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If the alternative is "rubbing you the right way"... I'll pass :). If you had the time to be a bit more concrete with your thoughts - it would probably help. I'm not an audio engineer, I'm a developer like you.
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I couldn't find a mention of Flash, canvas, HTML5 etc. so I can only assume this still uses their Flash charting. In this day and age that's really disappointing and short-sighted on Google's part. By not being able to view the charts (in fact, most parts of an analytics page) in an iPad or iPhone, they're forcing users to buy shotty third party apps and making other people rich.
Not being able to cope with the fraud is the #1 reason why payment processors fail.

Most of the fraud happens with accounts outside the US. New payment processors always start with the US and slowly expand outward.

Being able to deal with fraud is how PayPal made itself when everyone that came before it failed.
Absolutely true - I'll add that later this week!
Edit: Fixed just now.
The problem is that you are arguing the analogy. What you are saying neither fits the point or spirit of his slide show.
It's actually $100K/yr paid monthly.
I've been using Ruby for many years now, but I wish I had discovered it much earlier. Something like this would have made that more likely.
I don't know exactly how YCNYC worked (so this may of already happened) but my suggestion would be to do seperate groups i.e. Group 1 & Group 2 and then in the Evening you could bring together as an "After-Party" type thing to facilitate networking etc.

For instance if you were to speak as well as some of the YC Alumni then the following could happen;

Group 1 - YC Alumni - BREAK - PG

Group 2 - PG - BREAK - YC Alumni

Obviously this would add a few extra problems, including increased costs although, this could easily be solved having a small fee for attendance (again I don't know the exact details of how YCNYC worked so if it was a free meetup charging $10 say wouldn't bother people and would help to recoup the additional costs etc)

This would make the event appear much smaller than what it actually is thus, making it more informal as well as allowing, people to network in the Evening as well.
Maybe you should come talk to us? :)
Something just occurred to me.

FastSpring, which is a US company, can actually work with non-US companies just fine. Why is that?

Also, at some point I asked them why they could, and BrainTree couldn't, and they said they can't really think of a reason why.

So.. What exactly is the deal? I'm dying to know.
Goodbye worst company in the US. Hello Credit Union!
startupguild uses Yammer. I think you're solving the wrong problem here.
I think the community has as much to do with discussion as anonymity. r/programming, r/technology, r/hacking are pretty simmilar in topic, though with less emphasis on buisiness/econ. But the comment style is totally different.

As obvious as it is that community changes discussion quality, I think it's overlooked in the whole anonymity debate. HN's been doing just fine, for the most part.

I haven't been here for long, but isn't HN at least as anonymous as reddit?
That's only 4, this is a savvy audience i'm sure there are others they use.
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I really don't get or see how Stripe is different?

Why would I use it instead of PayPal, 2CheckOut, e-junkie, etc?

As a seller of software myself (http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper), I can tell you that "API is cleaner" and "lower fees than 2CO" don't do anything for me at all.
What is truly ridiculous is that banks get a 3% merchant fee for every credit or debit transaction charged to their card. So, essentially, they are charging their customers for the very privilege of making money...

And we wonder why the banks are failing... this is why! You don't charge your customers for the privilege of making money! I told my bank that I flat out refuse to use my debit card unless THEY PAY ME at least 1% of the merchant fee, seeing as they are getting 3%.

Right now, I use a Fidelity Retirement Rewards Amex card for all of my purchases. I get 2% cash back on every purchase. For those merchants that don't accept Amex I use a Fidelity Retirement Rewards Visa, which pays 1.5% cash back on every purchase. I encourage everyone I know to do the same.

The reality is that credit/debit card companies make a ridiculous amount of money in merchant fees (up to 3%). DEMAND that they share that profit with you.
You can use https://www.hellowallet.com/ (I have no relation or interest) to find credit unions and banks in your zip.
> to the best of my knowledge, in the United States, and probably in certain other countries, there is no such concept as a private individual dedicating a publication to the public domain.

http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html says otherwise, backing it up with citations to court decisions and jury instructions. Dan, by the way, is no stranger to the courts; the legal battle he fought for a decade is the reason that you can export strong cryptographic software from the US today without registering as an arms dealer and getting approval for each download.

