Mister_Snuggles

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Some MariaDB - PostgreSQL Notes(sparkfun.com)
4 points by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago|0 comments
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by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago
That's very true. Perhaps what turns me off are the desperate "Please come back to $SERVICE, you've been gone for more than 35 seconds! Please come back!!" from the free services. I don't mind the weekly specials
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by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago
I find that emails like that have the opposite effect and push me away from products/services. If the product/service was useful to me, those emails would not be required to keep me engaged.
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by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago
Yeah, having fewer banks and heavier regulation definitely helps. Also, as other people have pointed out, the US is moving to chip cards in a couple of years (2015). So this product already has a very short shelf-life.
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by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago
Canada already went through this. It started with the POS terminals, then gradually the cards were replaced with chip cards, then gradually the text on the terminal changed from "Swipe card" to "Swipe or Insert card". F
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by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago
Canada has adopted EMV very quickly. Within only a few years, I went from swiping everything to swiping almost nothing.
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by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago
It already seems obsolete as it won't work with chip cards. Most POS debit and credit transactions in Canada are now done via chip-cards, so emulating a magstripe isn't helpful. Debit cards: http://www.interac.ca&#x2F
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by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago
One of the links in this article goes into a little more detail of why they switched: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1239 > See, MySQL and its forks, for all of the really huge > and amazing stuff built on
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SparkFun's migration from MariaDB to PostgreSQL(sparkfun.com)
122 points by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago|73 comments
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List of Lists(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago|0 comments
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by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago
> But the rules have many, many exceptions, which students find maddening. The same molecule will behave differently in acid or base, in dark or sunlight, in heat or cold, or if you sprinkle magic orgo dust on it and turn around three ti
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Seagate introduces a new drive interface: Ethernet(arstechnica.com)
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by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago
It does a fantastic job of pegging one CPU!
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by Mister_Snuggles 13y ago
This is a real world example of the Sustainable Growth Rate, which is a financial concept that applies to any business. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_growth_rate