GeneralTspoon

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by GeneralTspoon 2y ago
The expected return of working for Big 4 in your 20’s is a coke habit
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by GeneralTspoon 3y ago
Except PHP isn’t dead - in fact it’s probably going through a renaissance. The language and tooling have improved a lot over the last few years - to the point where starting a new CRUD web project using Laravel is a good default choice unle
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by GeneralTspoon 3y ago
> This type of thing happens all the time. In the UK you can work as an independent contractor for years then one day HMRC will randomly decide to make a case that you're were actually an employee the whole time and should have been
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by GeneralTspoon 3y ago
You don't send anything to the merchant. The information goes directly to the PSP and the PSP sends a token to the merchant. This usually works by the PSP embedding iframes for the CC fields on the merchants site (so you're input
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by GeneralTspoon 4y ago
No, because React is dynamically generating the HTML on the fly. If you pre-compile the HTML using something like Jekyll, so that the webserver is just serving HTML files without any dynamic/on-the-fly processing at request time, then
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by GeneralTspoon 4y ago
> Everyone's at a different step in their journey. Text book example of being condescending.
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by GeneralTspoon 4y ago
> I used to work way back in the day on PHP too, This is your issue - PHP < 5.3 is very different to PHP 7+. Not just at the language level - but the community, frameworks and best practices too. No more random scattering of SQL state
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by GeneralTspoon 4y ago
PayPal offers a micropayments option (5% + $0.05) - which reduces overall cost for businesses where the fixed fee eats a major part of their revenue.
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by GeneralTspoon 4y ago
> ads for cigarettes When did this happen? When I was in Munich a few years back there were poster ads for cigarettes everywhere. I remember them being not very subtle about their “smoking is cool” message.
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by GeneralTspoon 4y ago
This won’t affect that case, as it uses stdClass (which is allowed to use dynamic properties). This is only for cases where you have a specific class like User, and you don’t want people setting random dynamic properties on it. If you do yo
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
That would be nice - but I doubt it will be coming any time soon. After 6 months Maplibre doesn't appear to have changed that much from the original MapboxGL version - which makes sense, because Mapbox pay a bunch of people a bunch of
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
Yes, but if their own ad converts the user to a paying customer, they don't pay 30% of their revenue to Apple.
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
This whole thing is nonsense - pubs aren’t closed. And most people aren’t anywhere near a race track on St. Patricks’s Day. Unless they’re in Cheltenham, which is in a different country.
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
This “fact” isn’t a fact. Pubs aren’t anywhere near closed in Ireland on St. Patrick’s day. It’s probably the busiest day of the year for them.
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
Try any Flutter-based website and see for yourself! Hint: It’s J A N K Y
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
Bluetooth permissions are grouped in under the Location permissions on both iOS & Android. This is because Bluetooth _could_ be used to determine a user's location by using beacons and constantly scanning or whatever. But this has
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
Potentially. But there’s also an inheritance loophole that allows them to avoid that: https://www.thebalance.com/how-the-stepped-up-basis-loophole... Even without that loophole there are probably a bunch of tricks their fin
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
They borrow money using their assets as collateral
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
Yeah this is still the case AFAIK - very annoying. I believe their recommended workaround was to have 2 separate merchant accounts with different fee structures and group your products accordingly.
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
It's not a "good deal" in any case.... The minimum purchase price on iOS is $0.99, so at worst you'd be paying basically the same rate (~30%). But most payment processors offer separate pricing for micro-transactions (e.
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
Of course the UI is laggy - the web app is built with Flutter! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
> as soon as you step out of playground level programming Uhh... pretty sure 99% of all complex JVM applications were written using an IDE. In fact, if you joined an experienced team at a senior level and weren’t using IntelliJ, you’d be
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
Yeah this entire thing just reeks of low effort clickbait. Classing OkHttp as "Medium Risk" is ridiculous (especially since under the hood it's been the default HTTP library on Android since something like 5.0). That alone s
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by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
Ah yes, all those African American people in Kenya
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
And we call it "Chinese Whispers" in the UK
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
You could also just use any merchant of record service to handle all that book keeping for you. They’ll charge a hefty fee compared to doing it yourself, but still far below the Steam cut. Although publishing on steam obviously has other ad
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
True. But you can’t really buy anything with it. Which means you need to cash out to fiat $$$. And then you need 3rd party authorisation while jumping through all the KYC hoops.
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
This looks super cool! We just moved away from Datadog because their log storage pricing is too high for us. We moved to BigQuery instead. But the interface kind of sucks. Would love to get this up and running. A couple of questions: 1. Is
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Where are you located? And what did you not handle properly? In the U.K. at least you don’t need to do or handle anything VAT-related if you have VAT-able turnover of less than £85k
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by GeneralTspoon 6y ago
Very cool idea! Useful for evaluating whether or not to order a new MBP now or later. One minor bug - Sketch shows under all apps, but not under design apps (I thought it was missing altogether because I didn't see it under Design).

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