trevorcreech

Yup, the ATM is being operated by a Vancouver Bitcoin store called http://www.bitcoiniacs.com

Sorry, forgot about this thread! We were first-to-market (may have had insider information about the Facebook Timeline launch...), and got on Mashable. Spread through the blogs and hit #1 on Google for "Cover Photos". We've stuck that #1 spot and it's where 80% of our traffic comes from.

Summary of how he got caught: https://medium.com/p/d48995e8eb5a

$2500/mo from AdSense on http://coverphotofinder.com/

Zero-maintenance, which is nice.

Hey pg, the date on the apply page (https://news.ycombinator.com/apply) is still from the summer term. Cheers.

But how did you know they were making money?

Where do your BCC payments go now?

This is some of the first non-trivial code I ever wrote: http://trevorcreech.com/tmp/SHOOTEM.BAS

I loved QBasic.

They already changed it: http://i.imgur.com/NzCo3ns.png

`git add -p` splits your changes into logical chunks and lets you choose whether to stage each on.

Check out the "iOS apprentice" tutorials. I think they cost about $30, but it walks you through building 4 non-trivial apps with full source code. It also targets iOS 5 and 6, so most of the cool new features (automatic memory management anyone?) are covered.

It's probably using Bluetooth Low Energy, which is not available on the iPhone 4. The iPad mini should work, but its obviously up to automatic whether they build an iPad app.

The founders are all Mechatronics grads from uWaterloo, so they know what they're talking about.

I love building stuff with Rails, but these last few weeks are making me glad I'm not maintaining it in production.

Blitline is doing it: http://www.blitline.com/

This is exactly how the Samwer brothers are making boatloads of money: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-...

Obviously auto-popup modals are bad, but modals are great for signup and login forms.

If you read that original article, they were harvested from a 3rd party Facebook App. http://talkweb.eu/openweb/1819

Ha, I remember using this for backups before I had even heard of ftp.

Check out vidyard.com to get analytics on the video directly.

It looks similar, but is much faster since it loads folder and file views without a page reload.

Wait, is the whole company for sale, or just the domain name?

Wikipedia has a good interpretation:

[Those] buffalo(es) from Buffalo [that are intimidated by] buffalo(es) from Buffalo intimidate buffalo(es) from Buffalo.

Cmd+? We have the technology.

I guess they deserve each other.

Treetop for Ruby looks pretty cool too: http://treetop.rubyforge.org/