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jsteeleon “Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story

Sounds a lot like the various AdSense horror stories. A recent one: http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread...

jsteeleon How Facebook Squeezes More From Its Machines

Oh no, have they started to embed scribd on web-pages. I absolutely hate scribd. Worst thing to hit the internet since that guy crying about Brittney Spears on youtube.

jsteeleon Appify: A City-by-City App Store (Aditya's startup)

I must be missing something. Can't you just put your city's name in with your other search terms when using a normal app store? What does this add over that?

jsteeleon Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://codinghorror.com/

--PidGin128 via bmn

jsteeleon Ask HN: Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc)

I have found the best non-PayPal solution to be iTransact (http://www.itransact.com/marketing/referral/S33oOO). They combine the gateway and the merchant account, and have lower fees than their competitors.

jsteeleon Ask HN: Alternative careers for a developer

As a veteran developer, I too was hit by RSI, and strongly urge you to first start using speech recognition for dictating all of your e-mail messages, code comments, documentation, etc.

jsteeleon Ask HN: Alternative careers for a developer

Too low, or high enough to prompt you to join the profession?

jsteeleon Secrets Of Nonverbal Communication

I wonder if this book has any novel information that isn't available in the dozens of other books on the subject, or in the one I read fifteen years ago that covered all the examples in the Forbes article.

Although I've found it occasionally amusing at interviews and meetings, since reading that one book many years ago, to lead other people through series of posture changes, or to make some overconfident fool drop his alpha posture by adopting the same, in general these techniques are for bullshitters. If you're touching your neck because you feel uneasy/unsure, DO something about that. Don't find ways to appear competent, confident, whatever -- be competent, confident, whatever by knowing what you're doing and talking about.

These postures, gestures, etc. will flow naturally from the ease and confidence of having achieved something honestly. Like Lupe Fiasco says: The wings don't make you fly and the crown don't make you king.

jsteeleon How best to navigate to a PHP page after a form submit?

I tried ZF a while back, but don't recall how it would resolve this issue. Can you be specific?

jsteeleon How best to navigate to a PHP page after a form submit?

All true. I've bounced back and forth. On a previous project, there was no need for stepping through the code, so header() trumped. My current project has benefitted greatly from the IDE, so I'm using a session var (and hoping the user refrains from bookmarking! :)

jsteeleon How best to navigate to a PHP page after a form submit?

The privacy page is just an example. Your scenario replaces it with a confirmation page. So the problem still stands: How do you go to the ?page=contact-submit page? Do you use header()? Is that the canonical way?

jsteeleon How best to navigate to a PHP page after a form submit?

I agree with all that, but how do you solve the problem I posed initially?

jsteeleon How best to navigate to a PHP page after a form submit?

It's not dictating the code architecture -- it's one of many factors to consider

Naturally I'm using a session variable. But the URL mismatch remains.

jsteeleon How best to navigate to a PHP page after a form submit?

Thanks for the reply. How does an exit() after header() help? It still causes a discontinuity in an IDE.

jsteeleon When Polymorphism Fails

That example of coding an elfLikesMe attribute for 150 monster types, why to code it at all? My first hunch would be to use SQL table for monster attributes, then adding new attribute would be equivalent to adding a new SQL field, or table?

jsteeleon So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?

You should definitely try fasting (no food, water only). After a couple of days there should be visible results (You will feel Yourself different).

Another possible advice is to limit carbohydrates (partually replacing them with fats). There is a whole host of possible problems from excess carbohydrates (starting from diabetes, high blood pressure and overweight).

Your health is in Your hands, the doctors can only help if You are fighting disease Youself.

jsteeleon ButterflyHTML | PSD to HTML, XHTML, CSS, Joomla, Wordpress

Anyone tried them, how is their service?

jsteeleon Google Bing Hybrid Search - badabingle

If I didn't think you were violating google and bing legal rights, I would say bullseye!

jsteeleon A Twitter Bot in One Line of Code

I've also seen too many blog posts trumpeting the amazing ability to do something-or-other in three lines of Ruby -- one or two of which are loading some library that does all the work. Not impressed. It's nice that you can get something done with minimal work, but the emphasis should be on ease of use, not on number of lines.

jsteeleon Coders at work is finally available

I believe the ebook option at http://apress.com/book/view/1430219483 is a PDF.

jsteeleon Vidly: Twitvid.io (YC S08) Changes Names, Direction, And Gets Funding

Definitely deserves props for persistence and constant iteration. Perhaps they have cracked the secret of getting TechCrunch coverage: Just keep changing your name!

Feb 25, 2009: Fliggo Launch http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/25/y-combinator-startup-fl...

May 21, 2009: Fliggo -> TwitVid.io http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/21/twitvid-wants-to-be-the...

Aug 28, 2009: TwitVid.io -> Vidly http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/28/vidly-twitvidio-changes...

jsteeleon America's unjust sex laws

"Media is not the key. In fact, we can't change the media/entertainment world, but change perception of things in our society."

Where do you think "perception of things in our society" comes from?

jsteeleon BadaBingle = BingGoogle²

that's pretty cool I must say

jsteeleon Mexico Decriminalizes Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroin and Other Drugs

"They buy large amounts of drugs (much more than one could consume and not die) and sell drugs to other people. I consider this to be a nasty abuse of sick people..."

You just described the whole pharmaceutical industry and its distribution chain.

jsteeleon Cops Use Old Brink's Truck to Shame Suspects

You made a typo: Please change "monitoring" to "tasering".

jsteeleon Cops Use Old Brink's Truck to Shame Suspects

Exactly. And I find it lazy to use such loaded terms to denigrate an argument one doesn't agree with instead of confronting its (lack of) merits. Obnoxious != wrong.

Actually, I find it strange that the initial commenter only suspects that "civil libertarians" might have a problem with the surveillance that s/he thinks is fine. The sentence seems to me a gratuitous pot shot at people who might think of themselves as "civil libertarians". Why?

HN deserves better rhetoric. Otherwise, there's always Slashdot.

jsteeleon Cops Use Old Brink's Truck to Shame Suspects

The residence is being accused? Residences can commit crimes/infractions?

jsteeleon Cops Use Old Brink's Truck to Shame Suspects

You didn't answer the question.

jsteeleon Cops Use Old Brink's Truck to Shame Suspects

Who are "civil libertarians"? People who value their civil liberties? People who are willing to do something to protect them? Whatever they are, you say you're not one. Interesting.

jsteeleon The Return of the Epigram

"This brings us back to Twitter."

Nice one.