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by xal 14y ago
That's true but also C's error reporting differs greatly between libraries. Each library has a learning curve in how it wants it's errors checked. From the top of my head, 10 years after writing any C code there is check against NULL - gues
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by xal 14y ago
> The hash - 27934e96d90d06818674b98bec7230fa - was resolved to the plain text password 900gage!@# by Bestuzhev. What? How did they crack this if brute force failed? That's scary as hell.
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by xal 14y ago
Waiting weeks for getting your merchant account setup. This usually involved faxing your ID and filling out boatloads of forms.
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by xal 14y ago
We at Shopify just enabled automatic account provisioning for Canadians. End of an era of endless pain. We are thrilled!
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by xal 14y ago
Fair enough :-)
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by xal 14y ago
Instead, go work for him. Go help make it all come true.
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by xal 14y ago
There is actually a way to do this fully in process. I think Rob Pike initially build this, and it's being used in the App Engine framework (or so I hear...). Code: http://code.google.com/p/rsc/source/browse/#hg%2Fdevweb
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by xal 14y ago
The fact that they are planning for the long term? It's interesting how we two seem to get such different signals from the same news.
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by xal 14y ago
They haven't changed for the most productive people. They have certainly been reduced for unskilled labor.
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by xal 14y ago
Crazy that Facebook has an order of magnitude more Page Views as anyone else.
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Kosmos distributed file system (code.google.com)
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by xal 14y ago
Heh, after that first sentence I definitely didn't expect that this would turn out to be a rather thought provoking and insightful comment. Thank you fro the contribution!
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Dota2 uses Protocol Buffers as replay format (developer.valvesoftware.com)
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by xal 14y ago
The article calls this “successful failures” which I think is a brilliant term.
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by xal 14y ago
This thread will likely get a million "us too" style posts but Redis is core infrastructure at Shopify. It's been so solid that we recently waived our defensive requirements that the app remains working if Redis goes down. This allowed us t
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Shopify's 1m competition(shopify.com)
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by xal 14y ago
Ok this is super difficult to answer because you only gave me circumstantial information instead of data that I need to make a recommendation. The questions that need answering are: * How high is the individuals potential on an absolute
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by xal 14y ago
> What about the difficulty of finding out what users want (when your customers are all in the US) That's absolutely not the issue. In fact, Canada's national past time is to psycho analyse Americans. If anything we understand them bett
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by xal 14y ago
Well, you are right but you are looking in the wrong areas of the City. I'm clearly biased, being the founder of Shopify, but we are here to change everything you mentioned above and we have succeeded so far when everyone told us we couldn'
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by xal 14y ago
I think this is insightful. Starcraft is a game of making split second decisions based on extremely limited information. In fact, getting information is often expensive, so what you have to do is try different attacks (experiments) to penet
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by xal 14y ago
More importantly, both Poker and Starcraft have you make decisions when your information is incomplete which is crucial in startups.
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by xal 14y ago
Paypal is the most common option in Australia but for one reason or another they never launched Paypal Pro there which means that people are stuck with the older IPN based flow which has some disadvantages ( More confusing, doesn't make it
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by xal 14y ago
contact me at tobi@shopify.com to get this into Shopify from the beginning. We really need a better partner in Australia
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Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Reportedly Has Cancer(forbes.com)
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by xal 14y ago
I want this except with paying to get an actual license.
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DueProps is loosely modelled on Unicorn
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simple - fireable offence
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by xal 14y ago
Given where Lasik is at, aglasses are going to be a purely optional fashion statement in 10 years. It will be perfectly acceptable and fashionable ( at times ) to wear them.
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Canadian VCs are being cut loose, and that’s a good thing (startupnorth.ca)
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by xal 14y ago
You may be able to do it through emsctipten versions of ruby and python which you can load in webkits JavaScript engine. http://repl.it works like that.

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