ironghost's comments

ironghost | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Amium – A better way to collaborate

Curious if this will have the same issue that Google Wave had; attempting to change a paradigm that is well understood.

ironghost | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Today a well-funded competitor launched out of nowhere

If you all aren't in it full time, I would say why try? I tried bootstrapping a startup and doing part time with 3 others... it's too slow of a model.

ironghost | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: If you could help someone become an entrepreneur for $1, would you?

Lower the barrier - provide payment channels. Or, go get on the street and try to make a dollar.

ironghost | 12 years ago | on: iMessage purgatory

Easy (yet long) fix:

on iPhone - Disable iMessage from the settings menu. - Go back to messages and send a standard text message to the phone number. - Enable iMessage from the settings menu.

Done.

ironghost | 12 years ago | on: Willem Pinckaers on Akamai's flawed OpenSSL allocator patch

The funny thing is the fact that everybody is ignoring that the patch wasn't a patch. It was a POC (read demonstration) with the notes:

'...This patch is a variant of what we've been using to help protect customer keys for a decade.

This should really be considered more of a proof of concept than something that you want to put directly into production. It slides into the ASN1 code rather than adding a new API (OPENSSL_secure_allocate et al), the overall code isn't portable, and so on. If there is community interest, we would be happy to help work on addressing those issues. Let me restate that: do not just take this patch and put it into production without careful review.'

ironghost | 12 years ago | on: Pluto: Unsend Email

BS. That's all I have to say. It's like Groupwise, worked well within Groupwise but once it leaves the system it's out to the wild-wild-west.

ironghost | 12 years ago | on: Uber launches new line of transporation services

It's satire, even the name of the CEO is incorrect:

"We are proud to introduce Uber Rickshaw, Uber Bike, and Uber Piggyback.” stated the CEO, Travis Parker Monday morning.

ironghost | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do startups apply for credit cards?

My partners and I took our seed funds that we put up on our own into a bank account. We signed up for a saving account, checking and got a credit card at the same time. It's based solely off of the founders for a bootstrapped firm.