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by thiscatis 5y ago
We have, and their support needs more time to answer our email or chat queries than they've given us notice. So I guess they do observe holiday support times, just not for their customers.
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by thiscatis 5y ago
More than happy to do a post-mortem and to satisfy your valuable insights later.
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by thiscatis 5y ago
Nope, we're in travel and hospitality (so people book early and stay later) and they don't want to bear the refund risk with Covid-19. Again, I'm not forcing Stripe to do business with us (even though we never had issues in 4
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by thiscatis 5y ago
We're in delayed fulfilment hence some additional risk (quite some time between selling the service and delivering the service) so I get it 1. They already hold 50% (!!!) of all our revenue in reserve for 90 days for the last months (c
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Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew
382 points by thiscatis 5y ago|175 comments
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by thiscatis 5y ago
"I really wish people would stop calling forced labour <Robots>". That's what you sound like. Usage of words and language shifts and changes, get with it or go back learning growls and hissing to communicate.
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by thiscatis 5y ago
This is what I love about tech. I have 15 years experience as a software developer but I have no clue what any of these words mean. Amazing you can have such specialised knowledge about something.
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by thiscatis 5y ago
> I enjoyed being a part of new startups, those that were still "scrappy." But each time, once that growth-stage hit and managers started coming in to make things "more efficient", that's when I knew that those t
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by thiscatis 5y ago
So funny seeing all these LinkedIn posts show up by pseudo entrepreneurs and startup gurus copy pasting the same shit about how awesome they did by not giving equity. Only to see the balloon popped with the other side info on HN a couple of
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by thiscatis 5y ago
Most people don't care
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by thiscatis 5y ago
The best applications I delivered over the last couple of years were in Symfony 2 to 5. MVC with some jQuery sprinkled on top and it did the job. Want API because the company suddenly wants an app? No worries, add the RESTbundle and now you
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by thiscatis 5y ago
Exactly. I think the average person would rather have the nay of hacker news but the yay of Wall Street.
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by thiscatis 5y ago
“Open market” yeah right
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by thiscatis 5y ago
If it looks like a timeshare and smells like a timeshare, it’s a timeshare. If there’s no secondary free market to sell these “fractional ownerships” it’s just forced rent I can’t resell.
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Google Chrome to remove alert() inside cross-origin iframes in a future version(twitter.com)
14 points by thiscatis 5y ago|4 comments
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by thiscatis 5y ago
You can just put a variable where you mention duolingo based on the recent market.
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by thiscatis 5y ago
This has been a really interesting thread for us, if anyone commenting here wants to provide some more feedback on QR code based menus and payment at table and have a more in-depth discussion feel free to reach out at hn@pomelopay.com. We h
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by thiscatis 6y ago
Our app recently got banned a full week before being reinstated because of a non-published outdated .apk in an alpha test track that was not used. To be fair, we cleaned up our artefact management but still. Google is evil.
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by thiscatis 6y ago
> In my opinion, LinkedIn is to the social network what the corporate retreat is to professional life. A highly manicured, to the point of artificial, version of our day-to-day existence. I like this analogy.
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What LinkedIn Is Becoming(medium.com)
42 points by thiscatis 6y ago|5 comments
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by thiscatis 6y ago
Thanks for the follow-up. I definitely think some screenshots of the tool directly on the homepage will work to convey that additional value.
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by thiscatis 6y ago
I really want to like it but looking at the pricing it's just insane. As a startup founder no way I can confidently pay 500 USD / months for what seems like a very shiny excel-on-the-web application if in comparison our entire pro
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by thiscatis 6y ago
Oracle Cloud if you want to relive the nineties.
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by thiscatis 6y ago
Looking at this from an opionated Open Banking side here in the UK, this is a good thing.
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by thiscatis 6y ago
I hate it when people hide behind the brand. The reputation of people working there still is damaged, screw the brand.
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by thiscatis 6y ago
The bulk of the fee the merchant pays is actually interchange. It goes to the issuing institution (your bank, challenger bank or fintech). The rest goes to the processor (Stripe, Adyen, etc.. and the scheme such as Visa or Mastercard).
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Ask HN: How to interview a candidate from a direct competitor
6 points by thiscatis 6y ago|8 comments
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Did the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic Kill the US Life Insurance Industry?(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by thiscatis 6y ago|0 comments
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by thiscatis 6y ago
Guess she should have used a disposable Revolut card then
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by thiscatis 6y ago
Revolut offers virtual and disposable cards. I've been (unethically) using them for these 1GBP / month trials a certain online newspaper offers.

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