chrisgoman

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by chrisgoman 10y ago
The PHP people are working instead of complaining about it https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329#...
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
I agree with #1, pay your own way. What I did was make my company expense by hotel stays as a business expense but paid my own school expenses. I lived 60 miles from work and 60 miles from school. Work and school was 20 miles in between
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
The answer to all your questions is "it depends" (yeah, cliche). I have an BS Architecture (not from the USA) so I had to no choice but to get an MBA degree (from the USA). I did kind an "eMBA" (basically working full
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
Stripe 100%. If you get over a threshold (say $100,000/mo), they will work with you on the rate so don't be afraid of the 2.75 + $0.30 will be forever
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
You can use S3FS ( https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse ) to mount your buckets and make it look like just another directory using /etc/fstab
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by chrisgoman 10y ago
+1 on DigitalOcean with Block Storage. Currently using DO with Amazon S3 mounted using /etc/fstab via S3FS https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse (which has eventual consistency but if you want cheap)
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by chrisgoman 11y ago
Your details show that you know your business well. What exactly does high volume of payments mean? What does low margins mean? With credit card processing, it is about specifics. The magic numbers are: 1) Dollar amount processed by mon
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by chrisgoman 11y ago
Braintree may have better service but day-to-day stuff (like the UI and how everything generally "works") is much more inferior than Stripe
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by chrisgoman 11y ago
Why "I am now a provider"? You get better odds with 2 people working together towards a common goal http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dink Plus being in California, you are in the best place on the pl
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by chrisgoman 11y ago
Yes, Vagrant only (it is awesome), still not sure what docker does. After setting up a Vagrant VM, I run fabric scripts to build the box for its role
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by chrisgoman 12y ago
No, just walk. Now that you know there is a client, go find the client yourself if you really want to pursue it. Most likely, it will be a waste of time and distraction to what you are trying to build anyway
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by chrisgoman 12y ago
There should be a provision somewhere in your operating agreement that tax liability on unrecognized income will be paid by the company -- look for that. Additionally, if it's an LLC (or even a partnership), you can look for something
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by chrisgoman 12y ago
Just use http://wiz.com or http://squarespace.com and call it a day
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by chrisgoman 13y ago
Xero is great! - single username (email) lets me access multiple businesses. It's not perfect but 1,000 times better than Quickbooks or writing/maintaining your own. There is a $9.95/mo simple account
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by chrisgoman 13y ago
Lightbank is a fund by the "Groupon guy", Eric Lefkofsky. He was the guy behind Mason (the younger CEO) and was Chairman
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by chrisgoman 13y ago
If you're asking then it's worth it. This may seem like a lot of money now but in the overall scheme of things, you will be on this computer 10+ hours per day so if it makes you happy just do it. If you have to get a new compute
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by chrisgoman 13y ago
Tactical (you can do this in the next 5 minutes): Find a good IRC channel that is active and you can connect with people with similar interests with you. We've seen people as far as Nigeria at #digitalocean
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by chrisgoman 13y ago
Omnigraffle pro
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by chrisgoman 13y ago
fabric
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by chrisgoman 13y ago
If you know how to do this, why don't you use pay $5/mo to DigitalOcean and get your own VPS... Shared hosting just implies that you are not really serious about security
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by chrisgoman 16y ago
As far as pricing, you may have to do better. Outgoing: I use greenfax.com for sending 7 cents per page, 5 cents per page after with no setup fees. For receiving, used Packetel for unlimited fax-to-email (PDF) for $3.95/mo, they have since