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Probably has a thing or two to do with today's date...

I've used both stripe and braintree to build payment processing services that do hundreds of thousands of dollars in transactions per month. I can't really tell you which is better…

I'm looking to start an open discussion on HN related to VATMOSS and how US-based tech companies have been dealing with it since its release on Jan. 1 of this year. Did you roll yo…

>'Good ole boy' healthcare companies abound Ugh. Tell me about it. The old guard in tech around here has led to some real hair pulling moments for me. I think we're headed for a sc…

I'm a Nashville-based software developer, so maybe I can lend some color to parent's comment. Parent may be speaking about the Nashville Software School[1]. Very recently it has be…

- maintain consistent dev/test/prod environments We're pretty heavily invested in Docker. To this point, it's really nice knowing that all the developers are operating in consisten…

> For me the take away is that non-trivial independent replication of results still stands as the gold standard for experimentation. Agreed. Too bad funding agencies rarely if ever…

I think you've hit the nail on the head, here. WebRTC is really great for a handful of people. Implementation using some third party was never the difficult part, but scale was and…

This is what caused me to abandon HHVM for plain ol' PHP around a year ago. I was running it in Docker containers and the memory leaks would regularly crash my containers if left u…

We do this, but use a sliding scale. The middle of the scale is what's locally considered to be a fair salary and fair equity compensation for whatever role we're hiring for. The e…

I'm not sure what you're after with paid HipChat (e.g., video/screen sharing, >5GB file uploads, etc.), but Slack[1] might get it done for you for free. Probably still not ideal de…

> It's a marketing play. I hope there's no one in this thread naive enough to think otherwise. Of course it's a marketing play. That doesn't mean it can't benefit you. Your initial…

> Some of those perks (maybe even all of them) are not things TechStars paid for.. they're things that other companies chose to give away to startups in an accelerator (of which Te…

> List them. They're linked in the parent to my original reply. > Let's just call this what it is.. cheap way to lock start-ups in your infrastructure Whose infrastructure? Perks c…

> Not really a reason to pick techstars over another program When was this a debate about picking techstars over any other program? The article relates to picking nothing as oppose…

I know it's easy to view perks as window dressing, but some of the things offered by TechStars are game changers for a business's tech teams, particularly in the early stage. Grant…

Based on earlier reports of Justin.tv's streaming architecture[1], I'm going to say no. Granted, that article is old, but I think a pretty serious investment in physical infrastruc…

This is my general rule of thumb, but bear in mind it's only my approach. I'm not even going to claim that it's good. Just that it works for me... Is it source or configuration? Th…

> I'm not terribly proud of my ownership of that site, though I did try to run it with something of a conscience: never called for gossip, voluntarily removed 30,000+ posts, etc. I…

Agree with you XFCE in Xubuntu. I just can't force myself to like Unity, stock Debian is ugly, and LXDE on Lubuntu looks flat out terrible on my 1080p monitors. Just a smeary blue …

"That's because you aren't a software engineer, and if you are saying so then the feelings of being an impostor are entirely warranted." At face value this assessment feels very un…

Aside from some statistical reporting quibbles, I think this is a good write up. The authors essentially arrive back to a design that's been leveraged for RSS feeds for ages (e.g.,…

"not people seeking the shelter of Google, McK, Bain, etc." It seems that by leaving such companies to form startups, such individuals would represent the very definition of 'risk-…

I'm probably just going to show my ignorance, here...but why doesn't container linking solve this problem? Could you not run multiple docker containers/services behind a single ngi…