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I see several possible approaches, if you really want to have that client.

This easiest would be to just talk to them, try to find out what that "100%" is actually REALLY all about and make them understand that from a technical point of view, 100% will add a lot of things to the project budget. A "100%" demand in a smaller project for a typical small-to-medium business will likely mean something different than "100%" in a project for the NYSE. So, talk to the customer and find out what it is actually all about and then plan and quote according to their actual needs. So, this makes it more a requirements-engineering type of problem, not necessarily a hacker problem.

Or you just say "yes, of course" and tell them how super reliable the system is and then let the guys in legal work it out in the fine print and cover your ass.. but don't expect much happiness and continued business from that client then once they find out what's going on.

But, in a more honest approach, maybe this is actually all they really want and need? Maybe it actually is enough for them to have someone to blame and pay some penalties for violating SLAs. Again, you need to find that out.

Not a typical hacker-hacker-problem but surely an issue a hacker would typically encounter, even on a daily basis, and should learn to deal with.
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If you are in the UK with a UK bank account, you are going to need a UK gateway and merchant account - unless you relocate. It's just part of the "know your customer" anti-money-laundering deal that all western countries have between their governments and their banks that make it difficult to set up abroad. It might be possible, but it's just extra headache.

I would suggest looking at Recurly as your integration endpoint for a few reasons:

1) Multi-currency. Some people claim it's "expensive" as as $200/mo add-on, but the extra conversions from geo-targetting visitors with their native currency make this a no-brainer, especially for UK companies.

2) Data portability. You can leave Recurly in 5 years if you want to write your own recurring billing app or switch to somewhere else and they will give you your data.

3) Not having your customer's CC details held at the gateway (Recurly are best described as a value-add intermediary) means you should be able to easily switch out gateways later on. This is a key architectural choice that I don't think people pay enough attention to, and Recurly really don't promote it enough. Chargify etc do not do this, instead they store your customer's details at the gateway and have no power to retrieve them ever again.

4) Supports VAT.

The down side to Recurly is their API is a bit messy. Their hosted payment pages and "transparent API" appear to be next to useless if you want to also record extra information (e.g, username) as part of the signup process in a seemless way.

With regards to payment gateway, pick any payment gateway from here: http://recurly.com/features/payment-gateway-support

The truth is, it really doesn't matter. As long as it is working, and your bank/merchant account doesn't put a hold or delay on your income.

Don't stress about the transaction fees. People get too hung up on a percentage point, with the frame of reference that "when we've got $10m in revenue, that 1% is worth $100,000)", but honestly, when you get to that point, you will have enough business savvy to re-negotiate or look for a better deal then. When you don't have any customers, it really doesn't matter.
Hmmm but I didn't hear any explanation of why use it, just a demo of how it works...
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> There's no market for TouchPad software.

Tell that to this guy: http://twitter.com/#!/PalmFlashCards/status/1147168660978442...
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Congratulations Caine and Gabriel!

I'm slightly worried about this style of hiring though. It seems to be really great for the hirer and not so great for the potential hiree. Want to work for a startup? Volunteer your time, not knowing if it will lead to something or not. I'm guessing Caine has volunteered a significant amount of his time to DuckDuckGo and has proven himself. Good thing DDG isn't random-startup that flips 6 months into its life.
Recurly supports http://WireCard.com, a large German gateway which is able to serve all EU-based corporations.
You don't have to be a resident to incorporate, although (as always) the laws often are quite arcane. If I remember correctly, taxation differs massively depending on whether your European company owns the US corporation/LLC or whether individual persons do.

You have to register with a state, and Delaware seems to be the preferred one, as they're basically a tax haven. The Liechtenstein of the US…
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Usability discussions like this invariably fill me with rage because of how oblivious and dismissive some of the comments are.

They might as well say: No Wireless. Less Space Than A Nomad. Lame.

You'd think people would know better after 10 years & $350B in market cap!
The implication here is probably that Twitter is now paying some amount of money to the Mozilla Corporation.

