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by mjallday 13y ago
I assume there's a way to add context information into the run loop when firing events for debugging purposes. This would largely solve the first half of the issue (who fired the event). The second half, where the error happened, seems
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by mjallday 13y ago
It looks like most of the complexity in ember-data is to do with transaction management and references. We decided to forgo both of those and haven't really lost anything because of that. It's opinionated way of dictating your JSO
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by mjallday 13y ago
Absolutely, there's a nice looking project for Ember called ember-model ( https://github.com/ebryn/ember-model ) which looks promising for addressing this shortcoming.
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by mjallday 13y ago
Hi Kiro, We wrote a simple Python back-end service that stores authentication information -- if you think of the dashboard as a rich client, it needs some way to persist some items that are unrelated to the API such as email address and pas
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by mjallday 13y ago
To give Ember some criticism, we're struggling with debugging at the moment: The main issue https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/issues/2817 is that the run loop in Ember disassociates the invoking action
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by mjallday 13y ago
We primarily looked at Backbone, Angular, and Ember. It was hard to choose but Ember has a great community and is reasonably straight forward so it got our vote.
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by mjallday 14y ago
Another model is to separate the entities that own and sell the infrastructure from the entities who own and sell the service. It's all still privatized but there is no monopoly.
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by mjallday 14y ago
This is a great idea. Can you share any insight into how to monitor this via an automated process as part of a deploy and how to finish scheduling the remaining deploy once it has been verified? I'm guessing we could use Jenkin's join plugi
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by mjallday 14y ago
I bet your bank has a great API for this as well :) Balanced abstracts away this batching process and giving you events and nice json objects to deal with rather than parsing the batch file that eventually gets returned. You could make the
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by mjallday 14y ago
Sorry, I should have prefaced my conversation, I was based in Singapore at the time so didn't have access to the plethora of beautiful payment options that are available in the US. Where these new services win out is the ability to instantl
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by mjallday 14y ago
> Integrating billing into an app used to be a pain in the ass. I remember integrating BrainTree into a previous startup back in 2008, and it was a four month long process. Applying for a merchant account to even start accepting credit
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by mjallday 14y ago
> I find that ... I'd love know more, where did you find this out?
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by mjallday 14y ago
That scenario is pretty much exactly what Balanced is designed to address. The money goes: Buyer's card -> Your Balanced escrow account -> Merchants bank account -> Fee to y
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by mjallday 14y ago
Yes, you charge a card or debit a bank account and the funds flow into your escrow account within Balanced. From there you can credit it out to bank accounts. Funds for credit cards are available to use 2 days faster than any other competit
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by mjallday 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, we're *nix shop so I only tested it in browser shots to be honest (shame on me). I'll fire up a VM, check it out and try to find a good fallback or alternative for Windows.
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by mjallday 14y ago
Don't forget escrow. For anyone that's taking money from one party, taking a cut and then sending the remainder to someone else, escrow is a very handy feature!
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by mjallday 14y ago
Is SF atypical in the number of mentally unstable homeless people? I moved to the US a year ago and am still blown away by the shear number of drugged up or crazy people living in the middle of the city. I've seen plenty of homeless people
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by mjallday 14y ago
We're using the events internally for reconciling transactions so we have definitely eaten our own dog food on this development. A big shout out to the author's of Celery which is what we built the messaging framework on top of. That's a qu
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by mjallday 14y ago
jareau has the right idea, go to www.balancedpayments.com - create a test marketplace and hit the "Pay a seller" button on the left hand side. Enter their bank account details and an amount and you're done. For a production account it's exa
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by mjallday 14y ago
Balanced uses the same tokenization and vaulting for bank accounts as for cards so there's no way to pull the unencrypted data via the API. Could someone grab the tokens and charge the bank accounts? Absolutely, the same as with any payment
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by mjallday 14y ago
I've seen similar devices. They usually require you to pay an ongoing subscription for a mobile phone connection that makes the price unattractive in the long term. Is there anyway to broadcast a signal from these devices without me having
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by mjallday 14y ago
Like steveklabnik mentioned, take a look at the Balanced API, here's an example you can run yourself using a test marketplace: curl https://api.balancedpayments.com/v1/marketplaces/TEST-MP6IEymJ6ynwnSoqJQnUTacN -u 7b7a51ccb10c11e19c0a
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by mjallday 14y ago
It does to a degree. The established cities will most likely have installed Internet infrastructure a long time ago whereas developing cities may likely have only recently installed pipes so they are getting newer generation equipment. Once
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by mjallday 14y ago
In some countries the government has split the ownership of the pipes and the providing of Internet service into separate concerns. So one company charges ISPs for using the pipes and then ISPs pass that cost on to the consumer. This means
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by mjallday 14y ago
It's a drop in replacement for MySQL, you can use the _storage engines_ that Percona provide such as ExtraDB so maybe it shouldn't differ at all?
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by mjallday 14y ago
"Balanced’s sweet spot is that it can make sure merchants get paid within 24 hours of the marketplace giving the go-ahead to send out the money. Other places like Stripe can take up to a week." I personally think this is one of the most und
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by mjallday 14y ago
I like this point "Never use a mixin if you’re not passing an argument. Mixins without arguments are much better used as templates which can be extended." Which is a fair call I think. However "Never nest rules purely for code organization.
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by mjallday 14y ago
That's a great point, we've created an issue to track this on Github - https://github.com/balanced/status.balancedpayments.com/issu... PS - Pull requests with solutions get free t-shirts :)
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by mjallday 14y ago
If anyone's interested in contributing, one of the next things we've got lined up for Gittip is integrating an ORM (It looks like we're going with SqlAlchemy). Join the discussion at https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/129
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by mjallday 14y ago
We looked at a few other solutions like ServerDensity etc. The main issue was that we wanted to report across all requests, e.g. there is no single health check endpoint that an external system can hit to determine if everything is OK or no

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