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by kondro 15y ago
It's always nice to be able to take something "off the table." If I had an investor that was willing to pay me, directly, for 10 - 20% of my shareholding in a private company whilst additionally adding extra cash, I would take the offer too
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by kondro 15y ago
CloudFlare is actually a CDN proxy, so you could overcome this by hardwiring your web server firewall rules to the CloudFlare platform.
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Phony: international phone number formatting with ruby(github.com)
1 points by kondro 16y ago|0 comments
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by kondro 16y ago
You obviously didn't get the sarcasm. Having said that, $40m is a lot of money, especially considering it shouldn't have required any extra hardware or even a complete platform change (with expensive licensing). Even at $200k/year that's 10
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by kondro 16y ago
Quote: $39,990,000 Result: before_filter { redirect_to :controller => :accounts, :action => :login unless current_user.subscribed? }
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by kondro 16y ago
the proper pronunciation of @ is 'at the rate of'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign
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by kondro 16y ago
The trouble is, the average consumer doesn't understand or see the difference. They get bombarded with acronyms and marketese and they just shut down. And, they don't want to have to replace their movie collection with another one that seem
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by kondro 16y ago
Yay, probabilistic computing. You have a 99.5% chance that your PayPal transaction has succeeded. A bit like using a NoSQL database.
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by kondro 16y ago
Sadly, for what you want to do, you essentially need to be a merchant bank yourself. Your business model seems to involve collecting payments on behalf of other people. Most merchant agreements from ANY bank or service provider would prohib
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by kondro 16y ago
This is amazing. I wonder how they do this? Surely it has to be automated somehow, I just can't imagine anyone building this by hand, even in China.
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by kondro 16y ago
An interesting article. I am definitely guilty of ignoring all the non-English speaking countries, not just because of the language barrier, but because I'm fearful that I just won't be able to fit in well with the culture.
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by kondro 16y ago
I'm pretty much in agreement with everything Gruber said (first time for everything). The one thing that really annoys me though is that Apple have decided is that if you offer a subscription-model outside of the app store, you now have to
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by kondro 16y ago
Spread an article across three pages to display the highest amount of advertising possible per visit.
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by kondro 16y ago
Because of this I have just implemented an automated backup routine for all my Gmail accounts. I used https://github.com/rgrove/larch and Dovecot (IMAP only as no delivery required). Was very easy to setup and seems to work well (still do
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Worried about Gmail deleting your mail? Try this sync library.(github.com)
5 points by kondro 16y ago|0 comments
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by kondro 16y ago
An interesting dev release. I can see a lot of potential for this product. Specifically I would love lawyers to start using products like this for collaborative editing of contracts (which are very tightly structured anyway). Of course ther
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by kondro 16y ago
The battery life score is based on Apple's new battery tests. 50% screen brightness whilst browsing 30 websites (including flash) in a normal fashion until the battery dies.
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by kondro 16y ago
Someone approached hiwith the idea for that product, it wasn't his. Besides, this is a perfect example of him contradicting himself about how taking VC is a bad idea. Besides, do you think they are profitable yet? How do you think they will
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by kondro 16y ago
Except they are still stuck with any badly implemented language "features" in their own language that they only spent 2 months on. Language design and implementation is hard, just ask the dozens/hundreds of full time developers that work on
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by kondro 16y ago
More stable than Ruby? Rails may have started off quite leaky, but to call anything that's been put into production in the past 2 years unstable is just plain FUD.
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by kondro 16y ago
Actually, FogBugz is trivial to scale - there is never any more than a few dozen, to hundreds of users for any one project. And Copilot wasn't even envisaged or created by Joel, but was rather a project created by some interns. FogCreek doe
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by kondro 16y ago
Actually, that article is one of the most interesting and useful examples to point to when discussing the insanity that is Joel. That solution is just so ridiculous. His software runs on a compiler that has had 2 months work put into it and
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by kondro 16y ago
I wish I could give you a 1000 up-votes for this. I'm so sick of hearing the rhetoric about language X not being able to scale. Repeat after me, if your app doesn't scale it is YOUR fault, not a language, platform or framework. Scalability
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by kondro 16y ago
It was Rails and, it wasn't that it wasn't unscalable but because they did it wrong then, they hired a bunch of developers that knew nothing about Rails, so of course they moved a lot of new and core development to other technologies.
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by kondro 16y ago
You're right, .NET (even though I despise it) scales as well as anything else. Scalability is much more about design decisions than language/platform choice. However, Joel Spolsky is a tool. Everyone I know and respect thinks he's a tool. H
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by kondro 16y ago
As a newbie, you are as likely to write shit asp.net code as you are any other code.
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by kondro 16y ago
Ha! The trouble with the joke is only Australians would get it!
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by kondro 16y ago
Umm? Fosters? Really???? The only people who drink Fosters are the English. I do not know a single friend (yes, I'm Australian) who drinks Fosters. I don't even recall if many of the bars/pubs here in Brisbane even have it on tap. From htt
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by kondro 16y ago
Hey, are you flexible when it comes to experience, or is it a Hard Limit(TM)? 'Cause I'm a pretty good problem-solver and rapid learner, but I've not been around as long as you're looking for, WRT years developing ASP.Net. I'd still love t
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by kondro 16y ago
So, does someone have a solution for setting up a US merchant account from a foreign country for the best choice of merchant fees and service providers to bill through? I hate all these "don't use PayPal" comments but even for first-world c

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