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Braintree and Stripe both allow you to store card numbers without creating a subscription. I would either go the prepayment route (allow the customer to re-load a balance, then draw it down with usage), or set billing/time thresholds (bill the balance every X days or whenever the total hits $Y). I use several API services that use the reloading method, and Google Adwords does the billing/time threshold.
Also what about Brian Sewell, a well-known British art critic, writer and broadcaster? Can a gay person be a homophobe?

"Why then do they and lesbians demand the right to marry? Indeed, how many of us have made that demand? One in 20? One in 10? Most of us... have not pleaded for gay marriage. But every minority has within it a core of single-issue politicians and protesters who are never satisfied and always ask for more, and homosexuals, both male and female, are no exception.

...

As the procreation of children is hardly the remit of the homosexual and I have never encountered one (other than a priest) who sought a remedy against fornication, and the civil partnership caters for the mutual society and comfort, why one earth have we had all this ballyhoo about gay marriage?

Since the institution of civil partnerships there has been no impediment to their celebration with a party as extravagant as any wedding, but not all homosexuals are so exhibitionist. Most of us are content with what we now have within the law, and are happy to respect the deeply-held belief of sincere, thoughtful and informed Christians for whom marriage is the one sacrament in which we cannot share.

We have wasted our resources on the wrong campaign – the battle still to be won is against prejudice, the most insidious of enemies."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10729717/Brian-Sewe...
Why are the buttons on the apple tv remote differently shaped?
Nice hack (in the hacker sense), but not exactly convenient.
Elton John was criticizing a marketing decision made by advocates of gay rights. He wasn't actively donating money to suppress those rights.
The problem I've seen (and continue to see) from Eich and Mozilla is that the apology is denial: "I'm not a bad person! See -- I'm doing all of these good things!"

Apologies don't work that way. The right apology is something like: "I try to be a good person, but sometimes I don't get it right. 5 years ago, I did something hurtful to many of you. I did it because of ... What I didn't realize then and do realize now is that ... Thank you for helping me, and to those of you who I made the world a worse place for in the past, I'm sorry, and I'll do what I can to make things better in the future."

I'm not convinced that Eich believes that he did the wrong thing in 2008 - that as far as I can tell, if he were to wind the clock back, the only reason he wouldn't write that check is the trouble that it's causing him now, and not because he's gained some understanding of things.
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This comment is all wrong actually.
"besides, people complaining about it are quite dumb: eich has been a major player in firefox since the birth of firefox. so basically, nothing has changed - him being ceo or not."

Except he's CEO now. The leader of the company. The public face that the company puts forward. The person that all the other employees are supposed to look up to.

Other than that, nothing's changed.
"If they had ANY clue, they'd have thought of this ahead of time."

Maybe they were occupied finding a man with the necessary technical and leading capabilities, plus the experience and whatever else I may have forgot?
given that bitcoin processing fees are on par with credit card processing fees (http://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction-percent), i bet they won't.
Yes - the UK telephone network is regulated, and any provider can supply services over the formerly-public BT network. ADSL2+ is available up to ~20Mbps; there's also BT's Infinity, which I think is FTTC with VDSL - that's up to about 70Mbps.

Virgin Media has a private cable network, which is great if you're not in an oversubscribed area - bandwidth up to 152Mbps is available for low cost.

In general the situation is pretty good, with a pretty wide variety of options.
Sorry. I wasn't talking about this.

I was talking about the invitation to pitch in how to solve the general problem of hateful comments. Which I think shouldn't be discussed here, because it's not only a problem of this specific submission.

Sorry if I misunderstood this invitation.
As a city planner/RE developer turned software developer, I am dismayed by how little attention is paid to basic innovations that would have great impact and, yet, are never or barely mentioned in these future-tomorrow vids. I won't dive into a major diatribe, but consider this one technology that has seen trivial improvements over a period of 100-plus years - the home.

I will pick on one thing: plumbing. Without being tethered to a wastewater system, we could seriously challenge development patterns and housing/urban design. I am all for what's to come in, say, bioengineering mitochondria to end aging but damn if it wouldn't be cool to recycle toilet water in a closed system and use your own feces for your lawn (planters if you live in an urban area) -- TODAY!
What's cool about this architecture is that it lets you define your game objects in terms of data, not code. You're able to change your game objects at runtime.

I made a small C++/QT implementation here:

https://github.com/surjikal/cbgos-experiment

And here's a screenshot of a game I built with it:

https://raw.github.com/love-rollercoaster/space-game/master/...

