Okay, so part of our product handle recurring billing, that is, charging a user ever month. This can take the form of a subscription where a fee is paid every month, or as a payment plan where an initial purchase is dived up into several monthly payments, until the entire balance is paid ( Read more... )

I just don’t get this idea that many website operators have that blocking ads is “stealing” from them.This pretty much sums up my sentiments regarding that. People who get all high-horse about "oh, I never use ad-blockers because I'm not a thief and I support sights that need ad revenue" piss me off. They skip commercials on tv, flip past adds in ( Read more... )

Here's an article:
Traffic lights have drivers playing the waiting game.

Here's the summary:
A poorly researched article whinging about traffic light times, that comes to very few real conclusions, and talks to no one who actually knows anything about the subject matter.

Here's my rebuttal:
Long Light (xkcd)And, for as much as xkcd is funny, in ( Read more... )

Unemployed consultants agree: We need a third party - A rather good article on Daily Kos about how the claim that both parties are to blame for governmental dysfunction is (in general, and in this specific case) fairly ignorant and incorrect ( Read more... )

"[…] freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be [&hellip] Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."
- Rudolph W. Giuliani (via this article in the NY Times ( Read more... )

megalomanicamie linked this to me earlier today,
When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.Ignoring the fact that the website looks like it came out the ass end of one of the said flying pigs, and the fact that the "static background" is so fucking 1995 it's not even funny, the actual article is ( Read more... )

I don't particularly mind being told I should come in to the office while we're trying to release a product. That's fairly understandable. I don't necessarily agree that it'll make things vastly easier, but whatever, I'm not in charge ( Read more... )

So, at work today I get a Jira ticket from QA about a particular bug. In this case, the uses of coupon codes in a registration were not being incremented properly. So I go into the code to try and figure out where this is supposed to happen, and why it's not ( Read more... )

From On Selfishness:

I would never advocate breaking the law, but if I ever did, I would suggest that carry [sic] a hammer and to break the headlights of every SUV you see parked around town.

The rest of the article is rather good, as well.

From Daily Kos:

[The troops] didn't ask to be shipped off to an unwinnable war under false pretenses. They're just doing their job.

When has "just doing their job" or "just following orders ever been a valid excuse for a soldier who has done something wrong? Do we really want to go that route? Do we want to say that that gets the soldier off the ( Read more... )