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ha! this is exactly where we are now

we're in the process of getting a merchant account going but it's a long drawn out pain. We're using eWay for the gateway as I've used them in the past and they've been fantastic. The bank, however, is having a hell of a job getting it's head around the idea that we want to sell a service over the internet (we're building a saas product).

last call from the bank was yesterday when they decided they wanted full login and usage rights to our app (so they could verify it?) - kind of hard when it's not built yet. We seem to be in a bit of a chicken/egg situation where we have to actually launch before they'll let us receive payments... Prior to that they wanted revenue history for the last few years! agh!

Luckily we anticipated this taking so long which is why we started the ball rolling months ago.

tl;dr: use eWay
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Yes. Better still would be a proper health-monitoring load balancer like HAProxy.
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Not really. This is little more than the media using Steve Jobs' death as a hook for whatever particular story they are writing or comment they wish to make. It too will pass.
I was disappointed to see this story pop up in my Techmeme feed yesterday. IMHO getting tech stories from the Daily Mail is dangerously close to jumping the shark...
You have to roll this yourself right now with a connection pool of stream objects. I'll probably build this out as a separate module.
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I think that an individual user would be unable to modify much in the "work" partition:

>> Control over apps in the "work" partition is handled by the end user's corporate IT team

So maybe each time the phone checks in to the network, some sort of hash is computed to see if anything is different than the expected system?
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Why being an aussie start-up doesn't suck - two words - health insurance. The public health system provides for much, and as a private citizen for a few hundred dollars a month I can get coverage for elective things. I'm not faced with a decision like 'shit, if I quit my job at bigco and go and do this startup thing and then get sick will I be putting my life at risk?'
<Redacted> is Westpac[1], I'm guessing.

[1] http://www.westpac.com.au/business-banking/international-tra...
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I wish that his article had delved more into the long term effects (benefits or otherwise) of taking psychedelic drugs rather than going off into a complaint about US drug policy.

Anyone got interesting, concrete data to share rather than anecdotes about Steve Jobs?
They have at least two religions: Shinto and Buddhist.

I don't know how much following either of them gets today, but I do know that during the feudal period the two religions were associated very strongly with the upper castes (Buddhism) and the lower castes (Shinto).

I do know that religion is not an identity to the Japanese in the way Judaism is for Jews. I know people who simultaneously consider themselves Jewish and atheistic or agnostic. That seems bizarrely contradictory unless you understand that "Jewish" is both an ethnic identity and a religious identity, so even individuals who reject the religious part can still embrace the ethnic part.

Like the gp, I would be very interested to know of any other group that ties religion, ancestry, and culture together into a single unique identity the way Judaism does. I think that Persia under Zoroastrianism might have been like that, but the conversion to Islam ended that.
It's not you. I happen to be reading "Zero History" at the moment and it felt almost surreal to read this article. Gave me a weird feeling I was falling inside the story, if that makes any sense.
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Or William Gibson's recent "Spook Country" trilogy.
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> a complaint about US drug policy.

That would be indicative of an article about politics, which would be better off on some other site for the discussions of US politics and laws.
The main problem with bitcoin is that it seems to be more wishful thinking than a serious currency ruled by macro economic factors. There's not a clear correspondence about how the wealth is created and the demand for currency, not to mention that its deflational nature - i.e. its value is always expected to grow- leave serious questions about who'd you invest it, since its value is expected to increase in relation to the investment instrument, so why bother to invest?

I accept that the general idea is not bad, but it'd need to follow some basic standards in order to be attractive to regular people, you don't have to put your son college fund in a currency with no central authority and no convertibility, you can't expect any currency to always perform well so you need options, in case BitCoin start to lose it's value and there's no way to convert that money into Dollars or Euros you'll be stuck with a lots of worthless bits that won't let you buy not even Lehman Bros. junk bonds.
I've never used illegal drugs, and I've never had a desire. However, the one problem we do have by keeping certain drugs illegal is that Americans are destroying countries, like Mexico, where a week doesn't by where a drug gang hasn't killed someone. Illegal drug money is used to finance so much corruption and killing, that there seems to be little value in keeping them illegal, especially considering that everyone who wants to take drugs still does. If certain drugs do have harmful effects then at least the effects will be mostly limited to the people who take them.
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I think there is a fair amount of 'lust' surrounding Diablo III, in much the same way as a yet to be released BMW. As to productivity software, Photoshop and other high end design software probably qualify. http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/10/photoshop-unblur-leaves-max-au...
What do the low end android tablet users in India, china and Asia do? Just watch YouTube, native apps and games

Edit: 58.5% for web and 43% overall share, not 97% as title suggest
This is an interesting way of completely avoiding defocus blur: http://www.lytro.com/picture_gallery
> What language do you think was perfect at it's first release?

