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by base 7y ago
There is the old AWS Beanstalk https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/
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by base 7y ago
We switched from stripe to local payment gateways in some countries because some banks automatically convert any charge by stripe to USD making it more expensive for the end client and refusing in some cases the charge, when in local gatewa
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AWS Ground Station(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by base 7y ago|0 comments
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by base 8y ago
We used other payment gateways before Stripe. We built the abstraction around the requirements for our business model, although after some iterations it became similar to the model used by Stripe (customers, sources, plans...). We support s
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by base 8y ago
Paypal has APIs that support that. Example: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/express-checkout/e...
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by base 8y ago
A good first question to ask about a data model is, "where does the data live?" In general, we think it's a good idea to make Stripe the "one true source" for as much of your customer and billing data as p
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by base 8y ago
This no legal advice, but in the USA to make a Satire you should be able to use the VW name. The same way the Silicon Valley series uses real company names on their episodes.
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by base 8y ago
Strange that the partner needs to be pay, with most payment gateways is the other way around. The developer works to bring more customers and a higher sales volume and the payment gateway in return does revenue sharing.
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Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%(techcrunch.com)
337 points by base 8y ago|287 comments
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by base 8y ago
Those $132.000 could into another investment like the SP500 and you could get 2.6x times the investment over a 10 years period (average return of 10% with dividends). This would pay the rent + provide you a return. I don't agree with a
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by base 9y ago
I see exactly the same with Facebook, certain APIs they only provide access to Partners and if you fill all the requirements and try to apply they just reject with a different excuse each time.
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Ruby 2.5.0-preview1 Released(ruby-lang.org)
3 points by base 9y ago|0 comments
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Citron Exposes the Dark Side of Shopify(citronresearch.com)
3 points by base 9y ago|1 comments
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by base 9y ago
I see Whatsapp support on their website but I find this very strange, Whatsapp doesn't have an official API, only some hidden endpoints for their clients that can be changed at any time. https://www.messagebird.com/en&#
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by base 9y ago
You can use Padrino with Sinatra 2.0 without any problem. I'm doing it currently since Sinatra 2.0 was in beta.
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by base 10y ago
Do you know if with Travelling Ruby is possible to create a windows executable with a GUI? I have been using the gem ocra + ruby tk for this.
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Ruby 2.4 Performance Looking Good(gettalong.org)
3 points by base 10y ago|0 comments
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by base 10y ago
I underestimated Amazon sales on my initial comment, it's around 3bn: http://fortune.com/2016/11/25/black-friday-online-sales/ The numbers are big but far from giants like Amazon and Alibaba: http:
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by base 10y ago
You are making your calculations based on the peak minute of the day, I'm checking now and it's around half that and it's middle of the day in the US. I imagine during the night is several times less than 260k.
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by base 10y ago
Amazon sales in 2015 were $107.01bn, so let's say they sell 1bn on Black Friday. This would be around 300 times the numbers shown.
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by base 10y ago
We have tried CloudFlare around 2 years ago, we had complains about performance issues so we changed back to CloudFront. Here is a blog post that shows the same problem we were having: http://goldfirestudios.com/blog/13
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by base 10y ago
CloudFront costs are super expensive outside of the US and Europe. We are a small company and just in south America we are paying 1000USD per month for 4 TB of traffic (0.25$ per GB). Based on traffic alone we are loosing money with some cu
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by base 10y ago
There was the 2.3.2 release 6 days ago. There is not much to say about this release.
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by base 10y ago
Our company runs an SaaS shopping cart and we had to work in similar algorithms to estimate the size of the package when two or more products are packaged together, we would then send the sizes and weight of the total package to the differe
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China Overtakes U.S. In App Store Revenue by 15% Margin(macrumors.com)
2 points by base 10y ago|0 comments
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by base 10y ago
Adjusted for inflation seems to be higher than in 1999 in the last two years http://www.multpl.com/inflation-adjusted-s-p-500
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IPv6 Support for Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by base 10y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Game Studios Announce Breakaway(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by base 10y ago|0 comments
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by base 10y ago
Your machine can go in flames and burn your house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8
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AWS Introducing new M4 instance sizes(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by base 10y ago|0 comments

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