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I think it depends on the price range. I sell my BatteryBar applications for anywhere from $1 to $10 (time-limited or unlimited). In that price range, I get far lower fees using PayPal's micropayments (5c + 5%) pricing than the default ($0.30 + 3%). That higher pricing is also common for credit cards.

So I would say that if you are accepting average payments below $10, get micropayments processing from PayPal or Amazon.

If you're charging more than that (as you stated), why no offer both? Have a credit card entry form and off to the side have a PayPal button. I know I prefer PayPal since it's easy and I know how much I have available to spend.
Not bad to have the option, though.
Ask HN: Which product fulfillment services do you use?
This is to complement the t-shirt thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408142

Currently which fulfillment houses/services do you use to send out the orders? Or do you just DIY.
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I have trouble believing even "normal people" will want to use the tablet for anything except casual use. The desktop computer's monitor/keyboard/mouse setup is too efficient to be fully replaced by the touch screen.

Not saying that tablets won't find their own niche, but they aren't suited for heavy workloads that increasingly large numbers of "normal people" need to do on computers.

The biggest legacy of tablets is going to be how the ideas behind them influence desktop computers. I'm expecting most consumer operating systems to become more "appliance-like" and more tied to services provided by their developers. The success of iOS makes it almost inevitable that this model will be ported to the desktop.
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Yup, exactly! My own attempt at a contribution is just fixing some arithmetic <https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/pull/80>; and it's going nowhere...
One? That sounds like a rather awesome API, unless you just redirect to a payment processing system over on their site. Mind sharing the one line of code? :)
I tried to setup an openVPN server, but after chasing a rabbit hole of instructions down the craziest URLs with obsolete or missing information I finally gave up.

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I agree with this, and have for a long time, but I also think that human society is still evolving, and that evolution has until recently precluded that kind of behavior.

Great causes have been championed by heroes, moreso than on the merits of the causes themselves. Heroes are people we can identify with, and reflect a kind of perfection that most people look up to.

I think this is starting to change, thanks in part to the communication age, which is not only stripping the white-wash from our heroes but also making them gradually less necessary.
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It's really funny, how the LISP bigots say "Lisp", and the numerical experts say "numerics". If you ask those guys what's wrong with CS today, they would say "No Lisp" and "No numerics" respectively.

Even good programmers have huge holes in their knowledge.
Interesting how people here took the question in such a negative tone. This list is actually useful for a novice self-taught programmer, like humbledrone said. As a self-taught lots of times I felt like I was missing something when I read programming stuff. Of course I didn't stay still I just went learn what I was missing. A list like that could have come pretty handy than. (ok I could look at some CS courses syllabus too)
Recurring, recurring, recurring. Recurring revenue makes a business.

Recurly or similar makes it easy, albeit a bit spendy.
Shouldn't there be a "both" option? Thats what I do...
This is a good question and actually one that drives most self taught people. This sustained sense of "ooh, I haven't seen that before" helps the self taught learn far more than many formally educated programmers I've met.
One would assume it isn't fiery death . . .
What is your experience with it, do you wake up nice and refreshed? also is it annoying to sleep with that on?
I have fantastical thoughts of some kind of surface that can alter its shape to provide the tactile feedback that touchscreens are lacking... though these thoughts will likely remain in the domain of science fiction.
Would you give years of hard works freely to someone who just waits to gain benefits from your hard works? Majority of the answers will be NO. Therefore, a patent system is still needed in order to protect inventor's hard works from being stolen by big sharks.

However, there are problems with the current patent system. Why Innovation is stifled. Why trolls and litigation are likes wildfires. They all come down to one root cause. The current patent system treats all patents the same and does not factor in that the speed of the innovation in each industry is different.

If we just look at the innovation speed of the software industry and the 20 years patent length, the problems mentioned earlier become obvious. Say if the software patent only last 5 or less than 10 years, the problems become mitigated. Trolls will need to justify the litigation costs vs revenue generated in less years. Many paper patents will become no value at all.

