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I'm in Puerto Rico and almost all of shops that take card take chip. I feel like you may have been frequenting some odd places if you were having a hard time finding chip in NYC :P

I never need cash except when a hurricane is coming. But hurricanes are like being stalked by a turtle. I just go and grab the cash once I get notified there might be one :)

Our policies got much longer with GDPR. We only collect information for legitimate reasons (i.e we need it for the service they are using), we ask for it, and we never target it / sell the data. It helps that our customers are paying customers and not using a free service.

So our TOS used to be quite simple in plain english that all the data we request is only for the purpose of providing the service.

Now we had to outline all the information we collection (even though they are the ones who provide it, so they know what we collect) and outline all our services we use where that data we collect ends up (AWS, Sentry, Loggly, etc... the services we need to run our system and support them). Most of our clients have no idea what any of the information we added is because its all technical details about how we are providing the service to them.

GDPR required us to do a lot of work that ended up costing us time and money and literally nothing changed because we were already making sure we protected our users privacy.

Hopefully some bad actors get hit but for now GDPR has left a bad impression on me.

The murder is definitely law enforcements fault. If they go in wanting to use deadly force without any proof that is on them.

Of course the guys who made false claims should also be in trouble, but just because they were wrong, doesn't mean the law enforcement wasn't ALSO wrong.

I'd love the law to come down on the people who murdered an innocent man without verifying claims.

Why do they approach assuming guilt? It shouldn't be this easy to get people murdered by making false claims.

Payroll is the biggest issue. You have to pay taxes in any state your employee is working. This gets expensive and time intensive as you start filing annual reports and paying taxes in 4 or 5 states.

You ever tried to do photo manipulation, graphic design, or video editing in a virtualized OS? It is miserable. There is a reason I said I was dual booting and not running virtualization :)

Yeah, I need to try it out again. When it first came out I tried it and things like RethinkDB and Redis wouldn't start-up on it.

Its on my list to try again and see if they've made it better.

I've been using macbooks full time for 3 years now and I hate them. They are bad hardware for a high price tag.

As a developer they are the perfect middle ground. OSX runs everything I usually run in Linux and I have all the paid for software I'd run on windows (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc).

Prior to switching to mac I just dual booted windows and linux depending on what I needed. Then sketch came out and it was only OSX and I had to make the decision on having a third setup.

Then I realized everything I was doing in my 2 OSes I could do in a single one even though I hated the hardware.

Hey! I found your responses and the discussion in general around this fascinating. I'm currently running an event tech start-up and would love to talk to you more about it.

It looks like you took an approach we wanted to take but thought it'd be harder to monetize (as you found out).

Want to e-mail me and lets chat? (info in profile)

He had a second chance. He did it once and got a misdemeanor and was able to move on with his life. The problem is he decided to do it AGAIN.

Maybe there is an argument for a third chance? But a repeat offender is a repeat offender.

What those packages fail to realize is that many of us still value more than just our wife and kids.

Relocating means leaving uncles aunts, cousins, mom, dad, grandma, etc. And any friends you have.

I've had to explain to many recruiters that leaving all my friends and family and my community as a whole is just not an option.

I wonder if this came out of the SF/Bay Area style growth after taking on investment? I haven't heard if they've been hiring a ton lately but I saw this happen with SurveyMonkey when we went from 100 employees to 1500.

The first 100 understood EVERYTHING about our customers and the product. Something got lost in translation when we grew to 1500 in a few years.

I wonder if they have scaled out to the point where they are hiring people who don't quite understand the product but are just a butt in a seat?

I also went through SUP, which is why I responded. I can only speak for while I was there. Delays were minimal and usually caused by documentation and not them withholding secretly. That may have changed in later rounds.

StartupChile is significantly different. With SUP you have to prove the funds were used appropriately as part of the fund. It is an equity free government program. The terms of the agreement are that you are reimbursed for approved expenses.

This is much different and worse. This is a traditional investor / incubator that took equity in these companies and promised them the money and isn't paying them.

Can you provide any tips on how you reached out to other alum in preparation (you said you prepared with AlphaFlow and Snapdocs for example).

Also, are you allowed to share any of the questions you had that you found surprising?

