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by xal 14y ago
Hehe, The first thing I wrote when I learned programming ( around 1990 ) was a tool called ipxcopy which did the same over IPX protocol that we always used at our Lan Parties.
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by xal 14y ago
Also, check out Dashing at http://shopify.github.com/dashing/ which we released at Shopify. It's optimized to run on your extra laptop screen via https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/looking-glass/id584492076?mt... or on your Samsung SmartTV
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Email transparency(stripe.com)
219 points by xal 14y ago|64 comments
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Own3d.tv shutting down(own3d.tv)
1 points by xal 14y ago|0 comments
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by xal 14y ago
Mark is probably the most well known startup guy in Canada.
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Shopify's killer 2012(shopify.com)
1 points by xal 14y ago|0 comments
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by xal 14y ago
I'm excited about ruby not having to allocate a hash for every bloody method call ever.
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by xal 14y ago
This is inspired. I don't think it would have been possible to pen a better response here. Even the call to action was brilliant.
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by xal 14y ago
Trying to build a largish software project without tooling for Pull Requests seems almost foolish.
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by xal 14y ago
Hehe, well I'm German. Terseness is somehow build in my firmware. Fair feedback though. Thank you!
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by xal 14y ago
we don't. It's capped at $169 a month which is nothing given what Shopify does. There is a transaction charge on the lower plans but this may change.
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by xal 14y ago
For that you don't even need their rate APIs. All your rates are flatrates which you can simply set? APIs for building your own shipping system are actually coming some time next year but as you said, it's all about free shipping.
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by xal 14y ago
I'm CEO of Shopify. What's wrong with our USPS Calculator?
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by xal 14y ago
I know this is a rhetorical question but the vast majority of these machines are made in Germany.
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by xal 14y ago
I absolutely love that they publish and maintain this. When I pitched them on Shopify I said that I'll show up on their website one way or another. Thankfully they decided they wanted to keep us out of the Anti-Portfolio and invested :-)
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by xal 14y ago
I'm founder and CEO of Shopify and I was trained via apprenticeship. Germany has the brilliant dual education system where apprenticeships have never ceased to exist and It's the true driver behind Germany's incredible performance recently.
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by xal 14y ago
brilliant. Thank you so much!
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by xal 14y ago
Why not use Shopify and save yourself all the pain?
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by xal 14y ago
You mean that you hear from companies that they don't want to hire you because you have been an entrepreneur? That can't be right, it's the kind of person everyone seeks. Hack, I've paid millions in the past buying companies mostly to hire
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by xal 14y ago
There is always one place where A and B are near ideal. Usually as A gets better B gets worse. Currently this place is Berlin.
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by xal 14y ago
ZooKeeper in Go: https://github.com/ha/doozerd
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by xal 14y ago
You can have this right now. We back ported the GC. Shopify in running on this ruby version in production. https://gist.github.com/1688857
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by xal 14y ago
yes, if we describe it, people will start "unit testing" their botnets against us.
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by xal 14y ago
It's very common to target ecommerce stores like this. Specifically jewellery stores for some reason. Probably because it's a luxury good and somehow botnet owners link that to wealth of the owners. We host tens of thousands ecommerce store
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by xal 14y ago
Pick something that describes the activity. At Shopify we refer to our users as Merchants. They have their own Customers. We also have Partners with partner accounts which further branch into Affiliates, Designers, Developers.
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Shopify sells 1 billion worth of products (shopify.com)
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by xal 14y ago
my guess is that as soon as WebRTC becomes enabled by default projects based on it will dominate Hacker News for a year straight. The possibilities of this tech are incredible.
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NY Times: Jack Dorsey Role At Twitter Reduced(siliconbeat.com)
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by xal 14y ago
This is a brilliant exponentiation. Could you explain in similar terms how quick hashes like MurmurHash and CityHash work?
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by xal 14y ago
Really appreciate it guys. The API is going to become like 5x better in the next half year too.

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