Also, because the patent length is shorten to less than 10 year, it’ll force inventor to wait until implementation or commercialization of the patent is mature before filing the patent application. Otherwise, by the time implementation or commercialization is ready, the patent will most likely due soon.
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I start most days like many of you by checking out Hacker News, Twitter, a few tech sites, etc., to discover what's new and interesting in our industry. Recently, HN & Twitter have been taking up a more and more of my early-morning, so one of them has to go (or at the least have a time limit put on it). Which one?
I'd give my credit card number to russian hackers before I give it to PayPal at this point.
There is a huge difference between organic traffic and paid. The former has a huge selection bias, by definition, for those visitors that are interested in what you have to offer.

Ever tried doing a CPC campaign on Facebook for any of those sites? I'd bet that the usage metrics would come out way differently.
I don't see why Apple wouldn't do #1. It's pretty much the most requested feature/improvement.
Or from another perspective...

140 million tweets per day[1] / 24hr / $0.30 = 19.5million tweets per dollar.

_Surely_ there's some valuable data to be gleaned out of 20million tweets?

[1] wildly assuming Techcruch's numbers are connected with reality - http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/14/new-twitter-stats-140m-twee...
I can't speak for everyone, but while I'm a little saddened by this, I'm too busy being optimistic about the future to get worried about anti-trust. NatSemi makes good chips, but everything else seemed a little shaky (have you seen some of their newer datasheets...?) and I hope being owned by TI will help a lot of these things.
This may be true, but the C64 booted into a BASIC interpreter with PEEK and POKE commands, making it possible to read and write to all of the system's memory, including mapped IO ports, from the command line. Plus, monthly magazines like COMPUTE'S Gazette offered in-depth tutorials on just about every sub-system, from audio to video to disk I/O. System-level programming was incredibly easy on the C64 -- I was doing it as a teenager, whereas I have yet to write a device driver for a Linux PC.
That's an important thing to note. Becoming a master programmer takes more than 4 years. If you don't learn outside of school you are doomed.
If you're serious about your side-business, either quit your "normal" full-time job and ask family/friends/partner to support during the time you need to do what you're trying to do in order to have the best chance at success. Otherwise you risk wasting time, money, under-performing at your "normal" job, only performing mediocre at your side-business and putting strain on relationships with your loved ones because you are trying to do too much... If you don't want to risk it to take the biscuit, then question whether you believe in your idea as much as you think you do.
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I'm self-taught and after a few years in industry, decided to go back to school so I could really accelerate my learning.

I know more than most of my fellow students, due to the few extra years of experience and personal effort, but I definitely had blind spots. It isn't even entire categories of things, but rather little pockets here and there in individual classes.

I have learned a lot, but deciding to get a math BS alongside it has helped the most. I've taken this experience in school as one to soak up as much hard information as possible, so if my personal efforts are any indication, I can see why the combo ends up with a better skills list than either alone.

I've come to really value the stuff that is taught in universities (at a decent enough school anyway). I suspect the longest lived impact of all of this is an ability to read and consume a higher level of information (journals, etc) on a broader variety of topics. It beats blogs, more often than not.
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It's interesting, but it seems some people need a lot more work when learning pointers than others. I struggled with operator precedence issues when I first encountered pointers, but didn't have a problem with the concept itself. But I know people who never really managed to wrap their minds around it.
As a processor, PayPal will process chargebacks against a merchant (like you explained). I meant that if you pay for something with PayPal, as a consumer you can't file a chargeback, as far as I know. Does that make sense, or am I mistaken?
It's not a big deal. As the tablet matures eventually you'll just be able to connect a usb/bluetooth keyboard to one, when necessary.
I likewise feel that this type of list of data sources fits a data collecting/hoarding mentality, rather than a problem solving one. It doesn't help me think of interesting things to do with the data.
I think paypal can give you the best of both worlds. Login and use funds like I always do, or you can just enter a card and info like a typical credit card form.
Nitpick: you mean Sir Richard Attenborough, who's the director of the movie. Sir David Attenborough is a naturalist.
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While obviously, that doesn't excuse piracy, it definitely plays havoc with the marketplace.

What's there to excuse in piracy? Piracy isn't theft: theft implies somebody being deprived of a copy¹. Piracy is making a copy against someone's wishes. Often greedy wishes.

This is especially true when downloading content that has been released overseas but not in your country. The production company can't possibly lose any money because they haven't released it yet in your country: you possibly couldn't buy it and shove those shiny euros down their throats if you wanted to.

There might be laws in effect that kind of try to incriminate and impose penalties for pirating but a law doesn't equal ethics.

