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by posguy 9y ago
Violating the TOS of your competitors API so you can directly compete with them is risky, and due to the overly broad nature of CFAA it could easily end with multiple Uber employees in prison if pursued criminally. Not that I think it will
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by posguy 9y ago
Yea, violating the TOS of your competitors API so you can directly compete with them is very risky, and due to the overly broad nature of CFAA it could easily end with multiple Uber employees in prison if pursued criminally. Not that I thin
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by posguy 9y ago
Depends who your dealing with, they may be owned by Vantiv, but the sales & support teams are still separate.
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by posguy 9y ago
These aren't legacy systems, just a few years back Kroger started moving off IBM 4690, which was a legacy OS. That is gone from most areas of the business at this point, hence the expectation to be familiar with SUSE.
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by posguy 9y ago
Trump is no angel, and I sincerely hope you did not take my comment that way. I hate Trump, he is a myopic, self-centered late stage capitalist that can't handle basic logic. That being said Obama was no angel, TPP, SOPA & PIPA wer
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by posguy 9y ago
I've worked at a few businesses, and the closest I ever got to a booklet with rules was toward the end of my first job, where they tried to ban sharing of salaries and quite a few other things. Ended up calling L&I to address the i
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by posguy 9y ago
Yeah, I'd avoid direct integrations entirely, semi-integrated CC/Debit processing like Pax or Dejavoo is much less painful to implement, and costs less on hardware too. See my other comment.
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by posguy 9y ago
Heartland is only strong in the terminal arena, their entire plan for EMV POS systems boils down to Datacap (fucking nightmare you should avoid) and Pax (which is meh). Mercury/Vantiv aren't bad, and are much more developer friend
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by posguy 9y ago
Definitely, VR dev can cost a pretty penny. The only reason I have a VR capable rig is cause I was given the CPU & GPU by a friend who reviews hardware after he was done with them. Android has low development requirements, but you can d
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by posguy 9y ago
No, I was pulling that 2.5 year figure from my prior life of selling cellphones to businesses and the occasional consumer. On average 40% of a wireless account will upgrade per year, so about every 2.5 years you'll see a line upgrade d
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by posguy 9y ago
Eh, I'd hate to own a MBP again, it just can't handle my lifestyle. With my current Thinkpad, everything is repairable, a new screen is $45 for 1440x900 @ 14in, DisplayPort is right there for my external monitor, and it can take a
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by posguy 9y ago
Probably a base model iPhone every 2.5 years @ ~$720 after tax/state fees, and $1645.90 for a base model MacBook Pro every 3 years. Figure OP might bump some specs up to hit the $1k spend a year mark, but minimum your spending $800 a y
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by posguy 9y ago
Huh, well Square seems to be in the right place at the right time to make this acquisition of talent. I still don't get how Square intends to retain/gain customers at the price point their at, Mercury, Heartland, etc are eating th
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by posguy 9y ago
> Pretty much every job gives you a book (policy manual) when you get hired. Whoa whoa whoa, you are painting with broad strokes here. Most businesses are small businesses, and most of those have a handful of guidelines at best, even whe
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by posguy 9y ago
Seriously, people should be protesting out front of the DNR for signing an NDA with Google over a request for public resources. Imagine if I went to go build a house and demanded the county & city sign NDAs covering all permits and plan
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by posguy 9y ago
People are tired of the corporate owned politicians allowing companies to run roughshod over the laws, morals & expectations of society. This is expressed in many ways, from xenophobia to the rise of Bernie Sanders & Donald Trump. P
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by posguy 9y ago
Bringing in low cost foreign workers to maintain a system directly drags down the average wage, hurting Americans in the IT industry and lowering their income & benefits. Foreign workers are a tool that companies like to use to scare IT
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by posguy 9y ago
All you have to do is go look at the cluster that projects like ASTPP are to see what low quality developers (in their case from India) get you. The project started with a solid technical foundation (Freeswitch, MySQL, Nginx), was built in
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by posguy 9y ago
Wiping away your debts wouldn't horribly destroy the credit bureaus, and short of the 1% rising up I doubt there would be civil war. Lending did not stop in ancient palestine due to Jubilee, if anything it provided a pressure relief in
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by posguy 9y ago
Definitely, I think its BS that there are massive pay disparities between the US & Germany, when I've had friends visit from Germany I'm impressed with their programing & english skills, and also shocked with the low pay i
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by posguy 9y ago
Move to the US or get a job working on a project remotely for a US based company. Programmers in major US cities can earn $100k a year easily with no experience and just a degree. That being said, people I know in Turkey were wholly unwilli
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by posguy 9y ago
Pay in Germany is generally low. Where someone in Seattle would earn $120k to $140k easily, the same person in Germany may net only $40k to $50k. Housing and especially food & drink are much cheaper than the US though, $12 beers aren&#x
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by posguy 9y ago
Google can be out-competed, look at their attempts at social networks & messaging/calling. Google has lit dumpsters full of cash on fire in an effort to get anywhere near Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Viber or even Signal Private Me
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by posguy 9y ago
Savings accounts are basically a negative return due to inflation, even if your credit union will do 1.25%, inflation is still 1.6% to 1.7%. We need to mobilize this capital back into the economy, rather than letting it languish in the fina
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by posguy 9y ago
In a way, parents can support their kids less today. Wages have stagnated and stratified heavily, leaving the median home with less effective income, meanwhile the cost of college has gone from free (at public institutions) and nominal at p
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by posguy 9y ago
The bible speaks of Jubilee, the 50th year where debts are wiped clear, and land is pooled and redivided among the people. There are Christians who believe this should be a thing in modern society, and it is quite practical. Note: I say thi
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by posguy 9y ago
The skilled trades are shrinking though in major urban centers, and your average plumber or electrician isn't unionized. That being said, restricted supply is good for those who are skilled today as they will earn more!
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True true, and we should ignore the worthless opinion of those stuck up people. Who can't value a day of labor?
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by posguy 9y ago
This ^^, you can do well as a plumber and retire after 2 or 3 decades of working if you play your cards right, leaving you with a fairly functional body and freedom from working 1 to 2 decades ahead of most people in the US.
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I've definitely seen people work to retirement or occasionally injury in both industries, in the latter case long term disability picks up the tab using money paid in during the first 30 or 40 years of working.

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