Quark 4 was definitely full of quirks and there were plenty of things it just couldn't do. It featured decent keyboard shortcuts, though, which I once relied on daily for newspaper layout — and which proved quite difficult to teach to my successor as, ultimately, I knew them only by feel!

Warning: this article contains an auto-playing video of the incident.

The truncated segment of King St. is presently a well-entrenched shantytown: https://goo.gl/maps/wi9TNPXzLST2

I've worked with Apple on homepage advertising and believe the likelihood of that placement being programmatic is very low.

Agreed, I worked for MSN.com for a while, and any ad placement like that is not your random, average ‘served from doubleclick’ style ad. It’s premium, and planned, human controlled.

"We're sorry, but something went wrong.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly."

Sorry about that -- momentary bug during a deploy of the dashboard.

HAHA man.. was that you guys or me? Either way it all seems to be working now. BTW: Great job on Stripe.

Cheers. Would love to hear if you notice anything we should improve; I'm patrick@stripe.com.

fixed

There's an "ignore" button. :)

Yeah, that's nice too. So after we've donated does it remember us?

Sure does. (In fact, we're implementing some extra features for those who choose to pay.)

1600+ uniques after Wired tweeted this less than an hour ago (http://twitter.com/#!/wired/status/38030059625390080) and I have made a single sale. The Internet is weird.

I drew inspiration solely from playing along (and doing well) as I watched last night, thus I didn't really consider the potential "studio participant" outcomes.

I'm sure it might give my product moderately more longevity if Ken or Brad win, but the net benefit would likely be negligible given that there is virtually no investment (nor profit) in the product. The good news, of course, is that the inverse is true as well.

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(If you'd like a shirt and we share similar circumstances — e.g. you're in San Francisco, or even California — please let me know as I would be happy to accommodate.)

I was initially psyched on this (and I still like the idea) but it's not viable for me simply because of the very late timing. (The fact that you can't apply without a Facebook account is a little annoying, too.)