This is supposed to be an 3d asteroids clone, but the asteroid and spaceship graphics components were swapped.
So you're controlling an asteroid, and your goal is to destroy spaceships.
> "Talk about forcing your beliefs on others."

What? How does OKC's use of free speech amount to "forcing" their beliefs on others?

> "OkCupid is shamelessly exploiting this situation for attention."

Care to back that up? Do you have the information necessary to say OKC is exploiting the situation for attention? Do you know their beliefs? Their intentions? Do you know their motivations and what they hope to accomplish? Do you actually know anything about anyone involved in what OKC did? If not, I suggest you stop making claims of fact where you are wholly ignorant of the truth.
Yeahhh, if Rackspace would just go ahead and follow AWS,Google and Microsoft, that would be grreat...
So it's ok only when done to the people you don't like.
> How the heck did you infer "opposing gay marriage is positive" from that?

You're a random person on the internet, I personally wouldn't rely on any implication to be clearly communicated. When in doubt, be explicit. This is even more important in threads (like these) where people run around with their heads on fire.
They do have to pay licensing, its money that goes from one business unit to another within the Microsoft Corp, thus to not destroy the Azure budget, they pass the license costs to you instead of eating it.
It's definitely an example of hypocrisy. To put it in prison terms, OKC is pursuing punishment rather than rehabilitation. If you're really about bringing people together and love, then you should be promoting trying to change peoples' minds to make them more inclusive, not blocking them altogether. Being hateful back at them simply reinforces their beliefs, and gives them a martyrdom story to pass on to like-minded people: "they say they're for love, but declared me an enemy and wished me failure". Making enemies of demographic groups divides people, pretty much by definition.
So do I.

But for the right program, I'd get a Windows VM running, or perhaps run it on a random machine. I swore off Macs in 1987, and the more I see of Apple, the more determined I am to never again use any of their products.

(For that matter, OS X is Apple's red headed stepchild, and everyone I know with a Mac is moving off the OS X ecosystem.)
I would guess that you're in the category of "people who would have made a transaction in USD anyway, but will do it in BTC because they happen to have some and want to get rid of it." Adding "accept BTC" as a feature doesn't win you as a customer; you were already willing. If the point of accepting BTC is to make money for Square Market by increasing its user-base, your vote doesn't count.
Like most dichotomies, this one is false. It is more probably true that OkCupid cares about both attention and the underlying social issue.
The biggest unexpected fee I found in my comparison shopping was the $39 / month fee to support IP address SSL on Azure Websites.
Sorry Steve, I have a lot of respect for everything you're doing at Balanced, but wow.. everything about this is wrong.

1. "Merchants generally want USD, not BTC". Coinbase supports BTC -> USD. It's an exchange. You don't need to use their OAuth to convert BTC to USD.

2. "The UX is vastly superior to using a bare address". If you're using Bitcoin, you better know how to use an address. Not sure how that would be confusing to anyone using Bitcoin. Most sites use bare address + QR code.

3. "You can't mail a twenty dollar bill to most SaaS products". This is what Bitcoin solves! People are using Bitcoin to get away from the credit card paradigm. This is a broken implementation of "accepting BTC". You don't accept BTC, you accept Coinbase.
And has he been directing Mozilla in a way that would reduce equality for all its users? Is this even remotely likely?
Wider acceptance takes time to affect the price, it's more of a long term rather than short term price driver. If anything, in the near term something like this puts selling pressure on BTC because the first people to give this a try are going to be people who already own Bitcoin and Square's merchants probably aren't holding any BTC sales proceeds.
They seem to imply this in the blog post: "We will continually monitor this address throughout the checkout process so we know when it has received payment."
Is it supposed to be touch enabled? Tried the demo on a mobile device and didn't seem to drag...
I will spare a thought! However, I will request that we could consider whether this marginalization and inconvenience is in fact effectively remedied by seeking systematic vengeance upon all people who oppose government recognition of these marriages...
"unthoughtful"? "toxic"? Those are what wikipedia would call "weasel words". If you have some rational criticism, spill it out and we'll deal with it like adults. Hiding your censorship under "obvious" labels is bad.
They got rid of the $100 thing?
The fact that it's realistically possible to boycott (i.e. not use) Firefox, but boycotting Javascript is - essentially - impossible. Sure, you can disable it in your browser, but that's nowhere near an outright boycott.

(BTW, this is just one difference, one that I haven't seen anyone else pointing out, whilst other, just as good - if not better - differences have been identified in this very post)
It's not really a big deal. I mean, if you have a LinkedIn account, you likely get a bit of spam already.