Just got our invite! wooooo

What are you building? I'm 4 hours south of you in Niceville, FL!

Hopefully this doesn't come off too rude but you've linked this 5 times now in this thread and to me this has passed the point of promotion and reached spam.

Any chance this can be the last one?

Thanks for the update! We are all waiting patiently but we'd rather have it done right than rushed!

Thanks for the sentiment. We are major sponsors of PyCon and have donated to PyPy.

What I'm trying to suggest is that the amount they've received to support Python 3 ($250,000 from Mozilla, $66,677 in public donations) is signal that there is major demand for this.

Could they use the infra that is building binaries for PyPy2 for PyPy3?

I understand where they are coming from "Existing project are using Python2" but I'd like to see them focus more on the future.

I love what PyPy is doing and I want them to succeed but I can't imagine their success coming out of Python2. I see them more competing with more modern performant languages that are currently stealing from Python (i.e Go/Rust).

If they focused on the future they could directly compete in that market of projects that are rewriting in other languages for performance.

Although I disagree with the sentiment that PyPy2/Python2 should die, I also disagree with the PyPy team treating PY3 as a second class citizen.

For this release PyPy2 shipped with binaries for 11 platforms, PyPy3 shipped with 1.

The other thing is the $7 price point is for an individual / enterprise. You can't have a team collaborating which means that isn't the price point any business is paying.

I agree 100% with these complaints about some of us don't have a choice. For example, PCI requires:

- Contain both numeric and alphabetic characters.

- Users to change passwords at least every 90 days.

- Password parameters are set to require that new passwords cannot be the same as the four previously used passwords.

Which go against the NIST guidelines. So how do you do things that are considered "best practices" when people like PCI require you to do them wrong?

I just skill up before they wake up and after they go to sleep. It takes a little more discipline but if you keep them on a schedule you can also keep yourself on a schedule.

Our schedule:

School Drop Off: 8am Bed Time: 8:30pm

Which leaves plenty of time for reading and doing opensource. Not as much as a I used to but enough to continue being at the top of my field without worrying that the youngins are passing me.

I'm surprised everyone is jumping on Lyft even though Thiel is a major investor in Lyft and a huge supporter of Trump.

I think it'd make most sense to avoid both services if you are concerned about the recent immigration ban.

    > People wanted RethinkDB to be fast on workloads they actually tried, rather than "real world" workloads we suggested.

    > For example, they'd write quick scripts to measure how long it takes to insert ten thousand documents without ever reading them back.

    > MongoDB mastered these workloads brilliantly, while we fought the losing battle of educating the market.

I was one of the people who did this and I'd like to provide you another take away:

Don't tell people what "real world" workloads are. They know better than you do. When I presented my performance testing scripts to you guys it was a replication of our real world workload. Trying to explain to someone that their workload isn't "real world" hurts the confidence in the system. Its better to either say that isn't a workload you are optimized for or that you are working on it.

That being said, I'm now building a start-up and using RethinkDB because it is the best system out there! My performance requirements for a start-up are significantly different than the billion dollar survey company I used to work for ;) But I'd also like to commend you on the performance you've achieved with RethinkDB in general, it has come a long way and any company would be happy to hit the scale that RethinkDB has issues with!

Yes.

Has anyone successfully got this to work? I was excited to try it so I did:

    $ rm -rf ./node_modules
    $ npm install yarnpkg
    $ ./node_modules/yarnpkg/bin/yarn

and it just freezes up and never finishes:

    [4/4]   Building fresh packages...
    [1/3] ⠈ node-sass
    [2/3] ⠈ radium
    [3/3] ⠈ phantomjs-prebuilt
    [-/3] ⠈ waiting...
    [-/3] ⠈ waiting...

This is not a particularly complex app, the dependencies:

http://paste.openstack.org/show/585495/

I LOVE GIMP!

GIMP is a great competitor to photoshop. It misses a lot of the shortcuts that photoshop has introduced to make editing easier/quicker but I've always been able to do everything I needed to do even if it takes more steps.

What the opensource community is missing is a sketch alternative. Application developers have moved to it for rapid design and photoshop has taken the backseat.

GIMP is not comparable to sketch. Sketch has changed the way the design world thinks / works.