bjoernw

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by bjoernw 4y ago
I would take it more as a comment on the sheer volume of hiring, meaning there was a place for any level of engineer there.
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by bjoernw 5y ago
Is it worth optimizing for future output when the life-saving metric during a global pandemic is time-to-first-dose? There are only a few factories in the world that can make something as complex as an mRNA vaccine. There is literally a sho
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by bjoernw 5y ago
The real problem limiting supply isn't the manufacturing, it's the supply chain. We now have factories optimized to produce vaccines as fast as the supply chain allows. If we start messing with the supply chains and divert inputs
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by bjoernw 6y ago
Maybe that's because 99% is purely held to speculate on the price going up?
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by bjoernw 6y ago
So this assumes there is pent-up demand to use BTC as part of smart contracts that is not yet met by WBTC on Ethereum. I don't see anything that would validate that assumption.
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by bjoernw 6y ago
I know these letters are probably hard to write but when you do have to write one I think referring to people as "people" instead of "resources" would be better.
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by bjoernw 6y ago
you could also use something like https://coil.com to monetize your content and get paid in realtime based on views
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by bjoernw 6y ago
Coil and Mozilla working on a web standard together, the fact that we now have a couple of years of examples of digital content creators being de-monitized on ad-supported platforms, and the fact that crypto currencies are more approachable
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by bjoernw 6y ago
Companies like https://coil.com are solving this by giving you a single $5/month subscription and then streaming micropayments to the content creators as you consume their content. It builds on the WebMonitization standard
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by bjoernw 6y ago
That article is from 2018 :) Check out the mobile wallet XUMM for a solid approach.
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by bjoernw 6y ago
What's your number? That's exactly what Ripple is working on - replacing SWIFT. https://ripple.com/ripplenet
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by bjoernw 6y ago
Coil and Mozilla are working on something very similar to sponsorship but instead with micropayments that are streamed to content creator's wallets via a new open Web Monetization standard. https://webmonetization.org/d
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by bjoernw 6y ago
Seems consistent with his speech impediment, no?
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by bjoernw 7y ago
"Corporate Export On the Plus plan, Workspace Owners can apply to access a self-service tool called Corporate Export. This type of export includes content from public and private channels and direct messages. If Corporate Export is en
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by bjoernw 7y ago
You could always just export all your company's slack data to preserve it and make it queryable https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-yo...
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by bjoernw 8y ago
Having to support a legacy RoR monolith and being happy with it are 2 different things. How many of those companies are now supplementing the monolith with microservices in other stacks and are actively chopping up the monolith? I know at l
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by bjoernw 8y ago
Java has JPA (Java Persistence API) which is an abstraction layer over various ORMs. However, most people use Hibernate. Hibernate is nice because it also gets out of the way when you need it to, like when you're inserting or selecting
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by bjoernw 8y ago
Build your app using whatever you're most comfortable with because in the end an existing product is better than no product. Will you enjoy spending an extra hour per day working with this framework over another? That's an hour mo
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by bjoernw 8y ago
I don't think the tool is the problem. We just have more people, flights are cheaper, and younger generations value experiences more than buying property and starting families. People used to send postcards, now it's digital.
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by bjoernw 8y ago
You could probably leverage the service discovery APIs in Envoy to make this more stack-agnostic. Just a thought.
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by bjoernw 8y ago
Only if they stay negative
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by bjoernw 9y ago
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Google intern did Not violate MIT license(github.com)
2 points by bjoernw 9y ago|0 comments
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by bjoernw 9y ago
Did you only create your account to poop on this guy's idea?
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by bjoernw 9y ago
Because they feel it's wrong, legality aside.
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by bjoernw 9y ago
When a zero day drops the size of the security team is irrelevant.
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by bjoernw 9y ago
Googling bcrypt should do the trick and most people know how to do that. </sarcasm>
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by bjoernw 10y ago
I didn't say equivalent in general. I said equivalent in the Java world where we are more used to having to deal with bloat. Just free yourself from your preconceptions and run ./gradlew . Everything will start up fine, no mess, I
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by bjoernw 10y ago
Our job as programmers is to hide complexity and expose it when needed. Nothing to shiver about.
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by bjoernw 10y ago
Same with Twitter. Remember the Fail Whale? Those were the non-jvm days before they ran ruby on the jvm.

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