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The amount of time it takes fro the refund to be re-credited usually depends on the issuing bank. When a refund happens, we send the refund over immediately and settle it at the end of the day. There are currently no chargeback or refund thresholds, but we'll have to see how that evolves as we grow.

We don't currently have any partner program, but it's definitely something we're talking about. Lots of things are in the pipeline!
Possibly -- it's something we're still talking about internally.
It's right:

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We basically are trying to abstract away all the pain of creating merchant accounts and setting up with separate payment gateways. On the backend, we are partnering with Wells Fargo and First Data to set up whatever accounts are necessary to both get you started immediately while making sure you get all the benefits of a full-fledged merchant account.
"big brands"? What brand is getting enough traffic to justify the overhead of truly realtime like updates, besides Facebook or Zuck?
I realised the error with the name... I am bit too commited now with it.

The email frequency option is on its way.

Export to word based on custom settings is a great idea. Thanks a ton for that.

I think I can crack "exporting graphs to word" too in some time.

I agree with all your other points so that goes into my TODO. Thanks again.
I have been having similar lamentations recently.

One obvious example: the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The original bridge was built in 1933; it took them less than 3.5 years to build it.

Now, they are just trying to replace the eastern span (the bigger one, but hey, less than the full bridge), with technology from nearly a century later. They have been "working on it" for 9 years. It is currently scheduled to run another 2 years from now (if it somehow gets done on time) and is 6 times more expensive than originally projected.

For a bridge. That doesn't have any more traffic capacity than the bridge it is replacing.
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Grr! I like Stephenson a lot but I find this argument highly disingenuous. In fact, I find most of the reactions I've seen to "the end of US spaceflight capability" sickeningly short-sighted and hyperbolic.

Read the goddamn budget announcement: "Orszag said that in addition to research and development, NASA’s proposal invests in 'advance robotics and other steps that will help to inspire Americans and not just return a man or a woman to the Moon but undertake the longer range research that could succeed in human spaceflight to Mars.'" [1]

Yes, the US has gotten unambitious in spaceflight. Yes, there's been nothing more inspirational than repeating what happened in the 60s. Yes, yes yes. That's the whole point!

The shuttle was canceled because it's stupid to turn NASA into the federal "send shit into Low Earth Orbit" department. We've done that, we've been doing that for half a century now, it's no longer innovative. What NASA should be doing is what no private enterprise can do: highly unprofitable risky space pioneering that inspires the human race. Let's take away money from boring and put it into interesting! How can anybody be against this?

Honestly, this is the reason we have politicians. Can you imagine how long we'd be running expensive useless shuttle missions if it was decided by popular opinion?

[1] http://www.spacenews.com/civil/100201-white-house-confirms-c...
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I understand 1000 logical shards is probably a good number to use with PostgreSQL. I'm currently looking at doing something like this myself but I was thinking that it would be so much more elegant if each user could live in his own shard.

Does anybody know of a database product / solution that will handle hundred thousands of shards? I don't have a need for joins across shards, each user account only uses it's own data. And data and access within a shard would be very small, a SQLlite instance for every user would be a theoretical solution. The idea would be to have one (in memory) table to connect the app to the correct shard for the user and then get "perfect" horizontal scaling. Is anybody doing this?
The power of the Federal Government was a lot lower before the huge “trusts” of the late-19th century grew in size and strength until they could wantonly trample the rights of consumers, their own workers, and citizens generally without any similarly powerful opposing force. It grew still further after the outsized influence of corporate and financial interests led to a calamitous worldwide economic collapse (the great depression) and citizens demanded that their government do something to prevent those imbalances and instabilities.

The US Supreme Court changed its understanding of the commerce clause and other aspects of government regulation of commerce in the 40s–60s in rejection of the previous generation’s court whose every decision favored the rich and powerful and blocked corrective legislative action at every level (for instance in the famous Lochner v. New York case after which we now refer to that whole court “era”). The citizenry explicitly (and overwhelmingly) elected legislators and executives who promised to reign in the power of corporations, and they replaced the previous justices... that’s how democracy is designed to work.

Government regulation is a response to real serious abuses of the type almost everyone is horrified by when they hear the specific examples that prompted the regulation – false advertising, fraud, miserable working conditions and the general treatment of workers as replaceable objects (and preserving the same by viciously breaking up any attempts by workers to organize), the sale of deadly diseased food, dumping of toxins into drinking water supplies, the use of market power to block competitors from markets or disrupt their operation, discrimination based on race, gender, and religion, etc. etc.

To just sum up this history as “the Supreme Court allowed the abuse of the commerce clause to get so far out of hand” is deeply disingenuous.
It's a shame you got downvoted. It's clear you thought this through further than the people who downvoted you.

For anyone who didn't get it: You have to actually spell out what you want before you can say if it fits this answer or not. The car vs bike thing only makes sense if you didn't care how fast you got there, how tired you were when you arrived, or how much pain it was to haul the luggage there.

