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This is cool but, oh boy, a mute button that makes a sound when you click it is user hostile.

This is more or less what my lawyer suggested when I set up my will with her. Apparently very few people have ever asked her about this. I don’t think it has yet become part of the…

Nerdiest gang signs ever.

Unreadable.

Either that or you have a pretty fucked up model for love.

Dude, it really isn't like seeing someone you love dying from cancer.

Tea bags on strings make steeping time really controllable. There are pack-your-own tea bag systems too here in the UK but I think most people would rather just have something good…

Note that he wants to create a lifestyle business, not a startup. Not sure how important scalability is for that.

Programmers are really boring analogy whalers, out at sea forever hunting their perfect, elusive, bloody boring, analogs.

I just finished reading Dark Star — an entertaining scifi noir epic poem set on a planet with a dead sun. It isn't going to tell you about the practicalities of this type of thing …

I interviewed someone who had a failed startup. He couldn't tell me what he would do differently if he was to do it all over again. It didn't fill me with confidence that he's lear…

You could turn off bluetooth, that would lock Coin, after a period.

Fascinating. Thanks for the post. Not sure what your unfair advantage is here, perhaps being part of the community? What barriers do you have to competition from a one or two perso…

Why on Earth would you want to be notified about email? Letting other people choose when you can be interrupted sounds awful.

Our entire cash outlay, pre-revenue, not including founders time, was about £1,000. We bought a VM, a domain name, a copy of Flash to build an little interactive game our domain re…

On finding a business partner: do some sort of tangible work with them before you start on a larger project, make sure you've got some seriously deep social validation of them and …

Finding a business partner you trust and who shares a vision for the company and then getting the fuck on with it seems like a better approach. I agree with @hmurakami on this: htt…

I think that "be a payment provider" is a much easier thing to think than it is to do. While it may be easy to build the customer side of the equation you've got to build a vast ne…

I'd add that everyone knows about paying for a subscription to a magazine and everyone knows about paying for advertising so you won't have to teach people about the value (or not)…

You're overcomplicating things. Pick the simplest idea to implement and then test it by offering it to the market. See if it works, go from there. And just do one thing to start wi…

Is there a plan to profit share with authors at some point? Will the editor simply continue to rule out those that ask for payment for their work? Presumably there's some reasonabl…

Charge money for it. Charge money for advertising in it.

No. I think the tech industry should learn how congress works and beat these fuckers at their own game.

Again, it's not the fixed cost. It's your per transaction pricing that has doubled so over the lifetime of your business and as you grow you'll pay 40c instead of 20c every month f…

None of these guys pay the banks. Their customers are already paying a for payment gateway for that service, they sit on top providing recurring billing and subscription management…