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by tbrooks 11y ago
Is it the principle or the price that makes people upset? If the workers demanded a $1000 raise, is Lexmark just in firing those workers and hiring workers that are willing to work for less?
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I love the idea of setting an hourly timer to do something physical like 50 jumping jacks.
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I just don't seeing this ending well for inexperienced investors. There's not the same amount of visibility and accountability in startups as with companies on a publicly traded exchange. Someone will lose their shirt, sue, and
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by tbrooks 11y ago
It's only "socially reprehensible" because you're holding the pen that draws the line.
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by tbrooks 11y ago
Agreed. Elixir is my first foray into functional programming and the paradigm is obviously different from OO. The Elixir community on both IRC and Slack have been incredibly patient and helpful for a hack like me. Both in solving specific p
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The day I became a millionaire(medium.com)
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by tbrooks 11y ago
Why does "pay disparity" or income inequality matter? Suppose two people start at 10. One person finds a way to go to 20 and the other goes to 11. The inequality has increased and the wealth of both people has increased. Technica
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by tbrooks 11y ago
Is $2/mo or $10/year enough to make a viable business and living? I love, love this idea and how you've done it. But I'd be really sad to see the service take off and you can't support it because the model doesn&#x2
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by tbrooks 11y ago
Fwiw, the Rails app I'm rebuilding into Phoenix IS in fact a payment system. EDIT: I also believe Heroku's request routing system is built on Erlang.
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I thought the same thing too. A couple responses: 1) The Elixir community is still in its infancy and the community is growing rapidly and flourishing. If the concern is there isn't an equivalent Elixir library for X gem, it's onl
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by tbrooks 11y ago
Fortunately, you don't have to make the choice between performance and productivity any longer. Elixir and Phoenix give you the great productivity and the performance of being run on the Erlang VM.
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by tbrooks 11y ago
Prosecutors have almost absolute immunity. A prosecutor can intentionally cheat the system, get a conviction, put a person in jail, and if caught, there is no lawsuit that can be filed against them and it's almost impossible to get the
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by tbrooks 11y ago
Here are Joe Armstrong's (author of Erlang and early Ericsson engineer) thoughts on Elixir: http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I don't know enough about the internals of the languages to speak on that, but here's what has influenced my decision on choosing Elixir: Community: smart people (who I respect) in the Ruby community are getting really excited a
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by tbrooks 11y ago
Wow, this is awesome. Thanks for sharing!
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by tbrooks 11y ago
Do you have any blog posts on task-queues and email sending/receiving? I'm trying to learn Phoenix and Elixir by rewriting an app I have that does just this. Sidekiq has been great as a background worker, but I'd like to try
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I seriously doubt First Round will dogfood their own "data" and invest only in startups that follow these 10 learnings over the next 10 years.
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I can't tell if you're be hyperbolic... All negative comments directed towards Matt are surprising? How so? What's so surprising?
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I lost a lot of respect for Matt Mullenweg in this fiasco. This comment in particular: http://www.pearsonified.com/2015/07/truth-about-thesis-com.p... Pursuing the trademark cancellation further is just downright
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by tbrooks 11y ago
4th. I met James and Khaled in Austin pre-YC. Nicest guys in the world. Couldn't be happier for them.
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I don't know why people are downvoting this comment, but I'm having lunch with the OP next Wednesday so clearly there is some value here...
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by tbrooks 11y ago
Send me an email.
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I've thought about selling my side business, but I want to sell it to the right person. I'm in Austin. Lemme know if you want to meet. My email is HN username + gmail.
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I've thought about doing something like this for a while, I'm so glad to see this exist. Kudos to you for open-sourcing. You also write great code that's well-commented.
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by tbrooks 12y ago
> We want our pricing to align with the best product experience, and a flat fee would encourage marketplaces to pay out less frequently. I don't understand how increasing pricing from a flat fee to a percentage encourages marketplac
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Seems like it would require the same amount of work to pay out $10,000 vs. $100,000. Why scale the fee? Does this apply to marketplaces/accounts migrating from Balanced? There was an assurance that Stripe would honor Balanced's pr
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by tbrooks 12y ago
If Stripe is charging 0.5% of funds paid out to managed accounts, does this mean you’re “double dipping”?
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Ahh, you're right. To make an ACH debit, you'd need to verify a bank account beforehand. And I don't think client libraries support a `bank account resource` w/o curling. Maybe I'm missing something.
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Will I have the ability to debit ACH w/o verification? (I currently have this ability with Balanced. Also have very low fraud, chargeback, etc.)
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Big WFIO moment. http://scott.a16z.com/2014/03/24/were-fd-its-over-coming-bac...

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