pbreit

10,126 karma · joined April 9, 2007

San Francisco, CA. Checkout.com. Ex: Ingenico ePayments, Veem, Bold Financial Technologies, Eventbrite, PayPal, American Express. Projects: Cheeko B Pet Boutique, Canine Ties, MessageDesk.net, Pricetack.com, RunwayPOS.com.

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pbreit··on DOJ accuses Visa of monopoly that affects price of 'nearly everything’

FedNow will not become an alternative to consumer payment cards anytime soon, if ever. Visa & Mastercard work very well for payments between strangers.

pbreit··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

Mostly the blockee. Although I think it also devalues the service for some/many blockers.

pbreit··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

Unless they allow the reply but hide it from others (ie, shadowban).

pbreit··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

Nope, Twitter blocking is a poorly designed feature that permanently degrades the user experience.

pbreit··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

You can create a new account. It's a poorly designed feature that degrades the user experience semi-permanently and with no recourse.

pbreit··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

One of the dumber features on the internet. It permanently degrades the user experience and with no recourse.

pbreit··on Google Cache Is Fully Dead

My guess is it was a pain keeping up with the takedown requests.

pbreit··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock

I wonder if there's a version that's more of a shelf so could accommodate (m)any sized phones and with/without cases?

pbreit··on Swift 6

Was Swift really necessary? Would it really not have been possible to build iOS apps on something like JavaScript?

pbreit··on Oprah will screw up the AI story

Dash has gone so far off the deep end. His concerns are all mostly phony.

pbreit··on Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce

I wonder if they could get the setup and updates to be as easy as once.com?

pbreit··on Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission

Only possible with the existence of "billionaires".

pbreit··on Caddy 2.8

Not to be too pedantic but while it powers the majority of websites, it doesn't power much of anyone's day-to-day internet usage (even counting Facebook's usage of Hack).

pbreit··on Caddy 2.8

In layperson's terms, what is the difference between a "reverse proxy" and a "web server"?

pbreit··on Cloudflare lays off new hires

Isn’t the WARN act just for larger layoffs (50 or 75+)?

pbreit··on Cloudflare lays off new hires

I’ve seen the opposite: since AEs typically have very low base salaries, companies can afford to keep them around longer.

pbreit··on Launch HN: Pier (YC W23) – Stripe for Credit

Looks like you are Consumer oriented (vs Business)?

pbreit··on Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal

When I see that total amateurs (ie, parents) can home school their kids more effectively than school in a fraction of the time, I just don't understand why we can't improve traditional schooling more easily.

pbreit··on Kagi is 80% faster and 70% less carbon intensive than Google

Curious if the carbon part is meaningful to anyone?

pbreit··on Cisco Acquires Splunk

Is Splunk printing money like DataDog is?

Any lower priced alternatives? Or self-hosted?

pbreit··on My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

Pretty much all data eventually ends up in 2 dimensions (rows & columns) so all these complicated data models are just mostly complicating things.

pbreit··on Nginx Unit – Universal web app server

Can someone explain what this is to a novice web app developer?

pbreit··on Did you know Git was originally created in 10 days?

> not that amazing at all

Are there any other examples that come even close?

pbreit··on Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution

They will find them.

pbreit··on Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for Python

Any suggestions for lean Python libraries besides Flask?

pbreit··on Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

I thought this was going to be some sort of US Dollar-based stable coin. Interesting naming.

pbreit··on Tell HN: Upgrade your Metabase installation

Don't Maria, Postgres, etc make replication pretty easy?

pbreit··on Yelp rebuilds corrupted Cassandra cluster using its data streaming architecture

One wonders if Yelp could just run on a basic Postgres setup. It's not too much data, the data is relatively unimportant and the traffic is modest and mostly from US. How do the setups get so complicated?

pbreit··on Firefox address bar

Chrome manages to do this without a command character. Much better UX.

pbreit··on Anatomy of an ACH transaction

I paid IRS at 10am and the money left my checking account at 11am. It absolutely can be that fast with ACH.

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