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dshimyon Justices Won't Hear Appeal of NY Internet Taxation

Looks like internet taxes are here to stay. We need to focus on simplifying sales tax calculation and remittance.

1. The primary motivation was to use the user's initials to one could identify the person. The images made available by Gravatar were too hard to associate with a person.

2. I didn't feel the Gravatar options had the design look I was looking for.

Thanks!

dshimyon Texatar - Texual Avatar

A server that generates images with text to replace default gravatar image.

The problem we face is not everyone has a gravatar image linkes to their email address. When we show images in place of names, they all look the same and there is no way to differentiate between people. Texatar will generate an image based on text for the user. The color scheme is equally important and is based on a hash of the user's email.

dshimyon Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?

https://www.jabwire.com - collaboration tool for software projects, SaaS revenue

dshimyon Chrome 19 update breaks secure WebSockets

I tested this with an em-websocket (Ruby) server using SSL and after I updated to Chrome 19 (OS X 10.7.3) it no longer works.