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This is the latest version of an email which I send periodically, offering customers the opportunity to pre-pay for SaaS in return for a discount. The benefits to the SaaS company are better cash flow and reduced churn rate. The benefits to the customer are, well, in the email. This genre of email has produced hundreds of thousands of dollars in pre-pays for some companies I work with, and it rarely requires any more work than this example.

I've put $79 is as a placeholder for the cost of the user's plan. We calculate that for each account, naturally, along with the billing contact's name.

Subject: Save $79 on Appointment Reminder (and get a tax write-off) Formatting: 100% plain text. Gmail automatically links up the central link. From: Patrick McKenzie (Appointment Reminder) [email protected]

2015-01-29 Unofficial Relay FAQ

Compilation of questions and answers about Relay from React.js Conf.

Disclaimer: I work on Relay at Facebook. Relay is a complex system on which we're iterating aggressively. I'll do my best here to provide accurate, useful answers, but the details are subject to change. I may also be wrong. Feedback and additional questions are welcome.

What is Relay?

Relay is a new framework from Facebook that provides data-fetching functionality for React applications. It was announced at React.js Conf (January 2015).

Create PDF files from Markdown sources in OSX

When [Markdown][markdown] appeared more than 10 years ago, it aimed to make it easier to express ideas in an easy-to-write plain text format. It offers a simple syntax that takes the writer focus away from the formatting, thus giving her time to focus on the actual content.

The market abunds of editors to be used for help with markdown. After a few attempts, I settled to Sublime and its browser preview plugin, which work great for me and have a small memory footprint to accomplish that. To pass the results around to other people, less technical, a markdown file and a bunch of images is not the best approach, so converting it to a more robust format like PDF seems like a much better choice.

[Pandoc][pandoc] is the swiss-army knife of converting documents between various formats. While being able to deal with heavy-weight formats like docx and epub, we will need it for the more lightweight markdown. To be able to generate PDF files, we need LaTeX. On OSX, the s

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<Bucket
	type = "2"
	version = "2.0">
	<Breakpoints>
	<BreakpointProxy
	BreakpointExtensionID = "Xcode.Breakpoint.SymbolicBreakpoint">
	<BreakpointContent
	shouldBeEnabled = "Yes"
	ignoreCount = "0"

	You can get a refund for any app on the App Store by following this process:

	1. Visit https://reportaproblem.apple.com

	2. Sign In with your Apple ID.

	3. Click “Report a Problem” on the offending app.

	4. Choose “Problem is not listed here” and be sure to mention that you are asking for a refund because it doesn’t work as expected.

	# For training rest 5 min on compounds, 3-5 minutes on smaller ones

	# Training A (first set to failure, second set -10% weight + 1 rep):
	# Deadlift - 2x4-5
	# Overhead Press - 1x6-8
	# Weighted Chinup - 2x4-6
	# Chest-Supported Rows - 2x6-8
	# Close-grip chinup - 1x6-10

	# Training B (first set to failure, second set -10% weight + 1 rep):

	language: objective-c
	before_install: gem install xcpretty -N

	script:
	- set -o pipefail
	- make ci

	// See http://nshipster.com/key-value-observing/
	// Put this code a common utilities header, and use it to have the compiler help check correctness of key paths.
	// Uses macro stringification to create an Obj-C string literal, plus validation code that the compiler optimizes out.

	@interface NSObject (KeyPathFakeCategoryForCompilerWarnings)
	+ (instancetype)__fake_method_for_compiler_warnings__;
	- (instancetype)__fake_method_for_compiler_warnings__;
	@end

	/*! Returns a string for the given keypath, but causes a compiler warning if the keypath is not defined on \c self.

	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

	@interface HRSTDIOReadWriter : NSObject
	@end

	@implementation HRSTDIOReadWriter

	+(NSString*) readFromSTDIN
	{
	NSFileHandle *kbd = [NSFileHandle fileHandleWithStandardInput];

	#!/usr/sbin/dtrace -q -s
	/*
	Overly spammy, mostly covered by the other probes (every "read" or "write" is a "request")
	CFPreferencesServer$target:::request {
	printf("REQUEST from pid %d at %Y ( domain: %s, user: %s, host: %s, container: %s, managed: %d)\n", arg0, walltimestamp, copyinstr(arg1) != NULL ? copyinstr(arg1) : "(NULL)" ?: "(NULL)", copyinstr(arg2) != NULL ? copyinstr(arg2) : "(NULL)", copyinstr(arg3) != NULL ? copyinstr(arg3) : "(NULL)", copyinstr(arg4) != NULL ? copyinstr(arg4) : "(NULL)", arg5);
	}
	*/

	CFPreferencesServer$target:::write_rejected {
	printf("REJECTED WRITE OF KEY %s request from pid %d for reason %s at %Y ( domain: %s, user: %s, host: %s, container: %s)\n", copyinstr(arg1) != NULL ? copyinstr(arg1) : "(NULL)", arg0, copyinstr(arg6) != NULL ? copyinstr(arg6) : "(NULL)", walltimestamp, copyinstr(arg2) != NULL ? copyinstr(arg2) : "(NULL)", copyinstr(arg3) != NULL ? copyinstr(arg3) : "(NULL)", copyinstr(arg4) != NULL ? copyinstr(arg4) : "(NULL)", copyinstr(arg5) != NULL ? copyinstr(arg5)