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A group of us like going to hackathons sporadically. We are mostly python devs and android-ios. We never have a designer so if someone is interested in joining us for fun please let me know.

I wrote a framework that has gotten very popular at my company. I have only ever given a 15-20 min talk on it in the past to groups of 20, 30 people. My next talk has >170 online viewers registers and 150+ in person. Any tips / advice?

Another dev friend and I have been making mobile apps for the past year. We turn them out pretty quick. However we end up making social/utility apps because we lack the skills to draw. We want to make games but are struggling finding a gfx artist that can draw characters/creatures. We do this mostly for fun but would be nice to make a profit. We are trying to find someone in the NY/NJ area. Would like to find someone to just do work with us vs paying a 1 off.

Anyone have any suggestions? We are both devs and want to split everything we make evenly with the team.

I just registered at this Pearson CourseCompass website for an online course I am taking. They literally just emailed me back the password I registered with in plain text. Why would you ever do that?

I received this today,

Dear Mr. Tsafas,

Recently we notified you that effective December 1, 2011, OnStar's¹ Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement would be amended, and we provided a summary of those proposed changes along with the proposed Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement for your review.

Based on feedback we have received, however, OnStar is not moving forward with those changes. Therefore, the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement that were in effect before we sent our notification to you will remain in effect. We apologize for any confusion or concern that this proposed update may have caused.

We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve you as an OnStar customer.

Thank you,

Joanne Finnorn Director of OnStar Subscriber Services

I haven't been a mac user for very long. Recently got tired of no office on Linux so I bought a mac book pro and have been very happy with it.

I have been reading a lot about Lion and it seems to get mixed reviews. Are you all as devs happy with the upgrade? If yes/no why?

We are a small startup here in Northern NJ. We decided to do a deal site, even though its getting a little hairy now, this idea had some twists we thought would be nice.

After designing, conceptualizing, and building the frame, we had to pick a provider for payments. At first Authorize.net looked good but they did not offer a way to build in the tipping concept without us storing the CC#'s on our end (If you have looked at the paperwork involved you would know why this was a turn off to us).

Doing more research lead us to find PayPal, posts on forums pretty much outlined the concepts. Even though their documentation is all over the place (x.com,cms.paypal.com, dead links...) I pushed through it, I even wrote a PHP Class to simplify what we needed.

https://github.com/gtsafas/PayPal-NVP-API

So now it was built, I had tied everything that needed to be into paypal, week of testing in sandbox and everything seemed good to go. After talking to support they informed us we need to upgrade to Website Payments Pro when going to production, so we did.

Week 1, all is well payments / tipping pulled in a few sales.

Week 2, We had a great deal from a really popular place over here so we decide to run the capaign. After starting to get sales (quite a few) we get this lovely email from PayPal...

"After careful consideration of your application for PayPal’s Website Payments Pro and/or Virtual Terminal product, we are unable to approve your application at this time.

Many factors were taken in consideration including time in business and past performance, type of merchandise and delivery risk, and inherent risk for chargebacks and buyer complaints. Due to the heightened visibility that accompanies a merchant account, Website Payments Pro and Virtual Terminal is not available to you at this time."

We never were told it was an application, the words they used were "enable" and the payments were working fine, how were we supposed to know that they blindly let people use the services they haven't approved yet.

So now all purchases fail when the person tries to make them and as a result we now have cancelled the deal and temporarily closed down the site.

PayPal is not for entrepreneurs and I should of known better than picking them as a choice.

(There is much more I can complain about, but what is the point now? The damage to our revenue and client confidence is already done. )

Can someone recommend a Payment vendor that would satisfy my needs and not kick us in the nuts?