Your comment is full of other errors. The IEEE, for example, is not a business. There are others I cannot be bothered to correct at this moment.
Here in Texas, it means someone from the Northern US. It sounds really funny in that context. :)
+1, well said.

As I said in the live chat to them tonight - please guys, get to the UK soon :-)
Neither? Thats surprising. So what do you feel? This has got to affect you in some way. Just keeping your head down reminds me of an ostrich.
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I have a problem with using merchant startups. If they go out of business, what happens to my clients? If I have thousands of clients, I would not want to be forced to get all of their credit card info again (since I wouldn't be storing any of that info).

Although I hate using the big guys, at least I know they will be around in 5+ years.
Yep, common in Trinidad (and many other places I'm sure). They call it a Sou Sou.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sou-sou
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See also these threads and note the number of complaints and the span of dates:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?tid...

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?tid...

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?tid...

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?tid...

I'm personally having the same problem today, when the auto renewal date is a month away. I've filed two tickets without response. It seems the only solution people have found is to remove their credit card information from Google Checkout.
Any company selling to a group of people has to understand the needs of their customers.

Many companies do this by hiring people called "marketers", who specialize in studying the needs of other groups of people.

An alternative is to create products for a group you belong to.

Hence, if a web developer (who is not also a marketer) is going to develop a product by themselves, it might make sense for them to create a product for other web developers.

Note that this doesn't mean all web developers will only make products for other web developers. Many web developers work for companies that have marketers to handle the "understand the needs of your customers" part. Other web developers have (or can teach themselves) sufficient marketing skills to develop products for people unlike themselves. Still others develop products for other groups they are members of (e.g. web developers creating products for people who share one of their hobbies).

I don't know why the original article didn't include these last 2 categories of developers, though.
Most of the fraud happens with accounts outside the US.

That's true, but too broad a brush. There's a difference between your average European country and China/Russia.
This has easily become one of my favorites... big up to these guys for providing such an entertaining podcast.
Is that true for debit transactions? I always thought that credit card purchases cost the retailer money, which went to the credit company and/or rewards programs and/or banks, but that debit transactions cost the retailer nothing but cost the bank.
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EventBrite loses data from Make Faire registrations :(
Just got this email from EventBrite, and am very crossed :(

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I'm writing to let you know that on September 20th, two iPads were stolen from an Eventbrite employee while in transit. These devices were heading back to Eventbrite HQ after being used at Maker Faire New York, an event you registered to attend through Eventbrite. When we found out that the devices were stolen, we immediately notified law enforcement authorities of the situation. We then set up a remote password lock on the devices and initiated a remote data wipe. We also worked quickly to determine what data was stored within the application's database on those specific pieces of hardware.

I am notifying you of this incident because we believe your email address, and, if you elected to share it, first and last name, were on one of the stolen iPads and could potentially be exposed. Eventbrite collected this information so that we could send you PDF tickets and payment receipts, and confirm ticket purchases on-site for those people who didn’t bring a printed ticket.

We know that having your personal data compromised is a violation of the trust you place in Eventbrite, and we offer you our deepest apologies. While we believe the risk for criminal misuse of your email addresses is low, we take your security and privacy seriously and believe that it's best to be open and transparent. We encourage you to monitor your email account closely for suspicious messages and not share financial or sensitive information over email. Please note that Eventbrite will never ask for passwords or credit card numbers over email.

To prevent this from happening again, we have updated our iPad application, Eventbrite At The Door, to encrypt all email addresses collected on-site at events, and we have made changes to all our mobile applications, including our newest version of Easy Entry, so that they will no longer store email addresses collected from online orders on mobile hardware. And on top of these technical fixes, we are putting in place increased security measures for the transportation of company-issued iPads, so that they will no longer store any personally identifiable data while in transit.

