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by tx 19y ago
It's not the speed of connections what is holding web applications back, it's poor runtime. DOM+JS without standard local storage, with complete absence of standard libraries for anything but trivial, without any access to PC hardware..
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by tx 19y ago
Yes, we went with Wells Fargo and they gave us an excellent custom quote (much cheaper than web site suggests). No setup fees, fixed $31/mo and $0.20 per transaction. We have our limit though, and once we exceed it the price will go up.
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by tx 19y ago
Yes they do and authorize.net does not. Personally, I don't understand micro-payments. FPS mandates that micro payments are those that do not exceed 50c. (AFAIK) So... is it so hard to do your own aggregation and submitting larger sums to a
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by tx 19y ago
+1 for that. Even though I am trying to stay away from Microsoft platforms these days, I still will say that cirics of .NET/C# who posted above do not even deserve a serious answer. One "word" - RTFM. And nobody so far has mentioned one of
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by tx 19y ago
Just wanted to share (I know this topic is all time popular) about our experinece with Amazon FPS. First of all, we charge a small subscription fee each month. This severely limited our abilities to cherry pick payment processors. Second, w
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Experience with Amazon Flexible Payment Service
21 points by tx 19y ago|12 comments
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by tx 19y ago
I disagree with him. Professional looking web site is yet another step higher in delivery of "quality feel" your business may either project to customers or not. I am inclined to think that craigslist, ebay an plentyoffish are rather excep
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by tx 19y ago
Hm... Do you like to build something like a... robot that goes around and... huh... does stuff for people that people themselves don't want to do? I am sorry, but most of the ideas I hear from non-tech people are pretty much like that :-) M
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by tx 19y ago
Nearly all software is this world is written in C. Web is 95% powered by C (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Windows, IIS). Everything else is just configuration :-)
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by tx 19y ago
Well... I'd be very skeptical to listen to a guy with such a cheesy blog title. He is "Building leadership..." . Often most of these folks usually don't bother with even a basic logic in their "predictions" and "explanations". Quote: Face
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Desktop apps are dead (from a desktop apps developer)(kontsevoy.blogspot.com)
16 points by tx 19y ago|18 comments
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by tx 19y ago
The point he's making is that the process of aggregating still takes alot of time. The guy simply wants to live his life and spend less time in front of the computer. In that regard this new wave of Web 2.0 is not solving anyone's problems.
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by tx 19y ago
This must be (by far) the most interesting and unusual piece of text I've ever seen on ycombinator.
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by tx 19y ago
Depends on what tech you're talking about. Some areas are not developonig has rapidly as electronics, computers and software. For instance russian jet fighters are still very much on top in many respects, but their avioncis/radar/target tra
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by tx 19y ago
Technorati? Who in their right mind would want to buy Technorati? They are AltaVista (anyone here remembers AltaVista?) of blog search: millions of irrelevant hits coupled with lousy response times. Moreover, Technorati is not even a blo
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by tx 19y ago
He is absolutely right: confounding is explained in the first chapter of any book on statistics. Alexa's stats do not fall into "randomized controlled" category of studies, therefore they are pretty much guaranteed to be wrong.
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by tx 19y ago
The "rise" of lighttpd? I think it's dying now. Apache 2.2 and Nginx are the kings of the hill.
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by tx 19y ago
I like the idea but I dot believe it will work. Major players (Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) are NOT interested in open standards for their user authentication. This is why Microsoft Passport failed and this is why Google Checkout wil
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by tx 19y ago
Very popular BS these days. facebooks, myspaces, linkedins and friendsters come and go, but nobody has suggested anything even remotely close to power of email. Spam, along with viruses, spyware and adware (IMHO) is mostly a problem for
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by tx 19y ago
Congrats! As a long-time user of webmin I can easily see you being very successful.
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by tx 19y ago
Notice how DB-centric that guy is. That is exactly why I disguise SQL-servers and prefer to keep everything (well... as much as possible) written in one language (Ruby) and this is precisely what Rails is good at. DB performs two very-very
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by tx 19y ago
What I meant by that is the fact that more and more people realize that SQL back-end is not always what they want, I built an RSS search engine without one, for example. 2nd thing I had in mind was recent trend to use as little as possible
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by tx 19y ago
Sure I will - Ruby is a wonderful language that I simply adore. I suspect that over time I will slowly migrate to my own replacements for various Rails parts. Furthermore, there isn't much of "Rails" you have to deal with. What is Rails? Te
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by tx 19y ago
Jesus... what's up with reinventing the wheel? Just use a normal HTML, for god's sake: we are people, not printers. I already developed a habit of skipping PDFs while surfing, now I'll need to start avoiding links to scribd. Why work so har
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by tx 19y ago
Yet another thought! :-) Since company is so small, you can actually get them to migrate from C++ to D! That would have been awesome...
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by tx 19y ago
Another thought. Just very recently someone posted "Ask Reddit: what is the most beautiful code you've ever seen?"... Knowing how much reddit dudes love LISP, Haskell, Ruby and Python, I was very surprised to see that almost exclusively
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by tx 19y ago
Nobody in their right mind has been coding "memory management" in C++ for the last 10 years. This is not early 90s anymore. Also, if your ability to "accomplish as much as possible" in your life is so severely limited by the programming lan
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by tx 19y ago
Bug Alert: Once I uploaded the image into my profile, I cannot change it. It does not matter what I do: remove an existing image and upload new one, rename files before uploading, in the end, my profile shows the image I uploaded first time
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Ask YC: Reasonably Priced Office Chairs?
1 points by tx 19y ago|5 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Wow... I somehow managed to skip this one. Great read. I, however, cannot get rid of the feeling that in open source world there is always one or two "few" who get all the credit (money, fame) for work of many. Working on something you lov

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