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I don't think it makes sense to compare these products directly. Samurai is a gateway only -- you still need a merchant account which is a lengthy process, while Stripe lets you start accepting payments immediately. That distinction implies they are for different use-cases. Samurai is useful if you want a simpler integration than Authorize.net and Strip if you have nothing, and want to get up and running immediately.

The simplest example of the difference is the sign-up process, Samurai requires you to enter a company name before you can start using the service -- Stripe doesn't even need an email address.

Another key difference is that (from what I can tell) Stripe handles all PCI compliance, whereas Samurai still requires you to handle some aspects.
But UNIX/Linux does suck and few are going to work on these extremely hard problems because UNIX/Linux are good enough.
I guess sometimes the best marketing is your competitors' stupid marketing.
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> Lawmakers that are above the law will always be a problem.

Much like sysadmins who make policy exceptions for their non-admin accounts!
Repped. Same situation here, our entire backend is setup with this setup (backbone, node, d3, mongoDB). We are looking for developers in these areas, since I'm not a programmer - do you have any good ideas that I can check?
Better to do the right thing, than the wrong thing 'righter'.

If he isn't meeting your needs, you should let him go. But keep this in mind: He took a $25 an hour pay cut to be with you guys, and from what it sounds like, has no equity in the company. How motivated would you be?
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This one is really good. I think it's much more interesting when something resembling a melody emerges from the code.
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> C# is also widely regarded as "superior" to Java.

It feels like saying Stheno and Euryale are Medusa's pretty sisters.
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I asked my wife, who is an IP lawyer. That was her advice. Of course, you would expect a lawyer to recommend to see another lawyer, but in this case, it makes sense since there's $$$ involved.
My gut feeling is that, privacy issues aside, the people who are really getting fleeced are advertisers.
I'll say this again: Ted shouldn't have wasted everyone's time highlighting the response time of the request. He effectively benchmarked V8 right on his blog and then called it slow. Now everyone's complaining that people at least demonstrate that part to be untrue.

Ironically, every one of his clients in the ab concurrency test will receive their responses before the users of the hypothetically parallel Python and Ruby services, because Node responds an order of magnitude faster. So he didn't actually demonstrate a problem.
Kennedy was quoting Luke 12:48 in the Bible:

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"As a result NoSQL databases may only have partial or no sql support."

Gee, thanks Oracle
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But quite a bit after Lady Ada started it in 1842 :)
Not fair, in Indonesia we have more people than those countries combined. But I guess if they do cover Singapore, then for me it's just a matter of opening a branch there no?
Mmmm you're clearly not a procrastinator. By replying to my post with urgency, you indicate a tendancy to get things done, unless of course you didn't finish reading the article, in which case welcome to the club.
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I'm afraid we're getting off on a tangent on this thread, but your math is correct, and I agree with your probabilities.

> As an employee, what I'd want from a prospective employer is full visibility into the financials/cap table, and help running through various assumptions about the future. Misleading people about the value of compensation, up or down, isn't reasonable.

I think that's the crux of it. Most startups are not this transparent and upfront with potential candidates.

> As an employer I wouldn't want to be hiring someone who was too stupid to understand the accounting when given the numbers, or too meek to ask for the numbers, either.

Very true.

> But an employee would be a lot better if he were motivated by wanting to solve this problem, use this tech, expand skills, be in this industry, or learn to do his own startup, vs. banking on the options lottery.

For the company, absolutely. For the employee? Yes, if certain circumstances hold true. But expecting this to be of equivalent benefit to everyone is uninformed.

> As an employer I wouldn't want to be hiring someone who was too stupid to understand the accounting when given the numbers, or too meek to ask for the numbers, either. But an employee would be a lot better if he were motivated by wanting to solve this problem, use this tech, expand skills, be in this industry, or learn to do his own startup, vs. banking on the options lottery.

Again, great sentiment, but when you fold in everything that's been discussed and you target premium talent, more often than not I'm finding that talent is often going elsewhere.

As a summary, I think the tension around financials between founders and VCs is slowly being pushed off to early-stage employees, and premium talent recognizes it and is expecting more than invaluable startup experience as compensation for making someone else wealthy.
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It would be nice if Ruby was one of the permitted languages.
As a sysadmin who uses Puppet for a few hundred servers, I strongly disagree with the assertion that "After spending 25% of your time working with Puppet, you will be much more likely to reach for ruby for your next scripting task." I'm not even sure how you reach this conclusion since Puppet uses a DSL and not Ruby. I've been using Puppet for a while now and I don't know and have never used Ruby, and I'm not planning to. Much of what you have written seems like you're really stretching to validate your decision to start using Ruby instead of Python, which I'm not even sure why it matters. Use what you/your organization prefers, otherwise it doesn't really matter.
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The problem with actually implementing this system is that, after drawing up said list of things that need doing, I would simply go and find myself doing a bunch of other stuff, stuff which isn't on the list, but is capable of making itself seem important and worthwhile enough to me to keep me from feeling bad. Stuff like reading that book I bought a year ago, practising piano, reading articles about interesting stuff online, writing and then scrapping the opening few pages of a novel...

