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Much easier to do in Canada with the number of banks involved. The US would be an entirely different story.

The lack of chip card support in Coin effectively makes it a US only product at this point as most of the card-heavy countries have moved past mag swipe (or, are in the process).

So, it's like losing your wallet then.

I've used the Smart Money Clip for about 6 years and love it.

http://www.smartmoneyclip.com/

Hmm, that 8gb RAM/8vCPU offering in the performance 1 group is interesting. And, a good price point too. I really wish AWS had a similar offering.

I might need to take a look at this. Does Rackspace also provide similar services like Elasticache, RDS, ELB and CloudFront?

Excited about some of these changes. I've been debating moving back to FF for my primary dev browser for some time and these look like the changes that will make me do it.

Thanks Mozilla!

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Toronto, ON. Full time.

GelaSkins.com is looking for a creative, upbeat and enterprising senior full stack web developer to join our hardworking (and fun-loving) team of five developers and help take our public site, mobile app, CMS, vendor order system, and production software to the next level. We've got big ideas and the right individuals can help us make them reality. If you're interested in helping us shake up the creative product marketplace and have experience in the following areas, we want to hear from you.

- Rails or equivalent framework (JS frameworks included) Knowledge of background queuing software such as sidekiq or rescue

- Some experience with lucene-driven search & analytics software

- AWS or VPS hosting provider such as DigitalOcean or OpenStack

- Experience with unit testing and refactoring/removing technical debt from existing code

Join our ever-growing posse of 30 designers, developers, printers and happy-customer-creators in Toronto’s fabulous Junction neighbourhood. We have huge plans in store and we’d love to have your help.

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It's the framework I'm most excited about and watching closely. I still think Rails has a place in the back-end (e.g. API) but Meteor is showing a lot of promise.

It's pretty decent too. Keep considering moving back to it. Haven't paid for ST3 yet so we'll see.

That's really cool. Do you know what tool was used to build that? I know a few clients that would love this.

Probably going to move off iOS to this but it depends on the size. If it is just as big as it's predecessor, maybe not.

I understand both points of view on the usage of the term "hacker" but I think most people are missing the key point of the post.

Payroll is incredibly difficult to do. Even more so to do well. Having spent many, many years in the space I can honestly say that it is one of the most taxing systems I've ever been involved with.

A lot of startups and the folks that are interested in them are looking for cool, hip and fast moving projects to jump in and out of. For people of that mindset, payroll is one of those fields where you will be consistently frustrated.

It is filled with thousands/millions of a little one-off rules (per employee, per state/province, per country, per vertical/horizontal etc. etc.) that it can drive a type-A go-getter insane. I think it is better to get that out of the way first before possibly attracting the wrong type of talent.

I'm amazed that there is no demo or screenshot for something so clearly awesome.

This isn't just Obama. This is the new form of management. It is control-the-message-at-all-costs and treat-the-plebes-like-the-animals-they-are.

It's happening in corporations, politics, colleges/universities, etc. It has been in place for some time, but not to the extent that it is now. It's continued pervasiveness into our culture is likely one of the root cause of so much that is problematic in these institutions today.

Just have to say, Sidekiq and Dalli are two gems that I view as essential in the Rails toolkit. Thanks for your work in those areas.

This is exact same workflow I use. If it's a feature branch that I'm working on locally, then rebase -i is my friend as I can squash commits. But, I rarely stay in a local branch for longer than a day or two for fear of losing work and no developer is an island. The second it is shared, it's merge only.

Rebase conflicts always cause more grief than it's worth.

We don't have a better source on this? The article contains nothing that this community could actually discuss.

I'm not knocking Stripe. I use them and love them for what they provide. They've taken an extremely difficult problem and made it easy and they deserve a lot of kudos for that.

However, there are others doing similar work that deserve similar accolades. Balanced is one example. I think the work that Square and now Shopify are doing in the POS space is laudable.

It's just a matter of seeing the forest through the trees. Stripe is a big tree, obscuring a lot at the moment (with good reason) but it behooves us to continually look around and find new opportunities lest the entrenchment of companies like Paypal take root again.

I love Stripe as much as the next guy but this post seems a bit biased in that direction.

You've added the caveat (and it's appreciated) but saying someone/something is the best at anything is a tall, tall order. Never align yourself to a tech, service or company so much that you miss anything else on the horizon.

I echo some of the sentiment that some of these gems provide, but they are quite helpful in getting a quick project up and running in a few minutes to start playing around.

Some of my favorites:

figaro[1] Alternative to dotenv, awesome mascot.

rack-mini-profiler[2] Often folks will say to save performance tuning until the end. I find having this around from the get go makes it much easier to do as you move along.

I love sidekiq though. Probably the best on the list. Background queues are essential to most, if not all Rails applications. The goworker post from today looks interesting too.

[1] https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro

[2] https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler

Looks interesting. Thanks for the suggestion.

I imagine that Intel wants to sell to everyone at this point.

(and, oh how I long for the death of the "Wintel" term...)

I'd say that Windows 7 was an unmitigated success.

As for XP, without a doubt. Considering it still holds the second largest market share (behind Win7). Impressive given that it is 12 years old now.

If you're using other AWS services, then this makes a lot of sense. It saves you the hassle of setting multiple redis nodes on EC2 and the (admittedly low) maintenance.

I think it's a good move on their part.

I've been using Puma in dev/QA and it's impressive. I'm planning on trying it out in production but have a lot invested in Unicorn at the moment. For example, I have monit confs that kill workers once they reach a certain memory threshold and I'll have to figure out how to do that with Puma.

Which is where Scout, Honey Badger and New Relic come in. But, I agree, a more robust version for development environments would be nice.

This is really cool. Rails is currently looking for feature recommendations for 4.1. You (or author) might want to share this with them. I can see it being a pretty popular idea.

https://twitter.com/rails/status/366620806064783361

Anyone else think that all this negative press is on purpose? I mean, really. They've taken one of the most iconic men of this nascent century and apparently slapped together a movie about him.

It's not like there is not considerable source material to work with (even without Isaacson's book if you're concerned about the "other" movie).

It just feels like someone has asked the press to deliberately drum up negative opinions specifically in regards to the true validity of the movie (not, you know, overall quality) and it will likely drive people out in droves.

Are you me?

As much as I love the Virgin trains in the UK, a substantial part of it is not covered. I travelled down from Scotland through Wales and over into London and only a portion was covered by Virgin (sadly).