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From what I understand, one of the differences between WePay and Stripe is that WePay allows marketplace transactions where the app creator can take a cut of the transaction (similar to Paypal's adaptive payments API). I don't believe that Stripe allows marketplace transactions. WePay doesn't currently handle the dunning process for recurring payments but they plan to do so at the beginning of the year. Stripe currently handles the dunning process. At Bellstrike, we use WePay's API and have had nothing but good things to say about them. Their customer service is outstanding and we always have access to their developers, usually within minutes. We're getting ready to implement their iFrame solution as well. I've talked to some others that are using Stripe and they are pleased - particularly with the fact that Stripe only requires the credit card number and expiration date for a transaction - no other info. I guess it just depends on what you're looking for but I'd recommend WePay from my experience. We had a terrible time with PayPal.
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This is what's really killing it for me. If it wasn't so slow and bloated, I'd use it much more. Instead, I usually just pull out something quick like AstridTasks or another note program. Only the big stuff I save on evernote.
Designing for a purpose
No, it's a common English word that I believe would be excellent for many different concepts. I had one serious offer at 40k which I turned down. They were wanting to use it for some kind of music sharing site for musicians.
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Here this is a nice photo frame samsung made in 2006, interestingly no one sued anyone for it. Apple is just full of bullshit and does everything to halt sales of their competitor.
Anyone who buys one of these deserves what they get. The product was obviously rushed for xmas and is going to take some reengineering before it can be rereleased.
I was surprised that they list 32665 with their trademarks (I had to search to figure out that was the FBOOK SMS short code). Can you trademark a number? I thought that's why Intel ended up with the "Pentium" instead of "586".
I too heard lots of great things about WePay. They seem like a great shop.

As you've noted, there are some differences in feature sets on both sides. However, perhaps there will be some convergence in the future. Both services are very young, and improving very rapidly.
This reminds me of engineers trying to work around patents. I spoke to a guy who manufactures flexible guide posts which can flex in any 360 direction. He has a patent on it, and the flexible part is cylindrical. He said competitors work around the patent by making square shaped posts. Obviously this is not the most natural shape if you were to want to flex in all directions.
I'll go out a limb here. It seems like it was too easy and too valuable. Smells like a Trojan Horse. Who knows what Iran will be getting themselves into when they move the thing to some "secure" location. Oh, I do likes a good conspiracy...
Your code fails for French text.
Having moved from California to Australia a year ago, I'm amazed that Australians deny that there is a property bubble. Anecdotally, in the neighborhood I'm living in, it costs at least twice as much to buy a house as to rent.

I live in a lower middle-class suburb in Melbourne, and a couple of weeks ago a two-bedroom, one-bathroom house up the block sold for $600,000. Keep in mind too that mortgage interest rates in Australia are higher than they are in the U.S. (7% vs. 5%) and they don't have long-term fixed interest mortgages. The amount of debt home buyers are taking on is insane.

Needless to say I'm renting and waiting for the bubble to pop.
When in normal law, if you pull the nose up all the way, and are at the edge of the envelope, will the computer even give you a stall warning? I would guess (hope!) not, since the plane is never actually in danger of stalling. Assuming that's the case, a stall warning from the computer should always be heeded.

If that's not the case, and the stall warning sounds even when there's no real danger of stalling (because the controls are operating in normal law), I feel like that's a terrible user interface.
"and the most I was able to get from the 40 companies I contacted is $7,500"

Can't sell names outbound. Someone has to come to you. So this doesn't surprise me at all.

"estibot value for the hall.com domain is $294,000"

Estibot means almost literally nothing. As you said "a domain is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it"

There is no correlation whatsoever between any domain I have sold and what estibot or any "appraisal" service says about the value of the domain. Although I have used that value if it gives me an advantage with someone who doesn't know about the business.
If you stop buying Apple products all your USB cables will look the same for all devices.
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Sure, if you want that level of control. In my case, I was happy to not have to implement that part of things. It isn't a trivial amount of work to deal with the credit card / address forms and get everything correct. I made the iframe look like a part of my site well enough that people can trust it and it saves me a ton of development time.

Your app appears to be in private beta, so I can't test that form to see if you missed anything and post about it here. ;-)
Negative gearing seems to be a whipping boy for all sort of ills.

The fact is in the USA most people can claim their mortgage payments interest as a tax deduction - which is more bizarre.

I agree it's a stupid strategy, but it's plain foolish to think that negative underpins property investment. If you removed it, in the short term there would be a dip in property investment, but this would only work towards creating a further supply shortage.

