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by jes5199 2y ago
most accounting software chooses one convention and sticks with it on all account types, to the chagrin of accountants
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by jes5199 2y ago
okay but how do you model a three-party transaction? say you want to collect fees or taxes
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by jes5199 2y ago
single entry is like a receipt at a store, is says what you owed and what you paid, but there’s no “other side” that is getting credited or debited the same amount
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by jes5199 2y ago
the systems I’ve worked on that use your design end up in a state I call “the zoo” - because you never actually have simple transactions like you’re imagining. You end up with one object for credit card payments with stripe fees, another on
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by jes5199 2y ago
what you’ve sketched out already looks like a double-entry bookkeeping system, if you have the constraint that all of the deltas in your array on your transaction sum to zero (so money always _moves_ and is not created or destroyed) calling
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by jes5199 2y ago
literally every startup I’ve worked at has had busted accounting system that had to be painfully and expensively rewritten as a proper ledger. We should be teaching “Accounting for Programmers” as a required course in CS programs, or at lea
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by jes5199 2y ago
surely there are other wildernesses? is demand so high that there aren’t any left?
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by jes5199 2y ago
I still have the original Maslow in the box it came in :-/ I just never had the capacity to get it running, there are steps
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by jes5199 2y ago
the way I remember it, it was a competitive primary with Bernie and Warren competing for the lead when suddenly Biden mysterious knocked them all out, as if the party had suddenly overruled the process. Maybe that was an illusion but a lot
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by jes5199 2y ago
honestly this is one of the reasons I prefer pre-IPO companies, my salary is lower until they do a buyback or an exit, but it ends up basically in the same place over the long term. This is how I was able to put a downpayment on a house wit
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by jes5199 2y ago
solar has a seasonal cost curve such that if we build enough to displace fossil fuels in the winter, then during the summertime we’ll have more energy than we know what to do with - in fact, we already have to “curtail” energy production
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by jes5199 2y ago
i get weird ideas sometimes that I have to chase down. I had a thing where I’d render images in webGL and then convert the pixels to audio. but it got monotonous only making music with the builtin GL functions like sine and cosine, so I sta
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by jes5199 2y ago
it’s weird tho, none of my feed is actually hosted at my domain. I forget what I had to do to claim my url on bluesky but I understood it as proving that I controlled the domain, not actually using it to point to content. Does any part of
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by jes5199 2y ago
I have to admit, the idea of a “viral hit blog post” sounds absolutely quaint now but honestly was that ever a good thing?
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by jes5199 2y ago
I worked for a company that migrated from mysql to postgres, but then got big enough they wanted to hire fulltime database experts and ended up migrating back to mysql because it was easier to find talent
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by jes5199 2y ago
both!
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by jes5199 2y ago
the name also seems to be a reference to another pseudonym, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
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by jes5199 2y ago
what's the old saw about "unix design prioritizes simplicity over correctness, and on modern hardware simplicity is also no longer considered necessary"
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by jes5199 2y ago
sure, but take a survey of any group of five year olds - can you tell which ones were born by c-section? which ones were breastfed?
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by jes5199 2y ago
their rewards program login is also broken, and I tried talking to their support chatbot and it told me to try during business hours and disconnected?? none of this inspires confidence
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by jes5199 2y ago
thank you. I was able to follow these instructions. One must wonder how they managed to sell out of these adapters while making it so difficult to place an order. It asked me if I wanted to fill out a customer satisfaction survey, but the f
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by jes5199 2y ago
the 2021 Bolt that I drive could probably do that trip with a single 45-minute charge stop in the middle. I know that’s slow compared to a Tesla, but it ends up being fine most of the time
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by jes5199 2y ago
no, the GM-branded one that won't void my warrantee
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by jes5199 2y ago
I own a Chevy Bolt, and have no luck actually figuring out how to buy this adaptor
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by jes5199 2y ago
this is exactly what i said about the iphone
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by jes5199 2y ago
I cannot tell from reading what you wrote whether you think it did a good job or not
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by jes5199 2y ago
in general, I am in favor of language features that make it easy to prove that common errors will not happen. Conversely, I am against language features that make it easy to make new classes of errors that are hard to reason about. Haskell
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by jes5199 2y ago
mute switch got replaced with action button back at iphone 15
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by jes5199 2y ago
it should be possible to make objects that are general-purpose, you end up with a bunch of low-code reusable things like "dog" or "car", and they have stable representations than can be used as data in multiple other pro
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by jes5199 2y ago
we are so close to a clean energy transition, I think takes like this one, that equate energy use with harm, are going to seem quaint in a couple years

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