HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

jay-saint

223 karma · joined March 3, 2014

midwest dad working in digital commerce and IT management in the the industrial b2b market. dreaming and working towards returning to the startup scene.

areas of professional expertise: security, magento, netsuite, SEO and SEM

areas of personal interest: cycling, photography, and building things with my daughter

submissionscomments
jay-saint··on Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
Thank you for sharing this, I just used one of their actions to makes some graphics for the /help/manuals pages I am working on.
jay-saint··on Ask HN: What to work on?
A quick suggestion if you want Vulgat.com to succeed you seriously need to build out your website and put some focus on SEO. A pretty landing page with no detail no content will have a huge bounce rate and never rank for any terms that are relevant to the product. Your site does not even rank for its own brand name.
jay-saint··on Paypal has not been sending payment notifications to merchants
We have been experiencing sudden weirdness with out PayPal Pro payment processing integration with our Magento cart over this time period. I have spent hours looking over logs and on support call with PayPal integration support. You would think that since PayPal and Magento are both part of eBays X.commerce that they would work together well.

I received a lot of "hmmm that's weird" and "well i've never seen the API do that" comments from the integration support specialist at PayPal."

What is happening for us is that Paypal is simultaneously sending a authorization and then a second later a capture. the results are weird some transactions process and other get a duplicate invoice it error.

jay-saint··on Micro heaters cut 87% off my electric heat bill
I have been told by multiple HVAC professionals recently that one should keep their fan on their system always running. They have in fact adopted this practice at our offices and it greatly help with keeping temperatures in consistent from room to room. The arguments they provided for this were: [1] Constant air flow creates more consistent temperatures (less highs and lows from interior to exterior or floor to floor. [2] Allows filtration system to work continuously cleaning the air. [3] (This is the one I am skeptical of) Starting the fan motor has a large current draw, but leaving it running is very low current on modern high efficiency HVAC systems. Also apparently when the fan starts i the most likely time for fan failure due to high current and torque on the motor. These fan motors are typically not repairable in small commercial and residential units and are quite expensive.

We adopted the fan always on with scheduled temperature adjustment here at our office, it is more comfortable for sure and less dusty. I do not know if it affected energy costs. When I tried this at home it was more comfortable but my electric bill went up by ~$20

jay-saint··on Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone
Could you build or use an algorithm to place high weight on trusted sources from twitter? A twitter account that has had multiple past confirms or upvotes could get placed higher. May also be able to add weight based # of followers.
jay-saint··on Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft
I think you just needed one of these http://imgur.com/soLoTRs
jay-saint··on CoreOS Beta Release
This OS makes me want a sandwich cookie consisting of two chocolate disks with a sweet cream filling in between.
jay-saint··on 2048
A seriously great way to spend 30 minutes on hold with Verizon.
← PreviousPage 3 of 3