Which is good, because being too dependent on your competitor (Chrome) for income could be tricky at some point.
Considering they already fired all of the hardware people, most of the talent have already gone (unless you mean't software, and it that case webOS is a pretty different system to Android, so it's not like Amazon would be picking up a few hundred Android developers here).
This just seems to be a case of Not Invented Here syndrome. Using gitolite or gitosis would have done the job faster, gives you the ability to have acl's set up per user and all of it uses simple configuration files.
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Your assuming independence to a level that does not exist. Consider a Y2K style bug in the OS would could take down all severs for an extended period of time. Or someone could write a virus that uses a zero day exploit etc.
Yes. The bank doesn't actually know what the ATM fees are. They just see cash withdrawal for 102. Some ATMs send two transactions, but many just bundle it as one transaction.
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Actually, I had just been waiting for the price to come down, but I am going to use my Touchpad for just about everything but development. I love WebOS, and I'm not saying there are many of us, but WebOS fans are pretty devoted. Kind of like Apple fanboys back in the day.
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$2? How?

That seems totally impossible to me.
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We're also using Adyen. The support is pretty good, the API/website/documentation/customization options are all terrible. But it's one of the few PSPs that provides support for lots and lots of payment methods (like: VISA, Amex, MC, PayPal, but also a lot of local stuff like iDeal, Mr. Cash, etc.)

Supporting a local payment method (iDeal in our case) is a pretty big deal in our case, since it accounts for +50% of our total revenue. Don't underestimate this if you're planning to launch a European SaaS business!
Selling really expensive things to people with really big budgets.
I'm amazed he didn't have any data prior to this.

We used to ask people all the time if the would send us their sanitized logs so we could see the "reddit effect", or at least give us the aggregate data.
Cute, except that password1 has to be unique. Hope you like confusing some of your users.

You'd be better off getting rid of the login altogether and using a GUID. People still share computers, you know.
Well most of Palm's hardware in recent years sucked anyway. WebOS is where the talent went in.
Even if it was a talent acquisition, I think WebOS has a better chance of at least being open-sourced if it's owned by Amazon than if it was stuck with HP.
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They will undoubtedly make phones. Why give away a market to competitors that is worth billions? Amazon wants to keep users in their ecosystem. To do that you need a phone as well, which they're essentially already doing in their AppStore.

Within three years Amazon will come out with their own phone. It will be the same game plan that they used with the Fire and gear it towards the low end. Eventually they will go towards the high end.
Not so much a prototype as a mockup.
Sounds like a great question for Raymon Chen at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/

There are so many little Windows gotchas. However after he explains them, it makes total sense (or at least you understand why it is that way).
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slightly off-topic but an inconvenient of this medium of presentation is that printing fails horribly.
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Amazon will make iPod Touch like devices before they make phones (although the Kindle Fire already falls into that market segment due its price point).

This proposed webOS purchase is to hedge their bets against Google keeping ICS and future versions closed source. Amazon can't out a 10" Kindle tablet with the underlying system based on Gingerbread. The Amazon services could be provided but there would be no apps and games made for it.
I've used Avangate. Pretty straightforward to setup; no prerequisites for a gateway or merchant account.
That's incredible. You should do a blog post about that. It's really fascinating and I don't think is been published anywhere.
My guess that windows is in a loop of reading bytes from the source and writing the bytes to the destination. As munin mentions, the appropriate transaction size of writes to a device will be related to how much data the CacheManager chooses to allow to be buffered and not flushed to the actual device. Which is huge for a hard disk and very small for a usb drive since windows expects it might be pulled from the port at any point.

