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rs··on The End of the Credit Card? New Square app: Card Case
This does look interesting, but TBH, I don't think its the end of credit cards per-se. One main reason:

What if my phone's battery is dead ? Does that mean I can't buy anything ? What happens in an emergency ? Credit cards are easy as they're quite low tech physically (a magnetic strip, a chip and some plastic).

Other things would be stuff like: not everyone has a phone, but would still like a credit card, etc. There are countries where phone penetration (and not even smart phone) is not very high, but the population still need to have credit cards.

Granted, I can see it being used as an alternative, but doubt it will be the "end of credit cards"

rs··on Linux From Scratch 7 Released
Do people still use/build LFS ? What's the use case ?
rs··on The Coding Zone
There's a good list here: http://www.head-fi.org/products/category/amp-dacs

I was eye-ing NuForce Icon (can't remember which exact model) about a year ago (have dropped this requirement since)

rs··on The Coding Zone
I like the coffee mug and more importantly the glass of water: always keep hydrated during coding runs!
rs··on Tell HN: Another PayPal Farce - Refunds my money to customer
This can happen from time to time, and I think most of the time they just end up giving the customers a refund.

From my personal experience, its better to just ask Paypal to refund the money and ask the customer to re-pay. Its a bit annoying, and you may get some disgruntled custoemrs, but a whole lot easier than going through the pain of asking Paypal for an explanation.

rs··on GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
Have a look at http://xp-dev.com which does not have any limits on number of projects

(disclaimer: I run it)

rs··on Show HN: My newest startup, Kiveve
This reminds me of LinkExchange (Tony Hsieh's previous startup). Is it any different from that ?
rs··on Dropbox founders personally cashing in on $300M round
Congrats to them!!
rs··on Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com
Not to be a pain, the design is good, but there's no place to actually put an ad, considering the advertisements are one of their sources of revenue
rs··on A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life
Maybe the legal department of Cisco is being treated as a "profit centre"
rs··on Show HN: I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love
>> A better response would be to point out how it improves on what's already available.

For starters, the UI is something that I haven't really seen before and its pretty neat.

Second, I do like the concept of today/tomorrow - think that's a nice way to encourage planning and doing

rs··on If Dropbox Used GitHub’s Pricing Plan
And no backups :) Just saying, having a low end VPS is not exactly the perfect solution
rs··on If Dropbox Used GitHub’s Pricing Plan
xp-dev.com $5/month 2GB
rs··on The top 9+7 things every programmer or architect should now
The book that was reviewed is here: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596809485/
rs··on Linus Torvalds proposes a change to the Git commit object format
Think they're using "generation" here in the context of number of parents (yes, "depth" would work fine as well, but is a more general term)
rs··on Fighting Back After Hacker News Took Down My Site
Nginx has proved extremely useful and capable especially in memory constrained virtual environment. It effectively gives an easy way to move from a synchronous web server to an asynchronous one.
rs··on Wantmore, Tweakmore, Totalscum, and the Tragedy of Boneheadia, by Charlie Munger
Very nice and well written summary of CDOs
rs··on ZeroCater (YC W11): Lunch At The Office Doesn’t Have To Be A Complete Pain
Any plans on bringing this across the pond to the UK/EU ?
rs··on Why I've built an alternative to Github
There is http://xp-dev.com for unlimited repos as well
rs··on Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS
> $15-$20/year

$15/$20 a YEAR ?

rs··on It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
>> Tell the right people about your site and tell them regularly via great blog entries, insightful tweets, and networking in your site’s category.

This, is the one big important step separating $0 per month and $2k per month.

rs··on Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team
Congrats to the Airbnb team!!
rs··on How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With?
As in the headache ? Isn't that a sign of withdrawal symptoms ?
rs··on Drizzle7, a Rackspace backed MySQL fork - The icing on the cake
Has anyone tried this in a production environment ? Stable enough ? Any gotchas ?
rs··on Unfuddle Vs Asembla
You should look at us as well - http://xp-dev.com
rs··on The JRR Tolkien Estate Can Go Fuck Itself
Honest question: does the Tolkien Estate have any legal grounding here ?

The way I look at it, if there was legal grounding, it might be a little quirky, as technically we won't be able to even mention any copyrighted/trademarked brand in casual texts. Imagine reviewing products and getting a take down notice at the end of that ? Doesn't make sense to me.

rs··on LSE Halts
None of the exchanges have the required talent.

Ahem, based on what evidence exactly did you reach that conclusion ?

TBH, from all the exchanges/brokers I've seen and dealt with in the past, there are a few that are pretty solid - Deutsche Borse is one of them. There's EuroMTS as well.

Essentially, most exchanges that deal with many market makers have got an extremely challenging technical problem to solve - scaling and latency. One that most investment banks can't even begin to solve.

I'm not saying there aren't any good talent in banks - there are plenty. I'm just saying that there's some really smart, talented people in exchanges.

rs··on Spreedly Core - API powered payments w/o burden of PCI compliance
How would this work for things like 3-D Secure where you need to be redirected to the card issuer's website ?
rs··on Continuous Deployment
Big changes create big problems. Little changes create little problems

The real problem comes when little changes (unknowingly) create big problems

rs··on We’re not like Yammer or Chatter, and we don’t want to be
Except I think one of their USPs is that they have a desktop app
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