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Braintree raises $35 million(techcrunch.com)
2 points by dan_manges 14y ago|0 comments
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by dan_manges 14y ago
That's not universally true. Unfortunately, the PCI DSS is somewhat subjective and enforced inconsistently, so it's difficult to definitively answer what's required for PCI compliance for a certain type of payments integration. Even for mer
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API Documentation: Where to Begin(braintreepayments.com)
49 points by dan_manges 14y ago|12 comments
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by dan_manges 15y ago
If you're writing your code to work against multiple schemas, how do you test it? Do you run your test suite twice, once with the pre-migration schema, and again with the post-migration schema?
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ICANN Pushes Ahead With New TLDs(allthingsd.com)
14 points by dan_manges 15y ago|10 comments
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by dan_manges 15y ago
We’re not surprised to see other companies entering the payments market. There are two primary service providers that a tech start-up needs: a hosting provider and a payments provider. There have been good hosting options for a while, but a
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by dan_manges 15y ago
That is probably how you would do it in this case, but in more complex scenarios, a simple association wouldn't be sufficient. In those cases, putting the code into a service instead of the controller will make the code easier to test and r
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by dan_manges 15y ago
I like using service classes for things like this. class StoryService def self.assign_story(params) story = Story.find(params[:story_id]) user = User.find(params[:user_id]) story.assign_to(user) end end Th
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by dan_manges 15y ago
Regarding vendors or business opportunities, I usually respond and politely tell the person that I'm not interested. It only takes a few seconds.
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by dan_manges 15y ago
Chicago, IL - Braintree ( http://www.braintreepayments.com ) We mostly work with Ruby/Rails. Our team is talented, our practices are collaborative (pairing, agile), we work on challenging problems (high availability, quality of service, sca
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by dan_manges 15y ago
Since their revenue was up, this doesn't mean much without knowing more about "higher than normal spend on hiring, acquisitions and international growth."
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Network Connectivity Problems in AWS US-West Region(status.aws.amazon.com)
5 points by dan_manges 15y ago|2 comments
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by dan_manges 15y ago
git is a great vcs, and github a great hosting platform, even if you don't intend to use features like forking and pull requests
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by dan_manges 15y ago
Chicago, IL - Braintree ( http://www.braintreepayments.com ) We mostly work with Ruby/Rails. Our team is talented, our practices are collaborative (pairing, agile), we work on challenging problems (high availability, quality of service, sca
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by dan_manges 15y ago
It's not apparent if the 9 million+ daily hits number is taking into account that peak hours will be higher than off hours. It would take 100 reqs/sec if the traffic is even throughout the day, but 375 reqs/sec if 15% of the day's traffic i
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by dan_manges 15y ago
Some interesting techniques in here (e.g. Faking Dynamic Features Using Inline Caching), but otherwise it seems easy to scale to this level when the majority of page content can be cached.
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by dan_manges 15y ago
Interesting project, but based on the title of the post I expected more thought and analysis about the challenges of building an application in 48 hours. It'd be interesting to hear about the experience from that perspective, especially for
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by dan_manges 15y ago
Code that has been written and/or audited by cryptographers would qualify as 'real crypto.' I don't think anybody has a problem with someone putting together this package; the only problem is with the lack of a proper notice that the code h
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by dan_manges 15y ago
Here's an in depth blog post from Nate Lawson explaining why JS crypto is a bad idea: http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/29/final-post-on-javascript-cr...
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by dan_manges 15y ago
I agree. I think pg's equity equation[1] is applicable here. If Tim Cook keeps Apple on the trajectory it's on now, Apple's shareholders will get a great return on this investment. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html
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by dan_manges 15y ago
I'd say he's going for being contrarian rather than PC. It didn't sound sexist to me, likely because the CEO was also female.
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by dan_manges 15y ago
The difference is the price. Most talent acquisitions don't go for $85 million.
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by dan_manges 15y ago
Could Google Huddle have influenced Skype to make this move? Google is clearly trying to enter the group messaging space and has the infrastructure to support both text and voice group communication.
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by dan_manges 15y ago
It's helpful if you let people know as early as possible if you're going to go over the estimate by a substantial amount. In the example in the grandparent comment, I can understand why the client would be unhappy paying $30,000 for a proje
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by dan_manges 15y ago
I think it's misleading to quote a day rate and then work less than a typically expected number of hours. The client will make an assumption that a day is approximately 8 hours and wouldn't be happy if he/she found out that you were only wo
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by dan_manges 15y ago
I was at a conference recently and saw somebody start Firesheep -- HN profiles showed up. So the choices were: use HN on open wifi but risk having your session stolen, don't use HN, or connect to a VPN. The VPN is probably the smartest thi
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by dan_manges 15y ago
Yes, everybody prefers it to working in isolation
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by dan_manges 15y ago
We have a dev team of 12 working with an open floor plan, pair programming. We get a lot done. There is no single right way to operate.
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by dan_manges 15y ago
I actually liked some things in the "YC S11 Company Seeks Rails Architect" post. Not the hyperbole and fluff, but the details on growth, trajectory, culture, current team, etc. I'd be more specific, but since the post was deleted, I can't r
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ActiveModel::Validations and Command/Query Separation(dan-manges.com)
1 points by dan_manges 15y ago|0 comments

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