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ErikHuisman
13y ago
We've used pin (and now pin+chip) as long as we use cards.. I pay exactly 0% transaction fees and only a few euro per quarter. Merchants pay exactly 0% transactions fees and a small monthly subscription. It just works.
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13y ago
It prevents skimming and other types of fraud (less cost == lower fees).
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13y ago
How do you prevent a company itself from being sold?
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13y ago
Sorry.. No, Adblock does not do this. It is purely donation based which is a good thing. I was a bit off topic.
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13y ago
"Plus if Adblock is actually successful and the online advertising industry collapses, then they will be putting themselves out of business." Even worse. Some of these companies (not adblock) are asking protection money from big a
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13y ago
Nobody wants a quick €26.95,- burger for lunch.. McD burgers aren't high end because consumers don't expect high end going to a fast food joint.
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13y ago
They are wholesalers. They don't want to compete with the brands of their customers. The unmarked trucks drive business.
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13y ago
I think you're right. If they'd truly wanted to build the best speced phone possible they would've used the savings to build an even better phone. I can imagine this scenario going on: They got a bit scared to loose the proje
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13y ago
Do you mean the access_token en udid? This is how oauth works. It would be nice though if he did an extra redirect after successful connect.
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13y ago
And this isn't frowned upon at standford?
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13y ago
Because low risk, little effort, high volume. Easy (if you're smart).
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13y ago
Watch this video to better understand the pricing.. http://vimeo.com/15232514
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13y ago
If you do this using Mailchimp and have a suspicious high unsubscribe / marked as spam rate your account will be suspended.
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13y ago
They probably have ideas for additional (paid) services. For these services to make sense they need a very popular plugin. Hence the free model. The investors are taking that risk to create a much larger scale company.
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13y ago
Automatic spam control
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13y ago
Why ask Apple to make such device? They make devices that appeal to a broad spectrum of consumers. Why not ask a company like Wacom to make such a device specifically geared towards "creative" people?
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14y ago
A large chunk of NK's income comes through a group called Room 39. They are the experts in Money Laundering, Drug trafficking and cyber warfare.. They also make the best fake dollars around, distributed using restaurant chain Pyongyang. ht
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14y ago
* { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0); } Eliminates the flashing completely. It introduces some weird safari behavior so only include it if you know what you're doing.
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14y ago
Why not use the users browser itself to calculate the results?
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It's not going great judging by this list of new users per day.. http://appnetizens.com/nupd "Turns out App.net currently has approximately 20,000 users, of which a small minority seemingly dominates the conversation: Basch estimates that
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14y ago
It misses Youtube's autocomplete..
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14y ago
You might think it is "truly spectacular" because it is unique to you. But you have to question yourself if it is really THAT effective. One could buy a hand cranked powered led light for cheaper. Sure, it'll take more time to power it. (Fe
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14y ago
nonsense
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14y ago
It's Apple's Passbook but explained right. Good job.
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14y ago
You forgot one: Better cut and paste..
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14y ago
Is it really hard to believe? I personally have seen Gangnam Style more often than the zapruder shots or the moon landing. Heck, i've seen the clip "Aaliyah - are you that somebody" more often. This is not about the number of unique viewers
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14y ago
They or rather Twitter should revoke their oauth keys. Then push an update to the store with new keys.
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14y ago
At Facebook they first release to a small percentage of users. They test and fix bugs. If all is fine and dandy they increase it step by step until the feature is live for everyone. Tech talk on fb release strategies https://www.facebook.
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14y ago
Also in your "leaked slide" where "they're burning cash at an enormous rate" one can clearly see that revenues exceeds costs. ie. making money?!
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14y ago
They should sell windows 8 (vm) in the Mac App Store :)
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