Scirra_Tom

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Pitfalls and traps when pricing your SaaS and building your own online store(construct.net)
1 points by Scirra_Tom 4y ago|0 comments
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
Compared to other crashes where there seemed to be an underlying economic issue - this one feels like it will bounce back quickly at some point in my amateur opinion. Am tempted by some 2022 SPY leaps for this reason.
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Show HN: We've added a guided tours feature into our browser game engine(editor.construct.net)
1 points by Scirra_Tom 7y ago|0 comments
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
> Someone's just bought a $1000 call option on a stock that's currently $400? Automated trading systems will probably raise alerts on that stock since someone must know something for that to happen. Not an expert but I'd
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
It looks like the amount is stored as an int, which could overflow when dealing with Bitcoin if you're using Satoshi's as a subunit.
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
I really don't see any need or benefit in storing values as mills unless you're writing forex trading platforms. It's inviting more mistakes.
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
Lots of third party implementations will take a few % off your bottom line. That's the main one. There's a couple of other points here as well: - If you do enough volume, you're able to negotiate the fee with the payment pr
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
I'm currently rewriting our store implementation, and it's complicated. One example is that some currencies have 100 subunits (eg USD), some have 10 subunits (EG TWD/MOP) and some have no subunits (eg JPY). This is made slig
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
Would drilling holes deep enough theoretically allow us to harvest thermal energy on a meaningful scale?
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
Devastating for them I imagine. Website offline since 31st December, purposefully timed attack for maximum disruption I would imagine. Looks like they had aspiration to IPO earlier in 2019, imagine this would now not be on the cards for a
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
Our software Construct 3 ( https://editor.construct.net/ ) I think meets most of these points. It runs offline, and we never have access to the users project files. You can save/load locally, and it runs in the browser
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
The entire editor is built in HTML5, and the exported games export to HTML5. It was the obvious choice.
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
That's what we're trying to do and we're making good progress! As our engine Construct 3 is written in HTML5 itself, Javascript was the natural language choice to integrate with our block system. All languages have their up a
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
We talked to a lot of teachers, and it's a real problem going from block based programming to syntax heavy scripting - there's a chasm there which from a teaching standpoint is sometimes tricky to breach and keep students engaged
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
That's not how liability works. People within the business will be on the line if the business is acting criminally.
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
Not if you restrict the dataset to the undesirable domain names, it would be orders of magnitude smaller.
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
If I understand correctly, the full URL is hashed (or at least the first n bits of the full URL). It really isn't computationally expensive to work out undesirable URL's being visited because the undesirable domains are known, an
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
> It's perfectly fine to block them. I think there were some legal rulings IIRC in the UK regarding software to auto mute/block/skip ads on TV/Radio, but for the life of my can't find them. If it was ruled illeg
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Ask HN: Are misleading sales tactics rampant on Steam?
5 points by Scirra_Tom 7y ago|1 comments
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
It says he was offered $50k USD for it, so that's how he's valuing it. They can prohibit transfer in writing, but not much they can do about it.
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
"The Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation is a United States class-action lawsuit filed in 2005 by merchants and trade associations against Visa, MasterCard, and numerous financial institutions that i
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
Thanks for reply! From our point of view, a card where we could use our USD and EUR balance to make USD/EUR payments would be one of the biggest pulls if possible. I think recurring USD charges for UK based businesses are probably qui
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
Tend to agree but I don't think a card is that big of a deal as in this case it's less Stripe owned as it's a Visa card so pretty sure you'd have some additional protection there.
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
1-2% cashback is highly appealing from here in the UK but shame to see is US only. Anyone shed any light on why getting cashback cards in the UK is rare compared to elswehre? Personally I found Tandem which gives 0.5% cashback which is nic
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
They shuffle a lot. I've seen some online blackjack where it is possible to count cards, but they know this and the stakes are low enough and game speed slow enough it's just not worth the effort.
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
Met a professional football (soccer) better in a gambling convention here in the UK a few years back. He had a small team of AI computer scientists. Told me his average bet size was £100,000, and his edge was in the region of ~1% (EV of £1
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
No good if your Registrar (Namecheap) is behind CF as well!
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
We have a business account - there is no ability to add USD account without having to go through support who require bank statements unfortunately.
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
Paypal need a USD account in USA, with a bank statement from said account showing your business name. I don't think that would do it.
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by Scirra_Tom 7y ago
We use Barclays and have EUR and USD accounts with them which we can see online and make transfers/payments online with. Allows us to have a USD Amex, and do a lot of our Forex with Transferwise. Saved tens of thousands over the years

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