Firehed

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by Firehed 14y ago
You get even partially-functional MMS out of Google Voice? Is there a setting somewhere? I'm lucky to even get a blank message, normally I get nothing at all if someone sends an MMS to my GV number (iPhone, but same result on web)
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by Firehed 14y ago
I wish there was more resolution along the x-axis; I'd really when that inflection point occurred and what triggered it. There's exponential growth, and there's literal overnight success, and this appears to be the latter. Also, generic vag
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by Firehed 14y ago
Yes, but you're in control of your own stupidity. My tax dollars, which I have no control over, went into this particular witch-hunt. Asking for a refund is not out of the question - even though I know it's never going to happen, the idea i
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by Firehed 14y ago
Seems like they're trying to keep an extremely casual image, although perhaps they went a bit too far. I did find myself basically squinting at things. What I'm really confused about is the mechanics. Does someone have to select me, or is
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by Firehed 14y ago
That works with a pair of highly-logical people, but for anyone else it would seem extremely offputting and awkward. Even when I go out of my way to not bullshit people, "sorry but I'm just not feeling this" without at least a reasonable c
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by Firehed 14y ago
The Mint app supports an additional passcode lock, as do many other banking apps with a semi-persistent login. I haven't tried GoBank's app but they probably have something similar. I wish more apps support multi-level authentication to sup
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by Firehed 14y ago
It's more of an issue that startups can not get those licenses - at least not early on. It's simply too expensive and too time-consuming - we're talking multiple millions of dollars over probably at least two years. Unsurprisingly, the p
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by Firehed 14y ago
I don't know too many details as I wasn't on that side of the PCI audit (more handling the software we write), but my impression was that off-the-shelf hardware was already certified where nginx was not. It was also one less component fo
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by Firehed 14y ago
We didn't have enough servers behind it to really deal with dead servers, to be honest. Seemed to detect a failed server and route around it quickly enough, and we have monitoring per server in place to go in and reboot the thing or whateve
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by Firehed 14y ago
I agree that it's visually displeasing, but it's very easy to actually read and understand . The only reason I was able to quickly understand your beautifully-aligned code was because I had read the logic in the previous block, which is
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by Firehed 14y ago
I can't compare it to HAProxy, but nginx load balancing was probably the simplest and most reliable part of our web infrastructure, and did exactly what we wanted and needed. Never played around with SPDY, but I liked the various options re
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by Firehed 14y ago
The author said he went cold-turkey for months at a time to little effect. I'm sure that approach helps some people, but I'd wager there are a lot of variables here.
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by Firehed 14y ago
No more or less than we can say "We're staying on standard time year-round". We've adjusted when DST starts relatively recently (twice, I think), and it seems several countries have semi-permanently shifted to DST: http://www.timeanddat
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by Firehed 14y ago
UTC would eliminate the confusion - just say "We're in the office from 17:00-02:00" (currently 9-6 PST) A nontrivial amount of my time is wasted responding to emails with "3pm pacific or mountain?". Asking "does 23:00 work for you?" avoids
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by Firehed 14y ago
Tracks a true solar day? Is there actually a scientific definition of when a day starts and ends? As far as I can tell skimming Wikipedia, it's simply 86400 seconds. Certainly by my body clock, a "true solar day" is when I'm on DST.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Why else would you type it in? I can't imagine many people saying "hm, that command I didn't intend to run didn't work. Maybe I should run it as root instead." Hopefully if you're in a NOPASSWD user/group, you know what root can do if you'r
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by Firehed 14y ago
For what it's worth, Apple replaced my Retina iPad that had a single stuck pixel, and it was only noticeable on a dark background in a dark room. While it's a small screen, the number of pixels is about the same as on the 27" Cinema display
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by Firehed 14y ago
Merely touching plaintext data at some point is enough to get scoped into PCI requirements, even if only in memory. Of course because they're not processing the payments, there's not a damn thing the networks can do to stop them; compliance
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by Firehed 14y ago
Excellent point. Not necessarily practical everywhere, but a much better outside-the-box solution where it works.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I see delivery robots being significantly easier to create than driverless cars. All you need is a shopping cart stuck on top of a set of stair-capable movement system, it's not like the thing needs to be dressed up as a butler.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I've been passively aware of it, but don't really care - most items are not really egregious. Because Safeway's prices are so volatile with sales and Instacart doesn't seem to really reflect that, it ends up balancing out pretty well (plus,
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by Firehed 14y ago
Not really, and as someone who works on just such a system, please let me assure you that you simply cannot design a reasonable system without DB transactions for at least certain processes. I'm more than happy to go into significant detail
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by Firehed 14y ago
Of ZeroCater? They have a feedback form that's emailed out an hour after lunch, but the actual suggestions we provide go largely ignored. Several employees have described it as them having really short-term memory. They also seem to insist
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by Firehed 14y ago
You can require ACH payments and block CCs both with our invoicing tools and over our API. You can also have the customer pay the service fee, rather than eat it yourself. The only thing you can't do is split the cost depending on the payme
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by Firehed 14y ago
This seems like a really useful, proactive approach to getting over your hangups and learning to just ask for what you want (I've had people ask me for some pretty crazy things a couple of times, and I'm sure they were surprised when I actu
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by Firehed 14y ago
The only real differences from running PHP/CLI that come to mind are: * PHP_SAPI is defined to 'cli' (as compared to 'fastcgi' or similar) * $_GET/$_POST are empty, and $_SERVER is missing the HTTP_XXX variables (duh) * By default, there's
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by Firehed 14y ago
Which is actually an absurd thing for the rental companies to do, since they a) don't know the credit limit on the card and b) would immediately get a chargeback if they tried to recover anything beyond the actual rental rate. They would fi
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by Firehed 14y ago
You can't get that on credit cards, period. The issuing banks charge more than that; anyone offering that is losing money on every payment - way beyond what you could make up for with volume. Even by becoming an acquiring bank and elimina
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by Firehed 14y ago
Merchants charge more to make up for the thinner margins on credit card transactions. As for what cards have higher payout... here's a list I made so I know which card to use where: # Amazon * 3x amazon.com * 2x gas * 2x restaurant * 2x off
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'll just throw in a quick plug for WePay here, as you're absolutely correct when dealing with high-dollar invoices and POs. Credit card fees get nasty at that level, and the chargeback risk gets a little hard to stomach. From the perspecti

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