The answer to original question is easy in that light: Because IDEs aren't the only solution to the problem. Just because IDEs have a certain feature is no reason that other things can't have that feature as well.
If you want answers, why not run your own trials?
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I am installing IE9 right now.

I didn't understand what you mean by "Plus the list seems endless" though. What list did you mean? could you please explain.

Thanks.
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I use emacs because then I can learn one thing really well that will work everywhere. Eclipse is a viable option, except it doesn't work in terminals.

P.S. Vim is ok too. D.S.
Yes this is a regression with firefox 7+ browsers, the creator of emscripten (@kripken) has already opened a bug in it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687951 .

And ya, we try to sandbox most of our languages inside a Web Worker, which leaves the main thread intact incase of infinite loops and such.
I think part of the point is that NASA was pretty much flailing even just in the "send shit into Low Earth Orbit" department.
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I find it weird that so many easter eggs turn out to be the credits for a piece of software. Shouldn't that stuff be proudly displayed front and center?
Neal makes some good points about western nations, but some of the more authoritarian governments aren't restricted by citizen initiatives or environmental laws. China is a poster-boy for this sort of growth. If they continue to increase prosperity faster than democratic western nations, their style of government might become the template for the future.

From http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/china-ascendant.html :

The world has emulated Western policies mainly because those nations were high status, not because their style of law or government was obviously more efficient. Chinese styles are likely similarly efficient, and if China becomes higher status, the world will emulate it instead.

A generation ago, people in China were starving. Now they're the second-largest economy in the world. Last week they launched a space station. Of course China has problems, but their government seems to know how to grow quickly, and that increases their citizens' quality of life.
What's difficult about long polling? It's a solved problem. There's an abundance of battle-tested frameworks available and it's a proven technique. Also, Facebook already has the infrastructure in place - they have the expertise in-house. But even if this were a startup writing the feature from scratch it would only be slightly more complex than an async request.
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Which is an argument for mixing tabs and spaces. Which Python doesn't very well handle.
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Users seem to see Sublime Text or TextMate as just missing a feature or two while looking at Eclipse and finding that it has the features, but lacks the basic joy of interaction

I somehow have this problem with Eclipse too. I really love its features, especially for Java/Android development, but it sometimes handles like you're driving a truck. Even on a fast PC. So its not that much 'fun' to use for me.

Qt Creator is one of the fow IDEs I positively like working with. It is fast, featureful and somehow doesn't get in my way like Eclipse does. The only drawback is that it's very Qt and C++-focused, so outside that area usefulness quickly dwindles.

For the rest I like Sublime Text. ST somehow helps you stay focused on the text. It is very fast and feels smooth. Like other "simple" editors it opens very quickly so can be used for editing independent scripts and configuration as well as source code, and does not impose any kind of framework or project structure.
In that case, what's your #1? Some ideas like Wikipedia, SocialAV might have sustained with very thin initial user base.
I was about to say I envy you for having 10 extra years to apply clearer thinking, but the funny thing is I discovered the book years ago and wasn't interested in getting past the first chapter. It was only when I crashed hard due to some messy circumstances that I realised I needed to go back to it and read it properly (and to perform the exercises!).
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Yes, that's the idea. Flask itself provides core functionality and if you need database access, authentication, authorization, OAuth, OpenID or whatever else you might need you use an extension which provides that.

The great thing about extensions is that Flask has the concept of approved extensions, these have been reviewed by Flask developers and have to follow certain guide lines[1].

Django gives you more features, Flask is more flexible. Both have their up- and downsides so it comes down to personal preference which you choose.

[1]: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/extensiondev/#approved-extension...
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It was a fruitful experience and if we want to count in the hours of reading and studying that this project has spawned, it would be much more than that.

Anyways, the real question is "how much did it cost?":
$1600+ in sushi dinners! :)
About 10 seconds - does that make me strange?

I would so love to see a heat map of people's gaze as they try to find the cat, and then correlate it with how long it took them. Then we could see if there's anything significantly different about the scanning patterns of those who succeed quickly.
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I'm from a different generation than Neal Stephenson. I grew up inspired by my parents' old IBM XT. The Apple II at school. My TI-83 programmable graphing calculator. Not space flight. I continue to be inspired every year by the innovations in tech startups, and that's just the field I happen to live and work in - the biomedical field in the last 10 years has made orders of magnitude of progress understanding the human genome in ways that I can barely understand (despite having a college degree in Quantitative and Computational Biology).

Without Facebook I wouldn't have seen or spoken to lots of old friends until our 25th high school or college reunion.

Without Twitter I wouldn't have learned from and made connections with influential people in the tech world.

Without Google or Wikipedia or StackOverflow I would have to go to a library to learn anything new.

Without GitHub I would have to write my own software from scratch and spend a lot of time managing collaboration workflows.

Without AWS, Heroku, Ruby, Rails et al. I wouldn't have been able to launch my own startup without outside funding.

Without Zappos I wouldn't be able to buy size 15 shoes in whatever style or fit I want. I ordered shoes last week at 7pm and they arrived at 9:30am the next day. Seriously.

