midnightmonster

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by midnightmonster 12y ago
> seems like a bad idea to put the computer in a consumable device. This was my first reaction, too, but I'm not sure it makes sense, at least not categorically. My current Logitech mouse is over two years old with no issues at all.
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
Thanks for posting this.
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
:-) ... and fyi, two things I want to know all the time are how much unbilled already completed work do I have on a given project, and all the stats summed over all projects for a given client. I have to solve unbilled-completed by subtra
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
FWIW, I think you've got a really neat presentation of the app ui in the video there. I have no idea if it's effective for new people as I've been a daily user for three months now. Your 60 sec front page video sold me immedi
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
I've used Freshbooks for invoicing for years, and I've switched between their time tracker and other services/apps repeatedly. Switched to timely first of August, and I'm still happily using it even though it increases m
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
This was a great story to read, and the ending hit me like a surprise twist, so much the better for being a real event. Thanks for sharing it.
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
I am not anything close to a lawyer, but years ago as a web designer I had a startup client who got in trouble for soliciting the general public for investment. Your bit about looking for funding is more vague than theirs was, and I think i
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by midnightmonster 12y ago
Kristi, what are you actually saving to the vault when I use PayPal? I know you present the merchant with a token, but how is it accomplished? Has PayPal had a charge-whenever token capability before that was not widely understood, or are y
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by midnightmonster 13y ago
I skimmed 96 comments looking for anyone to say, "You know, this is pretty offensive and/or wrong." I found only two posts comprising one sarcastic attempt at pointing that direction. No one's making the argument that
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by midnightmonster 14y ago
I would be curious if the event or the organizer had any connection to the venue. It wouldn't keep me from going, and it might make me notice it more just for the unexpected juxtaposition.
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by midnightmonster 14y ago
I upvoted at first because Kris is a friend and it looked good. Then I watched the video and: 1) This looks great 2) It's a fantastic demo video Is the automatic local connection app thing going to work if I'm behind a NAT? Any plans to m
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by midnightmonster 14y ago
Furthermore, I've been trying to get them to sell me a commercial license for months. Someone sometimes emails me back, but they have yet to give me a way to give them money.
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
I used a lot of systems. AFAIK, they all give some way for you to set your own transaction ID, and they all provide you with a gateway transaction ID, too. A good system will have a backend process to reconcile records based on one of these
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
Actual approaches I've seen: * Trust the submitted data. Sadly, very popular. Of things I've seen lately, Authorize.Net's new Direct Post Method does this, as does the Prolific gateway. * Have the merchant optionally crypto-sign all the int
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
I meant not so big a deal as transmitting the card data in the clear, and not that hard to fix, and possibly not even indicative of developer incompetence if they knew about this issue (which may be a limitation of the gateway the merchant
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
Ahhhhhh... Someone is wrong on the Internet! The card thing is really No Big Deal. It's actually a pretty smart integration with one shortcoming. Whatever gateway they're using has some support for you maintaining control of the checkout ex
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
HTTP header is code for "POST data".
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
The way I figure it is, if it consistently clears $100/month more than the value of the time you put into it each month , hey, you've got a new macbook every year.
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
I've been looking for a good reason to use twilio for years now. Will the latest developer contest with this new API http://www.twilio.com/contests/2011/07/new-developer-contest... be enough to get me to look harder? I think it may.
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
I'm an independent web software developer. I work for various clients on an hourly or per-project basis. The highest rate I charge is 50% higher than the lowest rate I charge. If I had an agent that could keep me busy with the higher rate j
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
That's a technique that Braintree has popularized if not pioneered, but it's a neat trick that most people agree is PCI compliant (I also hope and believe this), not a change in the security standards. Among others, USAePay has also made th
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
Perhaps even more important, they have a list of hundreds (thousands?) of pages I thought were interesting enough to read later. Seems like a fine base from which to build or enhance profiles of thousands of citizens.
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by midnightmonster 15y ago
Really excited about Dungeon Adventure. Going to have to sort out how to make it run well with multiple children controlling the heroes. Mostly, how not to be biased in dealing out monster attacks to the heroes. Possible monster 'strategy':
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by midnightmonster 16y ago
Nginx can have workers, but the default number is one. nginx doesn't need a separate worker per time to handle each request. Anything that happens on a given connection is an event (connected, received some data, finished receiving data, go
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by midnightmonster 16y ago
I'm seeing anti-euthanasia in the article for sure, and certainly some anti-abortion arguments spring to my mind when reading, but I don't see the article actually making any of them. It's discussing only post-birth ethics.
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by midnightmonster 16y ago
> with Prefork and mod_php, every time someone was > connecting I was spinning up a new Apache thread and a > new PHP VM every single time (please correct this if > wrong... this is how I understood it). Sin
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by midnightmonster 16y ago
We had cobra through my wife's former job. As others have noted, you can get cobra even if quit on your own. Thankfully, the old job was in Maryland, where state law requires insurance companies to offer a continuation policy after cobra ex
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by midnightmonster 16y ago
For whimsy that doesn't waste my time, my favorite recent example is when I ordered a giant gummy bear on a stick for my brother for Christmas (we have a candy gag gift tradition). It was shipped in a box in a box, of course, and the outer
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by midnightmonster 16y ago
Maybe it was just the class I took, but I took macro and wished from the first day and ever after that I had taken micro. I felt like one class of micro might have gotten me some information I could actually use in business, whereas one cla
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by midnightmonster 16y ago
I agree, and yet I hesitate. People who have taken one or two philosophy classes are often insufferable and not least to themselves (or so I suspect). E.g., there's no broadly accepted 'answer' in epistemology (can we know things? What does

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