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Socially however, I'd wager that fewer people would let you take a picture of their card compared to swiping it. People are simply used to having credit cards swiped, they aren't used to having pictures taken of them.
The numbers on cards become a lot harder to read after the coloring wears off of the numbers. Even as a human it can be hard to read them at times depending on the lighting.
Card layouts also vary a lot, even from the same issuers (for example: the Amex PASS).
Reading the mag stripe prevents fraud and therefore is subject to lower fees by CC companies.
Not to mention, having someone take a picture of my credit card would spook me out a little (yes, even if I'm familiar with the product).
While Ev certainly deserves plenty of credit for Twitter's success, I think you're giving him a little too much in this case.
Twitter actually started out as a Rails project because Florian Weber (who worked at Odeo with Jack on the initial implementation) was a member of the Rails Core team. Jack was originally going to develop it in Python, C, and Ocaml. I don't believe that Ev ever had anything to do with the decision to use Rails.
If you do decide to go with GoDaddy, you can save a considerable amount of money by googling for "ssl certificate" instead of going directly to their website.
Their advertisement price is $12.99 per year (it's $49.99 per year on their website).
This is an excellent example of why you shouldn't write your own crypto code - Colin is awesome at it and even he makes mistakes.
Edit: To be clear, this isn't aimed at Colin but meant to point out that if he still occasionally gets it wrong there's a pretty good chance that your fancy custom encryption method does too.
At Yammer, our mission is to change the way people work, and that mission starts with us. We use our own product every day to promote and encourage our culture of openness and transparency. Yammer provides each user with a voice, empowering individuals to share ideas, ask questions, and voice concerns. We're passionate about building a great product that people love to use, and we're looking for similarly product-minded engineers to join us.
We work with all kinds of languages (Java, Ruby, Javascript, to name a few) and technologies (anything from Postgres, Riak, and Berkley DB to Rails, Dropwizard, and Backbone). We're also never afraid to try new things but not just for the sake of trying new things.
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