mcorrand

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by mcorrand 9y ago
I agree with you, somewhat: there is not much of a server component to this game and we should get to play it forever and ever, and it is frustrating that we didn't know for sure ahead of time this was a 6 months license only. However,
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by mcorrand 9y ago
I'd renew for a month to refresh the less usual commands in a heartbeat if it was $2-3 bucks! $25 is hard to swallow. I do feel like I got my $25 worth at the time though. It was a great way to learn and I use a lot of it daily.
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by mcorrand 9y ago
Same here. I bought when it had just launched, wasn't complete yet and there was no mention of the license not being perpetual. Disappointing, but I did get a lot of value from it though!
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by mcorrand 9y ago
Gotcha. The gap between hobby-grade solutions and business-grade solutions blows my mind every time.
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by mcorrand 9y ago
Possibly not, right? If you don't sort but instead use the machine to do the inventory of your bins, then you could have your software tell you which bins you are going to need to fulfill your orders for the day. The big "if"
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by mcorrand 9y ago
Ditto. I think that's definitely what would sell at the best value. Coincidentally, it kind of simplifies the sorting problem too. Just do like Amazon and don't sort! Instead, use the machine to figure out exactly what was in that
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by mcorrand 10y ago
Second that! Vultr offers OpenVPN as a one click app, it's super easy to get it running on a $5 vps.
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by mcorrand 10y ago
This is a hard problem to solve perfectly. I'm still stuck at the ID verification step, after sending in my documents. Never heard back. I'm the perfect corner case though, having gotten a green card recently, left a job, moved to
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by mcorrand 10y ago
I used a sole proprietorship until the money started getting more substantial; that may not be a good idea if your business has large risks though.
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by mcorrand 10y ago
Some other resources that have served me well - not for incorporation per se, but the next few steps in setting up a healthy corporation: - Docracy.com has some good templates (contributed by some incubator I can't recall) for bylaws,
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by mcorrand 10y ago
I have no doubt things will keep chugging along, but the time and energy wasted through customs for the commuter working in Spain would be a major pain.
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by mcorrand 10y ago
My post was not bringing much to the discussion - I edited it to clarify my thinking. As British as the people of Gibraltar may feel, I don't think their patriotism will prevail over the prospect of being stuck from the main landmass b
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by mcorrand 10y ago
Gibraltar may want out too, they voted almost unanimously to remain and they probably won't want to be locked into their detroit by a UE border
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by mcorrand 10y ago
From my experience so far, sending an email to Charley is essentially the same as finding the info online since he answers so quickly! Great onboarding, I was really impressed!
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by mcorrand 10y ago
Plaid provides a better verification and authentication flow. Users authenticate with bank username and password rather than routing and account number so they don't have to hunt those down, and there are no worries about mistyping (fa
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by mcorrand 11y ago
How would you work out the visas and taxes though?
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by mcorrand 11y ago
Yep, enterprise apps definitely fall under the "serious" umbrella :). If a middle tier is a foreseeable requirement then this architecture does lose a lot of its charm. I do think there has to be a way to easily strangle out the p
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by mcorrand 11y ago
For really small projects, a proper backend is not always necessary and talking directly to the db can speed up development. I wouldn't dare do that for anything serious though. Couchdb is also a really nice way to do this, since it pr
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by mcorrand 11y ago
I was expecting a "man careers" easter egg. Bitter disappointment :(
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by mcorrand 11y ago
We need to educate ourselves. Such a startup weekend would be a wonderful occasion. Why organizers do not draw up a simple legal checklist is beyond me. Just drafting a paper signed by the whole team at the beginning of the event stating &q
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by mcorrand 11y ago
I've finally broken mine's digitizer, after two years of other serious falls and baths that had left it in perfect working condition. It might be for the best, considering each Android update lately has been buggier on this now un
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by mcorrand 11y ago
I never noticed because I'm actually using stripe.js to do the payment, and was only using the various validations from jquery.payment in a couple angular directives. I realized stripe.js had validation functions built in one day looki
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by mcorrand 11y ago
On the subject of the jquery.payment lib, I remember noticing that the validation functions it provides for various credit cards are not exactly the same as the ones in stripe.js, and actually better. I would have to look at my commit histo
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by mcorrand 11y ago
"Oh thank heaven". This is so hilariously unfortunate. The funny part is that I really don't notice "bite" in this way if it's surrounded by English words. The tumblr blog listed downthread does nothing for me
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by mcorrand 11y ago
"bite" is safe according to this tool. Any french speaker does a double take when they see that word though, especially in certain sentences. For reference: https://askafrenchguy.wordpress.com/2012/02/07&
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Ask HN: How can I improve my Chinese users' experience?
1 points by mcorrand 11y ago|1 comments
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by mcorrand 12y ago
If you could show some example of views before and after optimization, that would be great! I haven't yet had to sit down and optimize beyond basic best practices so it would be valuable to see some actual coded, real world example.
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by mcorrand 12y ago
Thank you for clarifying the relational aspect. This is what I meant to say but I couldn't find a concise way to do so.
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by mcorrand 12y ago
The problem of syncing the schema to the orm is a tough one to solve indeed. Good to see that rails will get it right. Django with South has the same issue, so much so that South preventatively overrides the native manage.py syncdb command
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by mcorrand 12y ago
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a strong dba, but I'll try my hand at an answer. Please let me know if I'm talking nonsense. It would be useful if the data meets two requirements: -you know that it won't be queried in a relational w

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