I came across this last week when I got the HP Laserjet MP110we to replace a 12 year old Samsung printer that I just couldn’t find drivers for for the latest macs (Samsung sold their printer division to HP). They also have chips in the toner to detect an unofficial one and try to sell you a subscription. Seems like multiple steps backward although Wi-Fi printing from phone and laptops without cables is pretty cool (I realize I’m years late to this)!
I have a similar background. I don't think you can regret it because it's the circumstances you found yourself in early in life I guess as a child. If you were severely bullied or mistreated to be insecure and lack confidence it's natural you will need to unlearn that and it will slow you down compared with those raised in a more positive environment. Just bad luck. Look at the positives instead, you have a decent brain, you're not severely handicapped etc. Just try your best man.
I don’t know if there has been a decline but since working on SEO for Tesults (https://www.tesults.com) which is in the developer/B2B SaaS space I have realized that tool comparison type articles rank highly and they are either content marketing by a vendor or they are pay for link sites. The first I would expect to rank (although that’s not necessarily great) but the second I would not. We have not paid. Some of these sites have such poor quality content and are filled with ads but surprisingly they continue to rank.
Sometimes the most honest thing on page 1 are the links labeled “Ad”. Almost everything is also often an ad.
There are people in those cars. I lived in the center of city for 9 years without a car and being walkable is great but you tend to end up limiting your life to a small area. Cars can enrich lives, open up opportunity and for families with small kids, make getting around more convenient. No need to be anti car to the point where cars are not an option anymore, optionality is key.
We don't call it MetaNote because note-taking is just part of the Project Meta's ecosystem. In Project Meta, we are building "Meta-apps" that add "metadata" to the original database, such that different Meta-apps can use the same data for different use cases.
I don’t think this argument works well against “Instagram for kids”. Yes some big tech companies have services that they supply that are close to feeling like essential utilities, but certainly not this, no one needs to use Instagram for kids, and there should indeed be freedom to choose what to do here for parents, kids and people without government intervention.
As a software engineer who has been mostly focused on testing over the last few years and leading a team focused on this, it's clear to me now that balancing what's worth testing and what's not is a delicate art and very difficult to always get right.
I do believe that a common failure is not investing in adequate regression focused tests. I've been on projects were these were not in place and an update lost a company millions of dollars very quickly prior to being noticed in production, I've been on projects were delaying any further to release would have lost critical learning data during a period of time that could not be guaranteed to come again quickly (for example market volatility or turmoil).
The best engineers in my opinion love testing as much as building new features because they understand that production fire fighting is the least fun activity of all.
Quick plug, I believe solid test reporting makes the ROI on test development clearer. I'm founder at Tesults - a test results reporting app (https://www.tesults.com) and I'd love your feedback on it, send me an email if you have a moment.
Do these people need to have Stripe accounts? I guess that’s where I was blocked, we’d been hoping to make it easy for people to accept payments by not having them sign up for other services and transfer directly to their bank accounts but this does provide greater flexibility on our end. Paypal is something that individuals and companies are used to having accounts for, but Stripe feels like a 'company' type thing, but it's not a big ask to have users sign up to receive payments.
I'm the maintainer of dj-stripe, i think you might be misunderstanding something about the stripe connect set up.
Did you look through the docs? https://stripe.com/docs/connect
I think no matter what it'll be the cheapest option for you since you're already using stripe. Feel free to email me if you need help.
I reached out to Stripe support to confirm and this was their response:
Cross-border payouts are only available in the US for Platforms.
All connected accounts in every supported country can receive payouts, Connect is the only option there is with regards to transferring funds from one account to another.
So cross border is sending payouts to connected accounts in different countries. If you are in the UK and your connected accounts are UK based, then there would be no issue with payouts to the connected accounts
You ask your users to create Stripe accounts for the purpose of transferring funds? PayPal seems like something individuals and companies would both have, I just had the perception (perhaps wrongly) Stripe sign up would be more rare, but it's worth considering asking them to sign up to receive payments.
