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Phantom Burnout(ajsharp.svbtle.com)
1 points by ajsharp 13y ago|0 comments
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by ajsharp 13y ago
Not hyperbolic at all. This is brokerage 101. It's absolutely asinine that their system fails this hard when doing some "upgrades". A real brokerage (e.g. Fidelity, Schwab et al) would likely be subject to non-trivial fines
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How Do You Use Twitter? A Short Survey.(surveymonkey.com)
1 points by ajsharp 13y ago|1 comments
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Skedadel app makes Instagram your local guide(usatoday.com)
2 points by ajsharp 13y ago|0 comments
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by ajsharp 13y ago
While I generally disagree with the sentiment, his observation for the subset he's talking about -- "world changers", e.g. Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Zuckerberg, Brian Chesky, Drew Houston, etc -- is correct.
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by ajsharp 13y ago
As a founder of another startup (octocall.com) choosing to host our database with another company (postgres, hosted with Heroku) the decision is a simple one: You trade infrastructure management complexity for a monthly fee. Especially when
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by ajsharp 13y ago
Some people are just trolls, better known as haters. Don't let em get you down :)
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by ajsharp 13y ago
How do you figure? Visa sees a piece of every card transaction involving a visa card.
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by ajsharp 13y ago
My apologies, I mis-quoted the annual number, which is about $10.4 bln, which is still only about .16%. Still, your question, "Who gets the other 1.95% of that?", is valid. My guess: the card issuers themselves, who operate the ne
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by ajsharp 13y ago
Yep, you're right, my fault, will fix.
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by ajsharp 13y ago
Nothing would be required of customers. They'd migrate the data over to Paypal's setup in such a scenario. Card data is stored with a symmetric encryption algorithm (e.g. reversible), so this type of thing could happen fairly easi
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by ajsharp 13y ago
Growth potential, total potential market size, other possible revenue sources (e.g. Square Marketplace).
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by ajsharp 13y ago
Ha, wouldn't we all :) My point is only that it's damn hard to get to that number, and if you're a startup who's raised many rounds of capital, after a few years of grinding an acquisition by a company like paypal (read:
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by ajsharp 13y ago
Anyone building a card processing business is going to have trouble finding long-term cash flow because the margins are razor thin. For example, Visa processed $6.7 trillion in transactions and made $10.4bn in revenue . I'd rather do
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Heroku Redis Provider Comparison(blog.octocall.com)
1 points by ajsharp 13y ago|0 comments
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by ajsharp 13y ago
Meh. Welcome to the party, a couple of years late. I'll stick with Balanced. Fantastic product, incredible support. Not even a question. Braintree's bread and butter is card processing. Balanced's is marketplaces / payou
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It's Time to Move Beyond the RSS Reader(medium.com)
1 points by ajsharp 13y ago|1 comments
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by ajsharp 13y ago
You make a great point about the economic realities of pursuing a degree in english, and even worse-so a graduate or PhD. My takeaway from the piece, however, was that teaching the ability to communicate (writing), is in decline. Both uni
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Side Project Hacks: Design Inspirado(medium.com)
3 points by ajsharp 13y ago|0 comments
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What LeVar Burton can teach you about growth hacking(medium.com)
2 points by ajsharp 13y ago|0 comments
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Side Project Hacks: Don't Sweat the Details(medium.com)
22 points by ajsharp 13y ago|1 comments
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by ajsharp 13y ago
My fault, I stand corrected.
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by ajsharp 13y ago
FWIW, Balanced has this functionality: https://www.balancedpayments.com/docs/api?language=bash#crea...
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by ajsharp 13y ago
FWIW, I think Dwolla still requires the recipient to have a Dwolla account. Stripe and Balanced are white labeled products.
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by ajsharp 13y ago
You can transfer to any US bank account with Balanced. Wells Fargo accounts benefit from same day transfers, while all other accounts are next business day.
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by ajsharp 13y ago
Exactly.
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by ajsharp 13y ago
Come on Aaron. As someone who formerly ran a payments company, you know that going direct from a credit card to a bank account is not possible with today's banking infrastructure. Of course the funds go to their account. You know that, bu
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by ajsharp 13y ago
I've been working with Balanced's API since they were Poundpay. I think most of your comments about copying are very misguided. The style of their documentation format is completely irrelevant to the quality of the product (and wrong IMO),
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by ajsharp 14y ago
A tool for building "web applications" seems a little far-fetched, given the values and conceptual model pedastal is based on. On services and scalability... > Built with scalability up front rather than an afterthought And > Pedest
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by ajsharp 14y ago
Thank you for writing this. You said about 90% of what I've been thinking about the web development community, and especially the client-side JS community for a while. So many of these problems have been solved, and a lot of them were solve

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