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The media narrative is that there's a massive software failure going on in its scheduling system, and they need to stop flying for a day or two to "reset" it. Anyone have first-han…

In the early days (2013-14?) of Stripe, I was responsible for maintaining my company's integration. I still remember how one day there was a message on the announcements newsgroup …

This is also being done[1] in Canada, in a project that started as a way to use the byproducts of the normal milk-making process in a way that didn't cost farmers anything. [1] htt…

I've had better experiences with DataGrip, but if I wasn't at a place that would pay for proper tools, DBeaver is an OK substitute. Neither, though, have the big thing I want in an…

>> the campaign should have people in charge of security OK, but most don't. Money is a very limited resource in campaigns, and almost all campaign managers will choose to spend it…

I feel like a big part of people hating on JIRA is that it creates a formal process you have to follow - something enforced by code, and not just "always move your card to this Tre…

Remember that you're not a developer anymore, and that the way you contribute to the team isn't coding. You're moving from a role that focuses on concrete contributions, to a role …

If you end up using CloudFormation, don't write the JSON directly. Your programming language of choice should have a wrapper that maps objects to CloudFormation JSON - do your thin…

We use https://github.com/atward/aws-profile/blob/master/aws-profil... to do pretty much the same thing, although without the $PS1 hacking. Our rule is that a user's default profil…

2-3 months of light work (it was the summer), in Toronto circa 2011. I had zero professional experience, and bad grades. I knew that for my first job coming out of school, a lot of…

AWS support has said that ELBs will continue to accept connections (and use the correct backend) for at least an hour after the CNAME stops resolving to a particular IP.

If you're putting a lot of volume though Stripe, all those things are possible. Notwithstanding Stripe's SaaS-y "all pricing and deals are public" branding, they definitely have a …

I'm a hue PyCharm fan, but if this is true then vim and Sublime must be barely usable. Python, it's great at...but open a big JS file and it...will...take...forever...to do the JS …

Stripe's terms say that "Marijuana dispensaries and related businesses" are prohibited. You're certainly not a dispensary, but reporting software designed and advertised for one so…

From the Stripe list of prohibited businesses [1]: Marijuana dispensaries and related businesses Some of these rules come from Stripe itself, some come from the networks they work …

Very true, but ATED is cheap. On a (for example) £7M house you would have paid £750K Stamp Duty, or if sold though a corporate transfer, £35K of tax on the shares and £36K/yr ATED …

Up until last summer (when the Government won a case letting them change the law), having your expensive house owned by an offshore corporation was the canonical way to avoid a par…

The biggest thing to remember when dealing with PCI DSS is that it's not the law. Your PCI obligations come out of a commercial agreement that you have with your processor, which c…

Can you highlight a few of the reasons you love it, in comparison to HipChat? When we ended our trial month and announced we were going back to HipChat, the biggest reactions was "…

Do you find them that much better? We're a small HipChat-using company who moved three teams over for a month, and the communal response was "eh?". It's no-doubt prettier and easie…

If you're experimenting, use `git config --global credential.helper 'store'` to set git to store your credentials in a plain-text file. Then (if you're on GitHub), generate a perso…

It would be trivial, which is one of the problems with A-EP when you look at it from the POV of someone who knows something about web security. As for iFrames vs. Direct POST, from…

The main thing to remember about the deadline today is that what's changed is the forms needed for certification. If you're already certified, nothing changes today - but when you …

When a merchant signs up with WePay Clear, do they actually have full WePay accounts they can log into (which would have a WePay-branded experience)?

If you don't count the days, how do you make sure that people are taking/compensated for the statutory minimum - or do you mean "we count the days, but we don't say no just because…