andreftavares

Hey! Do you still love the idea of programming/building stuff? Was your successful startup the product you always dreamt of building? (Or at least you had other ideas you didn’t pursue) Now that you don’t have the financial pressure and don’t need to associate with co-founders that may drive you crazy… why not start something just for you, just for the fun of it? Give yourself a couple of years to try and make it work. Committed, but without pressure from others. I guess we all have those things that we would do “if I had the money and the time”. :)

<shameless-plug> https://github.com/yoonic </shameless-plug>

My open-source e-commerce platform all in Javascript. Backend is an API powered by Hapi.js (node.js) and Storefront is a React isomorphic app.

There's more to the payment world than Stripe vs Braintree :) Actually, there's more to payments than cards! In many countries, local alternative payment methods account for more than 50% of e-commerce transactions. Do Stripe/Braintree support them? No.

Even more, you'll most likely have to integrate with each payment method's specific API/workflow!

(shameless plug...) I'm co-founder of Switch Payments (https://switchpayments.com) and we believe:

1) You're probably overpaying for credit card processing (https://medium.com/switch-blog/youre-probably-overpaying-for...)

2) Integrating with our API is the best way to remove the pain of supporting current and future payment methods! With one single integration you'll be able to support not only cards, but also dozens of Alternative Payment Methods from countries all over the world.

If you consider the "infinite" of space and, especially, time, I believe that the probability of the existence of (at least) one "inteligent" species capable of reaching any given place of the universe is 100%.

The question of why they don't contact us is simple: Prime Directive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive)

Disclaimer: I'm not a particular fan of Star Trek and bumped into this interesting principle, which I believe makes perfect sense.

It is a new kind of approach to software development: SFAQL.

Shoot First, Address Questions Later.

I bet this kind of decisions are a consequence of MBA/Excel mindset. Developing software properly takes time and money and that isn't... lean (lol) and doesn't drive billion dollar valuations.

These days it is inconceivable to make any webapp, big or small, without some kind of Javascript MV* framework. IMHO Backbone is a great choice as it isn't too opinionated to start with, but scales to more complex scenarios.

What would be "nice to have" was a part regarding memory leaks, as it can become a problem with Backbone's Views.

Can this be the homebrew-hardware-gadgets equivalent to the Apple AppStore?

SOA will save the world! :)

Great overview on REST, specially for those who have heard of it but never took the time to understand it and end up making some honest "mistakes".