wrhn

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I survived the Paradise Camp Fire and all I got was having to chip away at what was a big blue wheelie bin that burned and melted into a semicircular ring puddle embedded in aggregate concrete and discolored the retaining wall with a redish brown tint from the heat. Oleanders, lawn, roses, and pines survived; fences, garden planter boxes, 1/2 cord of firewood, some aggregate concrete, shed, and nearly every neighbors' home did not.
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Comment · 6 years ago
Yeap. One of my roommates from college worked at HP during the Itanium development.. it was great on paper but customers didn't want it or need it. The bigger picture is throwing everything away every few model years isn't "innovation," it's planned-obsolescence consumerism and pointless churn. Turing completeness and standardization > whiz-bang over-engineering.
Comment · 6 years ago
I used Authorize.net circa 2010 at a large cell phone manufacturer for processing micropayments. They changed their API without notification and it broke payments for a few days, and it was really crappy considering they were supposed to be a "big dog" in the industry. Any changes were supposed to happen first in their staging environment and our test-suite ran against it to make sure it still worked before it was signed-off to be deployed into production.

Also, when I was in the UK, getting a payment processor (we had our own merchant accounts) pre-Stripe was a royal PITA. They wanted all sorts of documentation and proof that we were a "real business" before letting us process payments.

TBH, it seems like Stripe and PayPal are being pushed by "risk management" corporate suits into being unreasonable and treating their customers like United Airlines' passengers. A few years back I would ordinarily point people over to FeeFighters' Samurai to shop the best deals on payment gateways, but GroupOn decided to buy them and make them commit seppuku.

Comment · 6 years ago
In the US, a new DeLorean isn't all that expensive compared to typical "jelly-bean" vehicles that are the most common. Back in 2005, I narrowed down a vehicle purchase decision to a new DeLorean, an used Lotus Elise or a new G coupe. I went with a bone-stock manual G that I kept for a few years before I got into Cold War-era West German and French vehicles. I'm not a rich person, far from it.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yeap. That's where I sent my roommate from college to learn performance driving; a Korean dude with a CS degree from an UC turned California highway patrol (CHP) officer. (How many cops has anyone ever run into understood Big-O notation?)

Disclaimer: I learned a thing or a thing and half sliding around the back roads of the Sacramento levee system with water hazards on both sides. }:]

Comment · 6 years ago

    echo $NICK | s/80mph/88mph/
Comment · 6 years ago
FWIW, Banky's hotel in Bethlehem:

182 Caritas Street

Bethlehem, Palestine

http://www.walledoffhotel.com

[email protected]

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?whereami=1&query=31.719...

Comment · 6 years ago
US police can also be videotaped stealing money for their personal enrichment and not be prosecuted.

https://reason.com/2019/09/20/court-rules-fresno-police-accu...

Comment · 6 years ago
"Lying" is dishonest clickbait. Presenting a mobile browser with an UA identical to a desktop one is standard practice.
Comment · 6 years ago
There ought to be a standard "caniuse" features discovery API rather than parsing UA's or oodles of platform quirks/detection "magic."
Comment · 6 years ago
They'll surely find evidence h. erectus ran Android in an archaic app store up until 100k BCE. Tablet computing way back.
Comment · 7 years ago
Startups co-founders/first-employees pay less and have fewer perks, but no one can hide in their own cube corner at that size and have deliver excellence if they want to survive.

If it were me, I would insist on equity, be it co-founder, first-employee or employee at worker-owned co-op. If the company profits and you helped it get there, so should you.

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