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Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right

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Re: Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right

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Post by lanstein »

p_trumpet wrote: post #9

I can confirm that the email is the one I passed on to Jacques. The PayPal account is a legit one I have used in the past and is registered under the business name Tattam Software. If I encounter any problems I will look into the other option. Thanks all... I had honestly thought the Internet had forgotten about me. Peter

Thank you.

Re: Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right

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Post by seldo »

Donated. As a closeted gay teenager, Trumpet was the software that got me in touch with the people who literally saved my life. I could never thank this guy enough.

(Edit: if you felt like making another worthy donation, the Youth Guard mailing lists are the people I'm referring to -- http://www.youth-guard.org/youth/ . I cannot overstate the impact they had on my life.)

Re: Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right

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Post by jedsmith »

lanstein wrote: post #21
jedsmith wrote: post #14

Hacker News giving Reddit a run for its money? Bravo.

HN is kicking Reddit's ass, actually.

Reddit has the donate to a shiny object market cornered at the moment, at least from my reading. It's a good market to disrupt.

Re: Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right

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Post by ck2 »

Just a warning, if it's a new paypal account and there are a bunch of donations, PayPal will lock the account and keep the money for themselves until he runs their gauntlet.

Actually, they'll sometimes do that on accounts that are a decade old, but new accounts especially.

Maybe use WePay instead with a target amount?

Re: Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right

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Post by jedsmith »

seldo wrote: post #24

Donated. As a closeted gay teenager, Trumpet was the software that got me in touch with the people who literally saved my life. I could never thank this guy enough. (Edit: if you felt like making another worthy donation, the Youth Guard mailing lists are the people I'm referring to -- http://www.youth-guard.org/youth/ . I cannot overstate the impact they had on my life.)

There's no easy way to word what I came away from your comment with, so I'll just get it out there: your comment was exceedingly enlightening. I doubt that during the development of Trumpet anybody thought they were saving even one life (it's a sockets API!), and your story speaks volumes about how programmers can touch lives in ways they'd never imagine during development.

Moral I learned: it's really easy to underestimate impact. I'm personalizing that to relate to development, but I think it's applicable to a lot of what we do.

Thank you for sharing your story. Even though it wasn't directed at me, it gave me considerable pause and something to think about.

Re: Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right

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Post by mixmastamyk »

tuhin wrote: post #11
p_trumpet wrote: post #9

I can confirm that the email is the one I passed on to Jacques. The PayPal account is a legit one I have used in the past and is registered under the business name Tattam Software. If I encounter any problems I will look into the other option. Thanks all... I had honestly thought the Internet had forgotten about me. Peter

With Paypal's history, I normally keep clearing them to my bank as they keep reaching a certain limit of say $1000. I mean I know it is stupid and misses the entire point of Paypal, but I would rather do this than my account being frozen.

1000? How 'bout a hundred?
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