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Merchant accounts aren't necessarily a bad thing! With a merchant account there's little to no delay on your funds - money goes straight from your customers account into your business account. There's a Canadian company Payfirma that is disrupting payments by giving merchants more payment options like the popular mobile and tablet pos to ecommerce and even traditional chip and pin terminal setups, in one solution. You get to pick and choose the products that help fix your current payment woes but also upgrade those products in the future for when your business grows.
Oh, yes sorry, it was completely coincidental. It was correlated in time though.
> Stripe turns down candidates with outstanding engineering talent if they don’t fit with the team’s culture. Each candidate must pass the “Sunday test:” if this person were alone in the office on a Sunday would that make you more likely to come in and want to work with them?

Stripe's Sunday test and my Sunday test are slightly different: "Would you come into the office to hack on a Sunday even if the servers weren't on fire?"

If the answer is yes, you know you've got a burnout risk.
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Sigh... Tell me about it! This story and small variations on this story, I hear a lot from various sources!

> We now use git for everything, because it seems like it is the thing to do,

You nailed it. And IMO this current obsession with Git/Github is bordering on unhealthy. I really wish/hope this fad dies out fast!
That would be a fine argument in a world where the means of copying are heavy industrial equipment or otherwise uncommon in the home. That was the reality of the world from the invention of the movable type printing press until the PC. Now the means of copying books, music, movies, and software are a common household appliance, and yet we continue to cling to laws that were passed when only an industrial operation could make copies rapidly, all for the sake of keeping those industrial operations alive.

Times have changed, and businesses need to change with the times. Kodak went out of business because they failed to adapt when digital cameras became small, cheap, and easy to use. New businesses now exist that make money because of digital photography.

New businesses will rise to prominence because of 3D printing, assuming we do not kill 3D printing because of laughably dated concerns about copyright. Someone is going to sell you the raw materials that your 3D printer uses. Someone is going to run a search engine that finds the 3D models you are looking for and will tell you what materials you need (hopefully there will be many search engines competing with each other). Until we can manufacture integrated circuits in our homes, we will depend on Intel, AMD, TI, and others to make the electronics that run our 3D printers.

Sometimes we just need to accept that the old ways of doing things are not profitable anymore. If we always worried about the businesses that are harmed by new technologies, we would still be using Roman numerals:

http://www.storyofmathematics.com/medieval_fibonacci.html

(Edit: the ban on positional number systems was issued mainly due to pressure from businessmen who favored Roman numerals and general doubts about a numbering system that allows values to be inflated by tacking digits onto them:

http://www.stevesachs.com/papers/paper_90a.html

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2490013)
Brilliantly made video, Google are obviously using a good ad agency, their ads now sell a lifestyle rather than a product, as all good ads do.

the product itself will likely cause a few pedestrians to be kills, a few drivers to get into crashes and a few horse riders to fall off. Maybe in a few thousand years the brain will evolve to receive so much stimulation, but I find most people are already swamped with information overload.

I hope Glass picks up some buyers because this kind of technology will bring about other, more useful inventions, but right now this is a solution in search of a problem.
No but I plan to try it soon. Their free community version has no limitations except that you can't charge for the apps you put in the Google Play Store.
You can't discount the fact that hiring people is often an emotional game (i.e. finding the right fit for my team). An employee referral is naturally going to be accepted by more of the decision makers in a company than a complete stranger who is starting from a position of lower trust.

Though, at the end of the day, if referrals work better for a company then that is where the focus should be placed.
Bill Gates recently said he reads before bed and sleeps at least 7 hours a night. He said if he doesn't get at least that much his "IQ begins to drop". [CBS Interview]
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How did it work? Was there a formal meeting? Did it annoy people? How did the company respond once they had the list? What kind of outreach did they do? Did you get bonused for those people?
Oh... I see. Thanks for pointing that out.

That's just a wrong translation. Sorry for that. The German word is "Vertrag" - which can be translated as "contract" as well as "treaty".

EDIT 1: I'll update the FAQ regarding this.

EDIT 2: Then again... I won't, because I am no longer able to :-)
We all looked pretty stupid with giant brick phones jammed in our ears back in the day too but no one seemed to mind. I think the rule is "whatever rich people do is cool by definition".

