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by artellectual 5y ago
Generally, in such cases, he may be right / wrong. It doesn't really matter if you ask me. The way I see it he already has a successful business. He doesn't need to pick on stripe / YC. Building a successful business is
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by artellectual 5y ago
Thx. Keep up the good fight. Remember something, successful tech companies are built on the blood, sweat and tears of engineers. Our Management team are mostly non-software people, generally they were the problem. Not having the right educa
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by artellectual 5y ago
Yes it worked. If you read my comment, the company is growing. We're making our competitors jealous.
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by artellectual 5y ago
At the beginning of my current job (I joined as CTO) I had to inherit a lot of misunderstandings that the management team had. They had hired people who knew nothing about building software (before me joining), most likely those people have
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by artellectual 5y ago
A combination of a few things, mental stamina, body need proper resting. As I got older, family becomes more important, wife, kids also need time. Also honestly you realize working more doesn't always make you more / nor does it m
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by artellectual 5y ago
Depends on what you are working on. Coding gives you insights into things that you may / may not be able to achieve if you didn't code. For example, we had to reverse engineer something that a vendor provided. The vendor simply pr
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by artellectual 5y ago
It's great if it's working for you. I've been in that mode in the past. I was greatly productive and was able to grow businesses and do amazing things doing 80-100 hour weeks. Building highly complex systems alone in very sho
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Concurrency vs. Parallelism in 5 mins [video](youtube.com)
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Thinking in First Principles with Data Structures and Algorithms [video](youtube.com)
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by artellectual 5y ago
This is so well done. I've made it a mandate for all my engineers to read it.
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by artellectual 6y ago
Sure, in the end I asked our head of compliance to join the meeting. I made it very clear to everyone what was at stake, and that I’ve done my duty in raising awareness. If they would like to proceed I hold 0 responsibility. Usually when yo
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by artellectual 6y ago
There are huge repercussions. We are governed by PDPA (our GDPR equivalent) law where penalties are extreme. Thailand takes Data Privacy as seriously as EU. But again, since it's not always easy to find the right people I end up having
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by artellectual 6y ago
No has nothing to do with tax. Usually contractors have very fixed scope, they focus on doing what is in the contract. Sometimes things that come up ad-hoc like marketing requesting installation of Google tag Manager, is outside the scope o
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by artellectual 6y ago
Agreed!
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by artellectual 6y ago
The reason for that is I'm the CTO, responsible for building out the tech / engineering team. Hiring people is difficult as there is lack of supply of talented people. We hire InfoSec on contract basis not full-time and they don&#
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by artellectual 6y ago
I'm in engineering of a financial services. When we built our front-end UI for eKYC our marketing requested for google tag manager / facebook pixel and various other tracking features to be built. I had to fight hard as an enginee
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by artellectual 6y ago
Or you can just pay for all that stuff to be managed. That's the whole point of the cloud. Everything you just listed is done by our cloud provider.
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by artellectual 6y ago
Then what can you trust? Your own hardware? What about if they go bad? Make multiple copies? How many? And what are the implications of managing multiple local backups scattered everywhere on your own hardware? What are the costs involved?
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by artellectual 6y ago
Lol you obviously didn’t read my comment. We have backups... scattered all through out the multiple regions. They just want it on “local soil”. As in it should not be in another country. > why is it in the cloud? Because we’re allowed to
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by artellectual 6y ago
I’m facing this challenge right now with a regulator. We have a financial system, that uses managed cloud SQL hosted in one of the regions. The database is also in high availability mode and has daily backup scattered all over the various r
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by artellectual 6y ago
Because who do you contact for support when something goes wrong? The problem cryptocurrency industry doesn't understand is when you work in finance you are heavily regulated. You cannot just work with "decentralized" systems
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by artellectual 6y ago
Actually Ripple is not Vaporware. I work for an MTO and we use ripple XCurrent product. XRP enables MTOs to send / receive without having to use USD as an intermediary currency. This reduces costs on money transfer and also enables mon
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by artellectual 6y ago
As someone who works as a leader of a tech team building a financial engine, from my personal experience. When teams are doing overtime it means some bad management happened somewhere. Either someone under-estimated the scope and was never
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by artellectual 6y ago
Final Cut uses GPU for encoding / exporting as well, I believe.
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by artellectual 6y ago
Looks like Final Cut to me, which is Apple's software.
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by artellectual 6y ago
That in and of itself is a testament to how problematic our man-made legal system is. Compare a nature made system to a man made system. Nature changes over time. Our laws and regulations however do not get updated to reflect the times. Tha
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by artellectual 6y ago
I'm a customer of Tailwind UI and I have to say I'm very inspired by this post. Great product, solves a real problem. It's bound to reach this point. Great work!
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Technical Debt is like quicksand [video](youtu.be)
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The Trap I fell into when Building a Product [video](youtu.be)
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by artellectual 6y ago
I just got my 4 year old macbook pro's battery replaced. The guy who did it also cleaned up the internals. I can easily use my laptop for another 2-3 years. I spent 100 USD to get it cleaned and battery replaced. Best 100 USD spent.

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