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Re:Writing Spyware Made Easy on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:40PM (#14992364)
TL;DR Code at https://github.com/719Ben/chrome-spyware
Re:How we made the typeface Comic Sans on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:06PM (#14037679)
https://github.com/719Ben/Comic-Sans-Everything
Re:Show HN: POC to show the flaw in project collaborator notifications... on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @01:37PM (#11383209)
I think the fix is simple. Make people confirm that they want to be a collaborators before notifying all their followers.
Re:Show HN: POC to show the flaw in project collaborator notifications... on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @01:20PM (#11383048)
I am the project creator and after some feedback I agree. The project's name has been changed.

Ask HN: Process Echecks?

Posted by 719Ben on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @07:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi HN,I know platforms like braintree and stripe let you process credit cards with ease. Does anyone know any companies doing the same thing for echecks?

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Re:Ask HN: AWS vs. Digital Ocean? on Monday August 03, 2015 @02:46PM (#9998778)
I am running a payment platform that uses go, postgres, and several third-party APIs as well as offering one myself.
Re:Ask HN: AWS vs. Digital Ocean? on Monday August 03, 2015 @02:38PM (#9998698)
What are the advantages/disadvantages of each one? I am a little lost here.
Re:Ask HN: How do you draw the line between bikeshedding and design? on Friday July 31, 2015 @07:19PM (#9985084)
I worded this incorrectly. We have quite a lot bilt. We talk about code design for each part before we build that.
Re:Ask HN: How do you draw the line between bikeshedding and design? on Friday July 31, 2015 @06:19PM (#9984851)
We have yet to launch. I was talking about system design, not so much user design but I will keep this in mind as we start to get more and more into user design.
Re:Ask HN: How do you draw the line between bikeshedding and design? on Friday July 31, 2015 @06:18PM (#9984845)
I like this advice. You hit it right on the head. I am asking about programing design, not interface design. We will start to flip a coin.

Ask HN: How do you draw the line between bikeshedding and design?

Posted by 719Ben on Friday July 31, 2015 @04:26PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi HN,I am currently working on a project with my co-founder. We will sit down and talk about the design decisions we want to make before we start to code anything up. We have been doing this for about 2 months now. Sometimes the chats feel like design talks and sometimes it feels like bikeshedding.Where and how do you draw the line between application design and...

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Ask HN: How do you version control a Database?

Posted by 719Ben on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:51AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hello All,I am working on a project with 2 others and we have a PostgreSQL database that links to our project. We are trying to figure out the best way to share the layout of the database as it is edited. Currently we email each other when we change the table layout but this takes a lot of time and feels very backwards from regular Git commits. Does anyone have any advice to version controlling...

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Re:Show HN: Run dedicated iOS Simulators in the browser on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @02:07PM (#8488782)
You may want to watch out for people using this a proxy to do bad stuff with your servers. I noticed that all traffic is coming from Georgia, not my computer.
Re:Ask HN: What localhost port do you like? Why? on Saturday August 16, 2014 @12:39PM (#8186699)
why?

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