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The main thing I look for is unknowable downside. For example, when a big company asks my small company to indemnify them, I always limit the indemnification to whatever they paid for the work. If they don't like that, then I get a different client.

ALSO, NEVER let lawyers run the show. Lawyers are your water boys/girls -- they do what YOU want them to do. If they don't, then get a different lawyer. YOU have to read and understand everything in a contract -- and lawyers can help you do that. But in general, you tell your lawyer what you want, and she does it. End of story.
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As a freelancer, I work fast and charge $15 an hour. I can usually make around $500 per website, but I'm not the most experienced web developer.
Great example, I've added it. Thank you! :)
Define "unfair". Every contract I've ever seen has been biased in favor of the firm writing the contract. Is this "unfair"?

If you want "unfair" - try looking at some term sheets....
Not a very convincing article, you'd need way more than one reporter to get this kind of information. He also bases this off of what he thinks other people think just by talking to them (not saying this article isn't true, just saying the validity is off)
Depends; interviewing to see if you should have a better job seems useful, not to mention the value of an interview as a two-way conversation.
I hate to be the lone voice crying out for science, but has anyone actually ever seen any evidence that the "uberman" sleep schedule is possible? Has anyone ever done it successfully for a long period of time and written about it? Have any studies ever been done on it? And if so, where are these facts and why do they get less attention than blog posts advocating the idea in abstract, or as a cool new thing someone's about to do but hasn't seen results from yet?

At this point, I think all this polyphasic uber-nonsense needs to be relegated to the "bread crusts make your hair curly" department where it belongs.
We do actually have "Portable, powerful and efficient energy storage" - it's called gasoline :) (Or natural gas.)

Think about the insane size of the inverters you would need to power the grid off of a DC battery.

Instead you use cheaper types of energy during the night, and avoid the natural gas. Then during peak usage you fire up your natural gas battery and run a turbine.
exogen — great idea. I've just added that feature. Thank you! :)
That's right, they will sue. My company has been sued several times - so far, we've prevailed, but it takes time and money to defend a suit. MUCH better to avoid if at all possible.

I have a corollary: you're not a "real business" until you've been sued. (!)
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@Aaron (and others who want to change the current payments landscape):

Noca is more of competitor to Authorize.net than it is to Paypal.

"Paypal competitor" headline was written by Techcrunch - not by Noca. As anyone who has been "Techcrunch'ed" knows they don't get to say what they want but instead what Techcrunch wants to about them (No complaints here - I was aware of this when I talked to Techcrunch)

Unfortunately I have little control on how to steer information about my company once the "buzz" has been created.

I will regardless continue to do what I believe in i.e. Build a payment system that doesn't suck! I have been doing it for a while and the opportunity simply keeps getting bigger.

Noca did start with Check payments, however we've pivoted to doing Credit Cards (the reason/explanation is long, maybe I'll post it sometime )

About the Money Transfer licenses - it's not required for Credit Card transactions. Also for "Check" transactions there are limitations and exclusions. If we need to operate without restrictions we will need Money Transfer License, but can operate within restrictions
i find the overall UI experience not as consistent and thought out on android, but its still very good.
That said the screen, speed, weight & size of the S2 are amazing!
Pretty spammy submission. The previous title was "Real competitor to PayPal is here - Noca.com" and it links to a "Fees" page that provides little support (for starters, PayPal is generally less expensive).

The new title "Noca - Payments Simplified" is not much better considering the link is still to the fees page and Noca does not seem simple at all (ex: the signup page is painful).

Finally, the service doesn't appear to be new.
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Hi BlehBlehBleh. Thank you very much for the feedback. I'm sorry it came out as arrogant — not my intention at all. I tried to make the article enthusiastic in a way that captures the reader's attention to read a bit further and see the interesting things that are possible with this library. The language reflects my own enthusiasm I felt when I first learned about streams and lazy data structures.

Based on your suggestion, I've added a few clarifying comments, especially in the 'Tributes' section to show that this isn't my own brand new idea but is based on other people's work; maybe this will help. Thanks :)
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When Paypal launched is did not do "foreign" accounts. We're still in early stage.

But more importantly Noca is more of an alternative to Authorize.net than Paypal (the "Paypal competitor headline came from Techcrunch - not from Noca )
It's a difference in expectation. PayPal tips the balance incredibly far in favor of the person spending money, to the point of royally screwing people who receive money, because far more of the former exist and the latter want to get paid. People don't just want another PayPal, they want something less broken. We could do with some decently balanced payment systems, as well as a few "caveat emptor, all sales final" systems, but all of them have to get traction with the people spending money and those people don't see any problem with PayPal.
https://www.xkcd.com/918/ seems to apply perfectly to that.
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I agree with you on the value of "tight" controls; I really wish someone would characterize what "tight" actually means in gaming controls, and explain some of the common failings in loose control schemes.
Does anyone else feel weird about the ad in the top-right?

