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Thanks! Admittedly, it’s easier when you build consumer products.

"Making a pop culture reference no one understands" is a punishable rule? Wait... the author works at a game company? How does one build games without understanding pop culture and what people enjoy about it?

This is open to remote hacking too, so join us at twitch.tv/twilio!

I'm very nervous/excited about the live hacking. Eek.

Thanks for letting us know. We'll get that fixed (I'm an employee). Here's the correct link: https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/master/ex...

I think this is saying that even though GitHub is not guilty in this case, sexism is a real issue in the industry.

Nope. IBM was >30% women engineers when I interned there in 2004/2005. About half the interns were women and there was plenty of racial diversity as well. My boss was a woman, my mentor was a woman, and frankly it was the most diverse place I have ever worked.

Thanks for mentioning these. I sleep on my back, occasionally with my arms above my head. I'll see if I changing my sleep position helps!

I've only had sleep paralysis a couple times and I agree that it is AWFUL. I felt like someone was standing in the room with me and was (irrationally) terrified.

I lucid dream far more often, probably once a week. I agree that it's nowhere near as frightening but I find it to be unpleasant as well. It's not very fun to stay dreaming when I know I'm awake.

It's funny but the movie Inception really helped me with my lucid dreams. Falling (in my dreams) will wake me up. I double-check that I'm actually dreaming by flying first (aw yeah, I can fly in my dreams - kind of like swimming in the air). So I'll often wake up by flying high into the sky and then falling to the ground.

GrubHub! My favorite Hub. GitHub is second. Though if they partnered...

Kirsty is the best. She's helped so much with the worst part of startups - the paperwork.

Check the local hospitals? This post currently says nothing about checking hospitals which is the most likely place "missing" people turn up.

I was a beta user for Exec.

I used the website to order a task ahead of time - delivering a burrito to my boyfriend on Valentine's Day! The coolest part was being able to watch the delivery happen in real-time on my iPhone (super cool).

It was an adjustment for me to think of an everyday task that I could outsource. In general, I think that if people can make the mental switch, Exec will be a game changer.

You can unsubscribe from all Convore email here: https://convore.com/settings/notifications/

Just make sure that you sent "Send me summary e-mails" to "Never". Hope that helps!

Past the first plan, the pricing is all $2.50 per user. I like to think of the first plan as the "startup" plan so we made it cheaper. We do offer discounts per user past 50 users.

Not at all! I think it's totally valid to use some gut instinct here.

My instinct is that there's a scale from Facebook -> Twitter -> GitHub in the services that our target audience uses (less nerdy -> more nerdy).

Since GitHub performed better than Twitter (by a significant amount, although that's debatable) then I feel that the Facebook end of that scale isn't worth even testing at all. Instead, it would be more useful to try services on the GitHub end of the scale, such as OpenID or maybe something more novel like BitBucket, Heroku, Dribbble etc.

Nothing negative happened at all! I think the difficult part was realizing that I didn't need so much "stuff" and it took a while to adjust to not owning everything myself. However, I wish I had done this sooner.

I think it's actually an issue of perception. When I hear Jabber or XMPP, I think of one-to-one chat and when I hear IRC I definitely think of group chat. In general, IRC clients seem more tailored towards groups.

That said, there's definitely room for both protocols and I could see supporting XMPP as well at some point.

You're correct - it's a totally new and custom IRC server (for good and bad). We built it as a minimum viable product are continually adding features - both standard IRC features and custom features for our customers.

Thanks for reporting these specific issues. We'll work on getting them fixed.

Thanks!! I'd love to add some file uploading and/or hosting capability. I think it would be easy enough on the website side of things but I'm not sure yet what it would mean for existing IRC clients.

I can actually think of a few good reasons why you might want to remove messages as a moderator. We'll add this soon.

Grove is primarily an IRC server for your business (the client is tangential), so please don't give up! Actually, feel free to send me an email - I'd love to help you get your web client working smoothly with the Grove server.

Agreed. We need to figure out a good way to do better bot integration! (suggestions welcome)

I think this is a super cool idea and it's something I've been thinking a lot about. Right now, existing IRC bots work fine with Grove but it would be cooler to have more integration.

No, it won't remain free forever. Soon we'll having pricing plans that are comparable to existing team chat products.

Sorry, our server is swamped right now. I'm working on it...

Update: I've made a few tweaks and it should be better now. fingers crossed

Thanks! I either missed that or it was an update to the post.

When walking around alone in SF, I'm actually irrationally afraid of getting hit by a car and nobody knowing what happened to me. So yeah, if this is what happened that would be terrible and one of my worst nightmares come true.

Has anyone checked the local hospitals already?

Tracy could have left the bar like her co-workers assumed, only to have some sort of medical emergency (heart attack? Seizure? Hit by a car?).

Hi all,

Convore co-founder here.

The company, Convore, is still very much alive and well.

However, we're currently working on a new, but related, product (https://grove.io/). We're still alpha testing it with a few users, but hope to have it out there soon.

Grove is a little more developer-focused, and my co-founders really wanted to work on a mainstream project. So yes, the Erics left Convore to start a new project, Can't Wait!, an iPhone app for watching new movie trailers.

That being said, the Convore iPad app by jazzychad is fantastic. jazzychad is a really smart guy and an excellent developer and I hope he has a great time working at Twilio (a pretty cool company themselves). I predict the future for jazzychad will be bright. :D

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Probably just searching for a damn pickle.

Agreed. I'm a native English speaker, read constantly, and get the dictionary.com word of the day via their iPhone app. I also scored below average on this test... so I'm calling "bs" on the data.

I think it would be cool to try out something like the game Balderdash. Have the participants select the correct use of the word by selecting the appropriate usage within a sentence?

Also, who actually remembers what they scored on the verbal part of the SAT??