pj

6 ms·

1.
by pj 17y ago
Erlang is also the death of a lot of fluff articles of late. The thing with Paypal is that they aren't quite so flexible and they have high fees, 3 to 4% or more. My only complaint was that they are very pro-consumer, meaning they side wit
2.
Ask HN: Advice on creating a POS system?
7 points by pj 17y ago|4 comments
3.
by pj 17y ago
I use paypal. It's quick to setup and has Paypal IPN which is essentially a call back to your system to let it know that the funds have been received or an order has been made. You can also set up free trial periods and things like that.
4.
by pj 17y ago
I rolled my own chat widget for my website in a day. It was super easy using just javascript.
5.
by pj 17y ago
The problem is that twenty somethings don't vote and silver hairs do. I was watching footage from the town hall meetings around the country for the health care reform and noticed only one person without gray hair there and she was still o
6.
by pj 17y ago
What does this have to do with twitter? It's really annoying to see these types of services say now you can do this for twitter, just capitalizing on the twitter brand. Really, you can do this with Jing, which is more feature rich and also
7.
by pj 17y ago
This sounds like Microsoft Passport's vision from years ago...
8.
by pj 17y ago
A mixed economy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy
9.
by pj 17y ago
I think anyone who believes that the system America has in place is capitalism has been deceived, so in a way, yes.
10.
by pj 17y ago
very nice. volume selector would be nice.
11.
by pj 17y ago
Look we're all hackers here. We know SQL Injection isn't complicated for us, but it is complicated for the majority of the world. In fact, it's probably an impossible task for 95% of the world, and very very difficult for another 4% on
12.
by pj 17y ago
I don't think that's true. Hackers need to know CSS too and I am always very surprised at how little most programmers know abotu CSS. I thought this smashing post was one of the better explanations of CSS selectors that I've seen.
13.
IBM uses DNA to make next-gen microchips(reuters.com)
1 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments
14.
by pj 17y ago
I'm not sure all of us here are hackers and we don't always come here for programming articles. I read hacker news as an alternative to google news or watching tv. For me, it's mostly entertainment that alleviates my boredom with a weighti
15.
by pj 17y ago
I didn't even realize it was a bug. I can't believe it is so old!
16.
by pj 17y ago
:) Thank you. Good link.
17.
by pj 17y ago
Thank you, sounds like a good book!@
18.
Ask HN: Unknown or expired link?
2 points by pj 17y ago|2 comments
19.
by pj 17y ago
There was an article here the other day from some hacker that almost proudly stated that he went through 2 or 3 laptops a year. I thought this was absolutely ridiculous. My laptops last five years or more. What a waste of money. If you l
20.
by pj 17y ago
Good article, thank you for sharing.
21.
by pj 17y ago
It seems there are a lot of baby articles, especially contrarian opinions about articles and my wife just sent me this. Thought it may be of interest. A bit shocking when first thinking it, but maybe there's something to it for those rais
22.
Diapers: Are they necessary?(sfgate.com)
3 points by pj 17y ago|2 comments
23.
by pj 17y ago
Please don't use bit.ly links. There's no space limitation here and it will give us all a better idea of where we are about to go.
24.
by pj 17y ago
I love reading about the historical future of technology. Post it and I'll vote it up!
25.
by pj 17y ago
I've never heard things like this. Do you have some sources? Something like that would be a real hit to our social system that fired Larry Summers from Harvard for saying there may be differences in aptitude in the sciences between men an
26.
by pj 17y ago
interesting. Either a typo or it's meant to correspond to the print date? Perhaps it hasn't been printed yet.
27.
by pj 17y ago
This is to be expected. I think the explanation is because you have a large memory and a great understanding of the technology. The limits microsoft places on the technology to keep it simple for others to use are actually obstacles for y
28.
by pj 17y ago
Please don't use bit.ly links.
29.
by pj 17y ago
No offense to you personally, but your thoughts here are exactly why Linux won't take over the consumer pc market. People don't want ot learn what's going on under the hood. I cringe at the thought, but they may not have the aptitude to com
30.
by pj 17y ago
I'll take you up on that if we ever meet. :)

More ›