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Aleran

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About Aleran

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/robolson; my proof: https://keybase.io/robolson/sigs/E73XONK-cXNZD5s08zviIg_6sk43Q6CSuJ9p1A3RbUY ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #20279265

    $70 was the camera owner's revenue after Kitsplit had taken their cut. The rental fee was higher than $70.

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    Comment #6344100

    The nice thing about Kochiku is that it is a free open source project whereas CircleCI is a paid hosted solution. If you have hardware available to use as workers on then Kochiku i…

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    Comment #6342318

    I looked at Buffet but I was turned away by the lack of documentation for it. There is a short readme but that's it.

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    Comment #4396424

    This is revolutionary because it is the first time that merchants have been ever been given the option to pay a flat fee per month in lieu of paying a percentage fee on each transa…

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    Comment #4396367

    Actually the merchant is only liable for the loss if they did not follow all of the rules and regulations for processing the credit card. From wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w…

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    Comment #4077168

    Same for me. "Your password was leaked, but it has not (yet) been cracked. Fingers crossed." Damnit, LinkedIn.

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    Comment #2455494

    Square users only keep the device into their phones when they are taking a payment. When it is not needed they will carry it in their pocket, backpack, purse, or even put it on the…

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    Comment #2455490

    I'm an engineer at Square. I'm sure most of the company is on here as well.

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    Comment #2455487

    The reason the projection for Q1 was only 40M is because it wasn't until March that Square reached the 1M/day milestone ( http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/square-now-processing-1-m…

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    Comment #2422280

    Generated with Docco: http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/

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    Comment #1925307

    It is strange how every time someone interviews at Google they feel compelled to write "their" story and share it with the internet. How many stories like this are out there now? H…

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    Comment #1163620

    Was anybody else dumbstruck by the article's first comment by this bright chap, "Jeff"? Brilliant. I've forwarded this to my team. We make a tax solution and I've been dealing with…

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    Comment #1163413

    Joel slams Twitter's blog as boring, saying it's essentially rewritten press releases but Twitter does have an engineering focused blog that has much more interesting content (for …

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    Comment #1136385

    As far as I can tell Wordpress VIP is free. You just have to be accepted.

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    Comment #1108462

    LOL. At about 37 minutes in Daniel answers a phone call from his Mom. Pretty rude to the interviewer but hilarious as well.

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    Comment #1102933

    As a former Techcrunch intern I can attest that they do pay their interns. He may have been an exception though.

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    Comment #1017354

    "There will be somebody that will contribute code actually, but most of the times this code will be about features you don't want to implement, or will not look like sane enough to…

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    Comment #863489

    In all fairness, how can anyone compare Peter Norvig and Ron Jeffries on the same level? One is an AI genius and the other is a XP coach. They are on very different levels intellec…

  19. comment
    Comment #733924

    "AjaxIan teaches people about the popular javascript language, Ajax." AAAAAaaah... What?

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    Comment #652518

    What do you mean there isn't a technical school close that you could solicit to? What about UCLA, UCI, Harvey Mudd, CalTech???

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    Comment #584769

    It looks like there is a build for hardy in PPA https://launchpad.net/~screen-profiles/+archive/ppa

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    Comment #518603

    Anyone else think that the author of this website (badchesse.com) resembles a young Steve Woz?

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    Comment #492698

    Don't people realize that more than one person writes for TechCrunch. Erick Schonfeld was the sole author of the Last.fm TechCrunch article. Arrington had nothing to do with it and…

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    Comment #491799

    I agree. Project courses like this one should not even have a midterm and a final. They only distract from the main goal of the course.

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    Comment #479474

    I knew only because I live in Irvine, CA where Google does their radio advertising out of. They've invited us (UCI) over occasionally to talk about it. I now wonder if Google will …