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by dminor 14y ago
We've done this too, and the reason is this: dropping people who don't read your newsletter increases your open rate, and decreases your spam reports. This makes it less likely some large mail host will drop your newsletter entirely. Th
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by dminor 14y ago
Merchants already have to pay back the transaction, plus a charge, plus we're out the merchandise. We already have plenty of incentive to spot fraudulent transactions. What is needed is a better system.
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by dminor 14y ago
> Not stopped, but it would decrease fraud, as the fraction of payments made in bitcoins is guaranteed to be impossible to charge back. I doubt it. Most fraudsters are trying to convert someone else's credit into cash by buying goods th
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by dminor 14y ago
One problem with this: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1"> is 'maximum-scale=1' prevents zooming. This property fixes a mobile Safari zoom bug when orientation is changed, b
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by dminor 14y ago
There's also a white text-shadow, so plenty of contrast for my eyes.
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by dminor 14y ago
There's a group at the University of Alberta that does research in poker strategy. They have a program that plays heads-up poker (2 players) as well as the best in the world. Adding more players into the mix significantly complicates things
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by dminor 14y ago
That's silly. You have an opponent whose previous actions you can analyze with an eye to the possible cards to come and the moves you can make. Add more players and the calculations are more complex. There's plenty of data for a computer to
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by dminor 14y ago
Like I said, it's complex - for our internal solution we just queried for rates for all of our box sizes, and then our software suggests the cheapest it thinks will fit, but allows the warehouse guy to override it. It has a really simple fo
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by dminor 14y ago
It's nice to see startups tackling shipping APIs - they really are ugly. What I'd really like to see is something that reaches down to the inventory level, I.e. I'm shipping these 5 SKUs, what's the best price among the carriers I support
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by dminor 14y ago
Ok, but if I'm hanging out on the corner selling drugs, do I really want to deal with a bunch of laundry detergent tubs?
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by dminor 14y ago
Sounds way way less convenient than cash to me.
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by dminor 14y ago
> I know virtually nothing about ebook formats so this would be quite a learning curve for me. Pandoc can convert markdown into epub. Put it on Amazon's KDP, Barnes and Noble's PubIt, and then use Smashwords to target the other markets.
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by dminor 14y ago
> Lieutenant Hornblower - C.S. Forrester. Shogun taught me that reading historical fiction made regular history much more interesting, which made me seek out more historical fiction. This is a series of 12 books covering the career of a
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by dminor 14y ago
> Removed all color variables (e.g., @blue, @orange, etc). New, more meaningful variables are on their way (such as @state-warning-text). Hooray! Should make customization that much easier.
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by dminor 14y ago
Banks often approve transactions where the billing address doesn't match - this is because the financial burden of the fraud is borne by the merchant. But the response does indicate whether the numeric portion of the street address matched
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by dminor 14y ago
I work at a small online retailer and almost all of our fraudulent orders are from outside the US. Use of a mail forwarding service is also typical.
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by dminor 14y ago
Exactly - it's like the difference between chess and poker. Both are popular but poker is more widely played because differences in skill are less apparent (especially to an unskilled player) People who don't like randomness mixed with skil
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by dminor 14y ago
It's not so much that you have to worry about losing a judgement, but rather that you have to spend time and resources fighting in court.
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by dminor 14y ago
It's actually not terribly hard to get good enough to make money playing poker, but sustaining $60/hr for 8 hours a day takes an enormous amount of dedication and concentration, plus it takes time to get to that level. You're far better off
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by dminor 14y ago
Another option is to populate the cart preview via an ajax request, which allows the initial page to be served entirely from the cache.
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by dminor 14y ago
I just ordered a pair from Zenni. Their site is pretty slow, but for $30 for a pair of glasses I'll happily put up with it.
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by dminor 14y ago
I bought my wife's engagement ring from them, but sadly they are no more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Diamond
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by dminor 14y ago
Here's another recent effort, targeting C++, but with the same goal of getting Java on iOS: https://github.com/badlogic/jack
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by dminor 14y ago
There are inexpensive VPNs you can use. Kind of perverse to watch a local team through a non-local proxy, but oh well.
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by dminor 14y ago
Personally I think they should ship with 'Block All' as the default in the plugins settings.
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by dminor 14y ago
I'm guessing he has a program generating the test using random numbers.
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by dminor 14y ago
> and that rumors of Steve Perlman cashing out of the old company were not true. Gee techcrunch, I wonder who started those rumors?
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by dminor 14y ago
I think that's how Movable Type works, or at least it used to.
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by dminor 14y ago
Steve is wrong about macros - they don't compose as well as functions, and that's why people don't recommend them where a function works just as well. As far as adding new things into the language, though, Clojure does tend to be conservati
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by dminor 14y ago
You should check out LibGDX, which is the same concept but has been around a bit longer.

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