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by JonoBB 7y ago
Not in the EU anymore due to PSD2
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by JonoBB 7y ago
Having previously used Yodlee, I'm now migrating onto Plaid in the UK. Speaking from a documentation and API point of view, you can more or less think of Yodlee as PayPal and Plaid as Stripe. Yodlee still covers WAY more banks than Pla
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Digital Ocean Managed Databases for MySQL and Redis Released(blog.digitalocean.com)
38 points by JonoBB 7y ago|1 comments
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What3words divides the world into squares, each with a unique three-word address(bbc.co.uk)
19 points by JonoBB 7y ago|57 comments
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Serverless Deployment Platform for Laravel(vapor.laravel.com)
1 points by JonoBB 7y ago|0 comments
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Stripe Chargeback Protection(stripe.com)
2 points by JonoBB 7y ago|0 comments
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Is WeWork worth nearly $50bn?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by JonoBB 7y ago|1 comments
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by JonoBB 7y ago
South Africa does not have any nuclear weapons - they were all decommissioned at the end of Apartheid
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by JonoBB 7y ago
Don't like this at all. Two of the key features of going with Stripe was: i) Checkout on our page ii) Simple implementation with a tiny amount of JS Without the legacy version, we're losing one of these 2 key features.
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by JonoBB 7y ago
Is this a US only question? Are you mixing up employees/contractors with onsite local? Employees don't invoice you; contractors do. UK employer here. For payment, I can't think of any way of paying any employees other than vi
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by JonoBB 8y ago
Not sure if I'm missing something here, but the pricing seems quite high (in relation to DO's other products and competition). For example, if we take 8GB ram node, that's $120 p/m. Add in 2 standby nodes, and we add ano
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by JonoBB 8y ago
And yet they still can't solve empty tasks getting created for no good reason. Yes, I know you can hit the delete or backspace key, but bloody hell, just don't save the damn thing unless there is some data to actually save. I&#x27
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by JonoBB 8y ago
The performance on Lightsail is bad compared to DO - CPU, network, disk access are all much slower at similar price levels.
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Digital Ocean Managed Databases(try.digitalocean.com)
337 points by JonoBB 8y ago|170 comments
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by JonoBB 8y ago
I had my entire marketing site copied, word-for-word. I still have no idea why (other than perhaps to damage google ranking due to duplicate content?). I reported it to google, and they removed it from search results in a few days. I also r
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by JonoBB 8y ago
If you like James Michener, then The Covenant is a great read about South Africa If you're looking for a somewhat bleak overview of corruption and despots since independence, then try Martin Meredith The State of Africa: A History of
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by JonoBB 8y ago
There are infinitely more companies taking the slow and steady route versus the "Startup -> IPO/Buyout" strategy. Don't let the hype/marketing make you think otherwise.
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by JonoBB 8y ago
Pretty sure that he other other employees/consultants under his umbrella. I don't think that anyone bills $4m/yr as a single person (which would equate to around $2000/hr).
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by JonoBB 8y ago
PHP is not dead - plain and simple. Independent of whether it is good or not, selecting technologies based on your biases for your client is completely irresponsible. There are plenty of mature, fast and popular options out there. PHP is on
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Flask 1.0 Released(palletsprojects.com)
548 points by JonoBB 8y ago|179 comments
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by JonoBB 9y ago
25% of the world's prison population is in the US. For a country that has around 5% of the world's population, that is a staggering amount
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by JonoBB 9y ago
Isn't that the whole point of Bootstrap? It "bootstraps" your design to get you to a minimum coherent design with the least amount of fuss, and then allows (some would say forces) you to build on top it to customise as you se
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by JonoBB 9y ago
Happens all the time. Last few times I've purchased electronics on Amazon that have been relatively recently listed (i.e 20 reviews or less), I've made a point of looking at the reviews. Click on first reviewer's name, and th
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A Utility-First CSS Framework for Rapid UI Development(tailwindcss.com)
2 points by JonoBB 9y ago|0 comments
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by JonoBB 9y ago
What makes you think you (or most devs for that matter) know more about security than Github's security team?
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Dashlane now available on Linux, Chromebook and Microsoft Edge(techcrunch.com)
3 points by JonoBB 9y ago|0 comments
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by JonoBB 9y ago
My daughter had an intolerance to cow's milk. We were advised to try soya instead, which her tummy also didn't like. Next we tried oat milk (Oatly being one of the brands) and she loved it. Actually, the rest of us tried it too, a
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CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market(crashplanforhome.zendesk.com)
3 points by JonoBB 9y ago|1 comments
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Ditching scrum for kanban(medium.com)
2 points by JonoBB 9y ago|0 comments
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Multi-currency bank account(bloomberg.com)
1 points by JonoBB 9y ago|0 comments

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