Now, consider that calling read() on a socket that's really an SMB share is a complicated, multi-round trip action. The read must involve some locking in case someone else tries to write to the file in between, and probably a ton of other stuff. In my experience, even doing something like opening a 5k php file in vim from a samba mount can take a few seconds. That overhead is getting paid far more often in the network -> USB case than it is in the network to HD case.
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I'm not sure about InDesign. Wouldn't it have been pretty easy to make a web page that had roughly the same appearance as the PDF?
Helping your customers understand what they actually want to buy is part of selling, surely? Things are made trickier by PHBs in the client company claiming that everything is mission critical and that they can never ever have any downtime ever for any reason. Educating these people about, for example, just how flaky email and dns can be is important for your sanity.

See, for example, these couple of posts from a Microsoft public newsgroup ten years ago: (https://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.backoffice....) (https://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.backoffice....)

Some customers are clueless, but at least they care about the data.
I guess the Capitol Police find the idea of armed congressmen holding schoolkids hostage pretty plausible these days.
My point is that to switch from PayPal and 2CO (which is what I use now + as is working just fine for me) I need more benefits then..

1) Getting to set up and manage another new account.

2) The pleasure of getting to rewrite (and test + debug) my backend payment process.

3) Getting a slightly cleaner API (that I'm never going to see after I implement it).

4) Saving an extra dollar on every transaction (of a $125 sale).

5) Working with a relatively new, and in that effect, inexperienced payment processor.

1 and 2 are not benefits to me at all.
3 and 4 I don't care about because they are marginal at best.
5 is a killer.

So why would I use Stripe?

> I can set up Stripe to handle processing for me completely transparently, and still without passing credit card data through my servers.

Same as it is now.

> I've been using PayPal because it's cheap and easy, but they screw up many foreign payments (that have worked fine when run through Stripe), the whole "eCheck" thing confuses the hell out of people, and that whole "no, you don't have to create a PayPal account" thing. It's just unprofessional.

Without experience, Stripe will screw up even more. If not on this part, then definitely on other parts. It's just the way it works.

Nothing differentiates Stripe for me from the rest of the bunch and I'm not going to fall over backwards putting in more work to switch to Stripe just because someone says the API is cleaner.

Give me an actual benefit and I'll consider.
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I will second this. I read it over 20 years ago, when I was 17, and it changed my life. It is basically a friendly introduction to how to apply cognitive therapy to yourself.

I've read a lot of books in my life that I said "Wow" about, but not many that I still say "Wow" about 20 years later.
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Probably the number of countries in Europe, each of which has a slightly different banking system (never mind the general legal system or language)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the EU prevent this. Isn't there laws in place to standardize things?
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Several DNS hosting services do this at varying costs. DurableDNS (which I founded but have sold) does it at a low cost. It's fairly trivial softwarewise as long as you have the redundant hardware, DCs, etc.
So.. things that have been in Debian for years.
Reminds me of one of my favorite Feynman quotes:

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I would not be worried about this style of hiring, it is much better than the traditional cold 'interview' with questions and answers because working at a startup is a two way street. Doing a project, internship or just contract work for a while before joining full-time gives the potential hiree a good sense of the startup he/she is joining. Its a small organization and therefore, its critical to make sure that you are joining the right team and its difficult to evaluate that just by a series of interviews where everything can be perceived as rosy.
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I think you're on the right track, software tries to layer itself as much as possible. New architectures and capabilities will only make the concepts and tools exposed by the glue between the layers change.

Unless the new thing isn't Turing-complete and can't be implemented with a Turing-complete system, it will be abstracted away at first just so we have an environment to start building with, and can start using it without reinventing every single wheel we have.
I understand that it's a hard thing to do and it might not be as interesting as the US market. But what is interesting is that the payment/bank industry is far behind on what people want. You guys, Stripe and BankSimple are a good example of changing that.

