kortina
Re:I, Backpack
on Sunday March 22, 2020 @01:28PM (#22656715)
These wikipedia edits kind of underscore the point in a sad/funny way.
Updated the post with some of this research y'all did: https://s3.amazonaws.com/4rk/screen-shot-2020-03-22-10.25.27... . Thanks again for sharing the edit history you found!
Re:I, Backpack
on Sunday March 22, 2020 @01:05PM (#22656521)
Wow, good find! I'll add this set of links to the post. Quote was def there when I was first writing the post.
Re:I, Backpack
on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:13PM (#22652375)
y'all are right it's not the point, but here is the hn exclusive closure: https://s3.amazonaws.com/4rk/screen-shot-2020-03-21-20.12.13...
Re:Braintree Buys Venmo for $26.2 Million
on Thursday August 16, 2012 @07:13PM (#4394154)
That's a tradition--we'll be doing the same at pennapps again in a few weeks.
Re:Braintree Buys Venmo for $26.2 Million
on Thursday August 16, 2012 @03:32PM (#4393215)
Woops, that's http://bit.ly/venmo-bt
Re:Braintree Buys Venmo for $26.2 Million
on Thursday August 16, 2012 @03:15PM (#4393116)
Thanks, Ivan. For those who are wondering, the Venmo apps aren't going away: http://bit.ly/bt-venmo
Re:Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?
on Saturday July 16, 2011 @10:48AM (#2770860)
I always felt there were lots of gymnastics required to get data into a suitable format for Google charts (filling zeroes in time series, tough to work with multiple series, etc)
Re:Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?
on Thursday July 14, 2011 @03:53PM (#2764756)
Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks for the Rx. Is it pretty quick to work with for you?
Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?
I'm looking for something that looks good crossbrowser, as well as on iPhone/iPad, Android, and is fairly easy to use.
Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011)
on Saturday July 02, 2011 @01:14PM (#2721928)
Venmo - we are going to replace credit cards.
We're hiring in NYC:
* iOS engineers
* Android engineers
* python / platform engineers
Please send some links to apps or projects you have worked on to [email protected] or email me directly - kortina@
Re:Ask HN: What is the recommended style for python function defs w ma...
on Friday April 29, 2011 @01:51PM (#2498278)
Yes, good point about the refactoring.
Ask HN: What is the recommended style for python function defs w many args?
Specifically, do you use multiple lines, and if so, are there any indentation best practices? Or do you always use a single line function definition?
Re:Anyone Know a Good SMS Payment Gateway?
on Sunday April 17, 2011 @11:46AM (#2456330)
Send an email to [email protected] if you would like to play with our beta API.
Low Micronutrient Intake may Contribute to Obesity
Re:Ask HN: What startups are in Philadelphia? (Help me find a job.)
on Thursday June 17, 2010 @12:41PM (#1439469)
Ticketleap, Nearverse, and Duck Duck Go are a couple of other Philly tech companies.
Let me know if you want to grab coffee and chat about the tech scene here.
Re:Ask HN: Can anyone rec a simple templating language implemented in ...
on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @03:32PM (#1436729)
Playing with mustache and liking it so far. Thank you!
Ask HN: Can anyone rec a simple templating language implemented in py and js?
The goal is to be able to present json data as html/ui, and do the rendering both on the server or client side. Most of the time the server app will generate the html when the page first loads, but when a list gets updated via user interaction with javascript, I don't want to have custom javascript duplicating the rendering that happens in my python templates. I have been looking at...
What's the best android app for reading HN?
Would be cool to thumbs up stuff and have stuff cache for reading offline, but that is gravy.
Turning Traditional Tools into Computing/Date Input Devices
HN Request: Please add links to comment threads to @newsycombinator posts
The HN Twiiter account is my favorite source of content, but there's no easy way to find the HN discussion thread. When I read this today, http://twitter.com/newsycombinator/status/7335235548 , I wanted to see what the HN community had to say, but the only way to do so was to go to the main HN site and search for WIP. Very cumbersome.Please vote up if you want discussion thread links on the HN...
Re:Everything is too long
on Friday November 20, 2009 @11:51AM (#952709)
20-30 minutes of content is plenty to satisfy me. I really enjoy the ignite format, where the slides are on a 30sec timer, but they do too many presentations. We need events where there's lots of pressure on the attendees to keep the presentation tight and fewer presentations in the whole event.
Re:Ask HN: Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com
on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @11:34PM (#949739)
A bunch of you all emailed for invites--we're sending a batch out later this week. We'd love to hear more of your thoughts once you use it. A few cursory answers: everything is free for now (we're still trying to figure out what the transaction fees will look like, but they will be competitive with credit card), Paypal is a great comparison and as someone recced with a link Paypal Wars is an awesome read, we love the Godaddy brand too, the syntax is very flexible and constantly adapting to the way people want it to work, if anyone knows the textpayme guys would love to chat with them (i'm @kortina), Fundraiser events-YES!, and yes security and fraud are tough problems but we are eager to tackle them. Think that covers most of them. Again, thanks to those who wished us luck and provided criticism.
Re:Office space in NYC
on Thursday October 01, 2009 @12:49AM (#854346)
In a more informal vein, I just got some space in Soho and am looking to host a semi-regular hackathon. I have done these in Philly in the past, and it has worked as follows. A bunch of people get together for a full day on the weekend, enter with a goal of accomplishing a side project (either a small new project or a piece of a larger project), and we all work from early morning til late night, then get some good food and drink afterwords. At previous hackathons I've gotten iPhone apps and simple web apps built, and they have been great fun. Sometimes it's just motivating to be around a bunch of people who are working something out of passion for creating, and this is a good way to harness that vibe. Get in touch with me if you're in NYC and interested in this sort of thing: @kortina on twitter or the same on gmail.
Re:Tipjoy: are they still around?
on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @08:59PM (#706962)
Good luck with the move! I'll visit next time I'm out there.
Re:Understanding Direct Traffic as Traffic from Shared Links
on Saturday July 11, 2009 @12:29PM (#699337)
I posted here because I thought you guys might have some tips for further refining the estimate and some ideas for other sharing sites to include besides webmail sites and facebook and twitter. Also, I make the claim that most apps that send direct traffic are "sharing" apps - email, twitter and facebook clients, RSS readers. Can you think of any apps that might lead to large amounts of direct traffic that aren't necessarily "sharing" apps?
Understanding Direct Traffic as Traffic from Shared Links
Re:Facebook Vanity URLs Available this Saturday
on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @09:44PM (#650382)
woah, I just noticed names can have "." chars. Who's gonna get "home.php"? ;)
Re:Facebook Vanity URLs Available this Saturday
on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @09:43PM (#650380)
One of the things I always liked about Facebook was the lack of a global namespace. Every name on Facebook was contextual, when you logged in, so that Steve Andersen to me would mean something different than Steve Andersen to you, just like in real life. Sorry to see that go, but I suppose it's a tradeoff and a lot of good things will result from the new namespace.