The point is, making such a list of tasks to do would simply give me something else to avoid entirely. I might even progress to having lists of lists of tasks.

I realise this article isn't serious, but it's interesting to consider. I could never make it work, because pandering to procrastination like this would just engender further procrastination and further doing of things which can seem important but are really utterly unimportant.

There is almost always something you would rather be doing than what you are doing right now.
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Many people do that, but that's not the structure or intent around it at all. When you meet someone you like and find out their interests/passions:

- when you meet someone else with similar interests/passions, introduce them.

- when you see an article that would spark their interest, share it.

- when you see an event that fits them, pass it along.

- when you see them, ask about how their projects are going.

It's not out of some crappy "I want to network" motivation, but because you like them. And generally we want to help & encourage the people we like.
What do you expect? There is no such thing as "secure job" anymore so the only way to secure your lifestyle is to make as much money as possible.

I would love to make things that benefit everyone and give them away for free but there's no way I'm going to do that while my family needs my productive hours to generate income.
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The problem with this article is the author draws a dubious line between three different things.

Facebook and Twitter provide a service for no money but you end up paying them in content which they trade to advertisers (who then give them money). Making social networking nothing more than a traditional transaction with a middleman.

The Huffington Post doesn't pay its authors or provide a service but they do offer a chance at fame through a famous distribution model. Making it a lot like gambling where most people pay more than the experience is worth (by generating content and never getting famous) while a lucky few extract a huge portion of the value (by becoming famous). But The HP is just like the Casino extracting a piece of the action through advertising.

What Business Insider does is just kind of slimy. But it mostly quotes famous people who don't seem to care if Blodget takes money from them.

So we're talking about three very different phenomenons
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> Anyone can pick one up and learn it

This is horrible to say, but, in reality, it's not anyone. Not everyone will ace the SAT or have an IQ of 140+ much like not everyone can run 100m in less than 10 seconds. Maybe anyone can learn Java or Haskell or Python, but not everyone will be capable of writing excellent (or even correct) code.
The answer is - it depends. I'll categorize them based on each computer.

I'm basing my recommendations on using a 13" Macbook for the last 3 1/2 years and a 17" Macbook Pro (from work) for the last couple of months. Also, you might want to hold off a little longer as the Macbook Pro line is due for an update and it might be worth it to see what Apple does to them (http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/).

13" Macbook Air

-memory capped at 4GB ram
-1440 display resolution
-no disc drive

The resolution makes this great choice for a portable 13". But, you don't have a disc drive. You're limited to 4GB RAM and 256GB disk space. If you plan to run any virtual machines or dual boot into Windows - I'd pass on the Air. If you plan to do any work with iMovie and iDVD, that also rules this out with no disk drive (you can buy an external drive). Otherwise, it's a solid choice or portability.

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The Macbook Pro line is due for a refresh.

13" Macbook Pro

-1280 dispaly resolution

This display size is a little small. That being said, I'm curious to see it Apple will upgrade the display when this model is refreshed. I would loved to see this form factor include the 1440 display that is in the MBAir. If you plan to spend a great deal of time working from the same desk and have a decent external display. This with a 27" Apple display would be a killer combo and I'd prefer it over a 17" Macbook Pro. But, if you're on the go, I'd pass.

15" Macbook Pro

-1440 display resolution (upgradeable to 1680)

My next personal MBP would probably be this one with the upgraded display. It's not too big and you've got a decent amount of screen real estate.

17" Macbook Pro

-1920 display resolution

This one is a little pricey, but at times the resolution is nice when using something like BetterSnapTool or Double Pane to resize windows on the fly to fill half a screen.

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CONCLUSION

The best all around value is the 15" Pro (with or without the upgraded display). I would only buy another 13" if I knew I was going to be stationary (most of the time) and would lean heavily on an external display.
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Sometimes it is the right tool for the job... But for a lot of problems, all it's going to do is make your code more complicated.
If you are making what the average worker makes ($47,569.60 per year, a 1 percent difference in your pay is... about $12.81 net per pay period.... That's about $6.40 per week. And according to our research, that's what you'd pay for a six-pack of beer... You can't really believe that this nominal differentiation in pay is motivational and drives performance results. It doesn't.

So, "Gen-Y" doesn't realize that $500/year is worth something, or that not buying a 6-pack of beer every week is worth $500/year. In other words, they don't have a good appreciation for how much money is worth.
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What are the current options in Canada ? I'm moving to Vancouver next month (coming from Belgium) and wonder how the tech/startup looks like there...
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We want him to join us in an incubator/accelerator but we're not sure about his passion or drive. Should we continue to bare with him so that after an accelerator we go our separate ways?

Yes, you have a point in how motivated would I be in his shoes... so then how much equity is fair for getting paid to work but transitioning to founder? My partner and I have not taken any salary/pay (even from paying clients), we actually put more of our money in to bootstrap. Every ounce of additional cash I have goes there, and the sense of urgency from him isn't addressed.

