Johnie

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by Johnie 12y ago
If you lose my money that I trusted in your startup, I would file a lawsuit. Whether or not the law is murky, you'll be tied up in legal issues for a long time. Even if the law says you're not legally liable (unlikely), your legal
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by Johnie 12y ago
What do you think money is?
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by Johnie 12y ago
If you believe this, you shouldn't be handling people's money. It's not just about losing the bitcoin, people running these exchanges may be personally liable.
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by Johnie 12y ago
Yeah, people without experience writing secure financial code and not understanding financial risk management are opening bitcoin exchanges. Even the way they handled this breach is amateur hour. From the post, it doesn't look like the
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by Johnie 12y ago
One minor nuance I use is adding a trailing slash to indicate resource vs custom verb. GET /products/ : will return the list of all products POST /products/ : will add a product to the collection GET /products/
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by Johnie 12y ago
Agreed. A lot of the new players are trying to build pos like a consumer product with sexy uis and animations. In qsr space, a 10 sec decrease in time equates to roughly 1% in revenue. (1) Legacy Uis look terrible but they are built for spe
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by Johnie 12y ago
A confluence of events that are coming to head in the last year and coming year is creating significant opportunities in the retail point of sale space. The retail technology stack has become pretty stale in the last 10 years. What you see
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by Johnie 12y ago
"Squiller called GT’s contract with Apple “onerous and massively one-sided.” It would allow Apple to buy sapphire — a durable, scratch-resistant substance that already is used to cover the camera lens and touch ID sensor on some iPhone
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by Johnie 12y ago
PCI compliance is a high bar that has limited a lot of innovation in real world transactions. Merchants are still using POS and payment terminals that are a decade old. Merchants have been quite reluctant to change this as it has been exp
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by Johnie 12y ago
This is done via credit card tokenization. Tokenization is a major boom to the payment industry. However, there is a lot of complexity and moving pieces for all of this to work. But once it works, it'll unlock a lot of potential for
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by Johnie 12y ago
Yes, they may say that. However, Home Depot is not the one that is determining what technology the issuers use. Most issuers are using Chip&Signature. Home Depot may support Chip and Pin, but if your bank doesn't use Chip&Pi
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by Johnie 12y ago
It's not clear if US is going to be Chip+Pin or Chip+Signature. This is going to add some confusion come next year.
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by Johnie 12y ago
Looks like the RFS is looking to build an army.
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by Johnie 12y ago
As all the corporate training says: "Don't put into writing what you don't want to see on the cover of the WSJ." This is a pure example of what happens when you do not listen to that adage.
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by Johnie 12y ago
You're basically asking to show ads that are even more irrelevant and useless to your users? The best ads for publishers and users are ones that are relevant. If you want to display something that is irrelevant to the user and ineffec
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by Johnie 13y ago
It's also good that their Square register is built on top of an iPad.
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by Johnie 13y ago
There's a big difference and scale of problem for open loop mobile wallets and the one that Starbucks has. Maybe the problem with an universal mobile wallet is that the problem is too hard to solve given the current environment (and de
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by Johnie 13y ago
The EMV liability shift will move the liability for non-chip transactions to merchants on Oct 2015. You will see all your cards get issued with chip in the next year.
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by Johnie 13y ago
With Google, no real human is sitting around sifting through your email. It's all done programmatically. I don't care if some algorithm scans my email for keywords, but I don't want Bob to read my emails.
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by Johnie 13y ago
Are there any recommendations on low overhead blogging platforms? I've been looking for something that I can turn on and start writing without a lot of setup. In addition, something that has an easy interface that I can just focus on
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by Johnie 13y ago
It also helps that you're Kent Beck :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck
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by Johnie 13y ago
The same strategy can be used in dating too. When you live in a major city and the dating options are boundless, there is always someone around the corner that is "perfect" or more perfect than the current person that you are dati
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by Johnie 13y ago
Top tier institution get a significant amount of their funding from alumni donations. Their motivation is to identify top tier students, provide them with a network of other top tier students, who when they graduate will become leaders in
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by Johnie 13y ago
> They simply side with scientists that... Which scientists?
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by Johnie 13y ago
Just curious, would SSL have helped in this situation?
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by Johnie 13y ago
Unlike NYC, SF Bay environment protection advocates are pretty powerful. They don't want the bay shores to be built up and developed. See Bay Keepers: http://baykeeper.org/blog/take-action-help-stop-unwise-devel..
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by Johnie 13y ago
Pretty good article detailing the leak. Goes to show that many corporate security is so focused on keeping outsiders out and leave a wide gaping hole for insiders.
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by Johnie 13y ago
I lived in NYC for 12 years prior to moving to Silicon Valley and spent 8 of those years in the finance industry. NYC government created a symbiotic relationship with the finance industry. NYC used the tax revenue from the high income earne
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by Johnie 13y ago
Netflix on iOS works well with the Chromecast.
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by Johnie 13y ago
This is effectively a CDN for real physical products. Push the product to the edge nodes for shorter delivery time.

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