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Brett Hardin
Personal blog · bretthard.in · on HN as bretthardinstartupsbusiness
Brett Hardin's personal blog at bretthard.in covers startups and business. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brett Hardin's posts on accepting payments and PCI compliance, and an experiment replacing a MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 for a day. One commenter disputes the Raspberry Pi post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brett Hardin reads, writes, and creates software.
What Hacker News says?
For what it's worth, PCI compliance as it stands today is complete BS. It provides a false sense of security and most of the PCI ASVs are the scourge of infosec. I can't tell you how many customers we have that use the cheapest possible PCI ASV for "compliance," but then use us in addition for "real security," despite the fact that we aren't an ASV. We've intentionally stayed away from becoming one thus far, actuall…
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on “Accepting payments is getting harder”Submitted Avoid Distractions and Remain Focused as a story · 24 points
HN discussionYou are familiar with libraries and dependencies then. You know that its a very complicated mess of spaghetti. You also know that video editing is a very high use of a computer. Even for profit companies like Adobe has trouble with current hardware[1] I get you wanted to write a blog article. Content creation is cool. I don't think you get where computers and technology has come from and necessary where its going. T…
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on “I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a Day”Submitted Automatic Updates Are The Future as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Palo Alto Office Space for 6 months as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted My AngelPad Experience - Constantly Learning as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers Shouldn't Have Access to The Operating System as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Guide to Raising a Seed Round as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failure Is An Opportunity as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Value and Growth Hypothesis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Challenge Yourself To Always Learn as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do They Solve Hard Problems? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Company Culture is Defined By You and Your Actions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unit Tests Shouldn't Begin with Should as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How OAuth Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Makes You High as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook like Button is a Web Bug as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Liquidation Preferences with Examples as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advice and Advisors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Equity, Valuation, and Getting Rich as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatic Updates from the App Store as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be Passionate Like a Kid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Increasing Revenues Past the Initial Sales as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Believing in a Crazy Vision as a story · 1 points
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