Obviously there are a lot of people that seriously want to make this happen. So isn't there a way to help you make this work and organize something to gather information about these subjects per country?
Does anyone have more context about how this changed Joel's business? I'd like to hear some more specifics about what this stuff led to changing.
I think it is a pretty interesting way to look at hiring. Gabriel has mad something that people want to contribute to and I'm sure none of them are volunteering their time with expectations of a job in the future, I would gather they just like his product that much.
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I'm just guessing, but I would imagine Caine started helping not because he wanted a job, but rather he just had a passion to make DDG better. Thinking about it more, I don't know if you really would want to hire someone that was doing it just to get a job, as in that case their passion is to find a job.
You don't need a merchant account with them and they have subscription handling built-in.
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IBM has opportunities in the mobile space, just as they're deeply embedded in the console hardware space, whereas Microsoft is becoming increasingly irrelevant in mobile because nobody is buying their software and their hardware isn't licensed to OEMs like IBM does.
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Ready for battle? Awesome? Both of these are plainly false. Obviously we have learned nothing from Metal Gear Solid 4...
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In short, windows uses smaller packets for USB, necessitating many more network roundtrips.

That seems like a very reasonable hypothesis. I'm not sure how MS could solve it without using arbitrary amounts of memory or caching on the HDD, which would be a really bad solution, IMO.
I know about AT&T Labs. There are others with similar requirements, and publishers know this.
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Nope, it needed a rewrite. We talked to Andrew who was hosting and helping maintain it, and he expressed interest in getting help. We did our best to stay true to _why, keep the same content, and keep it free.

Only real difference now is you have the ability to save your progress as you go using your Code School account. If you don't want to, you don't have to. =)

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Imagine the amount of hacks and abstractions that go into making a GUI work on top of UNIX. the complication is compounded, it is easier for the end user (for some tasks not all) but the complexity he is talking about isn't solved by fancy widgets.

It depends what kind of user you are. Few user require fussing around with D-Bus etc..
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Wow, this is really helpful. I think we will definitely use Recurly (as it is the only service, that doesn't look like crap).

Apparently FlowApp uses Recurly too. So it is possible to make this look nice :)
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Interesting. Worth a look, its pretty fun.
Instead of creating a c-corp in US and debating how much profit to leave in US just create a US LLC owned by your home country corp. Thus the profit just passes to your home country corp and you will pay tax on it in your home country.

Also with this setup you can pay all your US expenses (hosting, advertisement etc) out of your US LLC. I am not a lawyer or CPA so discuss this suggestion with a experienced professional
Adding some kind of confidence bound or estimated probability distribution might make more sense of the huge ranges. You're already computing the 'height' of partners, so you could potentially incorporate that into the model.

Something like "$100 - $1000, best-guess $500 ± 200"
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You need to work on your presentation. Replacing "try", "working on", and "if that sounds good to you" would go a long way. Like this:

"I have developed https://subsify.com/ which is a service filling the gap in recurring payemnts for UK and EU business. We currently support SagePay as Payment Gateway, which will fulfill the needs of most people. I would encourage anyone struggling with recurring payments in the UK to get in touch, we will probably be able to help you out."
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Answer: nostalgia. I'd also like an Atari ST running on reasonably (~10 yr old) hardware. I mean, I occasionally bid on old SGI workstations on eBay that I have no earthly reason to own, except that I really wanted one, back in the day.
Poorly chosen title. I was expecting a "this is what contributions should look like" from the point of view of a project coordinator.
There also was this comment on the SO thread: I would personally RUN from this client as fast as possible. I suspect this won't be the last crazy idea they may have (from a technology standpoint).

Why run though? They probably just don't understand what 100% means and it just takes you explaining it to them. Or simply state that you cannot meet that requirement and see if they still want you to bid on the project.
It's probably reasonable for Jamis to put an epilepsy warning on it (particularly since it doesn't run until you click "run"). But I wasn't asking a rhetorical question. I wanted to know if the epileptic poster had a good idea for how to visualize that particular algorithm without flashing lights.
It is not as simple as that, at least in the UK, and the fact that so many payment services seem to think it is explains why any UK business relying on them for payment processing is probably breaking the law.

There are all kinds of rules on disclosure of VAT registration details on invoices, sequential numbering of VAT invoices (across an entire company) for audit purposes, etc. Any payment system that doesn't integrate with other company procedures to meet these basic statutory obligations can't be sufficient.
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