Get a couple of trend-setters to sport these and your perception of how it looks will change.
All I remember from our SVN days was the constant disasters. It seemed like everything you tried to do more complicated than changing a couple lines would put the whole system in some horrible state that required gross things exactly like what this article was talking about (coping directories back an forth). And then, all that directory copying would just as likely make everything worse because the 400 little .svn directories were no longer consistent. Good riddance.
If this is true, why does it matter? Show me some evidence to support that focusing on 50 Shades of Gray is better than zoning out on Facebook.
I also avoid using a smart phone as my primary cell phone. I also abhor the disgusting habit people have of checking their phone while engaged in "real" conversation. But you're being alarmist. Technology is a tool. We control it, and although losing that control has been a science fiction staple from the start there is no logical reason to believe that I won't be able to take off the glasses whenever I want, just as there is no reason I can't leave the damn phone in my pocket.

Addiction is a real thing, but it's not technology's fault. What we build can bring us together just as well as it can pull us apart, but if we let that happen then the problem is us.
Coming from svn, the skepticism here is really about distributed version control, and being heavily involved with the vcs at all. (Being heavily involved with svn, like setting it up and administering it well, is really not that easy compared to just using git, what's easy is just jamming stuff into svn, as long as there are no conflicts).

Having a local repo and push/pull to any other repo is not a complication but a huge advantage. It lets you do things like commit while you are on an airplane, or share committed work in an internal team before pushing to trunk, or keep repo history even if the server dies in a fire. It lets you not have to worry about who can be trusted with commit permissions or not. Being able to commit all the time without pushing lets you keep revision history without checking in, so you don't end up with many copies of your working directories, or saving up changes before you are 'allowed' to commit.

Since you can commit all the time, you can destroy the working tree trying things out and then bring it back if they didn't work.

So let's not complain about having a working tree, local repo, or remote repo. The staging area makes it so that you don't have to complete all staging of many different files in one huge command. You can add/rm something, preview what's staged, and only commit when you are satisfied.

In addition, CVS type merge is a pain while it is actually much simpler with git or hg. And being able to keep rebasing your private feature branch on a changing remote branch is a huge improvement.
Yea, if you see my above link, Costco was a big help to us. They have a lot of good deals.
Central hub for all of your file hosting and sharing
Love it, but unlike Chrome's embedded PDF reader, it can't "stream" PDFs (a dealbreaker for people viewing media-heavy PDFs on slower connections)
What about the situations where it's not possible, appropriate or otherwise best kept private?

There's another way to get to Australia other than plane too: walk and swim.
I can't find any evidence of frame or iframes on yahoo.com, what are you referring to?
People are attached to their phones because they are lonely. Instagram, facebook, etc. are so successful because they pluck our "togetherness" chords without any of the complications of actual intimacy.

Maybe she couldn't talk about being lonely in a long distance relationship and so she showed you that she was relying on other people for companionship. Maybe you couldn't tell her how much you missed her when she made herself so unavailable, so you talked about how it was "rude" instead.

Intimacy is hard, and now it's easier to get some of the brain chemistry of it without all of the vulnerability. I take a picture of something from my life, make it available to you, and you like it with a smile. A thousand small transactions instead of a bigger one (sex, for example).

If it makes you feel any better, I almost never experience this problem with the people I care about. I've never had this feeling of frustration about it, certainly. Maybe you just need to find some other people to spend time with.
Husking external drives seems like a great way to get a deal.
Chrome's support is based on a licensed copy of FoxIt reader that they bundle in their binary. This also means that Chromium doesn't support it. The Firefox one is all open-source, as well as being based on pdf.js.
No, but you get people saying Britney Spears released a new album and Ron Howard has a new movie coming out. It's not in all industries, but it's certainly not unique to Yahoo. Since Yahoo seems to be headed in the direction of being a media company, it almost makes even more sense.
You seem not to be aware that there are also several GUIs for git?

The pain here is not because git is inherently harder, but because you'd gotten used to svn (including your conflict workaround) and I guess nobody wants to do the same learning for git.
That's a good point, but by then I probably won't still be playing the game.
Well. Excellent marketing video, targeting a modern, active, sophisticated consumer - exactly what they think about themselves.

A completely new kind of a status gadget to show your "success" (as a consumer) that everyone could see.

A innovative way to deliver location and context aware ads right to the consumer - better targeting.

Well, it could be bigger than iPhone (without major software glitches).

Time to buy GOOG.)))
The pod itself does but the BackBlaze client software for the BackBlaze service does not.
My guess is the first thing to be locked down is the printing of 3D printers.
Despite the consensus that college has little value to hackers, Stripe team members come largely from Stanford, Harvard, MIT and other major universities. Is this and the fact that Stripe's products are highly regarded just a coincidence? Would it be the same team and products without the team members' Ivy league credentials?

I think the answer is no and no. The benefits of college education are widely underestimated.
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It looks like this kit comes with the Windfall POS case for the iPad (http://hecklerdesign.com/windfall/) which includes a peel & stick disk.
The convenience, traffic optimization and safety all out way the pain points.

