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Ahhhhhh. Ohhhhhhh. A film!

PayPal is horrible, both as a merchant and a customer. In every single way possible. From APIs to service, to explanations to everything. It's time for someone else to take their place and everyone stop using PayPal.

Apple bullied me at some point https://blog.amahi.org/2011/06/21/apple-hits-amahi-with-a-ce...

Amahi | Front End, Design and RoR full-stack |Contract | REMOTE | https://www.amahi.org

Looking for help in implementing wizard-style functionality (maybe a small SPA) to existing RoR app. Also, help with modernization existing open source RoR app. message jobs at domain

Haha, yeah. It has not born much fruit yet, so it still feels like a bit of a loss, except I did learn a lot by doing.

It's like their are their Nigerian Prince.

Thank you.

I started playing tennis and I loved it. It's non-contact, you have to be thinking all the time and it's outside (often in the sun). I am happy when I play (or even watch) tennis.

Then (warning, plug ahead) I started a D3.js project (to keep skills fresh) to visualize data about tennis strings and rackets[1] to understand them better, ...

... which devolved in keeping my rackets/strings on that same app, which later open to others ...

... which devolved in starting a flex tennis league in my region (SF Bay Area)[2], ...

... which devolved into starting a small business to automate tedious and time consuming tasks at small racket-sport shops (and maybe others in the future)[3].

I'm so happy with projects that get a life of their own!

Watching comedy and writing comedy also makes me happy.

[1] https://www.racketlogger.com/racket-explorer [2] https://www.racketlogger.com/leagues [3] https://shops.racketlogger.com/

Microsoft did the same thing way back with CPUID .. when it was Intel, it worked well. Otherwise (AMD, Transmeta), they would use very inefficient operations instead of SSE (IIRC), slowing down benchmarks that used media (like players, etc) and Photoshop. This is from a distant life in the past, but I think it was not limited to use of SSE.

Title is incorrect. My account was created before 2012 and they just disabled all public links.

I do not see any emails from them. Maybe I read them over quickly and deleted them :-(

Yes, I probably missed the notifications somehow.

They probably should have had some warning on the app itself when putting or sharing files from that folder.

It's a free service, so my bad for using it without a good backup, but I had used programs for a long long time that produce screenshots with one keystroke and copy the URL to the clipboard, saving time.

I figured this was relatively low overhead for them and a popular feature, so they would keep it. Lesson learned ..

I relied on this "light" publishing for a few things and I'm quite pissed off. I did not notice any notification on this.

To me, this should be done very very visibly and with tons of warnings. I used it to communicate screenshots with details, etc. Now all links are broken and I'm SOL with no viable solution to changing those links from documents, bugs, etc., etc.

Very very very bad!

Congratulations! Remarkable work, at remarkable speed!

Could someone ELI5 (but I know chess moves only, not strategy) the reasons why the ending was described as "sexy" and "incredible" and "classy" and other superlatives I heard?

Gotta go check it out again soon! :-)

Looks like a "Sinatra replacement" of sorts.

I will try it to have a feel for it. Sinatra works well for me, though it can be confusing in parsing parameters, etc.

Maybe that is part of some other gem that helps with that here, since it's so minimal.

Buffer overflow. Oops!

Oh the irony ..

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Changing the date in the system (and disabling network time) worked well. A quick search led me to this solution, avoiding the whole re-download to please the sentient dictatorial master.

I just love how Google datacenters are somehow "the real world". Nice, cool and controlled temperatures, batch ordering from vendors knowing they are shipping to Google, stable/repeatable environments, not much mention about the I/O load, etc.

And then there's

> Ignore Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER) specs. A meaningless number. ...

> Bad news: SSDs fail at a lower rate than disks, but UBER rate is higher

meaningless, it is.

The real world has wild temperature ranges, wilder temperature _changes_, mechanical variations well above and beyond datacenter use, and possibly wil wild loads (e.g. viruses, antiviruses, all sorts of updates, etc. etc.).

It is easier to do stats this way, though.

"Just hire us" wrapped in a ton of buzzwords.

> Don't let your enterprise make the expensive mistake of thinking that buying tons of proprietary tools will solve your data analytics challenges.

...

> The truth is that a top team of data scientists can achieve great results ... This is broadly the approach that our own data science teams take when working with clients.

TL;DR

> That is what I remember most about Steve, that he simply loved designing and shipping products

Nothing new. The rest of the article is ego-boosting reminiscence.

Edit: typo

Try erasing the "Do not erase" sign by clicking it with your cursor "eraser". Cute :)

I built a site to run tennis leagues. We have started in the bay area with 210+ matches taken place since February when it launched. Most other sites that try to do this look like they are built in the 90s and have little support for modern features like communicating via Whatsapp or decent mobile support. It could also be extended to other (racket) sports later. People pay a $20 fee for each league, which is about 8 matches in 8 to 10 weeks. http://www.racketlogger.com

The goal is to scale it across the US (and beyond, to any english-speaking area). Doing cost-effective marketing is key. How do we get the word out? How do we improve the site and experience so much that players tell their friends?

We put effort in SEO building a large database (the largest?) of string and racket specs with the goal of attracting some of the core fans of the sport (we started to get some clicks a day). There are a ton of other "social" and related ideas, the question is how to select which one(s) will work best.