Max Beatty

The cost of laun­dry in my build­ing went up last month with­out expla­na­tion. This irked me because I had saved an exact amount of quar­ters to do a cer­tain num­ber of loads. I became con­sumed by this small incon­ve­nience and made a spread­sheet to out­line the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of this change. Ulti­mately, I will have to make […]

Whether cor­po­ra­tions real­ize it or not, they are explic­itly and implic­itly cap­ping their char­ity. I under­stand they want to pro­tect their lia­bil­i­ties as a com­pany and do not want to look fool­ish say­ing, “Sorry, we actu­ally can’t donate $1 tril­lion, but thanks for all the RTs.” If you’re going to match dona­tions or donate a […]

To date, I’ve been a mem­ber of Face­book for 24% of my life. I’ve grown up with them, lived through their redesigns, and sorta kinda under­stood their grow­ing num­ber of fea­tures. Today, they’ve added the Sub­scribe But­ton. By opt­ing in, you can remove the syn­chro­nous foun­da­tion of the plat­form which is what I’m choos­ing to do.

Cliff Jiff­i­son sent me an email last night that wasn’t very nice. I believe it was in response to a post I made about Groupon over a year ago. The point then, now, and always was that Groupon should be doing more to pro­tect mer­chants, cus­tomers, and Groupon alike. I fol­lowed up with some simple […]

Some mass tran­sit sys­tems choose to oper­ate in a man­ner where you must have Proof-of-Payment at all times while onboard. Gen­er­ally, this is in the form of a paper ticket. These paper tick­ets can be pur­chased from loca­tion aware vend­ing machines at each sta­tion. These machines allow patrons to pay with credit cards, autho­riz­ing transactions […]