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$70 was the camera owner's revenue after Kitsplit had taken their cut. The rental fee was higher than $70.

The nice thing about Kochiku is that it is a free open source project whereas CircleCI is a paid hosted solution. If you have hardware available to use as workers on then Kochiku is free to use. There is a real cost to the time required to setup and maintain Kochiku but, at scale, within a larger company, this route can make sense.

I am sure CircleCI takes security very seriously but it also nice (and a requirement for certain companies) that with a self hosted CI server, that your source code does not leave the company.

I looked at Buffet but I was turned away by the lack of documentation for it. There is a short readme but that's it.

This is revolutionary because it is the first time that merchants have been ever been given the option to pay a flat fee per month in lieu of paying a percentage fee on each transaction. While that may not seem like a big deal you, merchants really love the simplicity of it.

A business that processes 60K a year is below the size that is targeted by this pricing structure. They are better off continuing to pay 2.75% per transaction.

Actually the merchant is only liable for the loss if they did not follow all of the rules and regulations for processing the credit card.

From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud#Merchants): "The liability for the fraud is determined by the details of the transaction. If the merchant retrieved all the necessary pieces of information and followed all of the rules and regulations the financial institution would bear the liability for the fraud. If the merchant did not get all of the necessary information they would be required to return the funds to the financial institution. This is all determined through the credit card processory."

From what I have seen, it is very common for the merchant to be liable for losses on a card not present transaction (e.g. online retail) but the credit card company stomaches the losses for a card present transaction.

I suspect that online merchants could reduce their liability by implementing things like Verified by Visa but choose not to because it causes them to lose too many legitimate sales.

Same for me. "Your password was leaked, but it has not (yet) been cracked. Fingers crossed."

Damnit, LinkedIn.

Square users only keep the device into their phones when they are taking a payment. When it is not needed they will carry it in their pocket, backpack, purse, or even put it on their keychains.

Even if someone were to keep the device in their phone all the time I do not think it would wear out their headphone jack. It is no different than keeping headphones plugged in all the time.

I'm an engineer at Square. I'm sure most of the company is on here as well.

The reason the projection for Q1 was only 40M is because it wasn't until March that Square reached the 1M/day milestone (http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/square-now-processing-1-mil...).

So in January and February they were doing less than 1M per day.

Generated with Docco: http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/

It is strange how every time someone interviews at Google they feel compelled to write "their" story and share it with the internet.

How many stories like this are out there now? Hundreds?

Was anybody else dumbstruck by the article's first comment by this bright chap, "Jeff"?

Brilliant. I've forwarded this to my team.

We make a tax solution and I've been dealing with vague "we should use NoSQL" comments from a few of the less capable members of the team.

If his team members read all the way to the comments it's going to be very awkward tomorrow at work.

Joel slams Twitter's blog as boring, saying it's essentially rewritten press releases but Twitter does have an engineering focused blog that has much more interesting content (for Programmers anyways).

http://engineering.twitter.com/

As far as I can tell Wordpress VIP is free. You just have to be accepted.

LOL. At about 37 minutes in Daniel answers a phone call from his Mom. Pretty rude to the interviewer but hilarious as well.

As a former Techcrunch intern I can attest that they do pay their interns. He may have been an exception though.

"There will be somebody that will contribute code actually, but most of the times this code will be about features you don't want to implement, or will not look like sane enough to be merged without a profound review, or will solve a good problem in a way that is not general enough, or simply the coder does not understand enough of the Redis internals or about your future plans to provide an implementation that is acceptable."

When this happens should the maintainer write back to the contributor and explain to them how they would like to code to be written instead (can be very difficult to explain). Or if the maintainer has time should they fix the code up themselves and merge it in?

In all fairness, how can anyone compare Peter Norvig and Ron Jeffries on the same level?

One is an AI genius and the other is a XP coach. They are on very different levels intellectually.

"AjaxIan teaches people about the popular javascript language, Ajax."

AAAAAaaah... What?

What do you mean there isn't a technical school close that you could solicit to? What about UCLA, UCI, Harvey Mudd, CalTech???

It looks like there is a build for hardy in PPA

https://launchpad.net/~screen-profiles/+archive/ppa

Anyone else think that the author of this website (badchesse.com) resembles a young Steve Woz?

Don't people realize that more than one person writes for TechCrunch. Erick Schonfeld was the sole author of the Last.fm TechCrunch article. Arrington had nothing to do with it and is still on vacation.

I agree. Project courses like this one should not even have a midterm and a final. They only distract from the main goal of the course.

I knew only because I live in Irvine, CA where Google does their radio advertising out of. They've invited us (UCI) over occasionally to talk about it.

I now wonder if Google will be closing that office...

The difference between Hotmail and Powerset is Microsoft has said that they will have some sort of integration with Live search by the end of the year.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/02/interview-with-barney-p...

Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about but having half of Live search running off Windows search and the remaining part being handled by Powerset's unix boxes sounds silly. Or at least I will think I am seeing pigs fly if it every happens.