GeneralTspoon

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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Just to note, interchange in the EU is capped at 0.2-0.3%. Stripe charge 1.4% + €0.25, so that's not the full story (there are scheme fees too, but I assume Stripe is still making some margin on the % fee - but open to correction on t
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Not to mention sensitive design documents that must stay on-prem can't be uploaded to cloud services like Figma (I don't know if this is possible to do in Figma somehow? I've never looked into it)
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Given that Cal Henderson & Slack appears in the chart twice with different numbers each time, I'd take these figures with a grain of salt. Plus the tone of the article makes it seem like a quick marketing piece to try and advertise
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Almost every point in this post is incorrect and/or exaggerated (except for the Privacy one): > Cacheing. I get the superficial appeal of this. But there are dozens of popular Javascript CDNs available. What are the chances that you
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
> And by going that route you make sure that all pieces of your website have the same availability guarantees, the same performance profile, and the same security guarantees that the content was not manipulated by a 3rd party. You can al
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Can some legal eagle explain why a magistrate is presiding over the case, rather than a judge? (For those who don't know, in the UK a magistrate is just a layperson volunteer, not a legally trained judge)
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
> If I were in a position where Apple is forcing me to pay a 30% tax, I would literally add "30% Apple Tax" to the check out screen on top of the regular fees to make consumers aware. Course I'm sure Apple wouldn't li
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Well you could view it as a net win for the consumer in that developers are getting more of a cut from sales, thus funding future development and patches for their games.
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
On Apple, the minimum price for anything is $0.99. You can't set arbitrary prices - only price bands.
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Woah - so it is! I'm glad Epic are giving this issue so much publicity - I think consumers seeing the pricing effects of the 30% App Store/Play Store cut is the only way to get people to care about this stuff.
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Same here! I even checked to see if an AWS region was down once I realised it wasn't on my side (I thought it might have been my ISP's DNS servers or something). The next move was to check Hacker News - thankfully it's not al
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
The same event can affect different people differently... e.g. if Elon Musk gets burgled, he can always just buy new stuff... but if someone whose financial circumstances are worse got burgled (like perhaps a single mother), that would affe
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
This would likely be rejected by the Apple review team.
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Switched from Postman to Insomnia a couple of years ago and couldn’t be happier: https://insomnia.rest I’m not sure if it has all the team/cloud sync stuff but for individual use it’s great!
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
The first one I got was: torquatawhether.com Possibly the most confusing domain name I’ve ever seen in my life, lol.
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Hard API limits on 100 rows returned at a time also make it completely infeasible for some use cases. Last time I checked, this couldn't even be lifted for enterprise customers too.
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Only the per-transaction costs are relevant. Just like VAT, you don’t include that you had to pay a VAT registration fee and accounting costs of X per year to process it. Agreed that it does become complicated when you have multi-tiered fee
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
> If you pay with your bank account’s debit or credit card, you don’t see those merchant or interchange fees itemized anywhere either. But arguably you should - most people have no idea that they’re paying a large tax on all their card p
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
PayPal won’t let you add a TransferWise account, for unspecified reasons. At least that’s the case for UK/EU. There are some reports of people being able to add one in the early days - but now it’s like a blanket ban. It could be becau
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Could you name your previous payment gateway (if it's not going to get you in trouble)? I think it's important to discuss hidden fees (especially on the consumer side - most people aren't even aware that 3rd parties get a cu
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Interchange is capped at 0.3% in the EU (0.2% for debit cards). Paypal + Stripe charge 1.9% + €0.25 for merchants in the EU charging EU customers. Also, you can't blame a 3-5% currency conversion fee (often paid twice - once by the cu
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
This is unfortunately still very true.... On transactions of $5, we’re paying anything between 8-15% This obviously doesn’t include the App Store/Play Store, where you could be paying anything between 30-45% (the standard fee is 30%,
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
> But if the water business fails then someone will snap up the assets The time & handover issues involved with that would probably cause a lot of issues and service interruptions for people. You probably don't want that - as th
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Paypal also have some crappy rules about adding a USD account to a company not registered in the US. And they're currency conversion fees are obscene if you want to withdraw USD to EUR (on the order of like ~4% iirc)
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
They only work for subscriptions though - one-off payments (e.g. e-commerce sites) can't use them. (There are hacky workarounds - but likely not worth the effort)
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by GeneralTspoon 7y ago
On advantage is if you have a lot of icons, you don’t end up making a request per icon. And if you in-line the SVG then you don’t get caching benefits. Plus you can actually style the individual strokes with icomoon icons - it’s just not as
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by GeneralTspoon 7y ago
My understanding was that it would have worked for her because she still would have been under the 100 user limit. So the test env still worked for production data, for the first 100 users.
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by GeneralTspoon 7y ago
> Some things are probably just plain mistakes (very funny though). E.g. NavigationView takes its properties not from its constructor or via modifiers, but instead from the properties of its first child. WHY? This sounds like it's j
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by GeneralTspoon 7y ago
Monzo/Starling/TransferWise all have as good an FX rate last time I checked.
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by GeneralTspoon 7y ago
I didn't mean literally mutating the same structure in place - but a new version of your data structure could be returned from a function which changes some of the keys/values in unsafe ways.

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