I’m a customer, and it handles a lot of headaches for accounting. Basically you have 1 client - paddle, as far as the law is concerned. Plus has an easy checkout feature that’s inline for collecting payment info that never touches your server, no headaches securing that info.
Can you share an approximate percentage they take from a transaction for offering that service? Their pricing information seems to be hidden behind an email form.
Around the internet, I saw 5% transaction fee. But, like Plaid, they probably customize the fee based on the product sold and volume.
Narrowband IoT data service. Very low power, low bandwidth, cheap, with increasingly great coverage. It’s like an offshoot of LTE but classified as a 5G technology for massive numbers of low power internet connected devices.
I've implemented some use-cases for t-mobile, they basically peddle our products as a whitelabel solution to municipalities. One of my biggest beef with nbIoT is that 90% of all the use-cases I designed would have been better of using LoRaWAN instead. The reason why nbIoT is chosen is obviously that it provides the operator recurring revenue via a data-SIM but apart from costs there are other massive drawbacks such a…
I work adjacent to this space and LoRa is great (really great, the specs look impossible on paper) but everyone has been peddling proprietary cloud-based SaaS solutions that come and go every year, for about a decade now. For non-cloud/SaaS solutions, nothing seemed to be able to compete against the branding of wifi and bluetooth. I think this is the main reason it didn't take off. 802.11ah looked like it was going to finally become a good option, with wifi branding, but it somehow was never really released into the market.
https://ipfs.io/ seems pretty cool. I've been meaning to check it out, but not seen any uptake yet.
Same here. IPFS seems to have been lumped into the whole "crypto" scene because of filecoin. In my opinion, IPFS is much more interesting and potentially beneficial to individual freedom than crypto. The problem is the only people really talking about it are people focused on crypto, also forcing dapp conversations to focus on quick money vs. long term usability/functionality. I don't hold the money conversations aga…
There's still a bunch of questions around filecoin, but if you set aside the token and speculative nature, the it's the first realistic proof of storage system and represents (1) a departure from proof of work that's sucking up the power output of several countries for no good reason,
(2) a useful base for IPFS to store its bits persistently
and (3) perhaps funding Protocol Labs so they can continue to advance this state of art.
what do you like about it? (disclaimer, i work at temporal, but just genuinely interested in how you'd describe it in your words, good or bad lets hear it)
I may be able to answer your question. I only watched the video on the landing page and glanced at the docs, but it reminds me of what a saga system would do (like redux-saga perhaps), meaning that much of the side effects, such as networking, are abstracted away from the business logic, and there is the concept of compensation when things don't go as planned. Very neat!
yeah, "saga for the backend" is an appealing angle to some folks (eg our Coinbase testimonial has that) but i'm not sure how many developers know about sagas so I've been hesitant to push that too hard (bc then we'd have to teach people an extra concept before they get to us).
i'd say something that is maybe hard to appreciate until you really get into it is just how much goes into making this ultra scalable with distributed transactions. If you have ~20 mins for it, I wrote this up recently: https://docs.temporal.io/blog/workflow-engine-principles
https://paddle.com - it's like Stripe, but their "Reseller of record" means that they handle all sales tax / VAT issues. For most SaaS businesses it seems to reduce headaches a lot.
Not sure if I'm missing something, but there have been companies operating the same way for decades, such as FastSpring. These existing companies all charge a pretty penny though - is Paddle different in that regard?
Wikidata, SPARQL, and RDF in general. And I guess semi-relatedly things like Prolog? I recently decided to fiddle with Wikidata, and it is fascinating to be able to query for any part of a statement, not just the value! In SPARQL you write statements in the form But the cool part is that any of those three parts can be extracted, so you can ask things like "what are the cities in ", or "what country harbors the city…
I've been considering writing a graph database on top of SPARQL and RDF. Beyond the official docs (which are pretty good), can you recommend any other resources for easily getting the hang of SPARQL?
DNA digital data storage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage
> DNA digital data storage is the process of encoding and decoding binary data to and from synthesized strands of DNA. If each "bit" of DNA can be either A, C, G, or T, why call that binary ?
I think it’s kinda like modern SSDs which also have more states than just on or off per storage cell, but it’s still holding data that can be written/interpreted in binary.
https://paddle.com - it's like Stripe, but their "Reseller of record" means that they handle all sales tax / VAT issues. For most SaaS businesses it seems to reduce headaches a lot.
https://www.fonoa.com/ These guys also have an API for dealing with different tax laws around the world. Founded by some ex-Uber people.
Ex-Uber isn't really a selling point for a service where you face large fines if they get fiddly little legal details wrong.