Hacker News: treeface

New comment by treeface in "PHP 7 Released"

treeface — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 23:54:02 +0000

Yeah, I hear that argument a lot from people who don't understand how the service container works. Laravel is really quite easy to understand if you have a decent knowledge of PHP. You can replace entire chunks of the framework for basically no cost if you want something to work differently.

New comment by treeface in "Frenzy Around Shopping Site Jet.com Harks Back to Dot-Com Boom"

treeface — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:31:16 +0000

For most of them, you just have to google the article's title and click the link from there.

New comment by treeface in "Balanced payments is shutting down"

treeface — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:06:08 +0000

This is one of those moments where good programming architecture and integration testing becomes obviously useful. We have a payment gateway interface and the transition to Stripe will be relatively painless after accounting for some accounting differences in how fees are charged.

The strange contagion of a dream

treeface — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:04:06 +0000

Article URL: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2611/1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8429145

Points: 32

# Comments: 2

New comment by treeface in "Send money to debit cards"

treeface — Thu, 22 May 2014 21:29:36 +0000

For the same reason most companies don't share trade secrets.

- Stripe and Balanced ARE direct competitors, much more so than say Stripe and Braintree or Balanced and PayPal. Balanced handles the money in a bit of a different way, but the end product is very similar (i.e. receive payments from cards and bank accounts, and send payments to bank accounts [and now debit cards for both as well]).

- One or both companies may feel they have the better solution (see steveklabnik's comment above), and thus collaborating would be giving away intellectual capital for less in return

As a potential customer, you should prefer that they do work separately, because when different teams come up with different solutions, the chances are greater that at least one of those solutions is correct. This leads to greater long-term health in the industry as a whole.

New comment by treeface in "Send money to debit cards"

treeface — Thu, 22 May 2014 21:02:22 +0000

In what way is Balanced only for "a niche type of business"?

New comment by treeface in "What is an appropriate level of Basic Income?"

treeface — Sat, 10 May 2014 04:20:46 +0000

If I may reduce this to absurdity, I'd prefer to live in a mansion on Mars, so every conceivable income level is too low.

New comment by treeface in "The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease"

treeface — Sat, 03 May 2014 23:04:12 +0000

I accidentally downvoted you, but this is very clever.

New comment by treeface in "Hiring criteria at First Look Media: "Not white. Not male.""

treeface — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:02:36 +0000

Membership in a group doesn't preclude discrimination against that group.

Total count:

- 9 white males

- 2 black males

- 4 females

- 1 unknown

What strikes me as odd is that at a ratio of 9:6 (or 10:6/9:7), they have completely excluded an entire segment of candidates just to bring their ethnic and gender quotas more in line with what they'd like to see. The fact that it's discrimination is obvious, but whether or not that's bad is another question. If they are just doing so to make their office look more diverse for the sake of diversity, I would personally consider that to be bad business and ethically questionable.

If they're trying to promote a broader scope of cultural experience in their writers, then perhaps it's better to discriminate based on experience, not ethnicity. If they think that women write inherently differently than men, then they have bigger problems related to sexism.

New comment by treeface in "Scale of the Universe"

treeface — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:15:09 +0000

Been posted in various forms numerous times over the years.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=scale+of+the+u...

At least this is the more accurate version at the top end of the scale.

New comment by treeface in "SimCity Offline Is Coming"

treeface — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:08:55 +0000

And FIFA.

New comment by treeface in "Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life"

treeface — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:00:59 +0000

The simple answer would be that a greater supply of homes means more people can afford homes in the long run (assuming relatively low population growth). But that is hugely dependent on which states/cities/neighborhoods you're talking about. The section of the world that this article is discussing apparently never gentrified like some of the neighborhoods surrounding it. Things tend to be different in highly urbanized cities like NYC vs. relatively open areas like the Inland Empire.

New comment by treeface in "Should Quadrotors All Look Like This?"

treeface — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 06:18:26 +0000

It looked fake to me.

New comment by treeface in "AngularJS 1.2.0: timely-delivery"

treeface — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 23:53:54 +0000

Not sure what you were expecting. AngularJS apps aren't usually built with a noJS fallback in mind.

New comment by treeface in "UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'espionage' and 'terrorism'"

treeface — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 01:31:59 +0000

The first part of that statement is: "We assess that Miranda is knowingly carrying material the release of which would endanger people's lives."

Most lobbyists and activists aren't carrying around NSA documents.

New comment by treeface in "Contrasting Backbone and Angular"

treeface — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:58:42 +0000

In practice, compartmentalizing sections of a page into declarative chunks of JS and HTML actually helps keep things really organized. When each link in a nested directive chain is completely independent of one another, it makes refactoring a problematic area much simpler. And of course all of this makes unit and functional testing much simpler.

New comment by treeface in "Introducing Login and Pay with Amazon"

treeface — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 20:34:01 +0000

It surprises me that anybody uses Amazon or PayPal when Stripe and Balanced exist.

New comment by treeface in "A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution"

treeface — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:03:56 +0000

Laravel has built-in auth support and a bunch of good Composer packages that can add more features. It's also got RESTful and resourceful controllers built in and a very awesome routing system. You can use any admin/cms package, but this one I made specifically for Laravel and the Eloquent ORM:

https://github.com/FrozenNode/Laravel-Administrator

New comment by treeface in "A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution"

treeface — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:34:25 +0000

And there's also Laravel, which is partially built on Symfony and generally maps a little closer to what is possible in Rails.

New comment by treeface in "Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hideous"

treeface — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 01:41:03 +0000

He's trying to say that Google paid something tangible for something intangible. It's difficult to estimate the present value of a patent portfolio, ergo it's "intangible".