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by xal 16y ago
That's correct.
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by xal 16y ago
Common mistake: just because you don't store credit cards it doesn't mean that this changes anything about your PCI DSS requirements. As long as CCs hit your IPs you are responsible for them. Not storing CCs simplifies certain things but yo
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by xal 16y ago
Good luck with payfacade. I think it's a good idea. I just have to ask though, are you aware of the PCIDSS implications of a service like this? Level 1 compliance which you will need can cost around a million dollars all said and done. Btw,
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by xal 16y ago
Or idol, depending on their frame of reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P39gP4QnXxE&feature=playe...
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by xal 16y ago
hardware acceleration is the big one. This will force the hand of the other browser makers to follow suite. Webkit is already pretty far along here but only css animations, not the entire rendering pipe, which seems to be what the IE team h
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by xal 16y ago
This entire class of problem obviously doesn't exist in Canada. Never had to even think about this in the 5 years we build our company. How much mental bandwidth of creating a startup goes into these things?
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by xal 16y ago
Is the build in replication support able to correctly replicate schema changes to the slaves? That was the biggest issue with the existing solutions for most admins I talked to.
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by xal 17y ago
Does "too big to fail" apply for something like h264 once the entire internet relies on it?
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by xal 17y ago
promises need to be build into the language and all libraries have to be build with promises in mind for this to work. Look at io-lang's @ syntax or for a slightly different ( much better ) take, look at go's channels.
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by xal 17y ago
thank you for the kind words :-) . ActiveMerchant turned out to be one of those quick things I put together while making Shopify that took on a life of it's own. Amazing success. At one point Cody took a 2 week vacation after we shipped Sho
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by xal 17y ago
i would, there is no one on the planet who would be less likely to ever loose anything of importance again that belongs to his employer :-)
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by xal 17y ago
April 2006
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by xal 17y ago
I love daringfireball's new tagline.
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by xal 17y ago
Fascinating. The above post should act as a reminder that Sarcasm on the internet is really not a good idea. Don't feel bad, it's never the readers fault when sarcasm isn't obvious, that's always the fault of the writer ( usually the mistak
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by xal 17y ago
I build a web service for this in my spare time: http://www.web2png.com . You can set up profiles where you select the resulting resolution of the screenshot and apply all sorts of effects like polaroid frame, drop shadows and stuff like
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by xal 17y ago
I think the cnn audience is ( used to be ) generally younger and more progressive and therefore has made the jump to online news earlier. This can probably not account for all of the decline however.
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by xal 17y ago
Our web nodes use 6mb of memory for all the web serving each. This frees up gigabytes compared to apache which we can use for more processes ( web and app notes are combined in shopify's case ). The speedup lies there. Added benefit is that
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by xal 17y ago
Seriously? Apache? There is another low hanging fruit guys :-). Tremendous speedups can be had by moving to nginx from apache (something we did at shopify about 2 years ago )
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by xal 17y ago
My biggest beef is that you can't expire data on the edges. You have to rename the files. For some reason they decided to ignore the query parameters to a url when caching so for /img.png?123 they simply look up file /img.png in the cache.
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by xal 17y ago
Very but as with the example he is giving, this is very useful technology for video games where hosts and clients are regularly behind NAT. UPNP has made this somewhat better but it's still no where near perfect. If i'm not mistaken, much o
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by xal 17y ago
Speaking as a member of the rails core team, if you heard someone say that then he made it up. Rails until 3.0 was heavily invested into SQL simply because it's what everyone used. However, it was swimming against the stream in that rails d
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by xal 17y ago
Sorry you can't. It's something people ask us all the time but it's just not the battle we picked ( so to speak ). I haven't got personal experience with them but I'm hearing good things about chargify.
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by xal 17y ago
If you want to use Shopify I can give you half off the sticker price for a fellow HNer.
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by xal 17y ago
This is off topic but ARG. If you are in canada do not work without paying yourself a salary! If you have any investment rather pay yourself salary and claim 60-80% of your salary back under SR&EDs. Much better use of your money and you
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by xal 17y ago
Olden but golden? In fact it looks like 0.6 realease is really far along. It's read performance got so good that a bunch of sites are ditching memcached(db) in favor of it. Speaking of Cassandra, can anyone confirm that facebook is actually
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by xal 17y ago
Justin Frankel is my hero. I learned so much programming from his releases. I remember having a fully printed and annotated copy of the Waste source code. He is one of those extremely rare programmers of the "too smart to need unit tests" t
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by xal 17y ago
This technology is shaping up to be ridiculously exciting.
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by xal 17y ago
In fact, Heroku is build entirely on top of EC2
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by xal 17y ago
You cannot be PCI DSS compliant on Heroku unless you only use paypal express or google checkout for your payment backend. Be mindful of that before you commit to something like spree. I recommend Shopify instead :D
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by xal 17y ago
Well i'd hire her if I was in SF :-) This is how you get a job.

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