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Of note is that Kevin has put the data on GitHub (https://github.com/kscanne/orthotree) so that others can make their own visualizations. He offers some suggestions near the end of the post.

I've updated it so now you can list how many domains you'll transfer away. As of this comment, GoDaddy will lose 205 domains and 58 customers.

Great idea and execution, love it.

Perhaps you mentioned it in the opening message and I just missed it, but...I was waiting for objects to appear that were oriented differently, and only by accident did I realize that I had to tap to rotate (I had first tried by actually doing a rotation gesture).

I'd add some note about this on the object palette in the bottom, and maybe even add a rotation gesture to turn it.

I agree. I actually hovered over the example at first thinking that it might be interactive since there was such a prominent CTA above it.

To the point of the description drawing the most attention, perhaps it should be swapped with the actual signup form–the description can align itself on the left and the form would be centered (which may actually provide a nice balance: description left, example right, and what you actually do right between the two).

That's a huge stretch. It would be like claiming that an engineer at Google should email me whenever my website goes down and help me fix it because, if my website is down, then it's one less website in their index, and they need sites in their index in order to sell advertising.

To make sure that I'm clear: the problem was entirely unrelated to Stripe; it had to do with a different component of my site.

I hear it's something that they're working on.

You can sign up at https://stripe.com/global to be notified when they do come to your country. I bet that also gives them a priority list.

I have called PayPal once before. The experience wasn't horrible, but it didn't leave me enthusiastic like Stripe's does. I'm not holding that against them though: it's only one mediocre experience, and I have not used them much because of the whole payment redirection thing (I did not know about their Pro account then).

To be clear: I'm not actually saying that PayPal is bad. I don't have enough experience with them to weigh in one way or the other. I am merely saying that I do like Stripe.

I'm not sure of Stripe's reasoning behind not resending webhooks, but I don't know that I care for them not resending them either. Perhaps this is something they'll be addressing in the future or otherwise have a legitimate reason.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

Edit: I was looking at it more and, as MichaelGG pointed out, I think it still means that you have to handle the credit card on your server and be PCI compliant.

That's somewhat a fair point, but I'll disagree.

In that instance, the co-founder replied, but I've heard from a number of Stripe's other employees since then, and in every case the customer support has been wonderful. Perhaps that's solely because they are still a startup, but given what I know now about the people themselves, I don't believe that to be the case.

I don't mean my original comment to suggest that the co-founder will always be the one to respond to a tweet as Stripe grows, but I do suspect that their standards for customer service will remain high, and someone in the company will give a quick and quality response. That said, with Stripe, I believe that–even if they aren't the ones responding to every tweet, which is admittedly much to ask–the co-founders will continue to have an eye on what people are saying about them and interact appropriately, not wall themselves off.

Edit to reflect your edit:

I remember that HN thread where you brought up chargebacks. For anyone interested, they discuss how they handle chargebacks here: https://stripe.com/help/chargebacks

I can't attest as to why they manage chargebacks that way, and will not speculate beyond the note that they are still new and seem to be developing their service in response to customer feedback and perceived needs.

For you, or anyone else who might be interested in requesting features regarding chargebacks or any other aspect of their service, I highly recommend writing in: support@stripe.com or https://stripe.com/help/contact. As I mentioned, they're very responsive, and seem to love the feedback.

I was one of the beta users too–I showed the letter to my co-founder and we both got huge smiles on our faces.

Here's a picture of it: http://yfrog.com/nz99532600j

The post is spot on.

My initial attraction to Stripe was because of a reason mentioned in the post: not wanting to redirect or otherwise interrupt the normal order process of my site with another company's (branded) checkout form just to handle credit card payments. The other reason for initial attraction was of course their elegant API, which was very refreshing to see after having dealt with Intuit's QBMS API (shudder) in the past.

Stripe really sealed the deal though when I tweeted them to ask my first question about signup and one of the co-founders reached out to me. Since then, I've been in contact to share my feedback or ask other questions, and the quality and timing of their responses is one of the best I've ever seen.

When a customer of ours had an issue placing his order, I wrote Stripe to see if they could offer any insight as to what errors they might be seeing on their end. While the error was unrelated to Stripe itself, they were so awesome that they actually took the initiative to browse through our checkout page and point out the spot that they thought to be the issue.

A company that stands beside you when debugging your checkout page, maintaining swift response times on an issue that isn't even theirs? That's customer support.

I probably sound like I'm gushing right now, but I just have mad respect for this company. The product isn't the only thing that's top notch, the people behind it rock too.

Here it is on Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stripe

For those interested in seeing all of her tweets, I've put them up on Storify here to make them easier to read through in order: http://storify.com/michaelschade/myfirstmammo-at-xeni

Sweet! I've updated the README to note the existence of your extension.

Thanks for the contribution!

This was written in response to Gun.io's post, which was recently on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266455

Works wonderfully–very nice!

Hey, that's pretty slick. Just signed up to check it out, thanks for sharing!

I can't seem to get the extension to work (package not valid). It looks neat, though.

Detecting and highlighting new comments was my original functionality, and I added the post list highlighting as an after-thought when I couldn't find something similar through a quick search.

Thanks for sharing it.

