Location: Waterloo, ON

Remote: Yes, and preferred

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ryanfunduk

Strengths: Ruby (+Rails), JavaScript/ES6/Babel, CoffeeScript, Node, React, Redux, Backbone

Have had some experience with plenty of other things but those are the big ones. Happy and used to jumping into new things and unfamiliar codebases. Self-motivated and have started several products from scratch myself.

Contact info: https://ryanfunduk.com/contact

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9772689

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9687129

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9649638

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Next, my wife and I started CourseCraft (https://coursecraft.net, launched December 2012, e-course creator tools + we handle transactions for 5%-9% of sales). Since it's transaction-based it's a lot less consistent monthly, but growing faster. A typical month is $300-$400 in revenue, but it's been a lot higher (and a lot lower) here and there.

Enter email to signup -> link gets emailed. Enter email to login -> link gets emailed.

I use JWT for this and it really makes it easy to get started on the part of the project that matters... and sometimes (not always) I think it's probably going to be fine to leave it this way.

But in general I agree with you. "Until somebody explains to me... a rational reason..." - I will explain it: It is detracting (however unfortunate that may be) from your message/content.

So it might make sense to use a font that goes pretty much unnoticed, to put the focus on the content of the talk. Then again, maybe he is thinking more along the lines of "if my font choice is the most important thing to you, feel free to leave/not watch this talk."

I feel like, if I were advocating something (FP, Haskell, new ways of teaching computer science, or whatever), I would want to do everything I could to keep the discussion on-topic.

Or how about some supporting type stuff: app error handling, a recommendation engine for your framework of choice, maybe a simple admin panel for doing support (using Postmark Inbound or some-such).

If you're into web stuff, it's always a good exercise to re-implement some complex plugin in a simpler way. I made a simple 'tour' plugin that a lot of people like (jQuery-TourBus), or you could make a simple carousel plugin, or maybe just make a simple sticky feedback popup thing, etc.

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Here's a snippet in Ruby I use to check. It's not perfect, but it catches a lot of cases:

    # ...

    def initialize
      @request = PaypalAdaptive::Request.new
    end
    
    # ...

    def verified_status( opts={} )
      begin
        opts.assert_keys! :first_name, :last_name, :paypal_account_email
        result = @request.get_verified_status(
          emailAddress: opts[:paypal_account_email],
          firstName: opts[:first_name],
          lastName: opts[:last_name],
          matchCriteria: 'NAME'
        )
        Rails.logger.debug "PAYPAL VERIFICATION: #{result.inspect}"
        return result.success? && result['accountStatus'] == 'VERIFIED'
      rescue
        return false
      end
    end

What I can't stand is that accounts in some countries (at least India) can't send payments from balance. So you can't get your fee. This is mentioned nowhere in the docs, a customer just hit it one day and that's how I found out. I asked paypal what other countries can't send payments and they said... wait for it... they "don't have a list". I kid you not: https://twitter.com/rfunduk/status/412980259001102336

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript (CoffeeScript too), Node, jQuery, Backbone.js, AWS and ops experience, and the usual HTML/CSS/etc

Resume: http://ryanfunduk.com http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ryanfunduk

Email: on my website

When my users are redirected back to my site (thanks page, or similar), I check if their transaction is completed, if not, I kick off an every-five-seconds check while asking the user to hold on while we talk with paypal. I will eventually fail after some number of checks of course, but this means PayPal can stop sending IPNs and everything will just keep going along just fine.

If the user might not end up back on your site for some reason, run a cronjob that tries to verify transactions created in the past day/hour/whatever.

An issue like this doesn't have to, and really shouldn't, cripple your business.

I think these are the things that will matter day to day more than any 'fairness'.

Personally my first reaction to the Curse of King Tut would be "well, better safe than sorry" as I turn right around :)