They've got some copy written up about the change here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000347381

TL;DR: More Amazon revenue = lower Amazon prices.

I'm not quite buying it. You don't go to Walmart and see ads for McDonalds — you see a whole McDonalds. Amazon, like Walmart, is the sort of company that tries to sell everything. Wouldn't Amazon rather find a way to sell whatever is being advertised? Perhaps this is just a way for them to scrape a bit off the top of sales they don't (or can't) offer in-house.
@pbreit

Compare it with Authorize.net not Paypal (as I have said in my earlier posts, the "Paypal competitor headline was written by Techcrunch - not Noca )

It will take you a month or so on an average to setup an account with Authorize.net (if you are a small entity ). The signup form that we have at Noca will give you virtually instant sign-up

Plus did I tell you our API doesn't suck. (It's not perfect yet, we are working out some kinks but basically accepting payments should be simple and easy for any entity launching on the web - something that incumbents don't do )
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Please find another brand for the external monitor, Acer does not have drivers for mac :s
You've already put in enough time to make the site and if you really think that it can take off with more users, then keep creating content. If it's something you truly believe in and don't want to just let die out, then this should be motivation enough.
Charge as much as you can get away with -- and make sure you bill by the hour and start with a reasonable statement of work.

Any time estimate you give you should probably at least double -- freelancers typically get themselves into trouble by quoting either too low an hourly rate, too low of a flat fee, a too low time estimate for completion, or the customer keeps constantly changing what they want...
Ever since encountering OpenFirmware on the old PPC Macs I've been interested in Forth but I've only started playing around with it recently (I actually just put amforth on an ATMega328P this afternoon). It's really pretty interesting to use as it forces me to really program in a different way than usual. Most languages allow me, to put it one way, to break to "rules" of the language (ie: programming imperatively in a functional language) but using Forth really means having to learn to solve problems a new way.

In the case of running Forth on an AVR it also has the benefit of being able to program interactively on the actual hardware instead of having to flash and reflash every time I want to change something. Very pleasant.
not quite what I said; no 'might be able to' about it.
As I described, the nexus between fission power (including thorium) and nuclear WMD is well defined. There's enough examples of thorium-based nuclear WMDs, and the perversion of civilian power programs to further nuclear weapons programs, to justify extreme caution.
No, I'm not aware of fertilizer WMDs that leave behind sacrifice zones of contaminated wastelands.
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According to the Pew Research Center, 89% of people who are not self-employed report being "completely" or "mostly" satisfied with their work; the percentage for the self-employed is even higher, at 95%.

http://pewsocialtrends.org/2009/09/17/take-this-job-and-love...
This looks like a good service, but I still really haven't found anything that is even close to as easy and simple as Stripe.
You can think of it as insulting or that you and all your coworkers are now being held to a higher standard. Generally, I think it is better than the alternative.
thinkcomp, why the crusade to out every payments related startup with your lay-person opinion that what they are doing is illegal? We wouldn't know for sure until an actual action is brought. As WePay has suggested, there may be ways to conform inexpensively. And other companies may have more appetite for risk, and as PayPal did, wait for success before becoming fully conformant.
I agree that it's a pretty weak article. However, I 100% absolutely and totally believe it.

What I feel like I've come to realize is that pride is at the center of it all. Pride is what makes people "quiet" about it , because people don't like admit that they aren't happy. People don't want to spend $500 on a phone, be locked for 2+year, and then admit its a POS (yes, some people do, but far from the majority). People don't want to admit that they hate their job to their closest friends and coworkers unless it's clear everyone else feels the same way.

People lie to themselves (although, they certainly know they are doing it), so that they don't have to admit that they aren't perfect...it's ego...and it's silly (it's the same thing that makes people buy a 2nd car, or a bigger house, because their friends got a 2nd car or their brother bought a new house..)
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I read the specs myself and found out that:

* control packets (non-video, non-audio) are protected using TMDS Error Reduction Coding (TERC4)
* audio packets seem error-protected at a higher level (by Dolby or DTS?)
* video packets are *not* error-protected

Wow. I am shocked. How can anyone design a high-speed video digital transport layer these days without error correction? Source: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=6271817#p627181...
Can I make deposits to a client account using this? Instead of debiting from the accounts of my users I want to deposit in them (presumably using their account and routing numbers.
Thanks for that clarification, it makes more sense.
It's actually a great example of path dependency. After the Manhattan Project, more was known about uranium than any other fissile material. It was known how to make it react and how to manufacture it in industrial quantities.

