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I generally try to be encouraging of people putting themselves out there to create something new, but I'm worried that you're creating a pretty serious moral hazard for the founder…

Very cool! Reminds me of all the fun I had with Rocky's Boots on Apple II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots

In my experience, it's mostly the situations where people give their emails in person that are a problem: Receipts from in-store purchases (and in-store credit card signups), hotel…

"One unusual capability of the Snark missile was its ability to fly away from its launch point for up to 11 hours, and then return for a landing. If its warhead did not detach from…

I built a service around 2005 that did realtime photo sync and sharing from mobile devices. Here's a demo video from 2007 (the most relevant part is around 6:45): https://connected…

For a beginner, I think it's hard to beat "C++ Primer" by Stanley Lippman.

Oh, memories. I took CS107 in 1996, which was apparently the date this handout was written. Nick was my academic advisor, and his CS108 (which was C++ at the time) was one of my fa…

P. Terry's serves "all-natural" beef, but it is not grass-fed. If you want a grass-fed burger in Austin, try Wholly Cow (which is quite a bit more expensive than McDonald's, as you…

I highly recommend Honey Stinger Gold. I had trouble with every other gel I've tried, but I can digest the honey just fine, even without water.

I have a Garmin Fenix 3, and the vibration wakes me up easily. It also goes well over a week between charges, even using the GPS heavily. Long battery life is important for a watch…

I find it interesting that people are complaining both about the lack of a web app and about Google keeping message history on their servers. I'm assuming they will eventually buil…

Wow, that was harsh. If startups were assigned to the Deadpool based solely on whether their 1.0 products were ready to immediately disrupt billion dollar industries, there wouldn'…

> If an employee generated no additional income to it's employer, there would be no reason to hire him in the first place. The thing to remember here is that hiring managers aren't…

I'm pretty sure we didn't do that. :) Unfortunately, this is one of the reasons we've been reluctant to publicize GitTogether. You never know if the login will work or the contact …

Not sure what to say about signaling other than handling all the edge cases takes a non-trivial amount of effort and testing (which is true of most things in software). Chat is onl…

I can't speak to how the Twilio Client works, but how we're different is easy: We do video. Twilio is only voice.

We don't provide any special support for doing this, but we do give you access to the browser's MediaStream object. You can attach that to an AudioContext and use the web audio API…

We ran this experiment a few times and it took most people about a minute to install Skype if they already had an account, and at least a couple if they did not. On many machines (…

Good feedback. To address your comments: >> This just seems like a wrapper around webrtc, with some presence stuff thrown in. It turns out there is quite a bit of server-side infra…