Algol 60.
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"...but in the sense of trying, ultimately imperfectly..."

There is a broad range between trying imperfectly and being a failed social actor.
That's one of the dangers of "attention grabbers".

"What you learn today Johnny?"

"Pure sodium goes BOOOM!"

"Why's that?"

"Um, the teacher said something about chemistry, but we were all just watching the fireworks."
Not surprising, the Galaxy S2 is quite a nice phone, at least it was the Android phone I was considering as the follow-up to my iPhone 3GS.
I stand about half the time, the rest of my time at my desk I'm on an Aeron I've had for 10 years. I lay on a couch for any extended reading and try to spend as little time in a 'sitting' position as possible.
It pained me to do so but I let the deadline pass without submitting my application. I checked regularly to see when they would open the application again and started on my answers straight away. The application made me realise I didn't check half as many of the "good start-up" boxes as I had hoped.

As much as I wanted to apply,I didn't want to waste the YCombinators time with a easily rejectable application. If I get a rejection in the future, I at least want to know they had a little bit of a tougher time getting rid of me :)

I'm determined to use the next few months to build a better demo & hopefully solve the issue of being a solo founder.
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May I point to the irony on posting why a language is not "the language of the future" on perl.org?

[UPDATE: yes, please, down vote freely, because humor is dangerous].
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College students are surrounded by drugs. They flow so freely that it seems like prohibition isn't really working. People who want drugs can get them. I don't do them either, nor do I have the desire but it just seems like only the poor and disadvantaged drug users go to jail.
I've taken LSD and 'shrooms a few times, and while I can understand what Jobs is saying, I think he was wrong. I had mystical experiences where I thought I understood that the whole world was connected together, and I was connected to the world, and other deep insights. I think this was just brain-addled delusion, not any insight into how things really are.

That said, I fully support these things being legal, and (for people who aren't naturally anxious) trying them with a good "set" and "setting".
I would say that much of the lust for Apple is because of their software. If the Mac, iPhone, iPad, etc. ran Linux or Windows or some other commodity system, I feel the hardware would have much less appeal.
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UK ISPs want to give their customers the choice of filtering out porn. But if they can't see the block list, how can they know what they're choosing?
Suddenly I'm very glad that there's competition and other open source alternatives on the web server market.
I think the company was founded in July. So it's a relatively recent development.
I'm really happy for nginx to get the recognition that it deserves and I'd love nothing more than see the people behind it being able to make a living doing nothing but nginx.

But when I read about funding, about founding a real corporation and everything else that's going on, I'm afraid that at one point, nginx will do a MySQL and become open-core.

It's not that I'm not willing to pay for software in general, but I would love to have flexibility when I'm chosing my infrastructure. If the need for an additional server arises, I want to just start it and not matter about buying licenses and entering keys.

This is one of the main reasons, I prefer my infrastructure to be open source.

"But, open-core is also open source", you might say, but none of these projects ever end up getting a good community behind them. Many talented people would not sign a CLA and they would not want to invest their time into something that's "tainted" by a "better" enterprise edition.

Also, often times, submitted patches would not get accepted because the submitted feature is conflicting with an enterprise-feature - maybe even just one that's planned for somewhere in the future.

So in the end most of these open-core projects are exclusively developed by the same people who do the enterprise version and have a vested interest in selling enterprise licenses, degrading the "open" edition to nothing more than a trial version.

I would hate to see this happen to nginx. Not because there are no open alternatives (there are), but because nginx is elegant, fun to work with, fast and, above all, stable.

Let's hope that a pure support-based revenue model is going to work out for them.

(edit: nginx is released under a very liberal license, so it's entirely thinkable that, nginx would be OpenSSH'd: OpenSSH AFAIR started as a fork of the last Free version of ssh. And now just look where OpenSSH stands compared to non-free ssh)
Actually, I think your last sentance exactly highlights my point (I dont know how to do that italicy/quote thing).

