healsjnr1

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by healsjnr1 1y ago
The problem that seems to be being missed here is that while fraud is one reason Visa has say over what they accept, the much much much bigger issue is ATF, Money laundering and Sanctions. Cards like the Freedom card will never fly with eit
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by healsjnr1 4y ago
I don't know that I completely follow on this comment, in particular how code reuse comes into it. I think the biggest thing is about deciding whether you have one or many. There are a lot of cases where having many doesn't just m
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by healsjnr1 4y ago
These patterns and practicee generally aren't intend for _you_ as the developer of the app right now. They are intended for the poor shmuck 18 months later who has to work with a tangled mess of copy text stored in JS, server side yaml
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by healsjnr1 4y ago
I think this is very relevant: https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/with-blue-ridge... TL;DR my understanding is that if you host a banking API you are going to get a lot of scrutiny on who your customers are.
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by healsjnr1 4y ago
Yep, this was my experience. I graduated a double degree of EE and Comp Science. My final year thesis was a project with a local company integrating their custom designed GPRS module with a GPS module to demonstrate mobile tracking tech (it
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
Yeah I was there around the same time. The scale of the work being done to dilute the population is astounding. We were there at Christmas time, having driven from Kathmandu. That trip was telling in itself: there was only one way to get a
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
This reminds if some time direct working on crypto toolkits. Every few months, someone would always come up with a reason why "bad entropy" was the cause of a bug. It never was, but it felt like a thing we had to go through, to ge
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
You've also got to consider that this is putting _a lot_ of eggs in one basket. Would 4-5 families really pool all their savings for 10 years to invest in one childs potential business? Maybe. I think what is more likely is that 250k w
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
> If code reviews aren't an expected part of the development process and there's pressure on delivering, it won't happen. This hits at the heart of why I strongly agree with this post and think PRs and code reviews are ul
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
> Have you considered that... _you_ just like having your camera on, and like seeing other people? Yes, I think this is the whole point here. This is a bidirectional relationship. We all have biases, and for a lot of people wanting some
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
I've got some direct personal experience in this one. A few key points from how I saw it play out inside: - there was a lot of noise made about this by the bsafe crypto team when it was first implemented (anecdotal, but I trust the peo
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
But what are you fusing? If you want efficiency I guess you'll be using deuterium etc, of which we only have so much. After that your efficiency declines until... Well you end up with fusion reactors that look like the sun. You also en
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
Points for most people are a zero sum or losing game. I worked for a points loyalty program, and the customer always pays. The bank knows their market well, they know the redemption rate of points for different demographics and they set the
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
In my own anecdotal experience, I think it comes down to what the product you are working on needs, and how your team works. Recently, I spent 3 years on Scala then switched jobs and spent 3 years in Ruby. It was a shock to go back to dynam
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
I think the key point on this is `some use cases`. For people who've spent a lot of time with ANT, you might be familiar with this article from its creator: https://web.archive.org/web/20041217023752//&#x
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by healsjnr1 5y ago
Given the ease and severity of this I don't think being technical does anything for you. I am grateful for the "upgrade now" message being pushed it. As a technical user I can't trust my skills and knowledge to truly kee
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by healsjnr1 6y ago
That sounds amazing, sadly in a lot of organisations that isn't how it pans out. Either the engagement with technology doesn't happen early enough, or when it does, the technology point of view isn't given the weight it deser
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by healsjnr1 6y ago
I can never find the source, but I'm certain I've seen a study that linked the tactile nature of books to stronger recall. Smell, texture, weight, cover art, all these things aid with placing the book in the context of your life w
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Final Qantas 747 flight draws a kangaroo(abc.net.au)
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by healsjnr1 6y ago
Thing is, at their heart, these are document editing tools. They don't actually need an on ongoing operational cost (yes, maintenance, but as a number of people point out you can take the jet brains approach and lock to versions). T
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by healsjnr1 6y ago
Whether we agree with it or not, I think what is strange is how subscriptions models have become the norm. There _is_ an alternative that isn't free and that is one off payments (rember when we used to buy software?). I happily pay in
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by healsjnr1 6y ago
Just to be clear, it was the Ruby Princess in Australia. Diamond Princess was the one in Japan.
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by healsjnr1 6y ago
You've really lost me with > You can chose to get the virus That wasn't your original argument and this does nothing to stop individual people getting the virus. And the source code is worth nothing. The legal structure is alr
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by healsjnr1 6y ago
It is a combination of their previous behavior plus the behavior of the various agencies. For example: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/23/gover... The fact that law enforcement even a
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by healsjnr1 7y ago
I was thinking it was the Hardy-Ramanujan number [0] but I was off by one. I'm assuming op is referring to the j- invariant [1], something I've only just discovered. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(
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by healsjnr1 7y ago
> I hear this all the time, and it's almost always wrong. Engineers and businesses are always convinced they're special and don't fit the mold. That's rarely the case, and the money used on these initiatives was proba
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by healsjnr1 7y ago
I've read that the tactile aspects of physical books help a lot. This is very anecdotal as I kind find the particular reference I was thinking of. But personally I can recall the specific size, weight, smell and texture of physical
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by healsjnr1 7y ago
This point of view keeps coming up and it completely misses the point that _this already happens to every single women who has given up their career to look after children_. This flexibility and cost you are talking about is borne entirely
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by healsjnr1 7y ago
But I think this is one of the points of the article: the human system are thoroughly broken and convoluted. I've recently switched between banks and done just what you said: I went in to a branch knowing roughly what I wanted, but uns
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by healsjnr1 7y ago
I'm right there with you. At about 915, after stand up and coffee I have this spike of energy that gets me into work and makes me think 'tonight I'm going to put aside two hours for x'. Where x is side project, exercis

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