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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
Thanks for your feedback. To be honest, I wasn't here when you gave your advice, but it was clearly well founded :) We haven't run any issues with using EventMachine yet, but will consider other alternatives here if the need arise
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
We're mostly a ruby shop here - so using what we know is more efficient and allows more engineers to contribute (both internally, and from an open source perspective).
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Toshi – An Open Source Bitcoin Node for Developers(blog.coinbase.com)
115 points by adrianmacneil 12y ago|37 comments
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
Coinbase San Francisco or remote https://coinbase.com/ http://grnh.se/t4gehk # jobs page Interested in helping build the future of currency and payments? Do you regularly run though brick walls on your way
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
Coinbase San Francisco or remote https://coinbase.com/ http://grnh.se/t4gehk # jobs page Interested in helping build the future of currency and payments? Do you regularly run though brick walls on your way
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
Me too!
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US Marshals: One Auction Bidder Claimed All 30,000 Silk Road Bitcoins(coindesk.com)
4 points by adrianmacneil 12y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
I used to be strongly in the no-www camp for aesthetic reasons, but have since come around. There are legitimate reasons why having www (or any subdomain) is important in any large site. The CNAME argument is obsolete since most DNS provide
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Introducing Payment Pages with Nas, Marc Andreessen, and Code.org(blog.coinbase.com)
57 points by adrianmacneil 12y ago|13 comments
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
It's for both sides. If you are paying a non-Coinbase merchant, and they support the payment protocol, you will see the merchant's name, address, and amount displayed. If you are paying a Coinbase merchant from a non-Coinbase wall
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
Generally server-side wallets don't keep all user funds online. Most are stored offline in cold storage, which requires multiple signatures to access.
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
Fellow kiwi here. Most NZ universities are included.
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
I'm an engineer at Coinbase. There are definitely many non-US domains included (e.g. .ac.CCTLD and .edu.CCTLD).
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
Coinbase (San Francisco, CA) is hiring engineers, devops, design/UX. We solve really interesting problems every day, securely storing and transferring digital currency between our users and the rest of the bitcoin network. We're g
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by adrianmacneil 12y ago
https://exp-resso.com/ - shopping cart CMS plugin (PHP), ~100k p/a revenue. Could probably be a full time income for someone looking to escape the 9-5 and work from anywhere in the world.
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by adrianmacneil 13y ago
It's a good point, that different interpretations of the same sentence can lead to pointless debate. Unfortunately, I guess the main way to improve semantic clarity around an argument would be with more information up front, which woul
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by adrianmacneil 13y ago
To be fair, HN is also an Opinion Network, so the same logic could be applied. People love to discuss things, and without experimentation with different formats, we would all still be using usenet (or sitting around a dinner table, which wo
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Show HN: A new platform for meaningful, balanced debates(saysaw.org)
50 points by adrianmacneil 13y ago|45 comments
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How Google and Nest could get the smart home all wrong(news.cnet.com)
1 points by adrianmacneil 13y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 13y ago
Set up the company in your home country, it will make your life much easier. Otherwise, unless your country has a double tax agreement with the country where you registered your company, you will need to legally declare the company drawings
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New Zealand calls for enquiry following customs seizure of electronic equipment(lancewiggs.com)
1 points by adrianmacneil 13y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 13y ago
Facebook seems to have a much better solution to the AJAX-loading progress problem. It looks like they use an iframe as transport, which causes the native browser spinner to appear. Much better than a custom design. Of course, it would be e
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Show HN: ActiveMerchant-style payment processing library for PHP(github.com)
1 points by adrianmacneil 13y ago|0 comments