The copyright proponents want copying a movie to be illegal because it might constitute a lost sale to someone who might try to sell that movie in the future. However, if everything worked the way they propose, nobody could ever do anything legally because it just might constitute a lost sale for someone else who might try to sell the same thing in the future.

¹) It has also been established recently that depriving of a potential sale doesn't have a correlation in reality: in one particular case the potential lost sales were estimated to be more than there's money on the planet...
Yep. Just try and tell a conservative American what kind of person Christopher Columbus really was, or that Washington nearly got all of his men and himself captured or killed and was saved only by a freak fog one night.
That isn't surprising or at all uncommon.
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We also got better results from Facebook Ads than from AdSense. Something that we found is that we got better results if we changed the image on the Ad periodically and if we stopped for a while our campaigns.

We track the user by source, so we can check if the FB users are more or less active than users from other Ad networks or from users that come from organic search, and so far we have not observed a significant bias.

We are paying a few cents for each user registration (not click). No other Ad network comes close to these numbers for our site. Our budget is of some (single digit) thousands dollars per month, and we have been running these Ads for a few months.
You should take into account where your users are located. I've found that PayPal is good for selling to US customers, only a small number of complaints about no alternative. Whereas for non-US customers particularly European ones PayPal is not a favoured option. In a previous company targeting Irish/UK customers we removed the PayPal option and switched to credit/laser cards only. PayPal seem a lot easier to deal with for US centric transactions and are a lot more tolerant of US users. Once outside the US (and probably inside for some as well) PayPal seem to switch to their arrogant we don't give a sh*t about you or your business setting.
You still need to know how to use iTunes to use an iPad.

Additionally, you generally don't need to know how to update yur drivers or antivirus. Those get updated automatically on Windows. The only thing you need to know how to do is install applications. Which 95% of the time is to double-click setup.exe or install.exe.

I'm the tech support guy for my extended family. I support around 30 or so computers. What I've found interesting is over the past year or two is that support calls have dropped to about one every other month. And they're no longer things like, "My computer isn't working." They're more like, "How do I know that the backup program will work when I need it?"
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You haven't interviewed enough then.

I interviewed dozens upon dozens of candidates who couldn't describe to me the underlying data structure for a hash table, all with degrees from reputable schools. This was at Amazon of all places, where they did a decent job of filtering before they even got to me.

Don't even get me started on post-grad degrees. Those that have only PhD's or Masters in CS have been especially bad in my experience.

Passing a course, even doing well, is a very different thing than actually internalizing the material.
The case is similar in Canada. I think this recent article by Jesse Brown reflects the reality for a lot of broadband-connected Canadians with similar viewing habits to broadband-connected Americans: http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/from-print-edition...
I second @elgato75. If you're concerned now, then you guys aren't right together... Your co-founder has to be of all things reliable. It doesn't matter how smart they are or how many hours they put in, if they aren't reliable and there's no trust then your startup will have a difficult time succeeding.

Hence the reason why investors are just as likely to invest in a tight team as well as a good idea.
I'm in the same boat and also worry about it to a certain extent. However, 7 years of getting paid to write software has mostly given me more confidence. Also, I know a lot of really smart people (a lot smarter than I) who studied Computer Science and couldn't program their way out of a paper bag.
for windows folks smartgit is really good client. Am using old version where all features were free and not restricted to 30 day period.
True enough. For the record, that was just a tongue-in-cheek phrase that I used. You're right; the bandwidth, machine time, and manpower probably make up the bulk of their costs.
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This was already posted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2402027
Gumroad will be another. :)
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Definitely, I think it's always best to offer consumers both options.

The problem with PayPal Express is that it obfuscates the credit card option by making it a small link below a PayPal sign up form that says "or another payment option" or something equally confusing.
Thank you for all your answers. It seems like we are in some trouble (sign number one: I'm posting online under a throwaway account).

I'm going to try harder at communicating with him, and then see if he can keep up his side of work to make the two months product launch. I've launched a product of similar scope with the same sized team in a month before, so if we can't do it in two...I'll have my answer.
I have 50,000 page-views worth of traction and over 1,000 users - many of them making real money. :)

Kidding aside, I dare you (not sarcastically, I would love to see another approach to the same problem).
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Have you looked at CheddarGetter?

http://support.cheddargetter.com/discussions/questions/271-c...
CheddarGateway is $20/month and $0.15 per transaction

I haven't used it, just know the developers. Price point sounds in your range (maybe).
Why does he need to use Outlook? He uses Yahoo mail. He managed to install iTunes. The printer installed without a hitch via the HP software. Windows updates install themselves these days unless you disable it.

