koblas

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by koblas 1y ago
Some countries don't have cents, some countries have 3 digits of cents. So, yes you can but you also then get thinking you can express everything as ints. But, the moment you need to convert from KWD to VND (84000.00:1) you could be at
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by koblas 2y ago
Plus, for owners of the HP41, if you had an essay question in your chemistry test you could type in cliff notes... Naw, I never did that.
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by koblas 2y ago
Many fintechs are not licensed to hold funds and work with bank partners who hold your actual funds. That allows them to say they're insured because they're not co-mingled with the corporate funds in the event of insolvency. This
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by koblas 3y ago
I have some good memories and little stories from my brief time working with him. Great guy.
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by koblas 3y ago
Best advice -- find a local running club that does track workouts. The group dynamics will be incredibly helpful as a baseline. Sprinting is big on strength low on endurance, that's why you see muscular sprinters and lean 5k+ runners.
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by koblas 3y ago
Are you filling forms yourself or using a service? I'm doing the expat thing and it's still like 90 pages for the final filing.
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by koblas 3y ago
Keep in mind that the layoffs earlier this year have still had a huge impact on the job market for software engineers. Many companies moved their hiring bar higher and have gotten more selective over their canidates. 2 years ago, if you pre
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by koblas 4y ago
I cannot empasis how true this is. The classic UNIX problem was that the LPT printer daemon has an issue (it had lots and lots). But, none of your systems were running LPT, but you still had to patch 1000+s of systems just to maintain a sec
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by koblas 4y ago
Was excited to see a non-GC'ed search engine that looked solid. But, without having the replicated - distributed version of it in the "free" tier makes it hard to really evaluate.
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by koblas 4y ago
Touching on the writing point. Think of it as muscle memory, if you watch people put together PowerPoint slides you see that those who do it regularly can create a solid presentation quickly. As a developer, at some point you're going
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by koblas 4y ago
As an armchair observer I can say that I've learned a lot of interesting things about community, moderation and how being erratic manager can totally undermine your outcomes.
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by koblas 4y ago
Depending on where you're located you should potentially consider a solution that looks more like Payment Processor -> Hold in Currency -> Bulk Fx to Local currency. Typically business level Fx processing is 2% - with 3% for cred
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by koblas 4y ago
Great work here, while I suck at games, it's great to see how Go can be used to build browser based applications.
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by koblas 4y ago
I deal with a few people who clearly receive regular Interac payments, but still haven't figured out how to associate their email with their bank account. Thus requiring the question. ps. Don't get me started about figuring out ho
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by koblas 4y ago
Interac is a network by the bank cartel in Canada, not run by the government. Payments Canada is working on Real-Time Rail as a payment system that is independent from the banks. For example if you send funds to your brokerage they take 24+
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by koblas 4y ago
SEPA Instant (UK Faster payments) has been in market for a few years now. While the Federal Reserve is still working on rollout plans for FedNow. The US "instant payments" is Venmo/PayPal which are secondary to the banks not
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by koblas 4y ago
The error message that is presented to the user should always be clear and helpful. When an error is presented to the user, you should have matching logging (e.g. sentry) that provides technical reporting on what happened. By having both so
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by koblas 4y ago
For golang, but would work in any language. What's really worked is the idea that your main loads configuration and injects all of the configured interfaces into your handler. You then can build all of the testing on mocks/stubs t
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by koblas 4y ago
Payments Canada is working on their real-time system, in theory this will be deployed this year. https://www.payments.ca/real-time-rail-payment-system
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by koblas 4y ago
This will be a nice little win for account verification processes. Just doing this to connect two accounts and having to wait the days for the transfers to show up to verify.
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by koblas 4y ago
This makes me think about the quality of the dependancy. If you could evaluate packages for things like: * Test coverage -- that's not a metric on NPM * Code practices -- what's the review history * Issue velocity -- hard metric,
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by koblas 4y ago
Actually just had a discussion about this and putting the dollars out in front in the hiring process is something that more canidates are looking for in this competitive market. I'm sure it was said something like "this title (gra
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by koblas 4y ago
One thing that usually overlooked in many high security lock discussions is the key stock thickness. If you look at a typical house key side by side with the high security version it's notably thicker and more durable. Prevents breaki
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by koblas 5y ago
Let me clarify -- I never would have imagined SOCKS being used for this use case. There was no such thing as geo-restrictions or censorship at the time on the internet.
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by koblas 5y ago
Isn't that just NAT through a SOCKS proxy as transport. Never would have imaged that use case.
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by koblas 5y ago
Banks are also regulated by financial crime regulations, which take presence over GDPR. There is an obligation to preserve data for a period of time (years) for this purpose.
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by koblas 5y ago
If you go with the authors original description that the lambda function for handling orders is small and fast. Probably a bunch of server side validation before stuffing in DynamoDB or maybe into a queue (Message Queues / Kafka). We
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by koblas 5y ago
As a long time terraform user, I've been playing with a spare time project in Pulumi. TF and Pulumi share providers, but that's the extent of it. My quick observations: * It's nice to write TypeScript as the configuration la
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by koblas 5y ago
As somebody who's done a bunch of reviews on the platform you realize a bunch of things about development that we don't want to admit. When I review code for my own team (for my day job), there are many times where internal press

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