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by shtylman 14y ago
I would also suggest you read: http://www.shtylman.com/archives/319 A while back I recapped what happend between myself and Dwolla and why they are not a useful service.
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by shtylman 14y ago
Anyone that is thinking about using Dwolla needs to read about this incident and understand what happened. Dwolla was completely unable to understand or handle the fraud. In addition, they are in total denial that the only reason anyone car
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by shtylman 14y ago
It is not a benefit if that money isn't actually there. They provide no guarantee that the funds are yours to use since they can be hit with chargebacks and will just take the money from you. This is just as bad as paypal.
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by shtylman 14y ago
It personally happened to me. I had a Dwolla merchant account for a while and then it was hit with fraud. Dwolla took all the funds out of my account and provided no real way for me to try and get them back. They WILL NOT work with you to r
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by shtylman 14y ago
Honestly, as long as they are still passing the chargebacks on to merchants then none of these "procedures" matter. Because Dwolla keeps the user information secret you have to trust them to do all the resolution and such. In the meantime,
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by shtylman 14y ago
No, Dwolla WILL take your money if they are hit with chargebacks. Do NOT use them if you value your payments.
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by shtylman 14y ago
Articles do not combat fraud. Until Dwolla actually starts protecting merchants from fraud and covering the losses themselves they will remain unsafe to use.
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by shtylman 14y ago
Until I see how they are dealing with fraud instead of just shafting their merchants I won't touch anything Dwolla no matter how pretty they think their api is.
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by shtylman 14y ago
I actually meant this as a negative. I view chargebacks as a pain point in many cases (for merchants etc) not a positive. I was hinting at the the fact that this system probly has chargebacks and again is no better than before.
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by shtylman 14y ago
Why would anyone trust Dwolla for these transfers when they are not able to even handle the current fraud they get? Using a third party so heavily will just mean you are completely subject to their whims. How does this system handle chargeb
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by shtylman 14y ago
I can't be the only one who thinks this is meant to be sarcasm?
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by shtylman 14y ago
And still no websockets. Makes me sad inside :(
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by shtylman 14y ago
I recently wrote a bit about why I think Dwolla doesn't understand their problem and what the core of their business really is. I have a strong doubt that a central entity is the best way to approach the problem of money transfers and after
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Node-jsbundler automatically bundles and loads required modules browser side(github.com)
4 points by shtylman 15y ago|0 comments
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by shtylman 15y ago
"The parallel between PHP and Node.js is evident." Just because you say something doesn't make it true. I found nothing in the article really linking the two other both being used for "web stuff". Everything else was either a design choice
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by shtylman 15y ago
The last paragraph should have been the first. Why write this piece on "stealing" and infringement when you don't even know the facts?
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by shtylman 15y ago
I've been running a version of this app for a few years now. Originally started when I was attending my alma-mater (Georgia Tech) and I have since added more schools. I hope to expand to even more by the end of the year. Looking for feedbac
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Courseoff - making college course schedule planning easy(courseoff.com)
1 points by shtylman 15y ago|1 comments
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by shtylman 15y ago
What makes you think this is faster than existing solutions? I see no benchmarks.
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by shtylman 15y ago
Sorry. I just couldn't get over the complaining about loosing "followers" like that was the whole point of the project :/
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by shtylman 15y ago
Sounds like a brogrammer to me. If I am watching a project I usually give input to the pull requests and bugs. To me watching is being a bit more involved than a simple 'like'. Sometimes I feel like too many projects are based around the id
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FIX engine for nodejs(github.com)
5 points by shtylman 15y ago|1 comments
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by shtylman 15y ago
Can someone explain to me why it isn't the browsers responsibility to enforce this instead of relying on websites to "do the right thing"?
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by shtylman 15y ago
The Bee didn't assemble itself, nor did it look robotic to me yet as it was not even shown if it could fly or do other tasks. Very cool demo tho.
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by shtylman 15y ago
I still don't see the draw of using coffeescript server side. Why bother using the language (javascript on node.js) if you are just gonna turn it into something else? Wouldn't ruby suit your needs better? To some degree I kinda feel like ma
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by shtylman 15y ago
Seems like a premature optimization. Don't assume, check the assembly if you care :)
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by shtylman 15y ago
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
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by shtylman 15y ago
Why would you sign an NDA for a job interview?
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by shtylman 15y ago
I personally don't find this example very helpful in showing why I would do this. The regex is simple enough and to me the comments are the equivalent of "return here", needless and distracting.
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by shtylman 15y ago
Is this just who contributes on github? There is more to open source than just contributing on github. Also, just because you open sourced a piece of code, does that really justify it to be open source on the same level as gcc? or some othe

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