"I would give YC the same amount of stock for $0. That is to say I'd give them advisor shares just to be involved. That's pretty common. That makes this whole debate irrelevant. It is worth it."
- Ivan Kirigin
rafer: @ivankirgin Just the fact that you touch twitter using more than one UI during each month makes you 3 or 4 standard deviations from Normal. I actually don’t know whether I’m normal. Do you? My question was actually whether it is normal to use _only_ 3rd party clients. I’d bet most people are using _just_ twitter.com. And those doing the API... - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
rafer: jryu: Comparative Estimates: US Unique Visitors to Twitter, September & October 2009 (millions and % change) (via Data on Twitter Decline Stacks Up - eMarketer) Rafer sez: Wow, am I sick of this. Just to make sure — you do know judging Twitter by web visitor traffic is the robust logical equivalent of using a car odometer to measure how far... - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
dice.com: Hi, is this Ivan? [pronounced incorrectly] me: Yes. dice.com: I'm calling from dice.com to see if you're looking to expand your engineering team for tipjoy.com me: Have you been to tipjoy.com recently? dice.com: no me: are you in front of a computer dice.com: yes me: well, go ahead. This should just take a few seconds. ... dice.com: Well... - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
gbattle: Baratunde Thurston - “There’s a #Hashtag For That” - Web2.0 Baratunde, editor at The Onion, reveals that not all Nigerians are royalty seeking temporary liquidity in exchange for bountiful riches. Some are just plain hilarious. Amidst the tables of swag, headset laden shilling, and abject redundant nerdery, this presentation was the... - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...
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“How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore / and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot / In the Carribbean, by Providence impoverished, to squalor / Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?”: Tony Award nominated actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (as seen on House) performs “The Hamilton Mixtape” — a rap about Alexander Hamilton from the POV of... - http://giantrobotlasers.com/post...