I encourage you to write to me with any questions you have about our security procedures. It's something that we take seriously and we take full responsibility for our mistake. You can reach me at kevin.hartz@eventbrite.com or call our support hotline at 866-528-2027.
building a firewall around illiquid but solvent countries like Italy

I'm not entirely sure I understand the distinction being made between illiquidity and insolvency here, could someone please explain it? It seems to me that if you are in a state in which a high enough interest rate on your debt will put you in a death spiral from which you cannot feasibly recover, then your problem is bigger than liquidity.
This seems superficially attractive, and it's hard to imagine too many people making a spirited defense of the 'all chiefs, no indians' job title inflation.

But there's a bullshit aspect to it that bothers me - it seems to be ignoring something basic that's being communicated when people insist on CxO titles.

Specifically, people who insist on CxO titles at some stage in a startup where it seems a bit pretentious may have a very good reason. What these titles communicate internally and to the board is something like:

"I am joining this startup and doing a buttload of work under the assumption that I will be the effective leader (or, CTO = effective technology leader) of the the company, and if anyone wants to make me step down from this, it will actually be a demotion and it will be an issue".

This doesn't mean "I will have a tantrum and leave". It means, "don't assume that you can seamlessly bring in a layer of management above me and this will fit my expectations".

This position may be a bad idea, I'm not disputing that. However, it may be what's contingent on someone doing a pile of work for very little money - part of their vision of the startup might be not suddenly acquiring a layer of people to report to who have been parachuted in after the hard, nasty work has been done.

If you want to make it clear that at any moment, the guy who thinks he going to run the company or the technical aspects of the company can have someone parachuted in on top of them, then denying them the CxO title is a good way of communicating that. That's fine, but don't pull this sophomoric shit where you pretend that people in small companies are insisting on these titles out of sheer ego alone.
"Bold" action by the politicians and the central banks created much of the current mess. If we'd just cleared the pipes by letting the banks fail, recapitalizing new banks, and basically rebooting the financial system, we'd be much further along.

Instead, we got bailouts and crony capitalism and ad hoc intervention, and today the global system is in many ways in worse shape now than in 2008. (Banking is more concentrated and national balance sheets are a mess from the bailouts)
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Dare I say this? A space race is a massive waste of money. We should be combining resources on large scale projects, not duplicating them.

Competition is great to find the fundamental technology but we should unite to build a massive vehicle.
Shut. Down. Everything.
Maybe they're junior positions.
Google has support personel? Sure doesn't feel like it when dealing with them
It pays well to be a (failed) CEO
Apparently rewards cards incur an extra charge for the merchant. Which essentially means that that cash back comes right out of the merchant's pocket. I don't mind that at all, but it does mean that the bank isn't "sharing the profit with you."

A debit card/check card/credit card substantially eases access to one's money (or money one doesn't have). So I think it's reasonable that they charge at least some fee for it, though if it turns out my BofA debit card is one of those that require it I will probably never use it again.
The main practical difference would be that the rails ecosystem is just much larger in general (i.e. more community support, ready-made plugins, documentation, what have you.)

As for certain types of web development node.js is definitely more suited for apps that do a lot of real-time stuff (like chat.)
Why? Because the Amazon and specifically the AUC lies at the center of the whole architecture.
I'd like to point out that on the first frame with text on it, the text runs off the screen. So i closed it. I don't even know what the slideshow was about :(
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yep the main one I use (subjot) isn't on here.
Wow, this seems almost as important to space travel practicality as the assembly line was for cars. To think where we (as people) were 100 years ago and to contemplate where we might be in the next 100 years... exciting times we live in.
Agreed. Children and young animals play because they learn from it. This is why evolution has programmed them to enjoy it. Play=self-improvement.
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That article has almost zero factual content to back up it's assertions. This kind of nonsensical ravings really grate me. Don't write something like 'witness the increasingly dark economic backdrop' or 'America’s economy is still limping along' without some hard numbers. This article attempts to support those statements with broad general commentary like 'summer slump in share prices and consumer confidence suggest future spending will weaken further'...that's not proof, that's an interpretation of data that the author isn't sharing.

