JimmyL

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Ask HN: What's Happening at Southwest?
76 points by JimmyL 4y ago|102 comments
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by JimmyL 5y ago
In the early days (2013-14?) of Stripe, I was responsible for maintaining my company's integration. I still remember how one day there was a message on the announcements newsgroup about how the size of a key was increasing, only three
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by JimmyL 6y ago
This is also being done[1] in Canada, in a project that started as a way to use the byproducts of the normal milk-making process in a way that didn't cost farmers anything. [1] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens&
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by JimmyL 8y ago
I've had better experiences with DataGrip, but if I wasn't at a place that would pay for proper tools, DBeaver is an OK substitute. Neither, though, have the big thing I want in an analytical SQL workspace: Simple charts A whole l
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by JimmyL 9y ago
>> the campaign should have people in charge of security OK, but most don't. Money is a very limited resource in campaigns, and almost all campaign managers will choose to spend it on direct mail and ads over hiring someone for I
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by JimmyL 9y ago
I feel like a big part of people hating on JIRA is that it creates a formal process you have to follow - something enforced by code, and not just "always move your card to this Trello column first". It’s also so tempting for middl
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by JimmyL 10y ago
Remember that you're not a developer anymore, and that the way you contribute to the team isn't coding. You're moving from a role that focuses on concrete contributions, to a role that focuses on creating leverage so that oth
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by JimmyL 10y ago
If you end up using CloudFormation, don't write the JSON directly. Your programming language of choice should have a wrapper that maps objects to CloudFormation JSON - do your thinking there, use all the features your language offers,
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by JimmyL 10y ago
We use https://github.com/atward/aws-profile/blob/master/aws-profil... to do pretty much the same thing, although without the $PS1 hacking. Our rule is that a user's default profile should always be
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by JimmyL 10y ago
2-3 months of light work (it was the summer), in Toronto circa 2011. I had zero professional experience, and bad grades. I knew that for my first job coming out of school, a lot of places would ask for a transcript...so I pointed most of my
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by JimmyL 11y ago
AWS support has said that ELBs will continue to accept connections (and use the correct backend) for at least an hour after the CNAME stops resolving to a particular IP.
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by JimmyL 11y ago
If you're putting a lot of volume though Stripe, all those things are possible. Notwithstanding Stripe's SaaS-y "all pricing and deals are public" branding, they definitely have a BD team who can set you up with more dir
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by JimmyL 11y ago
I'm a hue PyCharm fan, but if this is true then vim and Sublime must be barely usable. Python, it's great at...but open a big JS file and it...will...take...forever...to do the JS syntax highlighting, if it ever finishes. CoffeeSc
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by JimmyL 11y ago
Stripe's terms say that "Marijuana dispensaries and related businesses" are prohibited. You're certainly not a dispensary, but reporting software designed and advertised for one sounds like a "related business"
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by JimmyL 11y ago
From the Stripe list of prohibited businesses [1]: Marijuana dispensaries and related businesses Some of these rules come from Stripe itself, some come from the networks they work with. [1] https://stripe.com/us/prohi
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by JimmyL 11y ago
Very true, but ATED is cheap. On a (for example) £7M house you would have paid £750K Stamp Duty, or if sold though a corporate transfer, £35K of tax on the shares and £36K/yr ATED - so holding it for less than twenty years would have b
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by JimmyL 11y ago
Up until last summer (when the Government won a case letting them change the law), having your expensive house owned by an offshore corporation was the canonical way to avoid a particular type of UK tax called Stamp Duty. When you buy a pro
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by JimmyL 11y ago
The biggest thing to remember when dealing with PCI DSS is that it's not the law. Your PCI obligations come out of a commercial agreement that you have with your processor, which comes out of commercial agreements they have with VISA&#
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by JimmyL 11y ago
Can you highlight a few of the reasons you love it, in comparison to HipChat? When we ended our trial month and announced we were going back to HipChat, the biggest reactions was "OK".
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by JimmyL 11y ago
Do you find them that much better? We're a small HipChat-using company who moved three teams over for a month, and the communal response was "eh?". It's no-doubt prettier and easier to write integrations, but for the cor
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by JimmyL 12y ago
If you're experimenting, use `git config --global credential.helper 'store'` to set git to store your credentials in a plain-text file. Then (if you're on GitHub), generate a personal access token ( https://hel
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by JimmyL 12y ago
It would be trivial, which is one of the problems with A-EP when you look at it from the POV of someone who knows something about web security. As for iFrames vs. Direct POST, from https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/docume
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by JimmyL 12y ago
The main thing to remember about the deadline today is that what's changed is the forms needed for certification. If you're already certified, nothing changes today - but when you do your annual re-certification, you'll need
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by JimmyL 12y ago
When a merchant signs up with WePay Clear, do they actually have full WePay accounts they can log into (which would have a WePay-branded experience)?
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by JimmyL 12y ago
If you don't count the days, how do you make sure that people are taking/compensated for the statutory minimum - or do you mean "we count the days, but we don't say no just because your count is above a specific number&q
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by JimmyL 12y ago
It depends on the jurisdiction, but a lot of the "guideline amount + tracking" philosophy is driven by the law (and financial accounting). For example, here's an except from some guidelines around the Ontario Employment Stand
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by JimmyL 12y ago
These are from the first day of talks and a few of the tutorials. The second day is going on now, so they should be online in a day or two.
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by JimmyL 12y ago
I'm not sure it would have (without trying it), but it certainly would have kept you in the game for a bit longer since I'm a-OK with EMR jobs for my analysis (or presumably being able to download those files and load them into my
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by JimmyL 13y ago
I recently tried Keen.io for a project I'm working on, and it didn't work out - the metrics I was looking for were too complex (eg. the average lag between signup and the third time a user does a particular action) to do natively,
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by JimmyL 13y ago
I went though sendwithus zero as an unknowing participant in the experiment, and it sucked. At the time, the company I was working at was looking for a service exactly like this - a service where our app could just fling events, and then we

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