MaxGabriel

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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
You might be able to appeal to NIST standards, which now recommend against some of the bad practices like special characters.
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/04/01/maximalist.html I thought Vitalin Buterin had a really nice steelman of Bitcoin maximalism.
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
Hey, we looked into this. It looks like you registered in Rhode Island in 2016, but Rhode Island later revoked your business registration: http://business.sos.ri.gov/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSearchRedi... https:&#x
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
> Does that mean signing up with you gives me an account with those banks, or do I still have to sign up with those banks independently in order to use your service? Neither. The funds are held by those banks, but you won’t ever deal wit
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
Wires are also free, in case you ever need them :) (CTO at Mercury)
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
Iirc, with our current partner bank Evolve + technology provider Synapse, ACHs and wires have “Synapse” as the sender name on a certain field, instead of your business name. This is (as far as I understand) wrong. Fortunately it usually doe
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
Yes we do, this is a very common customer profile for us
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
> There has got to be a better way for us to accomplish this. One path forward is Oauth, which several major institutions use on Plaid (Capital One, Wells, Chase are ones I know of). This definitely solves “entering login information int
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
> We're doing all we can, and working with other financial service providers to make this transition as smooth as possible. The biggest thing for us would be if you could support Plaid's Identity product by returning names and
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
(I'm CTO of Mercury) To clarify, when rawtxapp said "Wire transfers cost 20$ each", they probably mean wiring _to_ Mercury from their bank costs $20. Mercury doesn't charge for sending wires. The reason they're ment
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
Unless something has changed, you have to pay for YouTube premium to play audio while the screen is off. YouTube is also a worse choice if you want offline access, such as on an airplane or when camping
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
Dwarf Fortress
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by MaxGabriel 4y ago
Fwiw, we (mercury.com) use Haskell exclusively for our backend, and employ something like 75 engineers. Haskell isn’t widespread for sure, but this list is by no means exhaustive.
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by MaxGabriel 5y ago
Is there any notable 13/14 stuff worth mentioning?
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by MaxGabriel 5y ago
Mercury is hiring ~50 developers to write Haskell this year. Our entire backend is in Haskell, and powers banking for many startups and e-commerce companies Try it out at demo.mercury.com Jobs page: mercury.com/jobs To the OP: I asked
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by MaxGabriel 5y ago
Maybe how international wires work and on what ways providers like Wise or CurrencyCloud are different Maybe European banking API standards vs Plaid? Different banking charters, like ILCs. Maybe talking about what tech startups are doing wh
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by MaxGabriel 5y ago
Are there any good initiatives you think companies should fund to improve the accessibility?
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by MaxGabriel 5y ago
My rough understanding with Tailscale is they have a central server you need to trust. How do you feel about this from a security perspective?
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by MaxGabriel 5y ago
This sounds like a lot of stuff that Nix solves, the multiple versions of libraries coexisting part at least
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by MaxGabriel 5y ago
> In future we want to be able to do even more sophisticated things, like ask users for confirmation before the push code that contains secrets If you all have thought about it, do you imagine you'd only warn in the presence of some
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by MaxGabriel 5y ago
If Dhall was more popular, would it meet your criteria?
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by MaxGabriel 6y ago
I’ve been using Haskell in production for three years and it’s been great so far! I think these concepts translate to other languages fairly well, and are easy to learn in Haskell: - Newtypes (Languages like Kotlin/Swift have support f
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by MaxGabriel 6y ago
> government funded The video was made by the Jam Handy organization. They did videos for several car companies, and sometimes a consortium of them, is my understanding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy
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by MaxGabriel 6y ago
I’m seeing 55 employees when I google
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by MaxGabriel 6y ago
Fwiw there are competitor services to Plaid, like Finicity
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by MaxGabriel 6y ago
One upside to tools like the Garmin (and I _think_ the newest SPOT) is you get 2-way communication. This is good to describe your specific need (helicopter evac vs 2 people on foot to carry a stretcher) and location (are you stuck on the si
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by MaxGabriel 6y ago
Andreesen Horowitz primarily focuses on early stage startups. A company with 5mm in investment isn’t able to spend 1mm on a single open source license.
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by MaxGabriel 6y ago
My coworker packed it for Nix if that's helpful to anyone: https://github.com/chessai/1password-beta-nix
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by MaxGabriel 6y ago
Learning curve is fairly steep, but very doable if you join a good team who doesn’t make things too complicated. Productivity is lower initially but much better on maintenance/refactoring. Overall I’d recommend it! Experience: Mercury
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by MaxGabriel 6y ago
We use Nix and NixOS with no containers. You get some of the benefits of containers (eg different binaries can declare dependencies on different versions of X), without some of the wonkiness of containers It has trade offs (eg worse docs),

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