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by mhluongo 10y ago
FWIW I thought it was a genuine comment. That's really specific, interesting advice in finding the sort of people who'd make good co-founders.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
Neither feeling need be mutually exclusive.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
The point still stands in practice- it's an interesting sociology of science topic. There are often unwritten rules and protocols that have a huge impact.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
Some good practices aren't a good fit for a particular organization. Moving the discussion to whether your engineers are "good", rather than whether they understand the organization's needs, is reductive. If you want to
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by mhluongo 10y ago
Quite a few of these issues are common in other orgs. "You're doing it wrong" isn't great advice :/
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by mhluongo 10y ago
You're right, though you should end most of your comments with "for us". We've been burned by the microservice hype, and it took a while for us to realize that most of the touted benefits are for larger organizations. Th
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by mhluongo 10y ago
Which was probably due to technical debt. I can't think of another reason you'd manually copy code to 8 servers...
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by mhluongo 10y ago
You think Visa and MC should decide what a currency is?
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by mhluongo 10y ago
That would make the function pure, not necessarily make what you're doing functional programming. First-class functions and their manipulation is also a requirement, IMO
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by mhluongo 10y ago
I introduced Redux into an app with an older version of React, and instead of updating decided to reimplement the important parts of `react-redux` as a shim. Didn't take long, and it was a satisfying education.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
Fold ( https://foldapp.com ) | Back-end developers | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE & REMOTE | Full-time & Contract Fold let's you spend bitcoin in the real world, saving consumers up to 20% at Starbucks and Target when they
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by mhluongo 10y ago
Recall democratic legitimacy isn't necessarily moral authority. "The tyranny of the majority", etc.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
I'm skeptical that Slack is in the "better as a monolith" category considering the message volume they must process
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by mhluongo 10y ago
It's clearly not a fair comparison. At some point you need to introduce an age of determination or at least a grade to have a reasonable conversation about the ethics of parenting. Parents are required to do all sorts of things in thei
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by mhluongo 10y ago
Spec (and more generally, contracts) aren't just about "making up" for the lack of static typing. They can encode a variety of invariants that a type-system can't, and are also useful for parsing (see coercion) and gener
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by mhluongo 10y ago
One of the Clojure validation libs predating spec, schema, has saved us from a ton of errors, and works similarly. It also opens up reasoning about data shape- eg, auto-generating test data based on schemas. spec's support for that use
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by mhluongo 10y ago
The IRS has already released guidance on this [1]. It might be interesting to think about, but right now it's straightforward in practice. IANAL, etc. Edit: Well, for some definition of straightforward :) [1] - https://www.i
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by mhluongo 10y ago
To your point about SARs / CTRs- SARs at banks are usually triggered by cash deposits and withdrawals at a much lower level, and every bitcoin transaction is roughly equivalent to a cash transaction. Thus "bank-level scrutiny&quot
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by mhluongo 10y ago
My point stands. Coinbase already has bank-level scrutiny, both directly and from its banking partners ("know your customer's customer"). I completely agree that anonymity in finance is at odds with many of the government&#x2
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by mhluongo 10y ago
> Interesting side anecdote: A person very close to me purchased Bitcoin on the stock market, but Bank of America froze the account on suspicion / risk of money laundering or general FUD. It isn't clear how much of this was due
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by mhluongo 10y ago
You still have to buy your bitcoin somewhere, unless you earn it or mine. This is about Coinbase's brokerage activities, not its wallet services.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
The IRS isn't supposed to use these powers to go on "fishing expeditions", according to its own manual[1]. Requesting info on millions of users without particular suspicion is more broad than necessary. [1] - http:/&#x2
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by mhluongo 10y ago
Coinbase has to report SARs, as well- they're a fully licensed money transmitter in the US- so maybe tone down the condescension. This is an overreach of a different type and by a different government body, and would be precedent-setti
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by mhluongo 10y ago
The problem is you're trying to verify the wrong skills.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
The main docs page has better examples.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
After yesterday's attach on DynDNS many of us are asking the same thing. I imagine it's a similar justification for using Cloudflare or another CDN.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
I think a different model could align incentive while still providing the same service. Maybe "We get X% in payment processing that's not charged back" or similar.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
Alternative conclusion- I'm exhausted by this conversation, and don't want to continue it. It has little to do with your argument and everything to do with the way you're arguing.
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by mhluongo 10y ago
Quick thoughts: You didn't provide any "non-subjective evidence" - you just reframed what you think my position is to knock it down. I'm familiar with value investing. It's not clear to me why you believe the occasi
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by mhluongo 10y ago
People who blindly read textbooks, as well as anyone with real world market experience. If you believe in economic value as an objective truth, and not based on the subjective view of a buyer or seller, we have no common ground to continue

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