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rebelidealist

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Working on an optimized donation software: https://donorbox.org

Web dev Consultant @ http://rebelidealist.com http://twitter.com/hungrycharles

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rebelidealist··on What About Rails?
What are the newer more modern frameworks? How are they better than Rails?
rebelidealist··on DHH - We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals
Do they not have product managers?
rebelidealist··on RedwoodJS: The App Framework for Startups
Can't we move on from JS for the backend? It is a brittle and confusing langugage. Author of JS the good parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc5Np9OqDHU
rebelidealist··on Hawker.social a Reddit/Twitter alternative that I launched earlier this year
Valid feedback. Thank you
rebelidealist··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
You might be interested to a look at hawker.social. It combines reddit with features of Patreon (subscriptions) and discord (sub channel). You can also use it as a substack style publication!
rebelidealist··on Ask HN: Alternative to Heroku
When using Cloud66 for Rack/Rails i found scaling new servers takes more that 45mins because it books from metal. Have they improve this?
rebelidealist··on How Do I get my Co-Founder to Leave?
There is no contract so he isn't entitled to anything. To be on the safe side, you need to make sure that none of his work is used by the company. Eg redesign the logo. If you must use it, find a way to pay him for it. Form the company with just you and the existing IP asap.
rebelidealist··on Ask HN: Why is raising money from VCs worn as a badge of honour?
It is a welcome party to say you are now part of the capital markets. Now there is a ticking time bomb for you to make the investor class more rich.
rebelidealist··on Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware?
Furthermore, dividends are double taxed again at 20%
rebelidealist··on Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?
"Last time I checked the network requests, I noticed it was storing the card on Stripe, CCBill, and Securion, but using CCBill or Securion to process the payment."

Im curious about how to use Stripe to only store cards and let other processors make the charge. Would anyone have more info on this? Greatly appreciate it.

rebelidealist··on Launch HN: Savvy (YC W20) – Give employees tax-free cash for health insurance
This is nice for remote companies. We went to the pain of trying to get a good price Kaiser group plan but found out that Kaiser doesn't operate in other states that we have employees in.
rebelidealist··on The New York Times's success lays bare the media's disastrous state
Yuck, the author is sad about the demise of fake news sites like Buzzfeed and Gawker.
rebelidealist··on Guide to Deep Work
Would CEOs or Execs / Managers perform better with deep work?
rebelidealist··on San Francisco considers banning cashless Amazon stores
I don't see this as a problem. Stores that take cash will get more business.
rebelidealist··on Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform
Shameless plug for my company https://Donorbox.org we helped nonprofits raise over $150MM.
rebelidealist··on Tomasz Tunguz's Favorite Books of 2018
How is this on the frontpage of HN with only 4 votes? VC bias?
rebelidealist··on Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
The Forbes article mention that they are on track to be around $20M https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2018/11/15/move-s...
rebelidealist··on Is Saudi money becoming radioactive?
Oil is traded in USD. This props the value of US companies. It is why the US is friends with SA. https://internationalman.com/articles/the-secret-reason-trum...
rebelidealist··on Ask HN: What is a good alternative to Confluence?
Using slab.com
rebelidealist··on Stripe Terminal – Programmable point of sale
Their js api only works for the bulkier Verizon Reader.
rebelidealist··on Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money
$1 - (2% fee + 30c card fee) leaves them with very little. I wonder how they get around the credit card fees. Supposedly Apple would want their 30% cut as well.
rebelidealist··on Sequoia Capital China Said To Invest In Bitmain's $400M Round At $12B Valuation
For when bitcoin mining cease to be profitable. Bitcoin mining rewards halves ever so often.
rebelidealist··on Plaid in Canada
Does this work with the Stripe integration?
rebelidealist··on Pricing low-touch SaaS
If we do decide to raise prices, it it best practice to raise them for current customers or for new customers only?
rebelidealist··on Red Lang goes blockchain
Just use an VPN if you want to participate
rebelidealist··on Ray Dillinger: If I'd Known What We Were Starting
Due to the limited supply of 24 million BTC, Bitcoin is deflationary meaning it will go up in value as more people adopt it. Govt print fiat currency out of thin air to encourage the population to spend on the economy. Bitcoin as the opposit affect as people use it for a store of value and a hedge against fiat currencies.
rebelidealist··on Building account systems
About using another domain for marketing email. "The best solution is to send your marketing emails from a different DKIM domain"

Does it mean to use a entirely new-domain.com or use marketing.domain.com?

rebelidealist··on Why Tokens Are Eating the World
Can't imagine a world where every service that you use have its own coin. It feels like a nightmare keeping track of conversion rates.
rebelidealist··on ProtonVPN
Will this work in China?
rebelidealist··on Stripe and Coinbase apparently can't find my Bitcoin
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