You can install it by grabbing the user script: https://raw.github.com/michaelschade/hnpc/master/src/hnpc.us...

Here are two pictures showing it in action:

* https://github.com/michaelschade/hnpc/raw/master/examples/po...

* https://github.com/michaelschade/hnpc/raw/master/examples/co...

This uses a browser's Web Storage, so all information is stored locally.

That's a thought, but even moderately sized snippets might get hard to read. I think this concern is especially valid because the rest of the text on the site is large and easily readable from a distance, so making the most important text–the snippet–smaller would be out of place.

Neat project. One critique: I don't like having only five lines of the snippet visible at any given time, it makes it harder to easily understand what's going on in some of your longer snippets.

I suspect that the five line limitation was done so that the "Give me another one!" button was always in relatively the same place and easily clickable (I appreciate that), but perhaps there could be a small, duplicate text link up above the snippet for this purpose too, thereby also letting you make the snippets longer.

Zoom is absolutely needed.

I'm glad that OnSwipe is experimenting with different ways to view articles on the iPad, but when I find anything that disables pinch to zoom–one of my favorite features on the iPad–I get frustrated and leave.

I assume you've already checked this, but just in case you haven't: is Find My iPad setup? If so, and if you can get access to his Apple account, then you can track it that way.

Aha, thanks for pointing this out–I was curious if there was such a thing too.

On the about page (http://teamtreehouse.com/about), why are the boxes so big for each person? I see picture, name, title, Twitter handle, and then a fair amount of whitespace that makes me think there'd be a short bio for each person.

I'm not sure of your employment status, but if you are an employee somewhere, it's quite possible that you can get your employer to at least partially pay your way.

The cost is an interesting thing to attempt to justify, and it depends entirely upon how you take on the conference. If you simply attend, sit in the audience, and listen to some of the talks, with rare exceptions I would argue that the cost isn't worth it for any conference. You'll notice that many conferences put videos of their talks online–for free. There's a reason for this: the talks are not the most valuable aspect of the conference; rather, the rest of the experience at the conference is the precious part.

This isn't to say that the talks are unimportant. The quality of speakers reflects on the quality of the conference as a whole and the speakers set the stage for the great discussion that will flow from there. At a conference, you'll sit in the audience and listen to some really intelligent person speak about a given topic, and people really get into what that person has to say; but the real magic comes just after the speaker finishes. You'll notice that those that really found the talk interesting will rise from their seats and rush to the stage, crowding around the speaker to engage her in discussion. Fellow attendees–speakers or otherwise–will further break off into their own groups to keep the conversation flowing.

So, if you think of a conference as a novel, then imagine the speakers as the main characters. While they keep the plot flowing, it's really the other characters–the attendees–that tie everything together and make the main characters worthwhile.

Additionally, you'll find yourself thrown into a large group of people where you are both stronger than others in some areas and weaker than other attendees in different areas. This tends to be any geek's best dream–you're simultaneously around people from whom you can learn and to whom you can impart knowledge, which means that you're in an environment that fosters creativity and open discussion.

You won't remember everything that you learn at a conference. That isn't the point. Instead, you'll be introduced to a wide range of new ideas, and you'll take that new perspective back to work or other areas of your life and apply it accordingly. For example, I saw Nathan Marz's talk at Strange Loop 2011, where he open-sourced Storm. For days after (and, frankly, even as I was working on something just the other day), ideas that he put forth in that talk have resonated in my mind, and I've architected solutions to numerous problems in ways that I otherwise would not have imagined, all because I was exposed to a different point of view.

This benefit is what just one speaker has done for me–now imagine how powerful this is when you're exposed to 20, 40, or even 60 different speakers! The benefit continues to grow as you talk not just with speakers, but with fellow attendees as well, absorbing their newly gained snippets of knowledge and sharing some bits of your own.

For these reasons I would say that, while $450 can indeed be a lot of money, it isn't just applied to the two days that you will be at a conference. Instead, it continues to work for you through the lessons learned and–perhaps even more importantly–people met.

It says it on the website, but of particular note is that Alex also runs the Strange Loop conference (https://thestrangeloop.com/). Of its three years, I've attended two consecutively, and have had a blast both times, learned many new things, and made great connections.

He also runs groups here in St. Louis that I attend, so that paired with my experiences at his conference lead me to say with confidence that a conference run by him is certainly worth considering.

They're unfortunately not operating outside of the US yet (at least, not publicly). From what I hear, they're anxious to make this possible. Your best bet is probably to follow them on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/stripe) to find out when they announce international support.

Edit: You can asked to be notified when your specific country is available: https://stripe.com/global

After Sean Parker tweeted about this op-ed piece, there was conversation on Twitter about it by Sean, Chris Sacca, Gary Vaynerchuk, Anil Dash, and many others.

I'm sure there are many I'm missing that represent good ideas, but here are at least the tweets about the piece from the people listed above: http://storify.com/michaelschade/will-dropouts-save-america

Very nice, and good job involving your son in coding that way–that's an awesome way to start!

Agreed.

I've also written about exercise and its benefits (or really, the benefits of exploring other areas of life that one might enjoy outside of work): http://mschade.me/be-a-better-entrepreneur-be-a-little-selfi...