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Comment · 14 years ago
Ironic that this ships via Amazon!
Comment · 14 years ago
Scott knows where my kids are?! Creepy.
Comment · 15 years ago
I'm curious as to why there was no inclusion of 2checkout?

I have used it recently for recurring payments (I'm in the UK, clients around the world) and it seems to be going okay.

It's not the smoothest solution (redirect to their checkout process), but they send a lot over postbacks to ease integration.

(Hopefully no one is going to come in with a showstopper!)

Comment · 15 years ago
Seems to have been pulled from the UK app store. It was there this morning but no longer.

Hopefully a glitch rather than full exclusion, but my gut tells me I should have bought it this morning.

Comment · 15 years ago
Since that Reddit list of best sci-fi books I have churned my way through 4 novels; all of them have been absolutely excellent (Armour, and three of the Hyperion saga [just started the last one])
Comment · 15 years ago
I had a call from a recruiter once, asking if I would be interested in a Ruby on Rails position. I said no, that's not what I'm looking for.

She then asked me to explain what Ruby on Rails was, how it related to other technologies and was it popular because a lot of people seemed to be asking for it.

Of course I explained the best I could, to make the world a better place and all that, but it seems (as other commenters have pointed out) that there could be a real niche for techies to run a recruiting firm that know what they're talking about.

Comment · 15 years ago
Hardly relevant for a posting about one of the most popular OS X editors.

If you'd said 'Sublime Text 2++', you might be a bit more on topic.

It'll be exciting to see what this Alpha looks like...it's certainly been a long time coming!

Comment · 15 years ago
Far too many "Paypal killers" coming about which lack one thing that could actually help them usurp Paypal...international support.

Stripe, Weepay, Samurai - all look amazing, but it is SO frustrating to seem them all release their products and pretend they can challenge the likes of Paypal whilst disregarding the rest of the world.

I know people are promising international support, but are they really going to make the jump after everything gets all cosy with a US only audience?

I've recently deployed 2checkout (I'm UK based). It's not pretty and it's not fully integrated with an API, but it's damn easy, doesn't require Merchant accounts and people can pay you with credit cards or Paypal.

Comment · 15 years ago
I did a university module in Prolog (for programming intelligent systems). Although I have not used it since, I always remember it fondly. It is a totally different paradigm to the Pythons/Rubies/Cs/Javas and really quite refreshing when you get in to it.

Unfortunately I now struggle to think of a use for it on a day to day basis.

Comment · 15 years ago
I would second "cloud based" (cringe) saving and sharing. Whilst I'm personally not bothered about collaboration, I would love to be able to work on maps across multiple computers (with no Dropbox for local storage).

It's a dream to use, congrats on putting something so impressive together.

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