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benmills··on PayPal’s Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments
Hey I work at Braintree on our SDKs. You can find the list of things you need to do to enable one touch here[1]. For Android there is nothing outside a normal Braintree integration you need to do and for iOS you need to register a URL type as well as make two changes in your app delegate to tell us about it.

We generally think about two ways you can integrate with Braintree on the front-end: the drop-in UI and custom. Drop-in [2] means you yield control to us, but you get a dead simple integration which includes one touch paypal and venmo out of the box. If you go the custom[3] route it's obviously more work to integrate, but adding one touch only requires some button that starts the paypal or venmo flow.

Edit: You can also download ParkWhiz (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/parkwhiz-find-book-parking/i...) and install the PayPal app to see the user experience for yourself!

[1] https://developers.braintreepayments.com/ios/guides/one-touc... [2] https://developers.braintreepayments.com/ios/sdk/client/drop... [3] https://developers.braintreepayments.com/ios/sdk/client/payp...

benmills··on Braintree V.Zero SDK – Faster integration, drop-in UI, and pay with PayPal
I'm one of the developers who works on v.zero. We're planning on constantly improving the drop-in UI based on feedback and data. Currently we allow you to embed the form shown in your own form. It's expected you would include your own call to action that would be more contextual for the user.

On native mobile we,ve taken the approach to render the call to action for you and allow you to configure the text. Is that something you would find useful on web as well? It's definitely something we've debated internally.

benmills··on Vim After 11 Years
I've recently uninstalled NERDTree in favor of netrw and I've been presently surprised at how little I miss NERDTree and how much more productive I am on default vim installations.
benmills··on Can'tada - Tracking the stuff you can't use in Canada
We actually just launched in Canada and today. https://www.braintreepayments.com/tour/international
benmills··on Design for Hackers (the book) is here
Are you planning on offering an ebook version? I prefer to read most books digitally, but agree that this type of book would be impossible take in on a kindle.
benmills··on Fighting Back After Hacker News Took Down My Site
That is true. At least for personal blogging, I would use a service like Tumblr so I wouldn't have to think about any of these issues unless my blog became very popular.
benmills··on Fighting Back After Hacker News Took Down My Site
I agree with you when you're taking about web apps, but what about personal blogs?

If I just want to set up a personal blog that I don't plan on promoting or spending a lot of time on I wouldn't want to spend any extra time setting up things that don't help me with my primary goal, writing blog posts.

benmills··on The Mac App Store and the “MZFinance.NoGUIDTokenFailureKey_message ” Error
Here is the direct link to the discussion about the problem on Apple's support forum:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2709726...

benmills··on A collection of apps the 37signals team started using in the past year
I've been using 1password with chrome for a few weeks. Works great.
benmills··on Canvas.js
Yeah I was a little surprised a .js version wasn't included as well. If might be a good idea to reference how people can compile coffeescript for people who want to use this and don't know what coffeescript is.
benmills··on Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site
It would be awesome to add some js to a website you own to spawn a computer controlled defender if someone uses this script on your site.