From there it was a short step to naval reactors, and for the lessons of naval reactor design to disseminate into civil use.
Bad controls sink a platformer. I haven't played this one to evaluate it, but if it's sloppy, that really does make it a no-go--the difference, for me at least, between "good and worth playing" and "unacceptable, give it a pass" is really narrow.

Given that developers have had about twenty years to study and reach deep into the guts of games like the original Super Mario Bros, it really does make it harder to rationalize that, as the GP poster noted, very few games are really even in the same ballpark in terms of fluidity of control.
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Patrick,

Crusade? It affects all of us. Read the law yourself:

http://www.dfi.ca.gov/licensees/moneytransmitters/

If an actual action were brought, PJ (or I or anyone running such a company) could be in jail. But perhaps you're willing to take the risk?

Aaron
You'll have to use a custom ROM for this.
Well, if the chinese GFW only blocked DNS, a local hosts file and tunneling DNS from unconventional methods can easily bypass it, without setting up a full blown proxy/VPN. Since china now uses more sophisticated methods, how can the GFW be bypassed?
Authorize.Net is a gateway which seems quite different from Noca. Noca looks more like ProPay, 2Checkout and Stripe.
Europe is a bigger market than the USA, and a much more complicated one to get right - each country has it's own regulations, language, different stores to deal with, etc.

I can only assume it's the American carriers that caused the delay.
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@pitdesi

I do need to compliment you on deciphering Noca's service - it is more an Alternative to Authorize.net than Paypal (Thank you for pointing it out ). You are correct, Authorize.net is not a gateway but an aggregator (most people confuse them for a gateway) and yes Noca will will provide a similar service much better

About Chargebacks: They do exist for Checks. They're just not called "Chargebacks" instead they are called ACH returns, specifically return code R10 (google "ACH return code R10" )

Its just that ACH i.e. Check payments are not pervasive online hence knowledge about Chargebacks or the ability of the individual Payor i.e. Consumer to initiate a chargeback is generally not known. Unlike Credit Cards, Checks do not have an "800" number printed on the back that the Consumer can call to dispute a payment. However the rules set by the Federal government i.e. the Fed are similar/identical (google "Reg E" or FED regulation 12 CFR 205 specifically 205.6 if you really want to read the rule ). So the issue is more of Consumer interface/UX/UI and Consumer education - something that can and needs to be solved.
The problem with this article is it comes across (based on the title) as statistical, but it's not: "This isn’t a statistic, it’s a casual observation..."
Do you know who hurt the project most this last year? You, by your constant attacks at the DA which takes away whatever little community time Dries have. This needs to be noted.
There's also a certain amount of practicality. Better to be cheerful about your POS phone you're locked into for 2+ years than bellyache about it for 2+ years.
People are always most likely to discover their own thoughts and beliefs in the reactions of other people - so unhappy people do. A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved, even if it means to lie to yourself.

I strongly believe that the one reason for unhappyness, bad personality, and even physical sickness is -not trying- to reach what you wanted to reach.
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Not yet. But our Marketplace solution should be able to provide you with you are looking for. Send an email to "support@noca.com"
I have my doubts about this - as a previous poster mentioned, ego is a huge part of it, so my suspicion is that you are going to get a pretty extreme bias when you let people self-report on this.

Around me, I do not believe 9 out of 10 people I know are "completely" or "mostly" satisfied with their jobs. The number if substantially less.
Isn't it normally that employee number 1 get's some stock options?
$20 per employee per day doesn't seem like such a huge expense, especially compared with salary and office space. If it makes employees happy to stay at the office longer, it's not a bad plan.
About -> press leads to a 404.

The video player popup moves with mouse on Firefox 6.

Is there a direct link to the demo video? I couldn't get it to play on the site.
Oh man, I did the same when I was at Microsoft for a couple of months for an internship (although I had to interact with SD instead). Coming from hg I found SD to be pretty obnoxious. Thankfully my mentor was fine with it: "whatever works for you".
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Notice the rate for Checks its 1.49% Less than half of Paypal's rate. Paypal is able to route approximately 50% of the users to pay using bank accounts which costs almost zero yet they charge the Merchant the same. With Noca the Merchant saves directly when the Consumer pays using Checks so the average rate is much lower than 3.49% (Plus No Other Charges Apply )

(PS: As I posted/mentioned in this thread, Noca is more of an alternative to Authorize.net than Paypal)
I suspect that by using the word "intensity" to describe what he's going to change, andrewcooke is well aware of this already :)

For everyone else: there's a color model that is occasionally used in computer vision called Hue Saturation Intensity, which pretty much describes the theory of color that andrewcooke and bornon5 are talking about.
A flat 3.49% (not even including the 20% discount at volume) for credit cards is substantially better than PayPal and Amazon for micro-transactions.

