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by jyu 13y ago
For those who are not aware, buying cars in the US is a terrible experience, and has stayed that way for many years. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-... http:/
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by jyu 13y ago
I use AWS at work, have used Heroku in tutorials and quick hacks, and DigitalOcean for personal projects. If I wanted just basic web hosting for a personal site, the free AWS tier does the trick. If I had a startup with funding, I would pro
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by jyu 13y ago
Are these yahoo accounts with 2 factor authentication enabled?
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by jyu 13y ago
This would be shocking if you did not also read "BoA: Too Crooked to Fail" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-to...
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There are juicy styles of beef jerky; Malaysian beef jerky for example. http://www.malaysiabeefjerky.com/images/product/prod_bj.jpg
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I'd also like to know Security 101 for web developers. In a recent appsec thread, there were two books that a lot of people recommended: http://www.amazon.com/The-Tangled-Web-Securing-Applications/... http:/
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The attacking group exploited a vulnerability in the banking system that they did not account for. Bank transfers can also be reversed in certain circumstances. To deal with these edge cases, instead of relying on other parties, I think Loc
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I'd like to see setup, automated deployment, and maybe going through some basic troubleshooting when you can't just search for it.
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by jyu 13y ago
Thanks for the overview. It's refreshing to get straight answers. Which wallet are you guys using? I've heard good things about armory which make it easier to do hot / cold storage. Keeping withdrawals separate from the application server m
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by jyu 13y ago
I'd like to know more about the security measures you guys take. I've been working on a personal project, and haven't found any good guides to securing bitcoin transactions and managing private keys properly (assuming you host the bitcoin c
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by jyu 13y ago
Yes, FB ads was one of my main user acquisition channels for several years before I shifted from marketing to development. I remember there used to be ads for "Dad Scholarships go back to school" campaigns running for a long time, so what y
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by jyu 13y ago
If you have a marketing budget, use Facebook Ads. Target married people in a certain age range. The age range may vary based on education level.
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G means choice g in this case, which helps you find the root problem. The other choices just treat the symptoms.
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by jyu 13y ago
I've used both Echosign and docusign. Either one seems to suit your use case well; replacing back and forth faxes or email sending.
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I am a layman with this stuff, so do your own due diligence. You can look into the buttercoin project on github. Current exchange technology is not scalable past something like 50 operations per second, because of blocking issues. Using som
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What type of development do you do? Is it memory intensive enough that MBP vs Air would make a difference? For me it did, so MBP + ram upgrade helped a lot.
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As another price point, I believe Google apps for business is $50 / yr / person.
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Can't you adjust your given IDE / text editor to accomodate? Look for hints in whitespace sensitive languages like python or coffeescript. For instance, you could use retab in vim. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9104706/how-can-i-conve
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The email equivalent is CAN-SPAM and carries hefty fines for violators.
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It'd be great if you could give some more details around finding and arranging work with this ideal client. It doesn't seem likely that this was your first interaction with the client. What was your relationship before you guys quit your jo
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by jyu 13y ago
I like the following: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ http://marketingexperiments.com http://whichtestwon.com/ http://kylerush.net/blog/optimization-at-the-obama-campaign-... (previously mentioned)
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by jyu 13y ago
If the value is an empty Array or Hash, you can use @user.name.presence || "Not available" rather than @user.name.blank? ? "Not available" : @user.name
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by jyu 13y ago
Wow, good point, faulty assumption on my part. Here are some further details on their stance: Dwolla does not receive, hold, or transmit User funds; Dwolla only maintains and manages information associated with User ownership of the funds;
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When the entity is defined as a money transmitter, you need to abide by their legal requirements. One of those includes having photocopies of government issued id. They choose to lower the initial barrier to sign up at the expense of a bad
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by jyu 13y ago
The target market that will pay for PDF generation is probably not developers. A competent developer can generate PDF's with the mentioned libraries rather quickly. We deal with a lot of PDF generation where I work, and it is not something
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by jyu 13y ago
The type of marketer you are looking for is not interested in the small dollar opportunity your app could provide. However, there is still a lot of low hanging fruit that you can pick yourself even if you are "not a marketer." 1. Do you hav
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by jyu 13y ago
Not really a trick, but pry-rails has helped me in a lot of sticky situations.
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Do you freelance as a programmer, or as a marketer? It's not clear from your post.
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Ask HN: How to speed up wifi?
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You may want to read further about the Buttercoin project. The promise is an open source exchange software that runs on commodity servers. It's still in the early days, but seems pretty possible. If this project were successful, then multip

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