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by clintonb 7y ago
1. Why would I want my store to accept payment with someone else’s gift card? 2. What consumers want this? 3. How do you make money? 4. Balance verification seems a bit easier than balance transfer. The stores issuing gift cards make a fair
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by clintonb 7y ago
We don’t have any automatic enforcement at my current company. At edX, and on personal projects, we used Codecov to enforce 95% coverage on all new code, and 95% coverage across the entire repo. The exact numbers varied with the current sta
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by clintonb 7y ago
I wasn’t aware they had an app. I agree that require notifications for donations is not ideal, but there is an easy workaround: use the website.
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by clintonb 7y ago
Paper checks are cheap for recipients, depending on volume, because the processing fees are really low. An individual simply needs to scan the check with their phone. Processing large volumes of checks (e.g. thousands per month) as a mercha
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by clintonb 7y ago
You can order checks from third-parties, not just your bank. You might also walk into a location and ask if they can print you courtesy checks (a sheet of 3-4 checks).
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by clintonb 7y ago
Use a bill pay service. Most US-based banks offer a bill pay service that will mail a check to the payee. I'm not sure if such a thing exists outside of the US, or if your European bank will mail a USD check.
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by clintonb 7y ago
ACH will eventually be replaced by real time payments (RTP)[1] [1] https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp
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by clintonb 7y ago
Checks will be around for a while, especially for B2B transactions in the US. Checks are the easiest way to move a large amount of money with minimal fees. Accounts payable departments already have their workflows setup to use checks. Also,
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by clintonb 7y ago
Maybe. What are you selling?
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by clintonb 7y ago
I’ve been there. It’s up to you to decide what you value in life, regardless of what you see others doing with their lives. I like hobbies. Photography is one of my favorites. You have to figure out what motivates you both in your work and
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by clintonb 7y ago
What problem are you trying to solve? You spend a lot of time talking about code formatting. The more mature teams I’ve worked with have settled on a format and use linters to identify deviations. From my perspective, that is a non-issue. I
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by clintonb 7y ago
Please clarify. What do you not enjoy?
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by clintonb 7y ago
No. Try to maintain work-life balance. "Work hard, party harder" is stupid statement that you rarely hear outside of college. Anyone still using this statement outside of college is probably not someone you should follow.
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by clintonb 7y ago
Why would I outsource this to you as opposed to rolling my own, or using an existing open source library?
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by clintonb 7y ago
Most employees at career fairs are wearing the same thing. Students don’t know the title of the employee until after the pair has begun talking.
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by clintonb 7y ago
The question needs some clarification. Are you referring to the profitability of the company/vendor that maintains/supplies the technology?
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by clintonb 7y ago
I use [Forestry]( https://forestry.io ). I migrated from Wordpress, and needed a way for my non-technical family members to continue editing their blogs. Details at https://dev.clintonblackburn.com/2019/03&#x2
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by clintonb 7y ago
> If Gatsby can get their service included in a bunch of the domain name registration sites, pushing out Wordpress, then they get exponentially more customers! I don't follow this reasoning. The hosting sites that offer Wordpress, o
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by clintonb 7y ago
Cool idea, but do you expect clients to really know what tasks will require a single developer for five days? Just yesterday day I worked for over an hour on a task I expected to take a few minutes. Also, consider getting an editor to revie
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by clintonb 7y ago
I agree CEOs shouldn’t make government policy; but, choosing to remove a product from the market, or withhold it from the government, is not policy making. It’s listening to your employees and customers of other products. These are the same
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by clintonb 7y ago
I only see a signup form, but no explanation of what I’m signing up for. If you’re offering a free service, my first question is, “how are your profiting from my data?”
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by clintonb 7y ago
Zelle is only for P2P payments, and was not initially available at every bank. Additionally, some banks market it differently. Not everyone knows the service they are using is Zelle.
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by clintonb 7y ago
> All the top apps are terrible or missing the crucial weekly mileage feature or aren't free. Have you looked for a non-free option?
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by clintonb 7y ago
When a card is updated, the merchant (via payment provider) can request the updated card details. This is meant to avoid disruption in recurring charges, but has the side-effect of surprising unsuspecting customers. If you don’t like this f
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by clintonb 7y ago
The support person probably doesn’t know about this capability.
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by clintonb 7y ago
Talk to your company. If there is no policy regarding outside work, help write one.
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by clintonb 7y ago
1. A static site hosted by Netlify probably doesn’t have a 3MB payload. 2. Asset caching should ensure the 3MB payload is less than 3MB on subsequent loads.
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by clintonb 7y ago
The US Department of Education also has data available for those curious: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov .
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by clintonb 7y ago
What problem is that?
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by clintonb 7y ago
Put the data in a data warehouse. RedShift and Google Big Query allow for saved queries that can be accessed by other users with their own accounts.

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