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Re:Stripe now supports ACH payments by protomyth on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @04:32PM (#10890546)
> It felt so obscure and unnecessarily difficult.

I earned a bit of money in the 90's doing a lot of those types of data transfers. I get the feeling 70% of IT is just data munging.

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Re:Stripe now supports ACH payments by IanCal on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @07:02PM (#10891368)
> I get the feeling 70% of IT is just data munging.

The remaining 30% is, as far as I can tell, fixing bugs in the data munging code.

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Re:Stripe now supports ACH payments by protomyth on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @07:30PM (#10891481)
Leave some room for the UI folks - although that is basically getting humans to munge the data as a pre-step for the computer munging.
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