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iwaffles

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About iwaffles

Lived in a toy room. Former Apple software engineer, CTO of Sidestep, engineer at Brightroll/Yahoo and various other tech companies.

hi@mattgardner.com

Currently accepting new work!

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    What’s the advantage to using this over the official tesla app? Typing “please lock my car” seems like so much more effort than tapping “lock” in the app.

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    Comment #18007838

    I don't think the fees stack like that. The terminal page says 2.7% + $0.05 per transaction. I believe that Stripe Connect doesn't take an extra fee, at least not in my experience.…

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    Comment #18007686

    We spent a lot of time building a terminal at Sidestep on top of Stripe (and a few other processors). Everything on the in-person payment level was done through an iOS or Android d…

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    Comment #17990267

    Not entirely true. They shifted focus on mobile to continue making mobile software for other OSes.

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    Comment #17726680

    He even made a public comment "Ford is trying to kill SEX" https://jalopnik.com/ford-killed-sex-1585513454

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    Comment #17206344

    It is. For both legitimate and nefarious uses. Bigger software/game devs still use bittorrent to distribute patches and updates—World of Warcraft is an example.

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    Comment #17075313

    So in my last company, we tried so many different CRMs. Salesforce, Salesforce IQ, Close.io, Pipedrive, and more. What we discovered that none of them allowed us to work the way th…

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    Comment #17069755

    Awesome, thanks for sharing and thank you for the feedback! Whomever implements Whats New into their website/app can pass in any data they'd like as the identifier (hash, email, id…

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    Comment #17067943

    Hi everyone, I've put together Whats New App to scratch my own itch. It's a simple way to let your users know what's new in your app/website by copy/pasting a javascript snippet. W…

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    Ask HN: Is open sourcing my side project a good way to get traction?

    So I've been building something and thinking that open sourcing it might be a good way to get more traction. I've followed the progress of Ghost and Wordpress and they both are doi…

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    Comment #16826256

    I'd love to know how you end up with this! I'm in the process of accepting new work myself. Feel free to reach out – email in profile.

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    Comment #16690562

    For those of you with kids: 1. Do your kids prefer using an iPad over a computer with a keyboard? 2. Do you prefer them to use an iPad over a laptop?

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    Comment #16030449

    One of the things I like the least about all of these boxes (Apple TV, Xbox, Roku) is the need to type in a password in front of everyone in the room using a joystick or the arrows…

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    Comment #14797761

    Interacting with documentation is such a cool way to actually learn. I know many people–myself included–that learn from trial and error; reading simply doesn't cut it. I'm excited …

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    Comment #13532294

    I haven't had any issues with the 5K monitor and it's about 3 feet from the router. At least for me it works incredibly well.

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    Comment #13085209

    Sidestep Technologies | Ruby on Rails Engineer | Los Angeles, CA | http://jobs.sidestepapp.com We're hiring a Rails engineer to help build out Sidestep. We work with Artists to hel…

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    Comment #10827438

    Sidestep is hiring web developers for front end, fullstack and backend positions. We're a small startup that focuses on the live entertainment industry with much of our footing wor…

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    Comment #10315516

    Great explanation!

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    Comment #10312266

    Been using Tonic for a few months now and it's been very useful and incredibly easy to test things out. Tested out an idea quickly with Twilio, demoed an API in another notebook, a…

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    Comment #9423776

    This is really awesome. I've managed to do something similar, but for the Washington Capitals. When the game starts the lights change to the color of the home team, and when they s…

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    Comment #8397393

    Swaw reminds me of http://storehouse.co

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    Comment #8173618

    Seems pretty neat, like what you're doing here, NubeDeArroz! I like how simple you've kept it. I built a similar service a few years ago to send invoices to clients directly: http:…

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    Comment #8064459

    The article starts off by setting a negative tone. "If you’re reading my blog, there’s a decent chance that I know more about Objective-C than you do. I have opinions about it. You…