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bluebird··on Introducing: The OpenGateway Payment Platform. Host your own billing engine.
Looks very good! As someone already asked, is it PA-DSS certified?
bluebird··on HTML5 Readiness : A visualisation of HTML5/CSS3 browser support
Perhaps this is a good example of what E. Tufte calls "chartjunk" in his book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information".
bluebird··on Why Apple’s New Ban Against Sexy Apps Is Scary
Tired.
bluebird··on Ask HN: Best practices for server redundancy?
Could you please list a couple or recommend one out of experience? Thank you.
bluebird··on 80legs sets its web crawler free
Their service would take off much more if they offered a Python, Ruby, or JavaScript API.
bluebird··on First Google Phone Nexus One photos
What an ugly phone!
bluebird··on Maemo vs. Android
Maemo 5 seems great. Nokia though really seems to lack a coherent strategy and should have taken Maemo-based phones to market much earlier.
bluebird··on Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Service Prices
A friend had his PayPal account frozen for no reason. In my experience their API is terrible and it is a torture to use their test site.
bluebird··on Working at Google vs Microsoft as Proxy for New vs. Old
There is nothing new about Google.
bluebird··on Ask HN: Please review my automated web testing startup, Browsera
This seems like a very useful service. I think that you may be losing quite a lot of business by jumping from free to $49 directly.

There is probably a sweet spot at around $19 for say 250 pages and login support that would attract a lot of hobbyists/developers who work on one web app or a couple of sites and wouldn't pay $49 a month for something like this.

Perhaps you should try it out.

bluebird··on Online Subscription Billing Is A Pain. Recurly Wants To Alleviate It.
Chargify changres nothing for the first 50 clients and then I think it is a flat fee if I am not mistaken. That can be cheaper than Spreedly. Recurly seems to be doing something similar.

What does make a difference is that Spreedly is not PCI compliant. Both Chargify and Recurly are PCI compliant.

bluebird··on HN Help: I'm lost
Yes, it is http://gapingvoid.com/books/ by Hugh MacLeod. He draws cartoons at the back of business cards.

I am sorry I didn't quote the name of the author at the first place. I couldn't recall where I had read it. I searched around for a while and couldn't find it so I just posted without the author's name but in quotes to show it was from someone other than me.

Thank you for finding the book title, it helped me find the the site where I originally read this.

bluebird··on Developers vs iphone
Surprise, surprise... Yet another post against Apple on TechCrunch.
bluebird··on Spreedly Pricing Change
Spreedly seems great, as soon as they get PCI compliance they will be an even better option.
bluebird··on HN Help: I'm lost
"The price of being a wolf is loneliness. The price of being a sheep is boredom. Choose carefully what you will be."
bluebird··on Google Closure: How not to write Javascript
Hey,

goog.isString = function(val) { return typeof val == 'string'; };

var b = new String("I am also a string!"); alert(goog.isString(b)); // Will output FALSE

If that doesn't scream ignorance of the language, what does?

bluebird··on ASK PG/HN: Do you have a video of the talk that Paul Buchheit gave at SS09?
+1
bluebird··on Ask HN: Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing)
I am in the market for such an application and my budget is up to $150 per month but I find the 'action based' pricing model a huge turn-off. If I am paying $50 upward, I want to be able to automate tests freely and run them nightly without ever thinking how many 'actions' I have left.

The UI is decent, it lacks support for pages that require authentication from what I can see, and I couldn't find any features for running tests regularly (e.g. nightly).

I find it hard to imagine that anyone would sign-up and pay that much money to be limited by an 'actions' meter and for an application that is not mature by any means.

If you adjust the pricing and address some features it could be a good application though.

bluebird··on Ask HN: Any good JavaScript books?
I am sorry, that was "JavaScript: The Good Parts", http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748
bluebird··on Ask HN: Any good JavaScript books?
If you want to learn correct JavaScript the only choice is "JavaScript: The Best Parts" by Douglas Crockford on O'Reilly.