Negative gearing isn't a tax ruling - it's an investment strategy. Businesses use the tax deductibility of interest payments as a legitimate expense, so it's difficult to argue why this should be different for individuals.
And even though it's not that useful, I still wear it everyday. I like the way it looks.

This comment is such a huge win for Jawbone. Technology == jewelry.

Next step? Wristwatches.
If Firefox crashes when you restart it, the next time it starts it lets you choose which tabs to re-open. This solves the problem of something repeatedly crashing it.
Confused in what way? Evernote didn't create the ability to do this but they offer an excellent cloud service which is seamless across multiple platforms including Android and iPhone. Their applications are stable, thoughtfully designed and constantly improving. The paid service is very reasonably priced and opens great possibilities for collaboration. If there's something better out there, please tell me.
toss some contact information in your profile. I'd like to email you.
Of course they're selfishly motivated - everyone is.
The point is this time Redis/NoSQL stands to benefit as well.
Indeed - I think many Australians fail to recognize their good fortune because by and large they had nothing to do with it. It just happened in a far off part of the country without them noticing.
If you don't feel comfortable in Bash, maybe *nix ain't for you.
Dutch disease!

Resource exports drive the currency up so much that the rest of the economy suffers. But international comparisons using that exchange rate look pretty good.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/01/us-australia-china...
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I'm glad I don't use iOS so I don't have problems with trivial details like kerning and pagination.
> If you condemn computer games, you condemn all other forms of art at the same time.

Creating computer games can be an art. Playing computer games seldom is. There aren't that many games that you can play creatively, and really few where your creations can have any value outside of the universe of the game.
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"Acceptably quiet" and "acceptably private" are pretty subjective -- I found myself answering yes to both despite the fact that my work environment is fairly noisy, and not st all private. These things (especially the latter) are acceptable.
They're optionally encrypted and the grunts in the field don't use it for the same reason grunts in the field have "password" as their password.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...
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Introvert at the Party, a little art/game thing. Requires cursor.
Never used photo tagging in G+ or FB, opt-in for who btw? For the one being tagged or the user who uploaded the photo?
As a new resident of Australia, I love, love, love the idea of superannuation. My employer contributes 9% (IIRC) to my retirement. I never see it, so I never miss it or spend it. I can also choose to make extra contributions if I like, which I most likely will once moving expenses are paid. It's a 401k, but better.
Going to have to disagree; railsforzombies is so thin on information, I don't really feel like it's worth the time. Then again, it takes only like 20-30 minutes. So go for it I guess.

I've found this to be an AWESOME resource:

http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?...

It's a full Stanford class of lecture videos. It really solidified my understanding of the concepts I learned from Hartl's tutorial.
A residence on The World. I toured it when it stopped in Vancouver last year. http://aboardtheworld.com/
"owners of those trademarks couldn't take action against you"

There are actually ways that a knowledgeable person can dodge that (and yes getting your own trademark is one of them).

But there is an interesting paradox here. As noted by another post on this page vaksel had noted that "the most I was able to get from the 40 companies I contacted is $7,500" with relation to a domain name he was trying to sell that he felt was worth way more.

The paradox is this. If more companies realized the value of domains they would be easier to sell. But there would also be many more UDRP's and cybersquatting lawsuits than there are now. Many companies simply don't see enough value in the domains to even pursue a UDRP that can be done for probably $5000 (if the right firm handles the complaint).
I'm sure users of your drone would appreciate having to fly it all the way back to Amerika in order to land it to refuel.
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Hi Everyone,

We've just launched our first game for iOS devices, Dog Park, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dog-park-top-dog/id481105799?mt=8 (shameless plug), and while we'd like nothing more than to sit back on our haunches (hilarious pun!) and take a breather for a bit it seems like we've just climbed the mountain of development only to encounter the enormous chain of a mountain range that is marketing your app.

Like a great deal of small indie game developers out there, we were heavy on tech experience but not so much in the marketing department. In some ways, I'll confess that my few experiences with marketing companies has often left a bad taste in my mouth: the marketing reps seem to lack knowledge about what they're selling, there's a feeling that they don't care about the product, or worse they seem to think little of the end user. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak, and I'm in the position of trying to get the word out about our great, new, amazing, best ever, innovative, ridiculous hyperbolic adjective game, I'm realizing what an uphill battle it really is. "Duh!", I'm sure you're thinking - but it's still a "Duh" that you can only really realize when you're finally in the muck of trying to sell on the app store.

