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silverlight

1,252 karma · joined October 29, 2008

Developer in the Kansas City area

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silverlight··on Stripe: Alipay support
If you guys would do this exact same thing for PayPal, I would be so happy.
silverlight··on We are leaving Google Wallet
We've been using Stripe for about two years now. We love it, but the one thing we're running into now is that we want to start adding support for additional payment options besides just Credit Card (e.g. PayPal).

The problem then becomes that all your subscription logic is handled via Stripe, so at that point you have to move your data to something like ChargeBee, or you have to set up your own in-house solution that handles working with PayPal's own recurring payments authorizations for some accounts, or Stripe's subscription features on the other.

We honestly haven't gotten far enough to decide what we're going to do about this yet. Moving to something like ChargeBee would make things simpler, but it adds an additional cost on top of what we're already paying Stripe/PayPal, plus we have to migrate all of the thousands of customer's data out of Stripe and into something else...

silverlight··on Vessyl, the smart cup that knows exactly what you're drinking
This can really sample how much sugar is in a custom smoothie? If so that's amazing.
silverlight··on How Disney Achieves a 70% return rate
Having just come back from a Disney World trip recently, I can say that this magic is still very much present.
silverlight··on Show HN: Comment on on-demand TV as if everyone is watching at the same time
I think they mean, it's one of the types of shows that people don't typically record because they want to watch it live, so this would not be useful for sports.
silverlight··on High-Tech Push Has Board Games Rolling Again
Shameless plug for our product which lets you play RPGs and board games online with others for free: http://roll20.net
silverlight··on Moving On
Reading his current Twitter feed, this reminds me of something a friend of mine went through several years ago. We weren't in very good contact at the time and he told me about it later, but the way his psychiatrist described it to him it was a mental break that resulted in him acting like some sort of billionaire business tycoon, only without any actual money. E.g. making ridiculously bold claims, offering people massive job opportunities when there is actually no money to pay for them, etc. During this time he sent me a Facebook message telling me to get on the next plane to London because he was assembling a team to create a new business and offered me 10 times my salary at that time. Obviously I declined and asked if he was okay, at which point he simply ignored me and continued on that path. Eventually he got help.

Anyway, might not be the same thing, and I don't know what the "official" name for it is, but this stream of tweets definitely sounds exactly like what my friend was saying at the time.

silverlight··on SecondMarket Opens Institutional Bitcoin Trading, 25 BTC Minimum
On my iPhone Chrome, no actual article appears. Just headline and comments.
silverlight··on Google+ Is Walking Dead
I hope that Hangouts will be sticking around long-term. Although WebRTC certainly helps in this area, Hangouts have quickly become the de-facto standard for mutli-person video chat. Not to mention a good chunk of our users use our app inside of Hangouts.
silverlight··on Firebase turns two today
Congrats!
silverlight··on Elon Musk: To the People of New Jersey
I thought he did a good job explaining why those laws were put in place and why they're not needed to be applied here. Even if you don't agree it's a monopoly, clearly in this case the law is not being applied as it should be.
silverlight··on My mom is dying, and my bank account is dry. I need help
Sent you a little. Hope it helps. Best of luck with everything.
silverlight··on Stack Overflow co-founder shares his secrets on creating great community sites
This is like a teaser to an article that might be worth reading. Did I miss a link to the full thing where what Jeff said is actually revealed?
silverlight··on The Looming Payment Liability Coming to American Merchants in 2015
How does this affect online payments?
silverlight··on Inside Quizlet's incredible feedback center
When I saw this, that was my first thought as well. Wow, if I had this, it would be so easy to answer a lot of our technical questions especially -- they're absolutely right, those typically require a ton of back-and-forth to dig into the issue, often resulting in us asking the end-user to provide a console log/dump.
silverlight··on The "Window Resizer" extension for Chrome now contains malware (2013)
I just can't even fathom. Like, every email I've typed. Every interaction with any site. Credit card numbers.

How is this not entirely illegal?

And it certainly shows an incredible flaw in Chrome extensions. This extension didn't do this when I installed it. A silent auto-update though basically turned it into the worst malware I've ever had installed on my computer. How can any Chrome extension ever be trusted?

Furthermore, I spend a lot of time in Chrome Dev Tools, and the Network tab and I are no stranger. I would easily have noticed if my keystrokes were being sent back to a server and it was shown in there. So not only can an extension be silently updated, but it's capable of using a network connection that doesn't appear in the Chrome Network tab, that only Wireshark can reveal? That seems almost as ridiculous as what the extension author did.

silverlight··on The "Window Resizer" extension for Chrome now contains malware (2013)
Whoa, wait. One guy in this thread is claiming that Window Resizer was sending all your keystrokes back to a central server based on what he saw in Wireshark. Can anyone else verify this? I've had this extension installed for...a year, at least. Do I need to now go change every single password on every site because chances are it's been keylogged? This is insane.
silverlight··on Going Feral Or “So long, and thanks for all the fish…”
Best of luck. Sounds like you're doing it for all the right reasons. I hope that I'm not doing the same thing 40 years from now, either, to be honest.
silverlight··on Dockbox.io - Host websites in Dropbox using your domain
Yeah you don't even have to link it. Just sign up, then link it via the Harp site, then share it using the web interface.

You don't lose out on anything at all, I'm doing this very thing.

silverlight··on Dockbox.io - Host websites in Dropbox using your domain
Just create a free Dropbox account, use that one to sign up for Harp, and then share the Harp site folder with your main account. It's a nice way to ensure that Harp is sandboxed.
silverlight··on Dockbox.io - Host websites in Dropbox using your domain
Harp.io does this (although with Harp not Jekyll). Using it to build a little web comic site[1]. Makes it easy for the author to upload new pages even though they don't know how HTML/FTP work.

[1] http://houseoforr.com

silverlight··on Show HN: Harp Platform now available to the public
Ohhh! Gotcha! I'll do that!
silverlight··on Show HN: Harp Platform now available to the public
As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong, please!) there's no easy way to "switch" Dropbox accounts on your computer, is there?
silverlight··on Show HN: Harp Platform now available to the public
Same here. Have a new project I'm starting next week that this would be perfect with -- a small site with several collaborators that's not worthy of a full CMS, and everyone involved loves and uses Dropbox already.

But Dropbox is my lifeblood -- the most-used tool in my toolbox. I have everything important in there. There is simply no way I can grant access to full thing, even if you promise to "play nice". It's simply too risky.

Fix that, and you'll be getting $10/mo. from me in no time.

silverlight··on Hutt by Citrix: Video chat over WebRTC
Also, why limit it to 4 people total?
silverlight··on Let's have coffee.
Yeah. I mean he's just using a regular ol' <video> tag. So you would presumably have that same issue with any site using HTML5 media tags.
silverlight··on Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rather than 16
Any plans to list the link to the summary of benefits as well? That would be super nice.
silverlight··on From Zero To Kickstarter In $5k
Just backed. I actually love this idea. I often jot things down on notebooks when planning an app or just need to work through something. I don't always need to refer back to it, but usually when I do it's a month or two down the road and I can never find it in my stack of notebooks. This will be great for that purpose, and I don't really need to keep the old notebooks anyway. Hope you get funded!
silverlight··on U.S. is now the world’s biggest oil and gas producer
I'm sure you have them, but since the parent commenter was nice enough to supply sources for his claims, perhaps you could as well?
silverlight··on Pixel Shaders: Proposal for an Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming
Fantastic!
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