Or is it too late already? I'd love for him to be a founder, but I don't want to hand over equity to a person who is going to make it uncomfortable to work with in the office. We actually prefer him to work from his home office (as does he) so we don't have to be around from him.

Then he'll do random things like switch from us buying him lunch, to buying us lunch - then we're like WTF?

I feel like I'm venting - I'm sorry. I'm just at the point that I would like to see the startup move to the next step...

Thank you for your response!
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To be fair, their task is not a simple one: to bend a very old language into new problems it was never designed to solve is an outstanding achievement.
Depends on the hardware and how much ram you want in a system:
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Gives you up to 16Tb of ram in one system, but you'll pay. We just got two, they are insane beasts but cool.
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The difficulty or inconvenience of a job does not really imply additional remuneration. If it did, migrant farmworkers would probably be the richest people in the world.
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Sounds like a horror story.

And to reiterate the last statement of the article: if you're doing something "clever" you're probably doing it wrong. Or in other words, if you don't know what the hell you are doing, then copy someone who probably knows what they are doing.
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I stopped reading at: There’s No 3G Web Browsing (except on Kindle Fire)

Kindle Fire doesn't even have 3G. They probably should've spent more time researching first.
I think this happens fairly often.
Good case of avoiding early optimization but hard to believe in 2005 someone thought it was a good idea to build your business rules in your database layer.
> NoSQL is not a performance operation.

It becomes one, but only when your dataset reaches sizes almost nobody will ever see.

If your business model implies a scale-or-die condition, then I'd say it's fair to design your solution to accommodate NoSQL, but not waste time implementing it in production. It's a horrible waste of time to design something around a Cassandra cluster that will be hit once every second.

And, BTW, if you hit the performance architecture's limit (actually, you should have detailed monitoring to tell you how many weeks you have until you hit it), then you should consider what you'll do to solve your particular problem (which may not be what you anticipated initially). You should always invest a little time evaluating your options for different scenarios.
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Heh, wasn't VB5/6 also event-driven?
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I somewhat agree even as a Ruby fan of 14 years.

We have puppet now at work, and going through the recipes, its rather obvious at times that people can use Ruby, without really learning the language.

I managed to shorten a number of the recipes and configs from 60 lines of... well WTF basically, to 10-20ish lines of much more readable ruby.

I will however agree with the assertion that if the management tools that are most popular are written in Ruby, one would be more likely to do more within them.
What are the institutional reasons that "frequent, small" software releases are never the first thing companies turn to? I mean, iterative development and TDD have been around since the 50s, but it seems that every single company has to rediscover it before they try it.
That post is from 2005. The situation is entirely different today w/respect to speed (both the compiler and the addition of ByteString and Text libraries), and productive libraries, particularly for web development. Likewise, it is a rare case that you would run into memory consumption issues.

I do agree that there is entirely too much enthusiastic toying around in Haskell and not enough real world users and honesty about limitations.
As far as I know, Eurozone businesses and individuals can have their bank account anywhere in the Eurozone. Paypal and Stripe may only have offices in Luxembourg to serve all EUR countries. That's the upside of a unified market. The UK and other non-EUR countries have renounced to it.
> Then again instead of the US credit card loans, Japan has the Yakuza, two sides of same coin

Yes. Consumer credit in the US is exactly like Japanese organized crime.
* iTerm with the Hotkey Window profile (so iTerm is hidden until I hit a function key, then it comes down like the Quake Terminal)

* BBEdit (available on Mac App Store)
* Divvy (available on Mac App Store)
* Keymando (available on Mac App Store)
* zsh (with oh-my-zsh)
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I don't use LaunchPad, nor Automator. I have a few Applescripts I've written for BBEdit, and a few for Launchbar, but I'm not tricked out that way.

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Content (articles/blog posts) copied on a content aggregator is quite possibly of interest to a great many people. The original author deserves full credit and ownership of that content (unless they work for some company, then their employer owns the content).

Content on Facebook is more likely to be conversations between friends or information about a person (their employer, music tastes etc). This information is likely to only be of immediate interest to the individual who posted it, and to their friends.

So copying information from an article/blog post and passing it off as your own is like a newspaper ripping off another newspaper and doing no reporting of their own (or buying content for Reuters ;-) ). Repeating content from Facebook is like repeating something you overheard in a casual conversation between friends (unlikely to be of interest unless you know the people in question).

Not sure what analogy would apply to Twitter.
My background is business-first, hacker-second, and I mainly read everything on HN to pick up little places not to fuck up when architecting a software business.

The benefit of NoSQL's ease of dropping/adding schema...that's going to be one of the better ones.
If you allow collection by death threat as a legal way to still give money, the Yakuza will just collect money that way always.

There must be a way to stop it all. However the law does indicate that ANY involvement with them will screw the business, so banks using the Yakuza to collect will now be equally liable.
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