And, if someone really wanted to get in contact with you, they can. (Phone directories still exist.) And, of course, just send them an invite. Most accept.

I wouldn't trust a browser plugin like this though.
This is not correct. There is no law on the books in the UK which compels ISPs to filter content. There are a couple of court orders in place on some larger ISPs to block access to a few sites, however.
Ah, thanks. That clarifies things. Neat!
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Yes, and I wish we could. But given the size of companies and products available, we obviously have to do the best we can. It makes sense to start with the company itself and its top leader.
So the user forms an association between the shape of the button and its function, that way they are easier to differentiate in the dark.

Edit: I totally beat the stackexchange answer by 4 minutes :)
It would be interesting if you each pick a different development SDK (unless you are writing raw Objective C or Android Java). Comparing how long it takes to get up to speed as a new user would be useful for future gamedevs.
I really wish they would have included some price cuts on the web site services.. Or at least give us an extra small instance for standard web sites. Scott Hanselman said it was "coming soon" back in August: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PennyPinchingInTheCloudWhenDoA...
Trying it out for about 15 minutes now...

First thought is that its more confusing than just making a HTML file and playing with that in Chrome+dev tools.
+1 to that
Bizspark is an awesome program for startups. We are running linux on it w/o any issues
[~3 servers come free]
Best part - there are no restrictions on what s/w stack you run..
Is Firefox a local project? It is a project used by the industrialized world, and by some of the non industrialized world. More than 47% of voters in California voted against this bill. Deep pocketed people like Eich were able to get that thin majority, by getting every hayseed in the central valley, north coast and Orange county out to the polls.

A thin majority of one state in fifty of one country isn't much of a norm to deviate from.
So I'm downvoted to hell, but what about my question?

It's easy to do a boycott that doesn't hurt you. Everybody can live without Firefox.

So why not get serious about this and show people that you are willing to make an actual sacrifice as a stand against his position?

Maybe that would be inconvenient?
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Clicked on link and got this:

OkCupid needs JavaScript to function, but you have it disabled. Check your browser settings.
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What do rate limit by? There's billions of IP addresses a spammer could use, captchas can be solved by offshore farms, there's almost nothing to go by.
> I'm skeptical about moving existing apps seamlessly between x86 and ARM processors, because you'd need guarantees about process memory layout that I don't think any current compiler makes. Imagine the memory image of a process running on the ARM chip. It has some instructions and some data:

There was a paper at ASPLOS 2012 where they did something like this, but for ARM+MIPS [1]. Each program would have identical ARM and MIPS code (which took some effort), with identical data layout.

1 - http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/tullsen/asplos2012.pdf
If true, this implies that recent versions of IE compiled with this compiler needed older versions of IE to compile themselves. IE is probably the first browser to have the honor of bootstrapping itself.
We're entering a period of experimentation where things will be in flux for a while. For now, as one experiment, I'm adding moderation comments to specific posts. I won't keep doing it, because it's tiring and tedious to write (and no doubt to read). But I want to send a clear signal to the community that we're engaged, and also address the low-handing fruit of transparency concerns, if that makes sense.
This is almost certainly a poorly implemented CDN.

They probably shouldn't be doing it at all, though. They're not known for great skill in maintaining a functioning network.
>You should take the moral high ground and send him a personal communication detailing how his donation has caused harm.

I think there is far to much 'walking on eggshells' these days in regards to rights being infringed.
Facebook only has male or female on the signup page and you also can only change gender to male or female in the settings: http://imgur.com/OcnmwkB
> Would you work for or buy products from a CEO who was an unapologetic racist just because his beliefs were a product of his family/community?

Do you mean someone like William Shockley, perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

Also... for your question to be meaningful or relevant to the current discussion, I think you'd have to get more specific about what you mean by "unapologetic racist", and also weigh what other contributions they were bringing to the table as a CEO.
Yes, those are both covered in the paper (back in Section 5).
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We use jQuery.draggable for drag and drop, which I don't think supports touch events. But there are more ways to add touch events to jQuery UI and in the end the drag and drop / plugin part is so decoupled that it can be replaced at any time. It's also the part we invested the least in so far, we wanted to have solid grid positioning and collision management first.
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There is a lot more to the rights gained from marriage than just "legal obligation".
The PL-01 attempts its almost magical infrared signature reduction via the installation of temperature controlled wafers that blanket its exterior. This chameleon's skin of sorts, allows the tank's skin to match the infra-red signature of its surroundings. It does this by processing what small infrared sensors mounted around the tank detect, and then displays a pattern on the tank's honeycomb-like covering that best matches the infrared data collected.