Whether you choose to write your code in Java or Javascript doesn't matter because it will HAVE to be run in a Javasript environment (browser) so you will always be limited to the target language - Java allows you to connect to databases with JDBC, read/write files and create rich user interfaces - none of these language features can be used by javascript in a browser.

So solving a problem that is more appropriate for Java can never be a problem that needs to be solved inside a browser by javascript...
It's from Microsoft who recently announced 1 billion installs and 750 million users - I'm on mobile now but will find the source and post here.
The iOS 4 release with improved performance for the 3G has been out for a long time now.

I think "until it falls apart" is a healthy approach to ownership. I plan to do the same with my MBP. Part of the reason for buying quality items of all types is that they happily last.
The article is all over the place and somewhat poorly written, but I generally agree with the overall premise before I even clicked the link: America's drug policy of prohibition is a waste of time, money and resources.
> I think it's fine for simple scenarios (i.e. plain GET)

So's python's urllib2, the point of `request` is that as soon as you go even slightly beyond very basic GET and POST, it breaks down quickly in a horrible mess.
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How is it possible that a bank can request you remove a blog post?
[edit because absurdity is apparently not obvious]
By the author's logic,[/edit] perhaps people should consider putting their children up for adoption, too.

However, I suspect that moving to Silicon Valley would be more likely to provide them with opportunities for success.
I'm not sure who reads T3 or takes their opinion seriously, but it's no one that I know.
I would say that using a shared_ptr is going the wrong way. A shared_ptr is a reference counter pointer and as such as many shortcomings, such as not being able to do cyclic data structures, being slow, hard to make thread safe. They're also quite complicated and require knowledge of C++ destructors, copycons, RAII, etc to understand.

So, please, don't push shared_ptr as a magic one-size-fits all solution, especially to newbies. There's a reason why reference counting is not used everywhere.

With C++ you must remember that it's using pass-by-value semantics by default, which is very different from pass-by-reference semantics of other (syntactically similar) languages (like Java). Using shared_ptr's will not get rid of this fact and makes things even more complicated.

In fact, I have a very hard time to find _any_ use for shared_ptr's in my C++ projects. scoped_ptr's and ptr_containers have proven to be more useful.
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I grew up near Baltimore. It wasn't until the mid 50's I believe that Jews were permitted east of Falls Rd. It took my grandmother decades to be able to comfortably go through that area. In fact, when she and her husband bought their first house in woodlawn, the entire neighborhood signed a petition that they did not want any Jews moving in. My grandparents powered through it anyway.
Interesting things can happen with M::UA in a single line:

use Mojo::UserAgent;
print Mojo::UserAgent->new->get('http://freegeoip.net/json/8.8.8.8')->res->json->{country_name};

Very powerful.
I've seen pictures of a BMW parked in the lobby of the building where the Mac developers worked. I don't recall if that was Steve's.
Exactly. If people want drugs, they can get it, but not everyone does. We've already reached equilibrium drug consumption, which is why it's ludicrous to believe that drug use will skyrocket once it is legalized. The current drug policy only serves to fill up jails with those not in the middle class.
Banks like HSBC may seem and claim to help you between countries, but this is rarely the case. The problem is regulations, they really do operate in regional silos except perhaps on advice (and where the profits go). For example my HSBC account in the UK doesn't help me in opening an account in the US, even if I just moved to the US. It also doesn't speed things up when I want to transfer money to an HSBC account in Hong Kong.
Actually they are the "real China", as their president addressed earlier this week on Republic of China's 100 anniversary.
Technology trumps politics this time. Now we need these video chats to happen systematically in every repressed country in the world.
Open Source does not imply platform independence.
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Does anyone know why I should not use stripe as compared to Braintree, etc.? Is there a fundamental issue, that I have missed, or is most of the discussion surrounding price and volume.... as it stands, it seems like a no-brainer to use stripe for any new projects.
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Imagine a world where home-made items are being manufactured by machines using increasingly less and less human power. Humans are only doing work that we don't know how to make machines do.

This was the industrial revolution. Now it is the IR part Deux. Same shit, more complexities.
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This confuses (and infuriates) a lot of native Israelis too. This is more the result of pressure by orthodox interest groups and attempts to maintain status quo. Just another in a long and confusing list of factors shaping the Israeli and modern Jewish culture.
As usual, Erowid[1] has plenty of interesting content; particularly, the References Database[2] has many papers about the subject.

