jeffblake

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by jeffblake 13y ago
I did stumble across that form 5471 while googling. Ouch. I will PM you, thank you for your advice.
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by jeffblake 13y ago
Thank you for your tips. Can I retroactively subcontract (the books) canadian --> US? That makes a lot of sense, otherwise I think I'm facing a double taxation problem.
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by jeffblake 13y ago
OK, but you can't get more "open" than interchange plus :)
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Ask HN: I am a US Citizen and I own a Canadian Corp and a US LLC ..Tax advice?
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by jeffblake 13y ago
Stripe, Balanced, Braintree, etc all look like much better technical solutions (Apis, ease of integration) than what I use currently, but the pricing is SO prohibitive! Are there any plans for these guys to do Interchange+ pricing, and lowe
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by jeffblake 13y ago
My biggest obstacle with Sidekiq is communicating back to the frontend client when jobs are done (i.e. credit card processed, FacebookGraph friends cached, etc). Right now I use Pusher (websockets) with a polling fallback, but it's clu
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by jeffblake 13y ago
My bank required that I could only use a 6 character alphanumeric password when signing up. Kind of scary, but then again, it made me choose a super random PW like v3Ff78 whereas most all people in that situation would use their same passwo
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by jeffblake 13y ago
I can't remember what it was, but someone posted here before with a library to help build clean, easy to use API Docs. The one that looks like a split-pane with examples on one side and details on the other.
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by jeffblake 13y ago
I'm a SCUBA instructor (trained and living in Vancouver BC), from Seattle.. and I can definitely attest to the character of pacific northwest divers as being very pro-environment, "protect the wildlife", to the point of crazi
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by jeffblake 13y ago
Imagine you are one of the engineers behind traffic lights. That's something to be proud of, you've built something that keeps people safer, can allow emergency vehicles to pass through, are centrally controllable, it can do this
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by jeffblake 13y ago
Some of the newer gateways (Braintree, Stripe) don't have monthly fees - but there is a tradeoff. Both of those guys have a high per transaction fee (25-30 cents) and also a relatively fixed discount rate (I haven't heard of anyon
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by jeffblake 13y ago
Yeah I'm an American who went to school here in Vancouver, started a company, doing well, but probably moving myself and the company back to the States soon as it's very difficult to get a VISA. The new startup VISA only applies t
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by jeffblake 13y ago
Own a SaaS (my baby) and also do contract work: primarily iOS apps for the biggest brands in Canada, and the occasional RoR app too.
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by jeffblake 13y ago
When I first started goodnights http://www.goodnights.me & http://www.guestmanager.com I had a grand vision to take on a huge goliath, raise money, get employees, yada yada, the whole "start up dream".