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Is this going to support IAM authentication like Aurora for MySQL does? http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/UsingW...

Docker, Inc employees have popped in to make an offhand comment at various points, similar to the one you made "On the other, providing strict guarantees about context ensures true…

The stewardship of community contributions seems particularly poor in Docker. One of the more frustrating projects I have tried to help, and is really the only red flag. The promis…

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Zipmark -- NYC(HQ) & Remote -- https://zipmark.com We are looking for awesome people to come work with us and help build the next great alternative payment network. Zipmark is a mo…

Zipmark ( https://zipmark.com ) - New York, NY (Remote Possible) We are looking for awesome people to come work with us and help build the next great alternative payment network. Z…

Zipmark ( https://zipmark.com ) - New York, NY (Remote Possible) We are looking for awesome people to come work with us and help build the next great alternative payment network. Z…

This is how webhooks work in any API that has sufficiently embraced them (see Freshbooks for an example). Why are we pretending like this is something different?

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Copying files willy nilly without any etiquette around packaging doesn't seem like a good standard to me.

Interesting, but only seems to go half way. Half the battle is getting library maintainers to package things in a sane manner. This alternative has been working really well for us …

Exactly, they have traded .nil? for .present? and added complexity.

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It works on the Mastercard PayPass hardware. Adoption is already pretty far down the road on the POS side. EDIT: Go here to search for Paypass merchants in your hood: http://www.go…

Original paper is here if you want to judge motivations: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf At the current value, they are already rich and probably not forlorn.

If it becomes a runaway train towards this endpoint, this would give bitcoin >10x current M1, while retaining the ability to pay in $.01 increments. This should be sufficient for t…

Had the same experience with Appcelerator. Not knowing Objective-C it was a lot easier to get ideas into code quickly for prototyping, but when I ended up having to read all of the…

Clickable Link: http://meetup.com/Tech-Founders-NYC/

Looks like we might get a blizzard, but we are doing another Tech Founders tomorrow night. Tech Founders is an event by and for engineers. We filter out startups we think are worth…

The problem with this approach is that you can only remember a few passwords like this, which means that you are going to reuse passwords on multiple sites. One site compromise can…

Firstly, my comment was qualified with the word 'philosophical' not 'practical'. Secondly, many people have different understandings of capitalism, and pop culture has continued to…

Agreed, which is why I tried to couch it in 'philosophical' argument. Discussing the various factions of socialism, anarchism, libertarianism, etc is always fun, but rarely leads t…

It is very simple. A purely capitalistic society can contain, tolerate, and even encourage totally egalitarian organizations in any form the participants deem prudent. A purely soc…

"self-organized collectives" are abundant in western capitalism, we usually refer to them as corporations. The terms and agreements between parties in these organizations vary but …