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vandalizeit··on Mo’ Money: Square Now Processing $3 Million A Day In Mobile Payments
Square charges a flat 2.7%, with no monthly charges. A merchant account with a payment gateway costs around $30 a month and 2.5%, accepting AMEX cost another $15 a month and the rate is 3.3%, but Squate does that for free.
vandalizeit··on Hacking Small Town America
"I'm going to do my best to live without being a consumer of gasoline, just as I did in Chicago."

Good luck with this. I don't think he realizes how pedestrian unfriendly cities in the Southwest are. He'll quickly realize a trip to pick up groceries will take 2 hours via bus, and he'll be forced to walk without sidewalks in 105 degree heat to the bus stop while everyone else drives by in airconditioned cars looking upon him like he is homeless.

vandalizeit··on How to Beat High Airfares
Counter example: my next flight.

I check fares one month ago - $599. Two weeks ago - $549. Yesterday - $499.

Tulsa to DC.

vandalizeit··on Show HN: Restaurant POS system built completely on iOS
I second this. If you have ever waited tables or tended a bar, you know that speed is everything.

A fast illogical system is better than a well organized system that requires several actions to get a result. You can front load the work an illogical system requires when you aren't busy, by memorizing the location of menu items, etc.

vandalizeit··on My first attempt of making web startup
If your target market is in the USA, I think you should change your tag line.

"Put your car expenses under control."

Should read,

"Get your car expenses under control."

vandalizeit··on Square Now Processing $1 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day
I agree with your tone...it is a great business they've worked themselves into. However, you are leaving out one major expense; I imagine they're paying the credit card companies between 1-1.5%.
vandalizeit··on New MacBook Pro series
Yes.

I was a first timer on the first unibody. I still LOVE it. I've never loved a PC, Dell, Sony, HP, ACER, Lenovo or otherwise. Part of that is OSX. I find it so much better than Windows, even after having using Windows most of my life.

vandalizeit··on Ask HN: Where can I find hungry developers who will get in bed with a startup?
Learn to program. There is nothing like a programmer who can sell.
vandalizeit··on Apple Touts Suicide Nets In Supplier Responsibility Report, But Changes Little
It is naive to think that suicide experts would recommend better working conditions, creating unions, or investing in machines to perform mind-numbing tasks.

Suicide experts have been trained to treat the problem of suicidal thinking, not the potential causes. If someone is suicidal because of depression, they tell them to talk about it and take an antidepressant. They don't advocate to their boss that they would be better off if they got paid more so they could work less and had better food in the cafeteria.

What do you expect?

vandalizeit··on Show HN: What Do You Think Of My Resume?
I third this. The way you have that slide written is misleading, and frankly, lame. You don't need to make it appear like you "worked at/for Apple" and that is the way it is written. Reshoot that slide.

Otherwise, I like the FB resume deal, this one time. If I ever see anyone else do this, that is a different story.