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But what's the upside? Will this website EVER net Stripe a (figurative) DIME after paying 2 salaries? I think not. Maybe it will entice a few dozen new account signups per month. Who knows.

Community outreach is a good thing (tm) but I see now way any sane/experienced business person would pay a million dollars for this.

Agreed re. contractors. When you use the Uber app, you pay Uber. Not Joe Shmoe and his nice newish car. Therefore the HST should be payable, to Uber.

In turn, drivers who earn > $30k should provide their HST number to Uber, and Uber should be billed HST in remittances.

In turn, drivers can write off HST paid on all business-related expenses.

Yay, Value Added Taxes.

Extraterritorial corporate interests manipulating a decision arguably more important than a single election?

Please, help me explore how this is significantly different than the Russia vs US election issue on the other side of the pond.

You could probably sell one of these into every concert theatre in the world. I'm wracking my brain and exercising my google-fu, but I can't seem to find/remember which famous musician wanted only one color of candy on their rider. Or was it everything except the green ones. Or something like that.

First thing I noticed, too. You beat me to it! A PC can't possibly be considered pro without a couple of CXP connectors.

;)

NeverSSL 10 years ago

Ah, first world problems. Where I am, data connections are out of reach for the vast majority of the population (yet somehow, they all seem to have smartphones - go figger).

Everyone goes to the mall, not to shop, it would seem, but to use the free wifi and bask in the comfort of free aircon.

Captive portals are here to stay in places around the world, and like it or not, they are a widely used solution that is not going away any time soon. I for one applaud the author of this website's attempts to shine light on the problem of authenticating to this network type.

Not particularly controversial at all, from my POV.

I was a sysadmin with various ISPs in various countries for 15 years before I "turned to the dark side". I'd been using Ruby for a few years with Puppet and Chef, and after dealing with one too many "flaky coders", I picked it up.

I have to say, coding is far more enjoyable, though both come in handy in my day-to-day life.

It sounds like you've dealt with a few "BOFH" sysadmins. Don't worry, we're not all like that, and those that have been on both sides of the team will probably see your way.

Tell your boss I'm available (remotely), by the way ;)

While you're at it, let me add one to your list

* allow true multicurrency operation - a Stripe client in any country should be able to accept funds in any currency Stripe supports.

Case in point, as a Canadian, I can accept only USD or CAD. But I have clients in the UK, and am stuck using Paypal to accept GBP directly.

I misread it. I thought this was a poll on whether Sierra was broken. My vote

All I know is I'm getting 50% less battery time this week.

Oh, and sqllite-ruby seems to be a bit grumpy.