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Re:Stripe: instant payment processing for developers on Friday September 30, 2011 @07:53AM (#3056592)
It would be great as a starting point to be able to charge in currency other than USD, I suppose that should be easier to set-up than accepting non-US based merchants. There are a lot of non-US people like me that have a SSN and US bank account from past US experiences that can already use Stripe in their home countries. But marketing a product in Italy with a price in USD won't cut it!

Ask HN: if you google 'bottle' what is your first search result?

Posted by the_gws on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @06:51AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I wanted to google the Bottle Python framework and just typed 'bottle' and pressed return. At that very moment my brain thought: what do you think you are doing, you need to type 'bottle python' you idiot, you'll get all sort of useless links about bottles now. Well, lo and behold the first link was for the Python Bottle framework. Google freaking knows I am a Python hacker and shows me what I...

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Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases on Monday September 19, 2011 @05:42AM (#3012929)
All the examples of "bad" things that can happen reported here can already happen today because credit card companies already log all your transactions. The key point Jacques makes in his article is the the novelty will be in associating purchase history with web search history. It would interesting if somebody comes up with an example related to this new combination - I can't think of any top of my head. And while I don't blindly trust Google I surely trust them more than the financial companies that already have my purchase data.
Re:TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @02:04PM (#2966518)
We did an interesting experiment on conflicts of interest in Italy with our prime minister and it didn't go very well. Better avoid them.
Re:My Credit Card Company says I'm a Deadbeat on Thursday August 11, 2011 @09:12AM (#2872629)
Half cheek in tongue answer: The difference is that in the US people believe that they will be making more and more every year while in Sweden you don't. So they think they will own tomorrow the money to pay back what they spend today.

Are they right? Well, from 1970 to 2010 US economy has grown at an average of 2,9% per year, while Sweden by 2,1% (1). This is a huge difference, almost 50% more. So yes, they are both right :)

(1) Figures are GDP growth at market prices, source: OECD

Re:Chrome at 20% market share, IE9 less than IE7 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @04:56AM (#2670579)
I would bet that most of that ie6 and ie7 share is business computers. It's the IT department that decides when to upgrade those browsers and not the users. In home computers ie might not be the dominant browser anymore!
Re:The man who screwed an entire country on Friday June 10, 2011 @04:11PM (#2642235)
I am Italian and I dislike Berlusconi. That said it must be recognized that all of Italy's issues were already there before him. We can't really say that Italy has worsened with him but we can surely say that it hasn't got any better. There were a lot of expectations in 1994 that he was going to change Italy and bring the liberal revolution it sorely needs. Alas, none of them were met.
Re:Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes on Saturday January 22, 2011 @05:54AM (#2130273)
This reminds me of wordings from Osho (I will paraphrase from memory here): when we go to see a movie we immedesimate in the story and we laugh, cry, feel happy or sad based on what we see. Then the screen go dark and we remember who we are and go back to our real life. Our mind is like a movie screen and we laugh, cry, feel happy or sad based on the thoughts we "see" and immedesimate in. If we could turn the mind off we could remember who we are and go back to our real life

Ask HN: learning web programming vs. tablet programming

Posted by the_gws on Sunday December 19, 2010 @05:30AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am 36 year old with a very well paid and well progressing business career and I am bored to death. The idea of going to the office 9-7 for the next 30 years kills me. And I really believe I have a great corporate job so I now that the issue is having a corporate job.So I am learning to program, a bit for fun a bit to see if I can start something of my own. The original plan was to learn web...

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