We can hopefully say goodbye to teens getting killed or injured from texting in cars.

Motorsport could be a deal breaker
I was with you until you mentioned poor/cheapskate. How's life in that bubble of yours?
Guess what's going to happen to your memory if you just use Glass as a crutch?
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Similar to gmail in chrome where you can press ctrl+v (cmd+v mac) to paste and if it is an image it uploads the image for you as if you just dragged a file.

Another example that uses it is: http://mysticpaste.com

Just get an image in your clipboard and paste in the box
You are right, there is no indication it will have ads. But just because it's a paid product does not mean that the cost of the hardware cannot be subsidized by ads/data, or will not be in the future.

Either way, as I stated above, data and ads are Google's primary business model. It is more a (perhaps-irrational) distrust of Google having the potential to use my data, than of the concept itself.

I don't mean to single out Google -- they are generally good with non-intrusive ads in GMail and have a proven track record of security. But it freaks me out that any company would have access to everything I see.

Also what happens to all that data when the terms of service are changed (like ToS was changed last year)?
I think it will only go down if the people keeping it running stop bothering.

They have stable network access covered via the Swedish pirate party. This party (which have two of Sweden's twenty seats in the European Parliament) have by doing solid work won a lot of legitimacy in media over the past two years or so, I think.
I thought it was more interesting that they manufactured copyright worries, since no existing copyright-happy company has shown any interest in any of these technologies presenting a problem as of yet.

I get the need to make news interesting by presenting counterpoints, but if there isn't one yet, why are they positing on it? That's the place of opinion pages, not news reporting...
What about mercurial?
He makes some great points. People don't care where their good come from, they just want them to be cheap and high quality. # hour workday? Unbelievable.
I really like Chrome and use it when developing just for webkit inspector but I can't switch to it for regular browsing as I still feel like Chrome can't match the browsing experience of FF. For example:

Tab Management

In firefox I can much more easily have dozens of tags without them all becoming squished. Instead I get scroll bars and a drop down menu.

With tab mix plus, tabs which I haven't read yet are highlighted.

I also have a close tabs to the left option in the context menu (which I really love).

Adverts

Adblock in firefox seems to be much more stable than the chrome alternative and just does a better job generally of blocking adverts. (This one might be solved by the likes of privoxy but then I lose the tight integration with the browser.)

Password Management

I'm a regular user of last pass but in chrome it can't integrate with the http auth dialog which means I'm forced to open up my vault and copy and paste my credential manually which is a huge hassle.

I really like Chrome and I'd love to use it all the time but these things (and a few others) prevent me from doing so. Does anyone know if there are any chrome extensions which address these issues?
I disagree that people will be branded as 'nerdy' or like 'gargoyle's in snow-crash. I think they'll be seen more like the people who always have a bluetooth headset on their ear (i.e. douchey).
Yeah, think of the hundreds or even thousands of up-to-date mirrors we could have if they did something like that.
It was free form. There wasn't much to it other than on staff recruiter got the names of your bros and then harassed them with email. It annoyed people, but only as much as any other non engineering thing annoyed people.
We were supposed to get bonuses but I don't think anyone did except the founder's girlfriend. We didn't actually get many people hired this way, so at least everyone was on the right track of only trying to hire those smarter than yourself.
The point was that they wrote their own crypto on top of (the low level AES). That is a bad idea, especially since TLS has similar properties to their system.
If their most successful recruiting channel (by far) is referrals, as they say, then dominant clusters of particular schools isn't surprising or all that telling.
The default text editor (gEdit) is a competent equivalent of notepad++, it's just that you have to enable some things which would do programming better.
Here' my take on it, as another 20 year old.

There are definitely people out there like those you describe: the ones who read their horoscopes, shop online and perform any other kind of digital interaction in the wrong place at the wrong time and for far too long.

But looking back at the different people i met over the years, that category of people stays constant, and they are indeed the boring ones. Back in high school when the RAZR was the shit, these same people would be the ones constantly texting to people other than the ones they were hanging out with at the moment, and you'd have groups of people physically hanging out, but mentally they would all be focused elsewhere.

As long as that doesn't happen all the time, that's not a bad thing. What I've found to happen for the majority of people is that they still hang out and pay attention to one another, except sometimes they might quickly send a text or read an email. I don't mind this, and as long as you don't go overboard with it, I'm sure no one else minds. And yes you could argue that most things can wait for you to respond, but for the most part hanging out and maintaining a conversation with them does not require all my mental capacity, and part of it can easily be used for a one-off reply or message read.

