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by kwindla 8y ago
I know, right? For now, you have to know somebody who knows somebody who knows Kelly. :-) Word is that they're going to start opening up reservations for full-day events, sometime this year. Maybe $30k for the day (but that's just
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by kwindla 8y ago
[crocodile dundee accent] That's not an artificial surf park, this is an artificial surf park: http://www.kswaveco.com/
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You're right, it's not synchronous! I looked back at our development notes and it seems like we were seeing about 15 minutes, generally, between creation of the manual invoice and finalization/payment. But that was using our
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by kwindla 8y ago
Yes, subscriptions can be implemented manually. We did that two years ago before Stripe had the full “Billing” API. One big win you get with Billing, though, is automatic generation of invoices each subscription period. It’s nice not to hav
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by kwindla 8y ago
Our experience is that manual invoices are charged right away. I wonder what's different about our setups? The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is webhooks that aren't responding, which would delay the invoice clo
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by kwindla 8y ago
No, haven't seen anything. Everything looks like a hammer, of course, but to me this just feels like a general software engineering thing, if that makes sense -- building an abstraction on top of a library service. Our plan is to evolv
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by kwindla 8y ago
I wouldn't call Boston a slouch, at all! It is an amazing city with a lot of great tech stuff happening. But having raised VC money for three companies, Boston definitely feels like it doesn't have the same VC culture as SF and NY
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I'm a Stripe fan, so my perspective on this is that Stripe has done an incredible job making "easy things easy," and a pretty good job making "hard things possible." There are things I'd love to see added to th
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"Suicidal" might be a little strong. :-) Like most things in engineering, you can move the tradeoffs around to optimize for different use cases. The "one true source" approach allows you to avoid writing logic to keep da
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by kwindla 8y ago
Yeah, I definitely feel your pain regarding iterating on plans and features. Stripe explicitly makes it hard to modify most aspects of Stripe-level plans after they are created, which definitely is the right call because user expectations a
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Implementing API Billing with Stripe(daily.co)
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Let's add the US Congress and the EU to the long list of parties to blame for the DRM situation. "Reverse engineering" software for the purposes of "circumventing" copyright is illegal. "Circumventing" is
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We'll need a new toolchain -- wasm debugger support in the browser, especially. (I love your username.)
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I haven't hired in Boston in a few years, so my perspective may be out of date, but it definitely was the case up until 2014 or so (my most recent concrete experience making job offers to candidates in Boston) that Boston salaries for
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by kwindla 8y ago
Porting c/c++ codebases to WebAssembly is both super fun and frustrating. Network stuff, as mentioned in other comments, is futzy because of the limitations of running in a browser environment. A surprising amount of network code &quot
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by kwindla 8y ago
Funny, lucidly written (as you describe), and extraordinarily insightful in making connections across areas of finance that are usually presented in the business press as silos. Matt Levine is a rare talent.
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The Goop article that's linked to is titled "The Ridiculous but Awesome Gift Guide." Goop's click-bait content game is strong. And they're not the only ones, of course. That Hermès surfboard is an amazing artifact o
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by kwindla 8y ago
Starting in the mid-1990s you could find amazing deals on SPARC and Alpha “desktop” motherboards. They were both great architectures in many ways, interesting platforms for hacking, and sometimes much faster than Intel boxes of the time for
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by kwindla 8y ago
Lovely article! Following up on the section about threaded code, Andrew W. Appel's book _Compiling With Continuations_ really blew my mind and changed how I think about the interconnections between compilation, optimization, and langua
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I'd love to see more stuff like this on HN! Thanks for posting.
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How we run remote standups with Standuply(daily.co)
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In Praise of bell hooks(nytimes.com)
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‘The Joy of the Discovery’: An Interview with Jennifer Doudna(nybooks.com)
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The forgotten story of the man who pushed professional golf’s integration(sfchronicle.com)
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Anna Atkins and Photography’s Blue Beginnings(nybooks.com)
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The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-Fifth Birthday(newyorker.com)
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You may know more than I do, here, but AFAICT, Kurento is still around and seems to be maintained: https://github.com/Kurento/kurento-media-server The Twilio folks certainly have built a bunch of additional stuff that&
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The Life of a Song: ‘Cherokee’(ft.com)
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This post, by Andrew Rasmussen, founder of Canny, is a nice overview of one company's experience last year: https://canny.io/blog/what-youll-get-out-of-y-combinators-st...
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As a couple of other folks have noted, lots of ISPs prioritize traffic to (some) known speed test sites, so differing results from different speed tests -- and results that differ from real world experience -- are pretty common. Even weirde

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