It's not enough to craft a new idea into a solid and appealing product, getting it in front of the people who would appreciate it is the real battle. The App Store is full of so many wonderful games that artists and developers have poured a lot of their time, effort, and themselves into - unfortunately it's competing against those games with bigger ad budgets and best connections in the industry. That's not to say a small game can't make it - look at Little Wing as a recent example - and it happens enough that small developers all over the world still keep rolling the dice to try and get into this market. It's just that the odds seem very slim indeed these days to get your game noticed.

So, what do we do as small developers? Do we turn into auto-bots, spamming everyone on twitter and email and hope that eventually something sticks? That doesn't seem very appealing to me and I doubt it does to most of you here, either.

I understand that there's no magic bullet - nothing is easy, things take time, patience is a virtue and all that. I just wanted to reach out to everyone here to hear what their thoughts were and whether they had any tips for a small company (there are three of us here, four if you count Ziggy the Dog) who are feeling a bit emotionally spent these past few days.

Thanks everyone!
I rely heavily on it with my Android phone. It's brilliant, and generally Just Works!
Evernote primarily makes money from paying customers (by charging paying customers. I don't think they give money to their customers.
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So you never use 'single' and "double" quotes?
Here's a video from a while back, were Vi Hart explains to the 2011 Joint Mathematics Meetings how to have fun with negative-curature objects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsE2UKkIKXU
This is outrageous. If you aren't doing something about it, you are tacitly approving of it.

You could, quite literally, have your domain taken away tomorrow.
Not the case. Andrew Bridges was at the Stanford Law Center's SOPA talk last night. He knows his law inside and out and was all over this. The government messed up here and tried to bury it. Because he didn't go away that this is coming out.
As did Knuth's; see below the discussion about that.

If you wanted to change it, to split "words" by blanks and punctuation characters, you would have

tr -s [:blank:][:punct:] "\n"

and then that piece would fit into the pipeline, the rest unscathed. This design is far easier to reason about than a dozen pages of Pascal.
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I don't know if it is any more prevalent in Java apps or not. We probably experience and notice it more in Java apps because there are more lines of it out there. It would be east to work the numbers to come to that conclusion.

In my personal experience the worst technical debt that I have seen is in organizations that brought the wrong guy in the door, as the first technical person in the org or worse yet promoted the most technical person in the office or a nephew into the position. These organization have always taken the biggest payments on technical debt to rectify. The most important technical decision an organization can make is the first technical hire, unfortunately usually no one in the organization is qualified to make the decision.

As a side note, I have always thought there would be value in a technical guild that people could call on to find these type people. Not your typical head hunter but a network of good developers that are connected. So if I am in Orlando, have a buddy that moves to NYC and starts a company, but I don't have a network in NYC, he could call me, I could contact a guild member in NYC and be comfortable that the member will give me a recommendation of someone who is reputable.

How you design that guild to be effective has always stumped me, it would have to be exclusive that much I know, and generally those of us that are 10x'ers form a group of 10x'ers that stick together, but that is regional. I struggle to figure out how one group in Orlando can bridge the gap with NYC and know that that group is reputable. It would be a powerful organization if it could be built, just based on the fact that it could keep a lot of companies from taking on a lot of technical debt up front, by the wrong choice.
that's not a TLD.
Agreed, constructor injection is pretty much the only type of "dependency injection" that makes sense to me.

The less magic the better.
Stores are focused on individual wait times, not on total throughput.
I'd rather see an extensible quoting syntax a la Postgres' pl/pgSQL, e.g. ``j` {"a": 1}``. When you want to support YAML: ``y` {a: 1}``.
there's a test bed to see if your new stealth-detecting radar works as advertised...you can do tests on the composition of the RAM in the skin...you can test your viruses and EW software/hardware on its controls
A domain name is property, even if it is not physical. For that matter, if the contents of a bank account are seized, nothing physical moves, but it is still certainly property. A future (as opposed to possessory) interest in land is property that can be seized, sold, and used as collateral, but it does not physically exist either (even if that one is tied to something that does physically exist).

In short, a thing does not need to be tangible for it to be property.
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I believe Bonin's wife appears on the passenger manifest, which makes a suicide even more unlikely.
by not work out, you mean they never give you any work? I'm curious why, perhaps you just need to refine your approach, any idea what is causing them to lose interest?
Edit: You didn't say you had the trademark not implying that you did.

You have a 1b intent to use application not a registered trademark

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/jumpto?f=doc&state=4010:55oou...

