jblake

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Ask HN: How to deal with IRS CP2000 letter for $xx,xxx tax due?
1 points by jblake 9y ago|3 comments
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by jblake 10y ago
Decent, but too many misses. I found one thats a bit closer to what I'm looking for: https://www.owcdigital.com/products/thunderbolt/thunderbolt-... but it doesn't ship until Feb.
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Best usb-c dock for the new macbook pro?
3 points by jblake 10y ago|2 comments
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by jblake 10y ago
Not thrilled, but I need to replace my 2011 Air. Apple has me in the corner with Xcode...
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by jblake 10y ago
I'm a Stripe connect application provider, and I get hundreds if not thousands of "Zip code failed validation" decline errors - primarily affecting Canadian customers. The decline rate is too high in my opinion to be user-err
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by jblake 10y ago
I use both. Braintree for SaaS income (monthly, one-off, client contracts), and Stripe for marketplace payments (Stripe Connect - event ticket sale service fees). It works well, and helps me reconcile the income easier into separate clearin
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by jblake 10y ago
Odd they didn't mention performance improvements in the blog post. From my understanding, there have been some massive gains (of which, some commits date back to early '15!) One of them which has been killing me, is that model sch
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by jblake 10y ago
Anyone else's bundle update spazzing out on resolving dependencies? Guess I'll have to wait until other third party gems get the Rails 5 memo.
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by jblake 11y ago
I've actually talked to TD about that before. You'll most likely get better rates by going to TD directly - one less middleman... but working with Beanstream can also have its perks. If you are doing any aggregation (marketplace p
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by jblake 11y ago
-We have a high volume of payments with low margins. Based on this alone, you need to get your own merchant account and gateway. I highly recommend Beanstream in Canada for the gateway. A proper merchant account (interchange plus pricing, e
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by jblake 11y ago
I wish the pricing was more competitive. In the US, I've used Beanstream - which is $5/mo + $0.25 flat per transfer. In Canada I've used Versapay - $0/mo + $1 per transfer.
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by jblake 11y ago
With that kind of volume, you should go straight to a big bank - like Chase Paymentech or First Data - and getting interchange plus rates. Then you can plug your merchant account into whatever gateway you want that has the best API docs, su
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by jblake 11y ago
I'm a solo developer. For short term, post-it notes and legal pads. There's something for me about having those TODO's constantly in my face. I always get them done. And it feels so good to crumple that ball of paper and thro
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by jblake 11y ago
Mightycall looks solid. I currently use TalkDesk - but do not like it - so am also in the market for a switch. I also found Bitrix42 but seems to offer way more features than I need. any others out there?
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by jblake 11y ago
Worrying or thinking about burnout would condition me to inevitably burnout. It doesn't really even enter my mind, because I know it will just make me and the business weaker. I simply look at it like: I want a successful business that
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by jblake 11y ago
I run my solo bootstrapped SaaS business and have put in consistent 80-100 hour weeks (total computer time) for the past 4 years and am 60-85% "productive" (according to RescueTime). Of course there have been some odd weeks of onl
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by jblake 11y ago
$(document).on lets you keep your javascript source files relatively flat because the event handler listens on the document, rather than an individual element. So even if the element is not currently on the page (loaded in via AJAX for exam
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by jblake 11y ago
Thanks! That's a really good point - and it's currently one of the codebases biggest weaknesses. I use DataTables EVERYwhere. They're fantastic - I have tons of places where I need to show thousands of records, so I use serv
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by jblake 11y ago
jQuery. I'm the sole developer on a "rails monolith" (254 tables, 540 models/classes, 4 years old), with enterprise-like architecture (ecommerce, event ticket sales, booking engine, access control, etc) and I'm posi
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Ask HN: Tax advice for transfer pricing?
1 points by jblake 12y ago|0 comments
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by jblake 14y ago
I say "High Risk" because that is how it was evaluated at the time. We have had our Beanstream account for over 6 months with zero chargebacks, a 100% clean record. If a Stripe rep appears here and makes an offer - jeff@goodnights.me - you
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by jblake 14y ago
I'm currently on Beanstream with terms that were acceptable at the time (hard to get a Merchant Account) but are now completely unacceptable and am interested in a switch. - 5% 6 month rolling reserve // - 2 week + 5 day lag settlements //
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by jblake 14y ago
The way I understand their pricing (.05/hr, .10/hr, .15/hr based on minutes jobs get pulled off queue), I'm essentially paying 3x more for priority queuing that I can bypass by setting the INTERVAL=3 in Resque. Hm. This an expensive way to
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by jblake 14y ago
What would be the advantage of using this vs using Resque + S3 + heroku worker auto-scaling?
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by jblake 15y ago
I value the ownership of a project so much - the idea that when it becomes big, I can say, "I made that." Like the British guy who fought WWII with a sword and claymore. Challenge is rewarding. Also, reading the Fountainhead was a game chan