My mom is paranoid about viruses and installed Symantec, but the paranoia also ensures that they don't click on weird crap coming thru email. Sidenote: my mom upgraded the laptop herself from Vista to Win7 without bugging me, praise jeebus!

PCs aren't mystical, I don't know if the expertise of maintaining them is some kind of totem that geeks cling to but hearing about problems with them is the exception instead of the rule these days.
What do you mean "eventually"? The iPad has worked with Bluetooth keyboards since day one.
I thought it was strange that Functional Programming ranked high. In my experiences CS depts are pretty mixed, in some schools it's essential, but in many others it's all but ignored. Additionally when I list out all the people I know who are big into fp on twitter or else where, at least anecdotally, it seems to be pretty heavily skewed towards the self-taught. I have a mixed background (self-taught then back to school) but all of my fp work has been on my own time an curiosity. I've always found it rather ironic that FP is considered academic when very few academics spend their time on it.
Wouldn't TCP Vegas over TCP work relatively well, since Vegas detects congestion using latency instead of dropped packets?
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It's the same with comments. I usually join discussions several hours late. Mostly because I live in Europe. Usually I get 1 or 2 up/down votes and almost no answers.

So I generally think that good stories shouldn't decay as fast as they do. And maybe also when there is some activity on them.

Maybe also we should have some category like "best stories of yesterday", putting some fresh attention to the good ones.
Yes, if it was done in the framework, you'd want to have the sanitizing and allocation happen seamlessly, and you'd want the memory management to be simple as well. My confusion was why this strikes you as a significant difficulty for a framework author to set up.

Certainly it's harder if you decide that you are going to work from the ground up in straight ANSI C, but there's lots of good pool memory allocators out there. I'd either use one I had laying around, or just link in the one from the Apache Portable Runtime: http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/1.4/group__apr__pools.html

The framework author could easily hide this behind the scenes, so that the user would find the string creation and destruction just as seamless as in Perl or Python. Use it and forget it, and the pool would be freed along with the Request. Thus my question, and my confusion, was why you finished with "But that's still sort of painful."
When I found out many "programmers" can't solve fizz buzz, I felt a lot better.

Have you read anything that really knocked you on your ass in terms of practical usefulness?
I think you are confusing tablets as a form factor with tablets as they are currently implemented today. There is no reason pcs can't remove all that stupid maintenance crap as well. (In fact it is on list of startups that Ycombinator is looking to fund.) And it is entirely possible that tablets can become just as cumbersome in that regard.
My seventy-year-old dad still isn't at ease with Windows after fifteen years of having Windows PCs at home, but he's a master of his iPad.

However, he still uses Windows for email and posting on the web, because he hates typing on the touch screen. He tried the keyboard I got him for the iPad, but it ended up gathering dust on a shelf somewhere. My dad might be stuck in the pre-computer age, but he isn't stuck in the pre-keyboard age. He knows what a decent keyboard is. The keyboard is one of those things that people don't want to give up.

The folks talking about the iPad being the PC for "normal people" are looking forward to a future where nobody except nerds uses a computer before the age of eighteen. It's premature to speculate what a computer for "normal people" ought to look like until the definition of "normal people" stabilizes. Technological and economic development is changing the definition of normal people every day.
PayPal calls them "disputes". I have gotten an actual chargeback from a credit card used with PayPal which actually incurs a fee that doesn't happen if you have a PayPal dispute. A dispute just gets resolved with a refund of the transaction.
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HarperCollins says "unlimited access to books isn't commercially feasible" - well boo hoo HC! The VAST majority of book authors don't make enough money to survive, yet we still have those books don't we? Maybe youre little more than irrelevant and exist only because youve got the lawyers to back you up.

This shit pisses me the fuck off... Where am I wrong?
Try a simple answer: "Which one would you use?" Answering this helps you determine which one you're most passionate about as well as a foundation for looking into a user-base.
Have you ever considered setting up an affiliate program and letting other people risk their own ad spend? Also gives the teaching blogs incentive to promote it to their readers/email lists.