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Co-founder of Stripe.

http://johncollison.ie

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collision··on Karl Rove's book vs. Rework - what the American People need to know
I love their own use of Garamond in the ad.
collision··on [dead]
Did Ustream start this campaign? If so, clever.
collision··on Ask HN: How viable is it for a programmer to switch to a DVORAK keyboard layout?
As others have said, the major benefit of Dvorak isn't speed -- it's comfort. Your fingers do a lot less work typing Dvorak than QWERTY.
collision··on Hiring and The Sixth Sense of Experience
The point is valid, but what's the takeaway here? You're a two-man shop with a growing product and you desperately need another coder, a designer and a tester. Starting browsing for CEOs probably isn't the best path in this situation.
collision··on Hire Programming Tutors now on WageMachine
I can't find an RSS or atom feed for your blog :(
collision··on A Ponzi scheme that works
People often link to the print view because the normal view is paginated. Readability won't solve pagination.
collision··on Realtime charts of EC2 spot prices
As people do this, the spot price will rise until you can't reliably use the strategy.
collision··on Mexico Decriminalizes Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroin and Other Drugs
Google the article title and follow that link. You won't get the paywall.
collision··on Facebook doesn't want you to deactivate your account.
And "cucina" is a feminine noun, right?
collision··on TwitterSpam
Accounts suspected of spamming with hashtags should still be able to tweet, but their tweets shouldn't appear in the search results. Problem solved?
collision··on Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device
Certainly not Vodafone. I don't know of any CDMA carriers over here in Europe.
collision··on Ask HN: Recommend science experiments and videos for unfortunate school students
As a high school physics student, the experiments that I feel would be most educational/enlightening are: - Measuring gravity using a pendulum (using T=2.pi.sqrt(l/g)) - Measuring the resistivity of wire - Measuring values for specific latent heats, specific heats of fusion etc

When doing experiments, I always found the ones where we were trying to calculate a known value experimentally (g, specific heats etc) to be the best.

collision··on PR Nightmare: Charging passengers of Hudson plane crash a cancellation fee
Zappos' support staff have a very good reputation.

Slicehost too, but I don't think they do phone support.

collision··on Ask YC: Try our Local Chat Demo at Startup School
The demo screencast is just a big grey box for me.
collision··on Ask YC: How do you lose weight?
Very easy: 1) Don't eat anything that contains sugar. 2) Do some intense exercise like jogging or martial arts regularly.
collision··on Communicate Acquires Y Combinator Startup Auctomatic, Unveils New Business Strategy
/ Obligatory offence taken at us Irish being lumped in with the British :)
collision··on Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator
Looks really good, like the new direction.

I've a quibble with your screencast though - I can't pause it. It kept stopping and starting to buffer. It'd be much better to be able to stop it like a youtube video and let it load before watching.

collision··on Animated gif generator for 'loading' indicators
The most impressive bit is their dropdown with all the moving animations.
collision··on Demographics of YC
"Compared to the rest of the internet", it says.
collision··on YC summer startup, Splashup launches (formerly Fauxto)
Ehh... price?
collision··on Aaron Swartz's Jottit has been officially released
Who cares on a site like this? You only see pages entering their specific url - nobody will actually see spam pages.
collision··on Mechanical Turk Officially Closed Outside of the US
Am I the only one who thought of the chess automaton and was disappointed?
collision··on Auctomatic featured in The Irish Times
It's behind a subscription wall so we linked to a screenshot. Are we bad people?
collision··on Why the iPhone Will Fail
1) He probably couldn't use HTML 2) HR sucks unless you can style it. 3) You don't need to understand HTML to be a good pundit 4) The tildes look nicer anyway. 5) The...

Actually screw it, I'm just going to downvote you.

collision··on YC: "unknown or expired link" -- fix it already
On the subject of feature requests, different colours for read/unread (well, previously seen/unseen) comments would be nice.
collision··on Y2 Combinator launches: the startup starter starter.
I think you mean "This site is inspired by, but not affiliated with YCombinator."
collision··on Y2 Combinator launches: the startup starter starter.
"I like Y2 Combinator, is nice!"
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