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Laravel has wayyy too much built in to consider using vanilla PHP. To me the question is rather why would you want to use vanilla PHP?

The MagTek reader acts as a USB HID (aka a keyboard). When the cursor focus is put on a text field and you swipe a card, the MagTek device acts as if someone typed each character into the field. Then the javascript detects that and parses it out

You're obviously worth $50 an hour, if not more. I say that you should expect $50 an hour * 40 hours a week. Don't forget that if you transition to a FTE, you won't be able to claim as many (or any) business tax deductions. You need to ask yourself why they want to hire you as a FTE. It's probably to pay you less than your current hourly rate.

I've been acting as a one-man consulting agency for a while, and I've had a desire to take on larger projects but don't want to hire employees. A co-op type of situation seems like what I'd want to build and open sourcing this will definitely help me and others like me. Thanks Crisp!

I'm so bummed about this. We choose Balanced for www.seedwise.com specifically for its per order escrow feature. We'll be missing that in Stripe as we move over.

While we disagree with some of the arguments and questionable rhetoric and timing of the Rocket announcement, we hope that we can all continue to be guided by what is best for users and developers.

What's he talking about regarding the timing of the announcement?