kenmck

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by kenmck 6y ago
It speaks very badly of eBay that such a cultish and abusive group was allowed to exist.
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by kenmck 6y ago
There are many. Their feature sets vary a lot.
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by kenmck 6y ago
That's a really odd statement since Stitch's main feature is multi-channel inventory synchronization and Square doesn't do that at all.
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by kenmck 11y ago
Yes it looks like somebody a: copied unencrypted backups to S3 and b: set the s3 bucket to be publicly accessible BIG oops.
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by kenmck 13y ago
Sounds like they pulled a credit check. I got the same kind of questions when I applied for regular merchant (credit card processing) account.
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by kenmck 13y ago
Why is it that people think that they can open a payment account, transfer thousands of dollars into it as their first transaction and no one will ask any questions or be the least bit suspicious?
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by kenmck 14y ago
What utter nonsense.
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Creation Engine: Autodesk Wants to Help Anyone, Anywhere, Make Anything(wired.com)
1 points by kenmck 14y ago|0 comments
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by kenmck 14y ago
Agreed. Actually there is a Sivers book, it's called "Anything you want"
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by kenmck 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification Patrick. I was too busy fuming to explain.
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by kenmck 14y ago
Exactly. I can and will be moving elsewhere. My three puny sites can hardly be making their servers tick over the most active only gets ~2000 uniques on a good month.
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by kenmck 14y ago
I switched to the Solaris hosting some time ago as well.
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Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts(plus.google.com)
283 points by kenmck 14y ago|269 comments
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by kenmck 14y ago
Some people seem to think that they're entitled to hitch a ride on the huge network effect craigslist has acquired through years of patient effort. The folks are shocked,shocked that craigslist isn't thrilled to let them do so.
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by kenmck 14y ago
This seems an odd fit to me. Groupon has a reputation for not being concerned whether the deals it encouraged businesses to run are good for the business. FeeFighters has had a reputation as a sincere advocate for SMB's.
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by kenmck 15y ago
Paypal's destruction of counterfeits policy is intended to combat counterfeiting of designer items. It's application here seems lame-brained to say the least. I'm curious how it got into Paypal's dispute resolution process however. In the o
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by kenmck 15y ago
Yes, the story has a bit of an urban legend smell about it. Doesn't it?
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by kenmck 15y ago
Many Amazon marketplace sellers use software to automatically adjust the prices of books. The results are sometimes strange.
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by kenmck 15y ago
#faceplant
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by kenmck 16y ago
btw. Elapsed time between opening the support request and an answer from someone at Joyent - 9 minutes... Elapsed time from opening support request to receiving account details for an account on a new machine about 26 minutes. That includes
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by kenmck 16y ago
I have a lifetime account as well. Joyent's tech support has always been excellent. I take this as a wakeup call to get my stuff off of the old severs beyond that I can see little fault with Joyent.
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by kenmck 16y ago
Didn't Facebook kill something like this a few years ago?