Would most cases of Google Glasses be necessary for survival, or would they add that big of a bonus? Probably not. But even all those small things would be worth it. Like not missing that perfect moment for a photo, since the Glass would constantly record the past minute of your life and you could go back and get that moment in that footage. Even helping me figure out the names of people i've met before but forgot. One cool feature which for the msot part quite useless would be Google Goggles for Glasses. Scan my whole environment and tell me what you find. I'd have fun with that plenty.

And in my opinion the thing about all these worst case scenarios that people talk about, is that we have been led to believe by popular culture that they are more likely to happen than the best case or average case scenario. Think about it, almost every movie out there about the future has things going to shit, because those are more entertaining. A movie about humanity's first contact with aliens where everything works out and there's no war would be quite the boring movie for the masses.

As an aside, your name seemed familiar, and i checked my FB list of friends for you. Seems like you deleted your account, but I remembered that we worked together for HackNY, but You Probably Never Heard Of It. Glad you're doing well and congrats on the Codecademy internship.
Oh, don't be so obtuse. They're an aspirational company in the space First Round Capital cares about.
To be clear, the point of the Sunday test isn't so much "we want people to come in on Sundays". While many people (myself included) will come in on weekends, many people stick to a more standard 5-day schedule. The point is really just, is this the kind of person who makes you want to work with them? Do they make you more excited to work at Stripe? Would you go out of your way to be around them? If not, we shouldn't hire them.
> one person

The lead author and editor, Eran Hammer.

http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell...
I find Haskell's syntax very attractive. It is the same style in which one would express domains and operations on a whiteboard.
This removes a major bash painpoint for me. Wicked awesome.
Whither internships? The best way to find out if you like working with someone is to go ahead and work with them for a little bit.
Then it should not be used anywhere else.

Since it is, it really should have TLS support.
Disclosure: I work for GoPago, a direct competitor in this market. I am approaching this with a lot of built-in bias.

Square is pretty late to the game. Their software is pretty, but it has a much smaller featureset than every other tablet-based POS software out there (including our own competitors).

Additionally, their prices do not include the cost of the iPad, which is another $500 on top of this 'business in a box'. They are selling a cash box, an ipad stand, and a card reader for $300, which is not a terribly great deal.

Their software does not include modifiers, which is of paramount importance if you're dealing with any volume of customers over a trickle. Their reporting system is slick, but bare.

Square works very, very well for P2P transactions. People at farmers markets, flea markets, garage sales, or anywhere where the volume of orders is small will find great value in Square's handheld offerings. But for businesses, it is sincerely lacking.

Comparatively, GoPago (my employer) sells GoPago Live, a tablet-based POS system that costs $99 a month, and comes with literally everything you need: stand, swiper, cash drawer, plus the tablet, printer, optional scanner/upc support, wireless chit printer, and a built-in 4G connection. And it comes with the GoPago Mobile storefront -- which allows your customers to send orders (with modifiers, instructions, etc) directly to your POS terminal.

I am obviously biased, so take all this with as much salt as you'd like -- but Square has a lackluster offering polished behind a veneer of masterful marketing. Their 'business in a box' is a misnomer, as it does not include the core component: the tablet. GoPago truly offers the complete system.
Securely indeed means "customers can't run away with my ipad while my back is turned" as can be seen in the pictures on the Heckler Design website:

http://hecklerdesign.com/windfall/
"Stripe uses a collaborative hack project (typically prepared in advance to make sure they’re well suited for someone’s interests and skill set)."

This sounds like an interesting wrinkle on the more typical whiteboard programming puzzle.
It would be nice to see a blog post or two on the mile-high long-term etc. goals Xamarin has for the open source aspects of their tech... or perhaps a pointer to any existing summary. As you've pointed out, Xamarin is rather quietly contributing a lot; it would be great to have a place to point the non-developers to that explained this as well.
80s throwback photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Can't you use your own server to get the data you want from the Reddit API only once, and then serve this as many times as you want (since the server is yours)?
> I'm not really sure why the author is a git skeptic if it enables and introduced him or her to a wonderful workflow.

Perhaps because you can do the same thing in SVN?

At least, that's what he says. I don't really know SVN.
I lol'd, sorry, it was the imagery. Glad everything worked out for the best.
Yes, I agree with you. I disagree with simias saying "not different from any other industry, ever".
>Will a noscript tag that tells you have JavaScript disabled and that you're missing out on a richer web experience really convert you?

No. But if it tells me what the content is, or the point of, or really any decent info on what I'm missing, I usually do. In the case of HN links, I always do.

I'm not sure where you got the < 1.6% figure -- I won't argue with it -- but for a startup, that might be a huge number of people. Maybe it doesn't matter. I don't know.