philfreo

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   by philfreo 13y ago

   Coinbase is definitely the best if you're just looking for stable and easy to use. They also have great APIs / merchant tools. (If you want more detailed volume depth for "day trading" then other exchanges are better). T
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   by philfreo 13y ago

   Coinbase.com is by far the easiest in my opinion (and is a YC company). Unlike MtGox.com (originally the most popular) the site is fast, stable, well designed, and can connect directly with your US bank account. They've also got a set
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   by philfreo 13y ago

   What's the rest of the story, since the funding went well (how did they fail)?
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   Meemoo hackable web apps(meemoo.org)

   1 points by philfreo 13y ago|0 comments
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   by philfreo 13y ago

   Bleeding money due to frequent cache invalidations, or traffic?
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   by philfreo 13y ago

   > violence impossible in anonymous marketplace if you read the report about the 1st silk road, you'll see that's not true
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   by philfreo 13y ago

   We built Close.io off of RequireJS and Backbone.js using a modified version of this: https://github.com/backbone-boilerplate/backbone-boilerplate...
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   by philfreo 13y ago

   I've done a few lunches in SF through http://letslunch.com/ which I'd recommend if you're looking for a "scalable" version of this.
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   by philfreo 13y ago

   Please add other regions, especially us-west-1.
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    AWS has a bunch of options for exactly what you're looking for. Just want better disk performance? Use instance storage or high provisioned IOPS EBS. Just want a lot of memory? Pick a M2 or CR1 Memory-optimized instance type and pay fo
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    I'm not sure but I thought Facebook was PHP from the beginning. Perhaps they thought building the svg graph was easier in Perl for some reason?
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    This is different code than the 2007 PHP code here: https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406
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    Facebook Perl source code from 2005(gist.github.com)

    85 points by philfreo 13y ago|37 comments
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    The EFF is doing some incredibly important work. Please setup a monthly donation: https://supporters.eff.org/donate
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    MacPorts isn't really ready yet.
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    The Four Secrets To HubSpot's Scalability(blog.close.io)

    4 points by philfreo 13y ago|1 comments
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    Lots of great speakers today at Sales Hacker Conference ( http://saleshackerconference.com ) Close.io is taking notes on all the talks... here's the table of contents: http://blog.close.io/post/6430955188
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    Fatal Sales Mistakes(blog.close.io)

    73 points by philfreo 13y ago|9 comments
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    So is PayPal and just about every other financial institution. Square has some nice safeguards in place here and considering they are going to be the ones paying for fraud abuse, you can be sure they'll be doing everything possible to
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    debit cards != ACH
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    There is such a thing (lookup DKIM) but it's really only one factor of email authenticity and I'm sure Square isn't fully relying on it.
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    This is my favorite type of product. Here's why: - Take an existing known medium (in this case email) and makes it way more useful. - They didn't try to build a bunch of new UI for connecting your Facebook so you can find and invi
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    There may be some fees for them here, but it's not like they are paying 2.7% per transaction. It only uses debit (not credit) cards.
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    If you want something lightweight I'd go with the approach @jashkenas mentioned. But also might want to checkout: https://github.com/PaulUithol/Backbone-relational
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    I got the exact same thing on the graph PHP page. It had database credentials, but they we're canceled out and replaced by some other constants.
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    Serious question... where does all that money go? Are a few people personally making many millions off this deal? Or are there really hundreds or thousands of employees working on it? Or is it getting subcontracted out many times with each
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    Where can I see his original name?
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    Haven't tried it yet. But the key would be sharing individual passwords with the right people - not just having a shared vault where it's all or nothing.
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    Must be Birds vs. Drones day on HN: http://cl.ly/image/3F0v1f2l3j0Z
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    by philfreo 13y ago

    1Password because life's too short to use LastPass. There's no good way to share the passwords though... unlogged chat / IM / onetimesecret.com