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by shazow 15y ago
Here's some feedback: * You should figure out a way not to require the payer to choose a password. Especially if they're already choosing a password on my service, now they're choosing two passwords. I understand that you're using this to h
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by shazow 15y ago
Any timeline for "shortly"? Are we talking days, weeks, months? I'm planning a major new release soon and this would be an ideal time to switch payment systems.
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by shazow 15y ago
I agree this abnormally high but this isn't an issue to me personally. In practice, I'm using Paypal right now and I haven't withdrawn in at least two months. I suppose I should, mostly because I worry about random account freezing that Pay
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by shazow 15y ago
This is exactly what I've been looking for: Something like Recurly or Chargify but without hefty monthly fees that will eat at my runway before I even get profitable. Right now I'm using Paypal, and I can't wait to move to something else. I
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by shazow 15y ago
For some reason I assumed that such an API or callback was available. The things I take for granted. Agreed, this is a deal-breaker for me as well.
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by shazow 15y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I was a janitor too. My first job with a steady paycheck was being an assistant superintendent at a condo. Effectively I was doing the work of a janitor. Asses were busted but at the end of the day you go ho
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by shazow 15y ago
If the janitor didn't have reasons to hide behind, then he should have taken initiative to get the new keys or pick the lock or break the door or whatever it'll take to achieve his goal. The notion is that a VP shouldn't have reasons to hid
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by shazow 15y ago
Doesn't even have to be online, Bitcoins also work really well peer to peer (unlike credit cards), and things like NFC-capable phones can take advantage of that in-person someday soon. It's a completely independent currency, so products and
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by shazow 15y ago
Start here: http://www.weusecoins.com/ If you want more of a third-party historical overview, Wikipedia has a decent article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin In short, it's a decentralized digital currency built on cryptography.
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by shazow 15y ago
I'm very excited about Bitcoin too, it feels like a renaissance for almost every vertical. Especially since there's so much low-hanging fruit right now and there's still a disconnect between these units of cryptocurrency and real hard cash
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by shazow 15y ago
Ah, my bad (quick crunchbasing fail). What's the draw for using CP on Linode? I'm completely happy with the Linode control panel experience. AWS I don't have to worry about because I use DotCloud which handles all my network configuration a
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by shazow 15y ago
I haven't. I abandoned the Rackspace ship before the acquisition, in Fall 2010.
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by shazow 15y ago
Reminds me of stories about casinos who pump additional pure oxygen into the air to make gamblers feel "more alive and awake" while they're there (and thus experiencing a low when they leave).
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by shazow 15y ago
I don't think anyone would argue that drugs is the answer for everybody. Perhaps some people are blessed with the creativity and vision to see a blank canvas as full of ideas. Other people have to resort to aids to get to that point. Yet ot
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by shazow 15y ago
For what its worth, I stopped using Rackspace (specifically Rackspacecloud) for 2 reasons: 1. The control panel experience was incredibly bad. Incredibly. Large chunk of features simply didn't work and consistently gave errors (I opened num
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by shazow 15y ago
TweetDeck is also the only mainstream Twitter client I could find that supports Identi.ca (and other federated Status.net derivatives). I'm betting on s/is/was/ very soon.
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by shazow 15y ago
Volume of conversations with people on Facebook != volume on Twitter != volume on email != volume on IM != volume on the phone != volume IRL. [1] Also it varies drastically year to year. I'm betting this wasn't the case 60 years ago. Maybe
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by shazow 15y ago
On the upside, the prevalence of things like Facebook also introduces a lot of noise and weak social links. Half a century ago you coud make a precision strike and kill half a dozen people to cripple somebody's life. Today you could start c
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by shazow 15y ago
For comparison, tineye.com (a reverse image search engine that I worked on a few years ago) queries well over 1 billion images (and thus rows of metadata) in under 0.5s (our goal was sub-250ms). I also know that the size of the cluster is a
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by shazow 16y ago
You're welcome. The way I read it is "don't do things we don't already do" which is a really bad constraint, effectively forbidding any kind of innovation. I can understand the spirit of their selective desire to address this specific viola
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by shazow 16y ago
They referenced Section II.4.B, namely since native Twitter apps don't "organically display" unfollows, you should not as well. > Respect the features and functionality embedded with or included in Twitter Content or the Twitter API. Do
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by shazow 16y ago
I love the tone of your writing (both in the post and on TweetingMachine), it's modest yet confident. Some feedback: * [Edit: Looks like it's right there in the center and I'm just blind. :)] I couldn't find the pricing after the 10 day tri
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by shazow 16y ago
Here's a Python shortcut: Instead of... from base64 import b64decode b64decode(foo) You can do... foo.decode('base64') Encoding works too. As well as zip (foo.encode('zip')).
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by shazow 16y ago
I can't believe Google Analytics hasn't pursued any kind of real-time analytics by now. It's a real detriment to have a 2~6 hour lag for any kind of recent data. Even if it was something ad-hoc like a Lab that did basic real-time analytics,
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by shazow 16y ago
There is a small increase in probability because the pool is aware of the participants and thus reduces redundant work done by each participant. It becomes a slightly-less-than-random brute force operation. If you mine on your own, then you
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by shazow 16y ago
That's not very fair to assume it has to happen all at once or never at all. I'm betting someone could exchange 8500 bitcoins over the next few months and get a good rate on it without disrupting the economy significantly. Especially since
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by shazow 16y ago
Very cool application of Twilio! I'd feel more comfortable trying it if my SMSs weren't publicly displayed. Although I did just upgrade my SMS plan to 1,000... Hmm.
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by shazow 16y ago
Actual clickable link: http://thingsfromthefuture.com/grow/ P.S. I like it and my girlfriend likes it, we'd definitely buy a set if it's priced within the IKEA range. +2 to Kickstarting it!
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by shazow 16y ago
I'm not PG but I remember some of these answered last year: 1. You should be ready to accept/decline when you receive the call. You're not going to get any new information at that point, so your mind should be made up. (Unless you're under
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by shazow 16y ago
http://tweepsect.com/ might be what you need. I built it a few years ago, it tells you who is following you back, and if they haven't tweeted recently, etc. Unfortunately it doesn't scale well to really huge accounts (+5k nodes).

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