[1]: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd.shtml
[2]: http://www.erowid.org/references/refs.php?A=SearchAll&An...
Jobs was one of a kind, and to attribute his achievements even in part, to hallucinogens is a fallacy. If it was true, there would be more people like Steve Jobs in the world today.

I think Steve was wrong on this, as he was wrong on other things, i.e. that pancreatic cancer could be treated with a special diet. Maybe if Steve sought medical attention earlier he would still be with us today changing the world.
I don't trust this model, since when building a company that's based on open source software you have just two business models available:

1) make money from services.

2) make money from products.

If you pick "1" you can do a good, very small company, to get your bills payed, but service companies are hard to scale, and unlikely to grow their value in a short time. This is not what your VCs have in mind, basically.

So you end doing "2" if you are VC-backed. With "2" the only way to get money is to either close part of the software, or to find a different way to provide some product value to the user if the use will pay. And this will make the project weaker one way or the other in the end.

p.s. I need a new fake account.
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The last thing Mozilla wants to see is the Web browser become some fairly-easily-implemented, highly-interchangeable runtime platform adhering to a stable, open spec somewhere.

Really? I thought that was the _mission_ of Mozilla. Except for the "stable" part perhaps, because that's quite at odds with innovation.

The track record easily shows that pretty much every single thing you have said is wrong.
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I too have taken LSD. Microdots were prevalent circa 1995 in South Yorkshire, which were strong to the point of not being funny. However, I did manage to get my grubby little junkie mitts on a few paper trips which were a lot more pleasant.

My own personal view that it did change the way I look at the world in some strange and indescribable ways and the experiences made a large contribution to the person I am today, for better and for worse. I never had any grand epiphanies though, but I had some really good times.

I also had some truly horrible times which resulted in some pretty strange phobias that I'm only just starting to get over, but I wouldn't say they've had any noticeable affect on my life.

The moral of the story? There is no moral to this story.
Incidentally, despite the oft quoted, "Bill Gates would be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once", Bill Gates basically did admit to taking LSD in a 1994 interview:

PLAYBOY: Ever take LSD?

GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago.

PLAYBOY: What does that mean?

GATES: That means there were things I did under the age of 25 that I ended up not doing subsequently.

PLAYBOY: One LSD story involved you staring at a table and thinking the corner was going to plunge into your eye.

GATES: [Smiles]

PLAYBOY: Ah, a glimmer of recognition.

GATES: That was on the other side of that boundary. The young mind can deal with certain kinds of gooping around that I don't think at this age I could. I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.

http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/billgates/l/blbillgatesi...
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5,772 years so far.

Happy New Year.
"How does any college/institution know that I (or my children) are Jewish?"

First - it would have been easier some decades ago. Just look at the neighborhood you're from, your last name (and check the mother's maiden name as well). I believe many applications would also have explicitly asked the question as well. And also, generally, and for better or worse, in many cases one can pick jews out of an arbitrary group of people with the same ease as picking black people or asian people. Being jewish is not simple a religious identification. While people endlessly argue this point, being a jew is a combination of an ethnic, religious, national, and cultural components. Most people in the US simply see it as a religious identification, which just isn't nearly the whole story.
Might want to put a blurb up top introducing the author. Or ask her to edit an introduction in.

Random example (which happens to be one of my own posts on a blog that isn't my own): http://mediatapper.com/how-to-use-social-media-to-make-frien...
That's a reactionary comment. We'll see if the post was right in a year or so.
I think it's completely valid for a bunch of super-smart language geeks who have spent 10 years learning from their own mistakes to make comment on a new language, especially one that due to the backing of the biggest web company in the world will gain traction whether or not it it is any good.
Those points just mean Dart isn't revolutionary, which is pretty much a requirement for a language to replace Javascript.
From comments here, it looks like there aren't good options for secure email outside of the jurisdiction of the US government.

I've been interested in setting this up for myself. If you're interested, let me know on this form, and I'll begin looking into the issues of where to host, and what legal structures I'd need to set up.

https://ianap.wufoo.com/forms/do-you-want-secure-private-ema...
My dad died nine months after being diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer, which was three months longer than expected. Steve Jobs died years later, after the Whipple Surgery and a liver transplant.
Perhaps Envato my can help, that's the company behind themeforest, audiojungle and the whole tuts network of sites.
They may be able to provide suggestions, there are an Aussie based startup who are profitable, have experience (been in business for 5 years) and they only sell digital based products and subscriptions.
Just use content-aware fill in CS5.
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