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thomasvendettaon Show HN: ShotBlocker - iOS screenshot detector a la Snapchat/Poke

With apps like Facebook Poke or SnapChat the content you're sending is ephemeral (it won't be around forever).

Developers of these types of apps can't necessarily prevent a screenshot from happening but you they can at least notify the user who sent the content that a screenshot was taken, which in turn lets them know not to trust the receiver.

thomasvendettaon Merry Christmas boys

Gonna stand out on a limb for my 4 sisters and fix that for you:

Merry Christmas girls and boys.

;)

thomasvendettaon We made a mistake

Mistakes happen.

thomasvendettaon Kim Dotcom's new Mega project

I especially like the DMCA callout on the Hosting Partner's page:

Unfortunately we can't work with hosting companies based in the United States. Safe harbour for service providers via the Digital Millenium Copyright Act has been undermined by the Department of Justice with its novel criminal prosecution of Megaupload. It is not safe for cloud storage sites or any business allowing user generated content to be hosted on servers in the United States or on domains like .com / .net. The US government is frequently seizing domains without offering service providers a hearing or due process.

thomasvendettaon The Internet is experiencing severe outages across North American and Asia

Even from NJ we're currently experiencing intermittent packet loss to some of our linodes hosted in the NJ datacenter... very odd.

thomasvendettaon Ask HN:How much is too much competition to enter a market?

You should shoot me an e-mail and we should talk :) My information is in my profile.

thomasvendettaon Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone)

haha, I've still got the costume..

thomasvendettaon Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone)

I never graduated, so I probably won't ever apply to Google.

thomasvendettaon Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone)

I learned about the Anatomy of a Hoax the hard way.

When I was younger I tried to play a trick on my friends by making them think Google had hired me as their youngest employee. Turns out I not only tricked my friends but half of the tech news/blogosphere, despite my press release being full of spelling and grammar errors.

I learned a lot that week about the internet, the media, and my parents...

Context: http://news.cnet.com/GoogleNewsdumpspartnerafterprankitemapp...

thomasvendettaon 10 things you didn't know Ruby could do

Video of him giving this talk on a previous date:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRfJ9lni4QA

thomasvendettaon Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

To the bitbucket team:

Please keep on doing what you are doing. Your service and this new redesign is awesome, and my team and myself wouldn't be where we are without you.

We're a small team of young developers working on a startup for the past few months. We haven't launched yet so we're obviously not profitable, but the fact that you've enabled us to make it as far as we have also ensures that when we are in a position to pay for software development tools they will come from a brand we know, trust, and love: Atlassian.

Also, you should update the Atlassian Store with t-shirts and other swag.

Once again, great job, thank you, and keep on keepin' on.

thomasvendettaon Ask HN: Would you pay for this?

Have you checked out Airtime? airtimehq.com

thomasvendettaon [dead]

If the link doesn't work type http://beta.usatoday.com manually in your browser and then hit cancel on the authentication. Not sure why it doesn't work coming from HN.

thomasvendettaon Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

I just deployed a project to layar.fluxflex.com.. It says it's deployed, but I get a 404. Any ideas?

thomasvendettaon Show HN: Design Patterns for Startups

Why not write it in Markdown, makes for easier reading on GitHub and provides the possibility to parse and publish later on.