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by GregorStocks 1y ago
I've always thought that this article overstates the promise of CRDTs with regard to conflict resolution. For toy cases like a TODO list, yes, you can define your operations such that a computer can automatically reconcile conflicts -
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by GregorStocks 4y ago
You might be interested in Tiller Money https://www.tillerhq.com/ . They provide something very much along these lines, with the output being an auto-updating Google Sheet that you can do whatever you like with. You do still
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by GregorStocks 7y ago
Well, I don't have experience with the quality of Yodlee's data, but I can certainly confirm that around 2014 there were Plaid competitors who had much worse support for big banks than Plaid did. Compared to Yodlee, Plaid might ha
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by GregorStocks 7y ago
I would assume most of their early customers were not using Plaid exclusively, because they only supported a handful of very big banks. Every company that I've seen select Plaid as a vendor has either done so after considering many alt
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by GregorStocks 7y ago
When Plaid originally launched, their value proposition was much higher-quality connections to the top dozen or so most popular institutions in the United States - fewer data quality issues and better integration with MFA than you could get
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by GregorStocks 7y ago
Well, if you never put any transactions on the card, it's liable to get closed by the bank without notice - I had that happen with my oldest credit card after a few years of not using it, which hurt my credit score because you want you
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by GregorStocks 8y ago
Is this powered by Plaid? What's the user experience when you can't pull a full year+ of transactions?
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by GregorStocks 8y ago
In production, the delay I'd expect is about six hours, but for certain institutions it'll be much higher. Pending transaction support doesn't exist for all institutions, so in the worst case you could swipe your card on a Fr
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by GregorStocks 8y ago
Yeah, good point - I figured Auth wouldn't be enabled on a free developer account, but it looks like it actually is these days: https://plaid.com/pricing .
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by GregorStocks 8y ago
It looks like the credentials in credentials.json are your Plaid access key/secret/etc, not your bank account username/password. If an attacker gets them, they'd have read-only access to your bank account until you rotat
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Extranapkins' Sequence in Clojure(blog.gregorstocks.com)
3 points by GregorStocks 10y ago|0 comments
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by GregorStocks 11y ago
The current global currency is the US dollar. Most countries do not allow you to pay taxes in dollars. Why are Bitcoins different?
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by GregorStocks 11y ago
A ton of carbon sounds like a whole lot, but according to the EPA ( http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/refs.html ), a typical coal-fueled power plant puts out 3.8 million metric tons of carbon per year.
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
You can configure Vim to put the swap files in your ~/.vim instead of the directory of the file you're editing, which in my experience is much less annoying - see https://github.com/GregorStocks/configs/b
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
1 Hz is one update per second, not one update per millisecond.
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
Video game HUDs are pretty distracting, though. I think the farthest I've driven a car in a video game without hitting something is about a mile.
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
That sounds like it'd encourage misleading clickbait even more than the current Internet.
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
That's not all. Let's say that software developer would have produced $200k in value for Lyft. But that 200k could hire two more software developers! By induction, Uber has cost Lyft an infinite amount of money.
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
But it is free of charge, which is what the post you're replying to actually said.
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
I believe you'll have a lot of collisions that way, as two URLs with the same 7-byte suffix in base64 will have the same key. The Scala version uses 7 random characters, which I think will lead to a collision after about sqrt(36^7) ent
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
From the article, just below the fold: > You might have noticed several unusual things about how I discuss Autism. I’ve capitalized Autism, and I have not once used the word “disorder” or “syndrome” in tandem with it. I also say Autistic
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
Bitcoin does not support chargebacks, which moves most of the risks associated with fraud from the merchant to the customer. This means it's no longer insane for merchants to sell to places with a lot of fraud.
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
That's fairly common. For example, hello.jpg (of goatse fame) is a gif as well.
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
> Sliced democratizes access to hedge funds. To be clear, Sliced is open only to accredited investors and has a minimum investment of $20,000.
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
Here's the link: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/08/01/1914342/the-hare-gets-... And here's the best part: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/files/2014/08/Screen-shot-20
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
Why do they do it that way? Just because it's simpler to implement?
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
When you're managing more than a handful of servers, you very quickly start wanting to be able to run the same command on multiple machines - "upgrade all my API boxes to the not-vulnerable nginx", for instance, or "push
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
The shape of the distribution affects the value of the introvert/extrovert distinction pretty strongly, though. If it's strongly bimodal (so a random extrovert is very different from a random introvert), then it says a lot, while
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
I registered for this and got 5,000.999999 Stellars. Kinda curious about the 0.999999 part...
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by GregorStocks 12y ago
Could be - I think my memory of the non-Page account dates to mid-2011, and that's plenty long enough ago for my memory to play tricks on me.

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