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What were you being charged before, and what are you being charged now?

Official clarification from PayPal: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2009/08/a-clarification-on-pay...

The rates haven't changed. They stopped charging business accounts a fee for personal payments, and clarified (made the UI more explicit) that they do charge a fee for all account types for goods & services.

See https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2009/08/a-clarification-on-pay...

The parent article is just wrong.

Really old, but a classic tale that needs to resurface every 6 months or so.

I can send you a letter that says you have to give me a million dollars or I'll sue you. You can decide whether or not to do as I've asked.

That is a long way from my actually suing you.

That's a really cool story.

That's Facebook. Twitter has no such policy.

You seem to have a serious Full House problem, but an awesome library coming along. I'd expect gibbler_revert to be gibbler_revert!, plus a non-destructive version to fetch a specific commit. If I get some time, I may fork/hack a little.

(For the Google impaired: http://github.com/delano/gibbler/tree/master)

I know one of the founders, and hold him in pretty high esteem. I haven't personally used Spreedly, but I know they make good stuff. They're also very accessible, and are hackers. If you have questions, just ping them and you'll get a real answer.

My C is really weak (I'm a Ruby guy) but here's the best I can do.

Two things make this work: 1, in C, an array can be treated like a pointer that points to the first element of the array. 2, pointers have a subscript notation.

That is, for a pointer p, p[i] is the same is * (p + i). (where pointer addition goes by sizeof the thing pointed to).

So, a[5] is really * (a + 5) ... and 5[a] is * (5 + a). Same thing, although 5[a] looks really weird and will make people hate you if you use it.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/append-c.html was helpful in reminding me of the specifics, since I couldn't find my K&R.

They check to make sure the user exists.

I was thinking the same thing. I wish re-tweeting verbatim would go away.

That's why Twitpay didn't go the "put funds into your account" model. We're powered by Amazon Payments, and to settle up and move actual dollars requires logging in to Amazon and approving the transaction. We're actually one of the more vocal critics of the "give out your Twitter password to any and all services", so we designed Twitpay to avoid the issues around that.

Roughly equivalent to PayPal: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?nodeId=6022

You don't have to settle up immediately, though. We see this being really useful for people who pay each other back and forth. Run a tab with your friends, and only settle up when one of you needs the cash.

And yes...the Amazon Payments setup is a little rough. We're giving them feedback to see if we can smooth it out a little.

It's interesting because it's a novel approach to solving a problem. Instead of "How do we kill something that's constantly mutating?" this approach is "How can we make it not a problem in the first place?"

Also, it uses "devices" (odd name for a gel...ain't medicine fun?) that are already approved, so the time to market can be greatly reduced.

Stanza and eReader apps (iPhone) can do over the air purchases from http://www.ereader.com/ and http://www.fictionwise.com (they're basically the same site now)

Judging by the page itself, Typogridphy isn't a fluid layout.

You already know my opinion, but yes I've done hiring, I like A much better, and I got interviewed at my very first tech job (at least partially) because of a funny cover letter.

I love it! I snagged http://➡.ws/♥ ... much fun to be had, here. Great job!

Let the community decide. The forks with the most activity will start be obvious on the network graph.

Because they usually try to capture the essence of an article in 1 sentence, and they usually fail.

I normally hate the summaries, but this was excellent.

Also, the author seems like he's really not very fun to hang out with. I bet his friends are glad he isn't on Facebook.

This goes beyond auto-save. He's talking about auto-first-save, or just remember-what-I-was-doing mode.

That's the spirit. Glad to see it's on GitHub, too.

Except this is an actual post-mortem. The company's folded.

This warrants repeating: Hulu is doing their very best to drag the content providers into this century. Boxee gets this, which is why they complied with a request from Hulu, without forcing the issue. Hulu asked, Boxee agreed, and now Hulu tries to convince content providers to change their mind.

This company has been built up for months in Atlanta, operating in stealth mode. They announced their product at Startup Riot, and it was revealed the whole thing is a joke. A lot of people have had a lot of fun in the ATL Startup community over this. Hopefully a few people even believed it.

That being said...I'd actually buy one of these things.

You're about a day late for Startup Riot.

Here's an excellent resource for wannabe ATL entrepreneurs: http://atllogos.com/startup.html

A lot of the ATL startup chatter is on Twitter.

I don't know very many people who use SMS shortcuts on Twitter.

This is more than just the story...it's Schneier's analysis on how to protect yourself from insiders that's interesting, here.