The worst part about that article is that the meatiest statement 'That could change if Congress came to its senses, passed Barack Obama’s jobs plan and agreed on a medium-term deficit-reduction deal by November' is dead on, but delivered in such a clumsy manner it's almost a throwaway piece.
There is a one sentence describing what the site is all about "A podcast about developers and their lives." and it is at the top, but the color of the font is too light.
My intent was definitely not to portray learning as painful. Learning is a joyful thing. But it's not something you can acquire by passively staring at the world. You need to exert yourself if you want to do more than gain a passing acquaintance with things.
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earlier today I was wondering whether someone already created a compilation of those, thanks a lot op!

I think these icons are great for protyping/design mockups.
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Haha... the point I was trying to make is that flipping a spacecraft in a vacuum is easy as there are very few external forces involved.

Flipping a craft while hurtling toward the earth at some large velocity through an atmosphere which generates friction with very few control surfaces is not.
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I enjoy this podcast very much, too bad Scott and Rob don't record more episodes... would love to hear a new episode every day!
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Agreed. It would seem to me that time would be better spent on core services. Why be knee deep in something that is already becoming a commodity?
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You are too cynical. Anyone who produces and gives away free educational tools is alright in my book. (Unless they're propagandists for an antisocial cause, I suppose.)
FWIW, you could just as easily blame Apple for your complaint. There is no a priori reason to believe that Google should go out of their way to support a single platform from a competitor that is missing a piece of functionality; and, if they were, there is no a priori reason to believe that that platform should be Apple's iPad and not Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (which is missing Canvas instead of Flash, a much more reasonable limitation given how often both technologies are actually used).
I switched from BOFA to Schwab about two years ago (after them nickle & diming me for years with spurious fees) and I couldn't be happier. Like Ally, there's no physical bank branches (but they do have physical brokerage locations), you get interest on your checking, and they refund all ATM fees.

They also have an iPhone app that can scan checks, and their integration with their brokerage account/trading is really nice as well.

My favorite part by far is the customer service. They always have very friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable people picking up the phone and I've never had to wait in a phone queue.

I don't think their interest rates are as high as some of the other online banks, so if you run high cash balances rather than high brokerage account values it might not be for you.
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Of course you should use condoms, not share needles, and get tested regularly.

But a 50% decrease in new HIV infections is huge!
If you want to research a foul way of doing business, read up on Chexsystems and the collusion of major banks with national check-cashing firms. 20 years ago a consortium of bankers got together and essentially said, "if we build a credit-report system for bounced checks, we can limit our liabilities from poor people and make them give us 3-5% of their income by blacklisting them from all the nation's banks".
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Do you give "fraud rating" back for the potential transaction?

If yes - I could have used that rating to decide whether to approve the purchase automatically or give it a manual review.
The resources required to build and send a rocket into space are very expensive. A lot of money would be going to something like rocket fuel instead of a paycheck.

You'd revitalize the economy if you spent money on projects that had a better ratio of jobs created to dollars spent.
Real costs are probably higher than you expect. Sure, it's so cheap it might as well be free to write a program that debits one number and increases another and run it a few billion times, but reliable financial systems require more than that. Consider what it takes not just to implement a chargeback, but to be able to implement a chargeback, and to be able to stand behind it legally, and to be able to defend against lawsuits, to be able to prove compliance with various regulations, etc etc. Everything looks easy from the outside.

I don't see any compelling reason to think the government would intrinsically do any better, it would just move the costs around and probably incur more of them overall when the full accounting was made, which it never would be, because who can regulate the regulators?
This is an online version of an article in the Leaders section of the Economist magazine. The articles in that section are mostly short summaries of topics discussed in greater detail in the relevant subsections of the issue.

For instance, the same print issue as this 'nonsensical raving' has a much more detailed summary of the euro crisis in the Briefings section if you're looking for the gory details alluded to in the leader[1].

[1]http://www.economist.com/node/21530960
Let me guess: the "bold action" they want is to throw a few more trillions at bank shareholders and prodigal borrowers.

No thanks. We would be better off to head straight through the black hole, full speed ahead. It will be painful for a few years but we'll come through the other side with cleaner balance sheets and sustainable government budgets.
I doubt many sites are going to bother with all the complexity of implementing and utilizing SPDY when only chrome supports it. To see significant advantage with SPDY vs something like long-polling you need to build your app around it, and if you need to support long-polling methods anyways, not very many sites are going to bother.
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