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Apple offering PayPal Credit installment plans(store.apple.com)
2 points by rkalla 12y ago|0 comments
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by rkalla 12y ago
+1 to the slow and eventual consolidation of power into a few hands -- this sounds like an awesome idea, in theory, until you put it into practice. This is exactly what happened at Digg and was a huge reason for it's downfall -- combat
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by rkalla 12y ago
For what it's worth, PayPal is embracing the shit out of BT acquisition - really see that as the north star for our merchant integration story. Everyone knows they know what they are doing and only want to help, they don't want to
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by rkalla 12y ago
This, 100x this. You and your team don't just have to build an understanding of the code (e.g. frameworks, patterns, DB's, etc.) but the app itself so you can truly understand it's purpose. Your rewrite won't (hopefully?
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by rkalla 12y ago
from "Century Link Labs" - didn't realize CL was that kind of company, very cool to see.
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by rkalla 13y ago
Oh, no I wasn't implying they were going to launch a campaign of evil and despair against their users :) Regardless, for an online backup/sync service, I think a very compassionate ramp-down plan is on the order of 6 months with a
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by rkalla 13y ago
Did the timelines seem awfully aggressive to anyone? (June 1 service stops, July 31 all data is erased) For a service that we were suppose to be syncing our lives to, that seems like a really abrupt, customer unfriendly ramp-down. I would h
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by rkalla 13y ago
The conclusion alluded to one of the most interesting parts of how Jaguar may age -- summarized horribly -- we've never had a SOC shared between consoles (XB1/PS4), desktops, laptops and tablets so closely that as the SOC shrinks
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by rkalla 13y ago
Very good point, I would probably agree with that.
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by rkalla 13y ago
This is what you get when a company/group/effort/community is lead by a "benevolent dictator" - someone with an absolutely pure vision of what they want their output to look like and the autonomy and strength to mak
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by rkalla 13y ago
Just to put this in perspective, Qatar won the bid in Dec of 2010 -- they are _literally_ killing 1 worker a day building this. I spent some time in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and saw this "big money, big building" craze first hand... it
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by rkalla 13y ago
Not for long, Autodesk just bought them today. Looks like the marketplace-for-assets is starting. https://creativemarket.com/blog/2014/03/19/building-the-worl...
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by rkalla 13y ago
+10 to this. Once the channels for management can provide a painless experience to customers (studios, artists, etc.) this will do to assets what iTunes did to music.
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by rkalla 13y ago
Everyone seems pretty focused on the pricing - I thought the inclusion of an asset-marketplace directly into the editing environment was brilliant. You could imagine Adobe following suit very shortly here withs something similar and invalid
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by rkalla 13y ago
I've actually wondered this for years - why reddit let imgur take that lead and run with it, but to some of the other replies I guess it does come down to cost. Reddit doesn't have a big budget and until last year I think it was j
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by rkalla 13y ago
@judk's comment should be higher... it is the unfortunate cycle of ad-supported startups. imgur grew out of the garden that is reddit; it was suppose to replace all those other crappy hosting services. It's been known for a while
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by rkalla 13y ago
Fantastic list with much more depth than I expected. Some surprises that others might be interested in from this article and comments below: [1] Keeping buckets locked down and allowing direct client -> S3 uploads [2] Using ALIAS r
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by rkalla 13y ago
Don't spend the mental energy to try and figure out if you should be "sneaky" or not -- don't be -- be open and honest, users will remember it, appreciate it and if your product is valuable, your business will grow. If b
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by rkalla 13y ago
I always like thinking about this "company culture" question when you see the external communications from a company. GoDaddy is very similar in that most all the emails they send are titled "ACTION REQUIRED" or another
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by rkalla 13y ago
In addition to what other's posted, CouchDB is one of the few NoSQL solutions that will give you master-master replication. Mongo and Rethink are both single-master/multi-slave solutions. One is not better than the other, just dep
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by rkalla 13y ago
For those that love this topic, xxhash[1] has a SMHasher score of 10[2] and is ~2x as fast as MurMur3 -- really interesting, incredibly fast, high quality hash function. [1] https://code.google.com/p/xxhash [2] htt
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by rkalla 13y ago
Only because it was the first thing that popped into my head, you can use async file IO in Java 7+ with the AsynchronousFileChannel class[1] Currently digging through Google to see if I can find how those async calls are implemented on Linu
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by rkalla 13y ago
Just came here to make the same observation; I think this move is two-fold: 1. We are doing this anyway because of Steam OS. 2. Might as well get good community karma for it. Win-win for us I suppose, another viable entertainment p
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by rkalla 13y ago
This sounds an awfully lot like: "To be rich all you have to do is make a ton of money and then you can buy whatever you want" -- yes... I absolutely agree, but there is an ocean sized gap of potentially company-crippling decision
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by rkalla 13y ago
I would merely make the point that if porting was as painfully simple as you suggest here, non-first-party publishers would be making their games available for every platform (in most cases) without a second thought. Even though multi-plat
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by rkalla 13y ago
Assuming you meant Xbox 360 and PS3, I think your stats are off: * Steam - ~60 million [1] * Xbox 360 - ~80 million [2] * PS3 - ~80 million [3] If you literally meant the Xbox and PS2 from 11 years ago, then yes, you are pr
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by rkalla 13y ago
Argh, that can be frustrating. I for one certainly agree with you :D
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by rkalla 13y ago
As suby mentioned, off-the-shelf I think these engines support multiple platforms, but it is surprising (to me) how many big, non-1st-party games don't make it across all the platforms in a timely fashion. That signals to me that it is
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by rkalla 13y ago
I hate commenting in extremes, but I am willing to bet a large volume of the blood in my body that this is false and the platform would be a total failure if this was their only play (indie games). One GTA 5, for example, is equivalent to t
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by rkalla 13y ago
Actually an excellent point; just dug up some info, didn't realize Orbis was based on FreeBSD. Would absolutely agree that for both the engine companies (Unreal, Crytek, Unity, Frostbite, etc.) since they are already going to FreeBSD,

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