joelhaasnoot

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Ask HN: Accepting credit cards as an intermediary
2 points by joelhaasnoot 16y ago|0 comments
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
Manual reviewers are people. You'll still need guidelines to determine what's minimal. People are points of failure... Will be hard to determine what really is minimal.
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
Which is what was Windows Mobile 6 and earliers' big downfall. Once it crashed, everything crashed, once it froze, it all foze...
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
Little too popular already...
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
Sounds like a licensing scheme tied in the iPhone to the IMEI number and for the iPod Touch to the MAC address or some other unique chip number...
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
The question is if fopen() would then still work with embedded or archaic architectures. Examples such as radio links on tiny 16-bit hardware come to mind.
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
Regarding your first point... You forget one thing: you open a file and get a file descriptor. If you open a socket (though it takes 3 calls), it also returns a file descriptor. Sockets can then be written to and read from just like files.
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
Ah yes, does anybody else remember the glory days of shareware and freeware dominating, sold on magazine CDs and various collections? The good software always had an excellent, beautifully crafted readme, detailing features, install how-to,
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
Offline Gmail certainly has an Outbox. The main reason being you'll generally have no internet connection or a very flaky one. By product of it is that yu can indeed cancel emails after sending them. It wouldn't be a bad idea to use an Out
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
This is a good read! Ran into something today where I used the same i variable for two nested for loops, and told my gf about how it was frustrating but simple once found. It was wonderful to hear she actually understood, having taken some
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
Just rename the zip anything but zip. zig, zit, zif, zid, whatever. Gmail then will ignore it. Little more hassle for your customers (they have to rename it on their end, but most can handle that).
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
Depends what it is. Where I attend college, macbooks are rare, and so they're very likely to "go missing". I login with my face anyway (Lenovo Face recognition software), so people think/know it's harder to access.
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by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
True, but Twitter breathes down the necks of everyone in the space of supplementing and complementing services. Twitter is looking to own the ecosystem and keep control of the user experience. One of these days Twitter will buy an image ser