That being said obviously the trademark app is needed. But the fact that you are using the domain name and that there are actually multiple trademarks for "hall" and that it's a common term is the thing that offers the real protection here from predators.

Your attorney should have not filed this as a 1b though. It will take longer to get the trademark issued.

They should have advised you to simply use even a site mockup or beta site to create a screen grab for the application. (I have 21 registered trademarks).
Crash landed, without a scratch on it as it was captured ?
It would be silly to define "enemy territory" as "anything non-US". You seem to assume the drone had no way to notice the fact it was landing on Iranian soil when, in fact, I am quite sure it could pinpoint its location on a map with remarkable precision.
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This article might be worth reading if it included even a single shred of evidence to back up the author's ridiculous assumptions. Instead, what we got is "this must be what happened because it's the best thing a completely uninformed layman like myself can come up with."

The truth is that an Iranian cowboy caught it with a lasso, in case any of you were wondering.

Edit: Undeniable proof of this article's absurdity: "Even if that control signal is encrypted pattern recognition during many flights over four years would have given them enough information to break the code."

Because all you do is take a few encrypted flight control readings, put them into Code Breaker 2.0, then enjoy your brand new (previously owned) stealth drone, right?
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One obvious solution would be to get a publisher and let them do the work for you.

You can also try contacting blogs like TouchArcade.com, pretty much every iOS game I buy that wasn't an existing company/franchise (like EA) I find there.

I wouldn't waste too much time spamming people on twitter and stuff, that's 1-1, you're going to do too much work for each sale.
> If you believe [...]

(Please note that there are several different people in this discussion. My opinion is not necessarily the same as wpietri's or wonderzombie's.)

I think that how well democracy works depends on all kinds of things. How well informed voters are is certainly one of them. Voters, being human beings, are demonstrably vulnerable to misinformation. Therefore, it is possible that taking measures to reduce misinformation may make democracy work better.

And I am entirely at a loss to see how anyone can seriously regard this sort of position as not believing that democracy can "really work", whatever the hell that's meant to mean.

> for such restrictions to be implementable, there must be a line defined somewhere.

For sure. But how do you get from there to suggesting that anyone who thinks there should be some limits is somehow obliged to have a specific place where they think the line needs to go, still less obliged to tell you where that place is?

> might reveal more about what these people are trying to accomplish (or not accomplish, as the case might be).

Jiminy.

> you're prohibiting me from pooling money with friends in order to send a message of our own.

I'm not prohibiting anything, and the proposal I made would obviously not have the effect you describe -- and this sort of rhetoric is one reason why I don't in the least blame anyone who declines to answer your tell-me-where-the-line-goes demands.

However: my suggestion is that you and your friends are welcome to send your money wherever you want, but that any single legal entity acting as a single entity only gets to play with as much money as a typical person could afford to use for influencing the political process.

The sort of corporate activity that some people worry about is not remotely like you and your friends pooling some money.
Every designer I know will tell you it take much longer and requires much more difficulty to make something complicated look very very simple.

Most peoples reaction to something designed very well is: "oh of course you do it like that, how would you do it anyway else".

But this is naive thinking, there are plenty of ways to design and most are not simple. The beauty of the iPad is that people understand it at a glance, that is incredibly profound. I think it is really unfortunate that the writer of this article took the stance that they undesigned it, simply wrong. They intelligently designed every aspect of this device which is exactly what his diagrams point out.

Apple's computers, tablets, phone, iPod, all look very unique and were certainly designed not undesigned. All of these objects are man made and inherently require design for them to take shape.
It's a common enough construction. Quantum theory, set theory and so on.
Having moved from California to Australia a year ago, the main thing we're finding exceptional about Australia is the high cost of living. IMO the Australian economy is currently being squeezed in a vice between the insane property bubble and the resources boom and high Australian dollar making other sectors of the economy uncompetitive. Western Australia and Queensland (i.e., the two minerals states) are the only two states showing any significant growth.

Australian retail, especially e-commerce, is completely uncompetitive compared to the U.S. Try picking a product at random from www.toysrus.com.au and compare the price on Amazon and even after international shipping it will almost always be much cheaper to just buy from Amazon.

E.g., Megatron Transformers toy: $70 in Australia (http://www.toysrus.com.au/popular-boys-toys/kre-o-transforme...) vs. $25 at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/KRE-O-30688-Transformers-MEGATRON-SET/...). It's almost as if Australian e-commerce sites depend on their customers not having heard of the internet...
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