Without Kindle and my iPad I wouldn't be able to get any book in the world in 5 seconds for $10.

AirBNB, ZipCar, Apple, Dropbox, the list goes on, and this is in my (our) industry alone.

Neal Stephenson might not be able to fly to Mars in his lifetime, but I'm pretty excited about the innovations that will happen in the next 10 years; if they're half as good as the last 10, us geeks will be pretty satisfied.
Well, at least we have Braid, that's a step forward in the gaming department. ;) (Or maybe this comment is lost on the wrong J. Blow)
I agree with the 'analytically oriented' part, although I've been wondering recently if that description is not just a indication of somebody who's willing to work systematically through something and apply it consistently over a course of time.

People who don't realise that change is difficult will seek out books that promise merely reading something that hadn't known about before and simple attitude shifts will bring about change (hence the market for "The Secret" and its ilk).

I understand this because that was my default thinking too. In time, experience led me to identifying this hidden belief and challenging it. Then I stumbled on my #2 book which describes the model for change that I use: "Changing for Good" by Prochaska et al. Just as with "Feeling Good", there are so many pages I'd read and think "Ahh I know exactly when I fall into THAT trap".
> Dynamically typed languages basically have the problem that they can't get decent IDE support, ever.

PyCharm.

I was debating myself whether to spend $50 for PyCharm, or $60 for Sublime Text. Then I came to my senses.
Dude, you measured everything in reverse. Good writers use small words and short sentences. They take a sentence that should take a phd to understand and make it read at a high school level.

Maybe... hopefully... that's what's happening to you.

(I tried to post it on your blog, but didn't want to sign up for anything.)
China is starting from a different point to much of the West. What remains to be seen is whether their style of government will peak or surpass Western ones as it approaches the same quality of life, and it will be very informative whichever one it is.
The problem is competition (or lack thereof).

The space race was not fueled by just wanting to set foot on the moon. Keep in mind the Soviets were trying to advance their space program as well, and prior to all of the space treaties this was a war for claiming new ground. Old Soviet schematics actually show some crazy designs, like satellites with (freakin') laser beams mounted on them.

Now, it does not really matter who gets to Mars first - its certainly not a competition any one person or company wants to risk billions of dollars on.

Even if you grouped together some of the most prolific VCs, their cumulative budget would be fairly small for taking on large scale problems.

The problem is that money has to come from somewhere to take on big problems, and no one wants to shell out.
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PyCharm is produced by the same guys who created Resharper and a lot of other great tools like PHPStorm and TeamCity. Been using PHPStorm for nearly a year now, and I still find new things it can do.
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Yes, but it's the Fraunhofer Society... I worked there for a little bit and you really notice that it's partially state owned and usually full of people trying to get their PhD and then leave. That also means that they get funding for writing papers, not for actually maintaining something.

That also might be why they have the weird chart on the frontpage (http://i.imgur.com/TTSFn.png), it's probably straight out of some report :-/

I guess my 'rant' kind of shows how annoying I think this kind of institution is when it comes to dealing with something as quickly moving and interesting as the internet. Although they employ a lot of people and have a large sum of money, they don't seem to be able to create any of the cool things people actually use or really innovate. The main focus is usually on something that they're able to sell to somebody managing somewhere at the State. Something like "we're developing the next b2b exchange format for selling services in the cloud." This usually means writing a lot of papers and reports and projects, looking for somebody big in the industry to 'work with' and then releasing a somewhat crappy demo implementation of it that then dies after the last paper has been written.

Sorry about the rant, I somehow get annoyed when I see that much time and money being wasted. I'm sure they do some cool stuff, but the majority of it just seems like a fire to throw money into.
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I wouldn't worry too much: our generation is going to experience singularity, and unlike cars and cell phones it's not going to be nice.
The code of the webcrowd is getting less maintainable as time goes by? Hah. I suggest you compare the code complexity of a webapp written using the state of the art 10 years ago to one of the same size using the state of the art today.

You will find that if you use tools like Rails and Django then you will end up with a much higher maintainability than if you used the tools available a decade ago.
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No problem - a lot of Montrealers have this impression, probably because the Montreal offices are by far the largest.
If you can survive for a year or two without a salary then maybe you should quit as a way to figure out what you want to do with your life. Get involved in causes that inspire/move you. There is an old Persian saying: when the student is ready, the teacher appears.

A friend of mine got burnt out from the health insurance industry after 7 years. He moved to India as a volunteer, saw lack of healthcare, and started a micro health insurance fund for the poorest of the poor there. Last I talked to him he told me that his org has made 6000 doctor visits possible (majority for critical issues) for a class of people most of whom have never been to a doctor in their whole life. People in the US are trying to copy his model for the 60 million uninsured here. He says is happier and more fulfilled now than he has ever been. I am trying to take his lead and trying to find causes that I'd be happy to contribute towards (locally) even if it means it has to be without any financial reward.

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Of course, because the tools available a decade ago were even worse.