mojzu · HackerTrans

4 years agodiscuss

I'd imagine for these companies the hardware is a necessity to get customers into their payment processing business, could even be a loss leader rather then a profit centre. If a lot more people now have a potential POS device in their pocket it could expand their markets quite a bit, although other payment processors who formerly didn't want to or couldn't make hardware may now become competitors

mojzu

5 years agodiscuss

I think a tool like that could be very valuable, as you said in most cases you end up in the same few common locations. Most of the time the reason I fall back on google is because I'm not sure whether what I'm looking for is going to be in a github issue, in a bug tracker, in a forum, in a stackoverflow answer, in a mailing list, etc.

There was a docs aggregation site I tried at one point that was quite useful, but without search across issues/forums etc. I didn't end up sticking with it

mojzu

5 years agodiscuss

I think it depends on what you’re searching for, for dev related stuff no other search engine I’ve tried comes close. But there are whole industries now that are so heavily SEO’d that finding useful information without knowing the exact keyword to search for is incredibly frustrating

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