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Join in on the official chat at [0] If you run into performance issue or want to try using an external MIDI source to sync, I have those in my fork at [1], waiting for the maintainer to come back from sailing around Japan to merge them :)

[0] https://talk.lurk.org/channel/orca [1] https://github.com/hamstah/Orca/releases


I'm sorry for your loss

you should put contact details somewhere if people want to offer their help privately.


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I've done a bit of digging and if you look at the RAKBANK prepaid portal [0] you can see the service is powered by ECS which is based in India [1], with offices in the US, UAE and Singapore.

Not sure about the other one, the bank of Muscat site is a bit crap, didn't find mention of the processor in the T&Cs or description of the cards [2].

[0] https://www.rakbankprepaidcard.ae/CustomerPortal/WebPages/Lo... [1] http://www.electracard.com/contact-us.php [2] http://www.bankmuscat.com/cards/prepaidmain.shtml


More importantly electraCard is certified PCI compliant by Control Case [0]. I think, this is the primary reason electraCard's name is not on the news; it has been certified secure by the payment industry standard [1]. Either Control Case failed to perform audit properly or the hackers had some serious skills.

[0] http://www.controlcase.com/ [1] https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/


No but I'm not running exchanges with people's money. If you don't know what a float number is, you probably shouldn't be in charge of handling thousands of euros people trusted you with.


Seems to also discover rounding errors with float. Why would they store transaction amounts with float is another interesting question.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15165559/how-to-round-amo...


Looks useful, will give it a try.

(I would remove the autoplay=1 on your video with music as it's pretty annoying when you open in a background tab)


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