As a result, the tank all but disappears to infrared sensors. Even more outstanding, these wafers can also be used like pixels, as each can be manipulated in temperature. This allows for the tank to use active infrared camouflage, such as tiger stiping its infrared signature in the jungle, or making it flat like the sand in the desert. The PL-01 also lowers its infrared signature through cooling and dispersing the exhaust from its 940 hp diesel engine.
Can they do anything with the footage they have?

Maybe they accidentally created a great documentary about contestants who revolted from a reality show. Shoot some followup interviews and make something great from this wreck.

That's the real narrative and it's more interesting than the drama they were attempting to artificially create anyway.
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Hey, I would totally be in for a boycott of Javascript. Let's do this.
Why are all the cloud services suddenly dropping so dramatically?

Is this a dramatic shift in strategy/tactics from the sector, or is it a cartel popping?
Firstly, your example is so ridiculous I can't see how it adds anything to the discussion. No, it would never be granted a patent, so what exactly is your point?

Secondly, you have accurately described the patent system;

> if we're going to give you the right to exclusively profit from something, we demand to get something in return. The thing we demand is knowledge. We want to know how you did it so that after your monopoly expires, everyone can benefit from the increase in knowledge.

But you go off the rails when you confuse simple and known. The point of a patent is to disclose the invention in a clear enough way for someone else to be ablwe to perform it. Once you know the answer, it probably will seem simple. But that does not mean it's not inventive (ie, no one else has done it before, and you qwere the first to have made that knowledge available to the public).
>from ignorance and his religion instead of bigotry or hate

I am not one of the fedora-tippers, and I have no problem with individual faith, but it's been my experience that organized religion (of any sort) tends to discourage critical thinking and encourage ignorance. A byproduct of this is prejudice which leads to the dark side.

I don't believe you can quite so easily separate religion from discrimination.
Yes but no only there. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling
this bothers me as it is crossing a line from attacking a company that is acting in a politically contentious manner or acting a company in order to get it to take action against an individual who is acting in similar manner.

Is Eich changing the Mozilla hiring rules to prevent LBTG from joining or being promoted at Mozilla? Will his personal political views prevent him from conducting his duties as CEO? Yes they will influence him but it is hard to see prevent.

I would certainly like to see the political donations of say the Fortune 5000 CEOs as a comparator. In the end this seems to be crossing a line - it's a grey and fuzzy line and I am not sure where it is, but it bothers me.

I am also bothered at a 1000USD donation to the prop. 8 though - is that extreme by Silicon Valley standards?

Edit: I would say tried to make it clearer but I have not ...
Also, "getRequiredSampleSize" is called twice for each variant - in the "getResult"'s loop and then inside "hasEnoughData". Same thing for "getVariant". Would you welcome a pull request?

Your project is great, I'd totally use at work. Also, it was to learn the math behind that. Thanks!
Seems to have been a more general change; the Bing Webmaster Tools portal dropped Silverlight about a year ago as well. Not sure if there was an official announcement or they've just quietly decided to move away from it.
The problem with asking people to downvote is that some will downvote opinions they disagree with. What's your definition of "unthoughtful"?
Looks like a bunch of folks with un-natural hair colours trying to write games while being yelled at or something.
Gay people certainly can suffer from homophobia. Some have it so bad they can't even admit to themselves that they're gay.

In this case, I think the quote is incoherent. Of course the battle is against prejudice. But one of the most obvious expressions of that prejudice is the attempt to restrict access to the institution of marriage. Sewell is evidently willing to accept that there's some valid reason for that restriction. I think that's sad, and I think you've put your finger on the reason he feels that way.
Okcupid message for Firefox users
If you access okcupid.com using firefox, you're shown the message:

Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon this interruption of your OkCupid experience.

Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.

Politics is normally not the business of a website, and we all know there’s a lot more wrong with the world than misguided CEOs. So you might wonder why we’re asserting ourselves today. This is why: we’ve devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together. If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal. Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire company. OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.

If you want to keep using Firefox, the link at the bottom will take you through to the site.

However, we urge you to consider different software for accessing OkCupid:

Google Chrome Internet Exploder Opera

Thank you,
OkCupid
No, fair point. Although I would like to think that a) those "seeking systematic vengeance" (which I agree is an overreaction) are in the minority of those raising this issue b) most people's concern isn't with the very narrow issue of "government recognition of these marriages" but the much wider issue of homophobic discrimination which the former is but a small part.
The point of a boycott is to pressure some company or person to change. Boycotting Javascript is too abstract to be valuable. Javascript can't fire him, to cite the obvious example.