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by zende 14y ago
> The concept of physically restraining someone from committing suicide is completely antithetical to the idea of man being free. You cannot believe in one while advocating for the other. Suggesting that you put someone in a "rubber roo
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Balanced nabs Eventbrite exec Patrick Breitenbach for global expansion(thenextweb.com)
6 points by zende 14y ago|0 comments
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by zende 14y ago
The reinforcing lesson I take away from the post is that you should know your company's weaknesses. Don't support remote workers if you don't have the culture or structure to support remote workers. Otherwise, you'll end up as a company tha
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by zende 14y ago
I'll throw in on Gittip: https://www.gittip.com/tenderlove/ Would also be happy to give you a hug ;-)
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Best practices for micro-transactions(quora.com)
5 points by zende 14y ago|0 comments
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by zende 14y ago
spidey may not be actually associated/used by Art.sy. It's not on http://artsy.github.com/open-source/
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by zende 14y ago
It also handles resizing the window pretty well. Give it a shot on http://art.sy/artist/ansel-adams
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by zende 14y ago
> actually have a use for the fillwidth plugin right now. That was the main project that caught my eye as well.
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Art.sy Open Source(artsy.github.com)
82 points by zende 14y ago|21 comments
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Why did Yishan Wong (PayPal, Facebook, reddit) invest in Balanced?(quora.com)
11 points by zende 14y ago|0 comments
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by zende 14y ago
What are your recommendations? The advantage is that you can easily ping other developers, comment, and reference other topics.
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Should Gittip use an ORM or raw SQL?(github.com)
9 points by zende 14y ago|6 comments
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by zende 14y ago
Completely agree with your reasoning. However, there's a difference with how Balanced operates. The marketplace understands the credibility/reputation of the seller in a way that a merchant processor never could. Balanced gives the marketpl
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Balanced is in a dogfight for peer-to-peer marketplaces(pandodaily.com)
42 points by zende 14y ago|4 comments
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by zende 14y ago
There's two posts on status pages on the HN homepage right now. This and Balanced: - http://blog.balancedpayments.com/status-page/ - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4877643 The hardest problems to me are properly monitoring and comp
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by zende 14y ago
Where do you send the notifications from irssi? I run irssi in tmux on EC2 with a Colloquy push script ( http://static.ssji.net/colloquy_push.pl.txt ). Spent time trying to get it right, but Colloquy is flaky at best.
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Why Stashboard and Pingdom Weren't Enough: The Evolution of a Status Page(blog.balancedpayments.com)
65 points by zende 14y ago|19 comments
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Ashton Kutcher for Banker of the Year(bankinnovation.net)
16 points by zende 14y ago|3 comments
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by zende 14y ago
Balanced just open sourced the status page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4865982
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by zende 14y ago
I commented on the Forbes article, but I figured I'd repost my comment here: ------------------ Hey Jon, Thanks for the comments. We do our best to listen to our customers. The primary reason that we haven't built Bitcoin support is that we
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by zende 14y ago
Conversion started as a result of Jon Matonis' article: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/44
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Request for Balanced to support Bitcoin as a payout method(github.com)
14 points by zende 14y ago|1 comments
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by zende 14y ago
Definitely. We started with Heroku's status page as the golden standard and made it our own while looking at other examples along the way.
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by zende 14y ago
We haven't seen much demand for supporting Dwolla. However, could you create an issue on GitHub if you would like us to support Dwolla? https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues
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by zende 14y ago
We haven't seen much demand for supporting bitcoin. If you would like us to support bitcoin, could you create a GitHub issue, so we can track interest? https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues We use GitHub to track feature request
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by zende 14y ago
> Afaict, the really new thing Balanced is doing that I haven't seen anywhere else is programmatically authorizing merchant accounts. There's three main things marketplaces have expressed that they like about Balanced: 1. Compliance. Th
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by zende 14y ago
Thanks irollboozers! Looking forward to having you on board.
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Meetings.io acquired by Jive 7 months after launch(techcrunch.com)
5 points by zende 14y ago|0 comments
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by zende 14y ago
There's a field (meta) on the Debit resource that allows a marketplace to pass fraud signals like IP address and shipping address. Gittip is facing this issue much earlier than another marketplace in comparison to their volume. Otherwise,
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by zende 14y ago
> That's only true until you start getting chargebacks. There are compliance ramifications of permitting money laundering, but collusion isn't always money laundering. Here's a few different scenarios: 1. Legitimate money laundering whe

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