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oxwriston Show HN: Spread bitcoins by lending to friends

Awesome idea! If you just gotten your first bitcoin, you can immediately put it into good use by purchasing the Humble Bundle now (they accept bitcoins): https://www.humblebundle.com/

oxwriston Humble Indie Bundle 8

There goes my productivity for the next 3 days.

oxwriston World's tallest skyscraper to be built in just 90 days

Awesome feature by Wired about the man behind this: http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/broad-sustainable-buildi...

HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4574100

oxwriston The Aha Moments That Made Paul Graham's Y Combinator Possible

The lesson is simple--what constitutes true creativity is the openness and adaptability of our spirit. When we see or experience something we must be able to look at it from several angles, to see other possibilities beyond the obvious ones. We imagine that the objects around us can be used and co-opted for different purposes. We do not hold on to our original idea out of sheer stubbornness, or because our ego is tied up with its rightness. Instead, we move with what presents itself to us in the moment, exploring and exploiting different branches and contingencies. We thus manage to turn feathers into flying material. The difference then is not in some initial creative power of the brain, but in how we look at the world and the fluidity with which we can reframe what we see. Creativity and adaptability are inseparable.

What a huge load of bull (in the last paragraph) on an otherwise good story (albeit some inaccuracies) of how pg started YC.

oxwriston Electronic demon costume is surprisingly unnerving

More http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OsnGvxxQ54&feature=relmf...

oxwriston Batch is shutting down

What would you do with the domain name?

oxwriston Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

At least it's not Tampon anymore. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4484526

oxwriston Cocoa: A new social network for fun, collaborative studying

Adding a "Show HN" tag and opening the site to let us try (instead of requesting invites) would help.

oxwriston Ask HN: Non-valley startup guy. How do I find an entrepreneur community?

http://nreduce.com/ is pretty awesome.

oxwriston “Growth Hacking” is BS

It's different in a way that growth hacking looks at retention and marketing doesnt.

oxwriston Light Table (Kodowa) is hiring

"Tell us a time you hacked a non-computer system to your advantage."

Sounded like YC application?

oxwriston Growth Hacking 101: Your First 500,000 Users

Can OP post a summary of the talk? The slides aren't very helpful...

oxwriston MetaLab's Andrew Wilkinson redesigns TED.com

It's pretty, but that's about it. I like the current design better.

oxwriston Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo

Or you could just use BitBucket.

oxwriston Hacker Monthly #27 is out

Yup. There's ad, but very little (4-5 pages)

oxwriston Just pay me.

Similar (but more entertaining): Fuck You, Pay Me http://vimeo.com/22053820

oxwriston Talent Acquisitions

Thank you, Marco. If only more people would think the same...

oxwriston Pixate - beautiful native mobile apps with CSS

is this not backwards in any ways?

oxwriston TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox

Certainly not the first. I remembered there's Loopt acquiring GraffitiGeo but I'm sure there's more: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/20/mobile-social-network-wars-...

oxwriston Ask HN: Best Display to Code & Design?

I switched to iMac 27" and it has made all the difference.