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This happened to a friend a few months ago. He has a SaaS business, working remotely out of France (uses Stripe + US bank accounts as he lived in US for sometime).

One day suddenly, he got locked out of his bank account (a major US bank) and the only way to restore the access was to walk into a branch physically. This meant dropping all work and flying to US at a day's notice, assuming you are granted a Visa. He was fortunate that the customer service listened (though they were not the politest people on the planet). After jumping a few hoops and following some unconventional methods of verification, the access was restored, but the situation was scary for a few days.

Is it like the Chrome "People" (or profiles or user) feature ? Suggesting that "user won’t need to use multiple browsers" seems like a problem that didn't exist if you used chrome.

Revenue details of Buffer : https://buffer.baremetrics.com/

> ConferenceBadge.com ... projected to make around $750 000/year

Nice ! Love how the quarters accumulate (reference to your $.25 pricing per badge)

> I wonder what features Dropbox can offer that won't inevitably be surpassed by Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and OneDrive.

It's strange but it seems like others aren't trying hard enough or simply aren't interested in making a great product. My experience with dropbox has been better than with any other cloud backup service. For instance, I can move my cloud folder around without forcing a re-sync of the entire data. I can manually copy data to a new computer & it'll be magically sync'd without re-downloading everything. Dropbox also does a great job of incremental updates on binaries.

My biggest gripe with the previous versions was the amount of memory it consumed (v 10). Hopefully they've resolved it.

'Not liking' is not the same as 'hostility' & 'hate' ! I don't know what's your source of information but you are quite misinformed about how British ruled in India. There's no point in debating all this here. This is not the right forum. But you are wrong about your statements. You need to read more on British Indian history.

Unrelated to Churchill but worth reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

Why would you call this garbage & bigotry. There seems to be evidence supporting Churchill's attitude towards Indians:

"Churchill’s excuse — currently being peddled by his family and supporters — was Britain could not spare the ships to transport emergency supplies, but Mukerjee has unearthed documents that challenge his claim. She cites official records that reveal ships carrying grain from Australia bypassed India on their way to the Mediterranean"

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"Churchill’s hostility toward Indians has long been documented. At a War Cabinet meeting, he blamed the Indians themselves for the famine, saying they “breed like rabbits”. His attitude toward Indians may be summed up in his words to Amery: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” On another occasion, he insisted they were “the beastliest people in the world next to the Germans”.

I wouldn't want my e-commerce store to fulfill orders for a compromised account without talking & confirming some key details with the customer. This HN post is testament to some funky ordering going on.

My experience has been positive with Amazon and there has been situations where they've gone out of their way to make the customer happy. I'm fairly confident that a situation like yours can be resolved with Amazon over phone.

This is a logistics issue: shipping to an unverified address before receiving back the original product. Amazon should be solely responsible for it.

> email has "been hacked".

But that's probably a big reason to _not_ let the orders through.

> Amazon is out quite a bit of product and a lot of trust from me.

The product is still a drop in the bucket for Amazon. Hopefully some of you actions will trigger their fraud protection dept. to blacklist the address or maybe they think it's not worthwhile blacklisting a whole address with multiple suites for a tiny amount. Anyway, I don't think it's reason enough to lose trust in Amazon. As long as they got the honest customer covered, it's OK to lose some when you are running a business of Amazon's scale.

As @sdrinf mentioned, it's social engineering at play. Maybe they can raise the bar to placing phone orders/replacements. Or maybe they think, they'll lose more business by adding a teeny hurdle than gain on fraud recovery.

A times B times C equals X. If X is less than... we don't care kind of thing (Fight Club recall reference)

It was crazy but it was also the right way forward. People speculated & desired this for a long time.

Most of them are very generic, pragmatic & terse statements. It depends on which side you are looking at.

> 14. Do something creative with the design of the box and separate yourselves from the pack.

99% companies would benefit from this.

> 10. Get a great image campaign

Sure, why not? That's true for every company, Intel, BMW, Microsoft, you name it. All want a great image campaign. Ultimately it's the product that makes the image campaign 'exclusive'

> 34. Port the OS to the Intel platform

That was an obvious one.

>> Apple switched to USB pretty quickly if I remember correctly

The 30-pin dock & then the lightning connector. Not exactly industry standard at both ends

Also, it doesn't hurt to be co-creator of Django ;)

Atul Gawande's book, Checklist Manifesto, is an excellent source on the topic at hand. Surprisingly the author of statesman article didn't mention it at all. This article from New Yorker that was probably the inspiration for his book is worth reading. Interestingly, it draws analogy from the perils of not having a checklist in flying airplanes too

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...

Halfway through the post, I had to stop reading. This is so heart breaking. As a parent, you start feeling guilty of being helpless when your child is suffering. May God give strength to the family in these tough times.

> The only external input needed to keep the plant going is light, since this provides it with the energy it needs to create its own food and continue to grow.

Future of clean energy ?

Agree with your comment and almost all replies here. I'd love to switch to Git just because of Github but the UI is holding me back. Tried Git for a few months, switched to Hg & found it a lot more easy. I just don't like the swiss army knife approach of Git.

It's a shame I had only 4 red blocks. I should diversify :)

Fun experiment !

Could someone explain in a few lines why & how is elasticsearch a revolutionary thing (technically) ?

Speaking for myself, religion/dharma is not hurting others and being honest. It's not based on superstition, it just makes me feel happy. Happy is healthy.

Point being, the meaning of these terms are too broad to tag & generalize them with a few words.

You are blurring the distinction to drive home your point. The fact is, superstition carries a negative connotation. Discipline does not.

> Religion is by definition superstition

For some, Religion encompasses superstition, but it goes beyond that.

For others, Religion is "Dharma" [1]. It's a way of life / discipline.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma

You can get in touch with him here : https://twitter.com/SanalEdamaruku

Kudos to the gentleman for his relentless struggle against superstition.

Probably worth knowing that the author 'Brad Fitzpatrick' is part of the Go language team http://golang.org/CONTRIBUTORS

Is it doing something beyond pretty print in Chrome?

Nifty, but this one has a higher purpose. It can run an entire project in a framework.