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by rbn 14y ago
Skype has a Win8 App
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by rbn 14y ago
Engadget stopped being Engadget when everyone moved to the Verge.
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by rbn 14y ago
Is it me or have all apple related article in the past 2 weeks been negative.
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by rbn 14y ago
I'm expecting a move away from Skeuomorphism towards minimalism now that Jony Ive is the head of "Human Interface"
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by rbn 14y ago
I would say that if you want your own company you wouldn't work for any company because at the end of the day you are still working on someone else's product. Doesn't matter if it's Apple, MSFT for Acme Box corp. However when you say "Smart
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by rbn 14y ago
You're either young or live in a SV bubble that thinks that "really smart people" only want to work for Google, Apple or some hip startup.
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by rbn 14y ago
In 2012, Fortune ranked IBM the #2 largest U.S. firm in terms of number of employees (433,362), the #4 largest in terms of market capitalization, the #9 most profitable and the #19 largest firm in terms of revenue. Globally, the company was
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by rbn 14y ago
Kim is massive attention seeker. He wants to be a hero and lots of people think he is some kind of rogue warrior going against the man. The truth is that he is going to milk this to the very last cent for all of his product launches. You sa
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by rbn 14y ago
This guy is the biggest phoney ever. He made his fortune from piracy. I'm all for freedom and justice but don't pretend you are some saint.
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by rbn 14y ago
I've used the Auth Branch for a few month now. You can see it in action at http://www.classfy.com (P.S: make sure you have the "www", or else you wont be able to access the page)
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by rbn 14y ago
There are 3 types of code. Server only , Client only and both.
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by rbn 14y ago
People have been saying these types of comments since Windows 95
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by rbn 14y ago
It doesn't even load. BalancedPayments is very good but they only do U.S.
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by rbn 14y ago
Let's not forget their international presence. PayPal is classified as a bank in many countries.
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by rbn 14y ago
Stripe is good for C2B payments. But they suck at marketplace payment processing. The only company that can do international marketplace payment processing is PayPal and no one is even close to creating the infrastructure for this.
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by rbn 14y ago
Stripe might be more dev friendly. But PayPal is years ahead. They are available in most countries and you can practically do anything with PayPal Adaptive Payments. They are also doing a the Square like credit card processing plus many man
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by rbn 14y ago
If you want to create a marketplace. your user has to be in the U.S. in order for them to get paid.
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by rbn 14y ago
I love Stripe. Really I do. But until I can accept users from around the world, it seems pretty pointless to use it for a marketplace.
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Show HN: Twitter meets Craigslist. Built on Meteor.(classfy.com)
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by rbn 14y ago
You guys should focus on authentication. Because this thing is practically useless without it. I'm aware of the authentication branch but this update broke it.
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by rbn 14y ago
Also BalancedPayments
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by rbn 14y ago
Whatever idea you pick make sure you are passionate about it because you will be at it for a long time.
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by rbn 14y ago
Of course paypal account feezes and scams do occur on paypal and traditional banking systems. However what is the percentage? Every few months a bitcoin site gets lots of attention and boom they get hacked. Usually it is because the site is
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by rbn 14y ago
The problem is that CCs and PayPal is much easier to use and it is much safer than Bitcoins. So I for one see no reason to use bitcoin to purchase anything other than products that can only be purchased via bitcoins
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by rbn 14y ago
Awesome. Yeah there are exceptions. For example if you reach the top of HN and there is lots of feedback u will get featured on some tech blog somewhere.
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by rbn 14y ago
I've recently have started using Balanced Payments. It is by far the best marketplace payments processor ever however it is never covered by anyone in the tech media. There are lots of gems out there, I wish TC and others would stop the bul
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by rbn 14y ago
Hate to be that guy... But out of I don't know 20 tries it only worked once. Maybe it's because of the room doesn't have enough light.. Really cool concept though.
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by rbn 14y ago
"There is a significant shift going on this year, much more significant than we saw last year, from web to mobile" what? so these mobile apps do not use the web?
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by rbn 14y ago
I use console too and it's awesome. I love the tabs and the transparency feature.
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by rbn 14y ago
Exactly what I thought. I wonder how much money is transacted in WoW, Second Life and other large mmorpgs.

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