid someone new signs up to buy or sell something. Just like what it must be like to sign up and play World of Warcraft for the first time.

Clipboard dev here, wanted to share one tidbit that isn't featured in the blog.

If you highlight and copy in Chrome, you can paste straight into Clipboard, without having to do anything other than have the page open. It's by far my favorite new feature, and is worth pointing out.

I'm sure I fixed this, can you check the cache? (We should be properly cache busting).

We fixed it on the blog. We still have to address it on the main site. Google's Open Sans looks awesome on OSX and Windows/IE & Firefox. But it's totally busted on Chrome on W7. Go Figure.

thanks! We're going to change that font ASAP.

It was very well said by gwf: This is a race to the bottom in terms of sustainable pricing. I love the free plan but who knows how it'll play long term.

Nothing jumps out at me as significant to bump the version to 0.9. Can someone explain what makes certain changes worthy of the version change?

Having the comfort access feature, and having a car stolen many years ago, there's no way I would trade one of my most enjoyed features for a lower risk of car theft.

The reality is that if someone wants your car they're going to get it.

Why get rid of an awesome convenience feature for the risk of something that is a) unlikely and b) won't cost you anything (absent a small deductible) if it does happen?

I prefer the term "Services" over "Operations".

Services is where the logic of your application should live, and services should be HTTP (or any protocol) agnostic. They should only speak in models and native types, and should abstract all of your logic away from your controllers and models.

This leaves the controllers as a thin http handling layer that parses inputs and then lets the service handle the work.

The response from the service is then transformed appropriately (JSON, HTML, etc) and sent back to the caller.

Just my $0.02

You're correct, we missed that when I updated the blog to a new look last night. We've already rolled out a fix. Sorry about that!

Whoops. We reskinned the blog late last night and missed this. Thanks for the tip, I've already updated the blog.

I've actually been curating this set for a little while. http://clipboard.com/ken/nodejs_modules

Shoot me a mail, ken@.

We actually do have a chrome and firefox extension. You can find them at http://clipboard.com/tools

That said, we haven't put the chrome extension in the webstore yet because we haven't yet opened up the service for public signup. As soon as we do it'll be in the chrome store.

Thanks for the compliment and finding a good bug (deleting from a clip page). I don't know why we didn't fix that sooner. Already rolled out a fix.

Regarding the welcome email and the confirmation email, we saw a hacker news post that shared we'd have better success when the confirmation email had a clear and actionable subject. http://clipboard.com/clip/LQiJMrYD7dhXX8DWhgOoKa8A2PHm_0fHaw...

I'd love to use Stripe, however the 2.9% fee is a total deal breaker. I'm currently using Payflow Link (by PayPal and Verisign) and I pay a flat rate of $20 a month plus 500 incl monthly transactions. I can get more at 0.10 per transaction. And after that it's all done with my Merchant account, which I've been able to negotiate down below 2%.

When you're doing hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more for you big guys) in credit card transactions, eating 1% just for a friendly API is a huge turnoff.

Please Stripe, prove me wrong and provide an external merchant account option!