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One difference to note is that HTTY puts you in a REPL-like environment instead of being a one-shot command like curl.

Hi Mike, please, no need to apologize for the delay. I really appreciate you taking the time to look at this. These are all great points, especially regarding the signup process an…

Mike, wow...thanks for the offer. I re-launched my site as a paid service about a month ago. It is an online text editor for Dropbox. (I guess you can disregard this if you are not…

Using Node has helped me think more in terms of streams because the APIs afford such thinking. PHP has streams but I never thought to use them, and I haven't really seen it done. N…

Learning Backbone is a great way to get practice with MVC and the "Observer" pattern if you haven't done it before. Also it's a much better way of organizing your DOM structure tha…

I'm working on http://www.textdropapp.com

I agree. I don't know about TCP behavior, but this seems really wrong in the sense that it ignores HTTP semantics of GET and POST. I imagine this could cause unintended effects in …

I keep 2 plain text files: 1. backlog.txt - a list of all potential ideas and tasks 2. changelog.txt - a list of iterations/versions/milestones Whenever I have an idea or bug, I ad…

I thought myself geeky for making this PDF cheat sheet, but now I see it's perfectly normal to do this sort of thing. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/222781/HTTP%20Status%20Code%20Defini..…

Cool. I wanted to do something just like this, except the messages would decay over time.

This is an app I whipped up a few weekends ago, inspired by Plaintex on the iPhone. It uses Sinatra on the backend to proxy to the Dropbox API. A newer version uses Backbone.js on …

Euler's identity blew me away when I first learned it a year ago: e^iπ + 1 = 0

me!

I don't remember ever playing a game this simple that made me start giggling.

You are correct, sir. Equity in this company would be worthless to me, just a token of their appreciation.

You could say that I assumed the general risk of dealing with people, but amirmc is correct that I did not assume any formal business risk. I.e., I did not receive stock options or…

Yes, the other employees that have beef are taking it up with the CEO. I wasn't a real "CTO" as you one might think. But as far as that small company was concerned, I was responsib…

I've heard that through the grapevine, and other commenters have concurred, but I've never confirmed it. Update: according to 11 USC Section 507, wages fall in 3rd place. I am not …

I think you hit the nail there in that I'm really curious on how to solve the social problem in more of a win-win way as you described. I would probably break down and rank the pro…

Thanks very much for your advice and sharing your story, it is really helping me think through this situation.

Thanks for your comment trizk. I think you capture what I mostly feel in my gut. I really do feel like the CEO really believes in the company to a fault. His gift and curse seems t…