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by smackfu 12y ago
Wow, that's pretty damn dismissive of journalists. Is writing not a skill?
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by smackfu 12y ago
And remember that artists do not go to the press with stories of, "the label gave me a big advance and then the record was a flop."
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by smackfu 12y ago
Plus PayPal has the friction of forcing you to log in. Which many of these other sites skip.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Practically speaking, iOS devices don't keep the update around after install.
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by smackfu 12y ago
What I thought Uber Request Endpoint was before reading the article: A box containing a captive iPhone and a credit card reader. When you swipe your card, they call an Uber to that location. So you can use Uber without a smartphone or an
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by smackfu 12y ago
Actually, I think it's an example of a generation gap. HN skews older than Venmo. http://www.businessinsider.com/venmo-splitting-a-group-check...
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by smackfu 12y ago
Reminds me a lot of their previous article: https://medium.com/@BoltVC/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like... That one had a lot less anger, and just suggested that you should not compete with Apple in their areas of exp
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by smackfu 12y ago
It's debit card not credit card, so usually they just pay a small flat fee of a couple of cents. Small enough to not pass on to the customer.
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by smackfu 12y ago
You just need a bitcoin balance and the recipient needs a bitcoin address. Which practically seems like way more friction than the three items you listed.
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by smackfu 12y ago
If your debts are in dollars, I don't see any point in Bitcoin with its fluctuating exchange rate.
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by smackfu 12y ago
I'm surprised they don't seem to be using any kind of wallet. From the description, transactions are only bank-to-bank, with a typical 2-3 day ACH delay. So if I pay my friend Joe $20 today, and he pays me $20 tomorrow, it still
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by smackfu 12y ago
When you get used to something like Venmo, and a critical mass of friends are using it, it's amazing how effortless it is. Take a cab somewhere, one person pays with their credit card, the other people settle up in the next 30 seconds
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by smackfu 12y ago
Another trend I've seen is for small shops to effectively replicate their entire store on Etsy, because that's where the buyers are. So a small commercial print shop may have an Etsy site, in addition to their "real" we
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by smackfu 12y ago
Same exact thing on an iPhone 6.
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by smackfu 12y ago
You put 10 people together in a room, and say no one is in charge, and one person will realize that means they can be in charge. Is that the "natural leader" or someone who wants power?
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by smackfu 12y ago
Yes, if one person has the authority to accept changesets, and other people do not, that's inherently not a flat structure.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Heh, I was going to add that another big advantage of working from home is that I can go to the gym at lunch time.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Even when I was bad at work/life balance when I first started working from home... I still saved an hour-and-a-half each and every day by not having to commute or iron clothes or make my lunch.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Given how difficult it is to obtain an Echo, selling it on eBay would probably be quite profitable.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Maybe I missed it, but I don't understand why one of the companies that creates NTP devices doesn't just hire him. They surely already have plenty of engineers on staff, what's another? Is it that he doesn't want to wor
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by smackfu 12y ago
It sounds like that is his opinion of what a "proper" support operation looks like, abstract from the actual support requirements of NTP.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Just because the customer isn't the end user doesn't mean they are some disinterested party. Often they are writing requirements that the end user doesn't even care about, because this software has to fit into the existing s
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by smackfu 12y ago
You haven't seen real horror until you try to design a UI to enter accounting codes that works for more than one company.
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by smackfu 12y ago
I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of these companies literally have no designers working on these products. Just engineers laying out UI similar to what is already in the product, based on the requirements. Any art assets come from stoc
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by smackfu 12y ago
This is Retina, Macbook Air is not.
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by smackfu 12y ago
It's made ONLY to use complex web apps, with the data stored on the server. So the SSD is essentially just for web caching / local web storage, and the RAM is for Chrome processes, basic OS use, and additional caching.
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by smackfu 12y ago
And now showing an iTunes Store outage. Kind of odd that they inserted a past outage into the history that never showed up in the status indications at the top of the screen. Makes it clear this is a manually updated dashboard, not based o
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by smackfu 12y ago
Tickets at least require things to be documented, which is the biggest problem with ad hoc devops.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Its just a way to connect new stuff that outputs JSON to legacy software that expects XML input. Yes, this is what enterprise customers pay companies like IBM to do.
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by smackfu 12y ago
If you are interested in more on the subject, there's a pretty good book, the Fortune Cookie Chronicles. http://www.amazon.com/The-Fortune-Cookie-Chronicles-Adventur...

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