It's pretty obvious that its company v. consumer these days. Its a war throughout the world - businesses can easily corrupt public servants in all walks of life. Is there a way to eradicate corruption?
It seems like from this it would only take a few minutes to put this on an existing site. What sets you apart from the other instant and "easy to set up" checkouts I could use? Is there a lot of customizability that one can easily add to the checkout, like size and quantity and color?
I'd also like to style some of the checkout to be more branded - is it possible to change the colors or logos?
Good job on clean styling of the checkout. Also, will there be support for Amazon Payments in the future?
>What sets you apart from the other instant and "easy to set up" checkouts?
In fact, the default product at Celery is exactly one of these "easy to set up" copy-pasted checkouts with just pasting in 2 lines of code to get a checkout. This DIY checkout offers something that none of the copy-paste checkouts, including our own, offers: Total customization over every aspect of the checkout interface and flow.
Not only could you change all the style and position of the elements, you can even insert steps afterwards, like your own survey, for example. You could even change the language to Klingon if you like. We're excited to see what people can come up with.
Branding is totally open to your own styles. Colors, logos, assets, transitions and animations - you name it.
Amazon Payments is a feature that we'll be keeping a keen eye on and prioritize it based on demand and product fit.
I wrote a lot of the code for https://www.airbrite.io/, which we are quietly launching on hackernews today.
The dashboard is all backbone, the backend is all node.js.
We wanted to build something that could become a core toolset for all developers. Hopefully it'll help frontend developers with e-commerce sites, but I'm excited to get to use it myself.
While I do like that everything is moving towards paperless, I hope we keep archives of all our knowledge in some permanent form. Should a world wide power failure or some other catastrophic event occur and we were "sent back to the stone age", the amount of knowledge we would lose from losing the internet is unimaginable.
If humans were still around after being sent back to the stone age (without 100% infrastructure destruction), how long would it take to figure out how to generate enough power to boot a computer? I would hope that there are enough humans who know what electricity is even at a basic level to be able to get some generators running within a couple of years. Even still, there should still be a few power sources left that would just require fuel and the flip of a switch.
If it's catastrophic enough that the event destroys all of our computers and generators forever, I would be doubtful that humans would still be around in any capacity where knowledge would be an important factor.
It's not just booting a computer though. Hypothetically, if Silicon Valley is wiped from the planet tomorrow at the same time as a massive EMP killing all electronics on earth simultaneously (extreme), its assumed we could get most of that data back. I'm guessing we'd lose a significant amount of information though.
The real loss would be the engineers -- without people manning these systems I'm not sure we're getting that data back very quickly. What if you lose the key players -- the people who have the passwords, the knowledge, and control over these systems? It's losing the combination to the worlds most valuable vault, but the vault is digital and restoring it takes privileged information.
That's true. I would assume that we would be able to regain most of the basic "this is what makes us the 21st century" information. Almost everything else, in my mind, would be of questionable value to the new society. If Facebook went dark, if Google went dark, Yahoo, Microsoft, hell even Wikipedia; yeah there'd be significant loss and it would take a long time to recover from. But the benefit of the information age versus the destruction of the Library of Alexandria is that you can't just destroy the Library and all that knowledge is gone. There's a wealth of information and culture on my computer alone. If the biggest sources of knowledge were gone tomorrow, individuals would be able to rebuild the basics of the information age very quickly. We might be set back to 1970, but without the literal decimation of the human population, there's no way we'd be set back to the stone age.
How did you pick the font? I find myself having problems figuring out is a single letter is a l or an i or a j sometimes. Seems like there's a lot of fonts out there with better readability.
Same thing here. Also when two words come at you on top of each other, hard to see what I should be spelling ;-)
Ideas:
> Smaller words protected by a "forcefield" of a bigger word.
> Wrong letter halfway through spelling could make the enemy ship shoot a "backspace" torpedo that can only be destroyed with the backspace key. So three wrong letters would shoot 3 backspace torpedoes at you.
> Two long words reaching out could a tractor beam.
I find the font colour problematic at times, because it's very similar to that of the opponents; so occasionally a selected word isn't easily visible against it's background, and I'm not certain which letter I've missed.
Also, thanks for a surprisingly entertaining, and maybe even useful game :)
yes it would be great to avoid the words to overlap. And also when I begin to type in a word I cannot switch to another target, I must finish the current one. It is ok! But could you make the current bigger and red instead of orange please? :-)
I've been emailing my resume using the Google Docs url (read only) and it works well. There are rarely any issues with someone being able to open it, versus a pdf or doc. Those might cause issues if you don't have Word or Adobe installed, but no installation means a better experience for the person on the other side. Sometimes Macs will format PDFs oddly in Preview and other issues always arise with doc and docx unless you are sure they are on Windows with Word.
Sending a Google Doc also allows you to edit it even after you send it. You can even see when they view it if they are logged in. If they don't like it, you can always just save it to your hard drive as a doc or pdf and send that.
The ability to edit after you send is intriguing and something I hadn't considered. Of course assuming the first thing the recipient does isn't to download the document.
It might be the first thing they do, but if they don't check their email immediately you have until they print/download. That window of 5 minutes to 6-8 hours or even over the weekend is worth using Google Docs alone.
is money the key, or is money the chain that binds us? The only good that comes out of this is that you get to decide which of these worldviews you want to live in, then make the best of it.
- If you have more money (wealth, the key), you are freer, because you don't have to earn a wage for longer (with enough money, you are retired and don't ever have to earn a wage again.)
- If you have lower costs (lifestyle, the chains), you are freer, because any wage you earn can be lower, and you have more spare money to put towards your wealth.
You don't need to chose between being a wage-slave or a hippy. Investing a good fraction (say 10-80%) of your income is something most middle-class westerners can afford, attacks both ends of the problem, and leads reliably to freedom.
Firstly, symbols have been around for thousands of years. Our written language is built around them, and our everyday life is surrounded by them. These aren't going anywhere and are a required abstraction for higher thought. These aren't going away.
Second, logos are prettier symbols, but they are pervasive in our world. Every single business has a logo and tries to push that logo and brand at you every chance they get. These aren't going away.
Third, icons are logos and/or symbols. It stands to reason that if the previous two aren't going anywhere, then icons aren't going anywhere.