Is there some kind of hidden fee or limitation I'm missing?
Didn't the US essentially nullify bankruptcy laws towards Bush's second term? As in, you can declare bankruptcy, but it doesn't clear your debts?
> I’m not sure what the lesson is here.

The lesson is : you were lucky. You are the prey to some people who look for people like you to sign a contract and then extort money. Saw that happen at a company I worked for.
Fair enough. Noca's look and feel is indeed different
It really depends on the website. Some websites take half an hour by one developer to make, some take 6 months by a team of 30 senior developers, DBAs, sys admins, designers and managers.
I mostly agree. However, most non-technical managers have NO clue what's going on and don't even have a framework for attempting to understand it. To them it's all "magic." I expect to see a lot of snake oil coming out in the next couple of years.
> Where did you get the idea we lack these things?

The USA is used as a strawman in Australian politics. "We don't want to go down the American path" is an actual phrase in wide circulation.
.. or stay with the company longer. Consistently high-quality food, available that conveniently, is a primal attraction.
Well in Switzerland they have low tax but manage to finance a high quality public service.

If you think people will primarily vote for lower taxes, why are you surprised that they would vote for any crackpot who promises to lower them (e.g. Tea Party) ? Representative or direct democracy, if your voting population is made of idiots, you are doomed anyway.
Bullshit title. Happiness is not Boolean.
Exactly.

Put another way:

Odds of getting sued: 1%

Max downside if he gets sued: What? 50k before he declares bankruptcy?

Ok, so risk adjusted cost of the "just fucking sue me" approach: $500.

$500 vs. $350,000...hmmm...tough choice.

You might say, well, it's not as though it's one or the other. You can request reasonable changes and not jeopardize the 350k.

Well, ya, I suppose so, but what are the odds that any request you make will kill the deal? If it's also 1%, then the expected cost is $3500.

That's still more expensive than the "just fucking sue me" approach. In reality, the odds of killing a deal over contract disagreements are much higher than getting sued.
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The actual title is "Bubble Boys." I think that says it all.
True..and I'm probably a glass-half-empty sorta guy.

But in my own experience, pride does still play a part in it, it isn't about trying to be positive, it's about not wanting to seem like a fool and getting fleeced.

Maybe pride is just the reason I'm not happy, and not everyone else's reason :)
1) People crave stability.

2) Stability breeds contempt.

>> A will and desire awakens to go off, anywhere, at any cost; a vehement dangerous curiosity for an undiscovered world flames and flickers in all its sense. 'Better to die than to go living here' - thus responds the imperious voices and temptation; and this 'here', this 'at home' is everything it had hitherto loved! A sudden terror and suspicion of what it loved, a lightning-bolt of contempt for what it called 'duty', a rebellious, arbitrary, volcanically erupting desire for travel, strange places, estrangements, coldness, soberness, frost, a hatred of love, perhaps a desecrating blow and glance backwards to where it formerly loved and worshipped.

-- Nietzsche
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Anything similiar for the Android device available?

Edit: Also, for a nice rundown: http://softwareas.com/watch-it-later-a-comprehensive-review-...
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The same thing, I just getting started SICP and I find DrScheme/DrRacket more interactive
I don't have a big experience with functional languages, but I got it quickly too. As written in the page, the name is too much of a giveaway.
It turns out I think that you get billed for active instances + your min idle instances, or total instances, whichever is less. I need to update the story to reflect that.
When I started out as freelancer, my first three invoices were not for $1400, $5400 and $24000 respectively, and then a potential $340000! They were more like $300, $310, $260 etc. Maybe I'm doing something wrong too. I'd like to see my revenue explode exponentially.
Is it common that people are paying for online things with checks? (honest question, nothing I do is worth charging anyone for, so I don't know).
If you're integrated into local you may want to give some thought to what career path you want to transfer into.

Why wouldn't you assume he'd just want to stay with Zagat?
I mentioned this in another thread earlier today, but, I lost my job a couple of weeks ago. I'm not even sure where I'll be living in a month. But damn am I happy to not be there any more.

I find it funny that it's a surprise most people don't like furthering other's agendas more than their own most days. It's silly that most people would. (Or just lucky that so many can find a way to make money doing something they actively enjoy.)
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