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by aquark 13y ago
Looks great. Would still love to see a non-developer centric site to point customers at so they can understand who/what Stripe is in order to integrate with our site via Stripe Connect.
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by aquark 13y ago
I don't think I'd characterize it as a loophole per se, since it requires being legally declared dead in the first place. That is a pretty big hurdle to have to jump through!
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by aquark 13y ago
Sounds like the author was acquired as well: "I’ve accepted a Software Engineer position at Planetary Resources starting in November"
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by aquark 13y ago
I've used one of these 'vertical mice' for years: http://www.evoluent.com/ You'd have to pry it from my dead hands ... works, is comfortable, has lasted years and comes in a left-handed version!
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by aquark 13y ago
Does anyone have any experiencing with OVH's dedicated cloud offering? I'm looking at this as an option vs a small AWS deployment. Seems to offer a lot of the flexibility of virtualization at a much better price/performance
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by aquark 13y ago
This definitely looks useful. I have a bunch of templates generated with the mailchimp tools that I've not touched in ages. Doesn't help that I've since forgotten how their tools work. Something like this would be a great
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by aquark 13y ago
I'm getting external monitoring failures that are firing on and off, but have no problem reaching the servers or the site. Interestingly newrelic is reporting the site down at the same time it is reporting a normal level of load on it.
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by aquark 13y ago
You could SiriProxy ( https://github.com/plamoni/SiriProxy ) as input to this to handle to speech-to-text part I'm running this at home and it works great for adding custom actions to Siri
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by aquark 13y ago
Anyone know how the fees in the industry break down then ... $3bn is < 0.05% of the transaction volume ... that seems tiny to me! Though all I know is the headline rates quoted for most common processors where <2% seems very aggressiv
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by aquark 13y ago
Do you mean square or stripe? I don't see how Braintree and Square are interchangeable for anything other than physical point-of-sales use cases ... which doesn't seem like Braintree's sweet spot
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by aquark 13y ago
Would be great if they could A/B test the text used. I found the JFK portion harder to read/understand and I don't think it was entirely the colouring. Still, I think it is a cool idea and will give the bookmarklet a try for
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by aquark 13y ago
The usage report is cumulative, not instantaneous. The act of checking probably isn't a significant fraction of their phone usage. So if for a given usage pattern the screen does consume 60+% (which is what I often see) then keeping i
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by aquark 13y ago
Same here -- I rewrote all my javascript code in Typescript and am very happy with the result. No longer am I concerned about errant semi-colons or a stupid typo in a method name on an error handling path that a unit test missed.
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Snaplive: CMS for mere mortals(indiegogo.com)
2 points by aquark 13y ago|0 comments
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by aquark 13y ago
tarsnap ( http://www.tarsnap.com/ ) handles encrypted database backups, but I've never had to restore. Production database is replicated to two other machines (different data centers) anyway so needing to fall back to a
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by aquark 13y ago
Looks very interesting -- though it probably needs to be a bit more hands on than just a video to get much concrete feedback! Can you give a few more details on how the plumbing works: from the video it isn't clear how the JS is being
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by aquark 13y ago
I'd like to see one of these 'API friendly' companies compete more in the physical space to. Basically something equivalent to Square with a Stripe-like API and lower rates for swiped transactions.
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by aquark 13y ago
Thanks for responding. It certainly makes a lot of sense for a business model like Lyft or Sidecar where their is a significant relationship between the company facilitating the payment and the service providers receiving payment. For the
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by aquark 13y ago
How do you deal with fraud in this type of site? It seems like anytime you are offering a conduit between a credit card number and a bank account you are at risk of someone push a large number of fraudulent transactions through and hoping t
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by aquark 13y ago
Totally agree -- my pricing can't sustain the cost per-user in this model. Any my site's usage is very seasonal, easily up to 10x at different times of year, and it isn't clear how dynamic the plans are. Possibly my pricing
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by aquark 13y ago
Though once your cat is too well fed it might not be able to catch mice as effectively anymore
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by aquark 13y ago
What's the intrinsic risk in inline javascript? My site uses it to provide page specific data and I'm not really seeing any obvious security risks with it ... then again most security risks aren't obvious!
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by aquark 13y ago
We provide a downloadable offline version of the site that syncs with the main web site. Production runs on PostgreSQL and the offline version uses SQLite. Other than a very thin shim layer around database migrations all the code is the sa
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by aquark 14y ago
Maybe ... I'm not looking to learn a foreign language right now, so aren't the target market. But my first thought was that this appears to use some kind of machine translation ('import from any website'). So how reliable is this as a sourc
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Can music help treat children with attention disorders(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by aquark 14y ago|0 comments
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by aquark 14y ago
It's the sports metaphor ... kicked down the field for later
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by aquark 14y ago
The best new hires we've brought on are the ones that jump in and ask for explanations. When explaining things to a new hire I already know they don't understand everything, and I expect questions. Those questions help drive the discussion
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by aquark 14y ago
But you don't need to know the current date to know which one comes first. Well, unless the dates were in the past.
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by aquark 14y ago
This looks really cool and is something I'd definitely be interested in (been on the 'todo' list for too long)... but I really need more info to decide if I want to invest the time in trying it out. Some kind of 'how it works' page ... how
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by aquark 14y ago
Nice implementation. Though I wish they would address the issue with CCV validation. If you use the test card 4000000000000101 which will fail the CCV check, you still get back a valid token. There doesn't appear to be any way to configur

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