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by obeattie 8y ago
Honestly, if it were not for Venn diagrams, I may have never learned how SQL joins work. It might not be perfect, but if you'd tried to make 16-year-old me understand relational algebra in order to grok how the joins in his Django site
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by obeattie 8y ago
The real issue is that this is more nuanced than is appropriate for one-size-fits-all advice. "Everyone should use a monorepo" isn't helpful, but neither is "everyone should not use a monorepo." Sadly, this article
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by obeattie 8y ago
It's a bit jaw dropping that they've launched this without talking to the SIPC to check that they agree with the statement that they provide FDIC-like protection on these accounts. I wonder what happened here…
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by obeattie 8y ago
There's a little more info in this (somewhat wonderful) article: https://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-...
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by obeattie 8y ago
We're definitely aware of the iOS performance issues and we're working to fix them. We're frustrated by it too.
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by obeattie 8y ago
How immature. If you disagree with having a code of conduct, then not having one seems preferable to making it an insult to those asking for one.
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by obeattie 8y ago
Why do I need a concrete box with a leather cradle for this? My phone has a feature - conveniently also called “airplane mode” - that does this.
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by obeattie 8y ago
>I’m going to leave out the west coast, which has a nutso way of doing things. Just for interest, could you elaborate? How does the West Coast (of the US, I assume you mean) do things?
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by obeattie 8y ago
We use Wireguard extensively at Monzo. It’s such a workhorse: extremely performant, straightforward to administer. Having dealt with the horrors of IPSec before, I can safely say I’d never go back.
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Letter from Visa to Parliament explaining their huge European payments outage [pdf](parliament.uk)
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by obeattie 8y ago
Major credit to Cloudflare for publishing a clear, honest, and detailed description of what happened. I wish more companies would do this. One thing I’d be interested to know more about is why it took 17 minutes to fix. While you can and al
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by obeattie 8y ago
I’m Monzo’s Head of Engineering. A lot of the technologies mentioned above for us are accurate but some aren’t in use - notably PostgreSQL - and some others which are crucial are missing - eg. Kubernetes. The vast majority of the platform r
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by obeattie 8y ago
The executives and employees of banks can definitely go to jail if they screw up hard enough. Those in tech aren't excluded from this. (Context: I am the Head of Engineering at a bank.)
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by obeattie 9y ago
So I think the theory is that when we take up exercise, we move less during non-exercise time. They explored this in mice by tracking their movements with infrared devices. But surely we have oodles of data from devices like Fitbits and App
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by obeattie 9y ago
I'm willing (and almost hope) to be proven wrong on this, but I personally find it hard to believe that the ambiguity around this in the statement is accidental. A statement of this nature will have been extensively wordsmithed.
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by obeattie 9y ago
> the fact that the Tesla driver received multiple "get your hands back on the wheel" notifications, as close as six seconds before the accident But that isn't what their statement says. It says the victim had his hands of
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by obeattie 9y ago
To me there is a stunning lack of compassion and decency in the response to these incidents by both Tesla and Uber. Uber made sure to point out that the victim of their incident was homeless. Tesla is pointing out how the driver received un
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by obeattie 9y ago
We run all of our production backend on it at Monzo (we're a bank.) [1] We first deployed v1.2 nearly 2 years ago, and I can say Kubernetes has made some amazing improvements in that time – in terms of functionality, usability, scalabi
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by obeattie 9y ago
Waymo mentions this in their safety report, which I think is interesting, and relevant: > Advanced driver-assist technologies were one of the first technologies our teams explored. In 2012 we developed and tested a Level 3 system that wo
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by obeattie 9y ago
Whether this is intuitive for you as a developer isn’t the point. The point is that Facebook gave your friends permission to expose your data, without making this very clear at all to you. It seems hard to argue that this was in users’ best
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by obeattie 9y ago
I think this bit from "Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes"[1] (which is an excellent read) sheds light on this: > The Borgmaster is a monolithic component that knows the semantics of every API operation. It contains the cluster manage
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Very Robust etcd(monzo.com)
3 points by obeattie 9y ago|0 comments
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by obeattie 9y ago
Nice article, thanks for publishing this. However: >This panic is caused by dereferencing a nil pointer, as indicated by the first line of the output. These types of errors are much less common in Go than in other languages like C or Jav
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by obeattie 9y ago
It’s my understanding that this isn’t totally true. You are liable for the fraud if you have been “negligent” with your PIN and stored it insecurely or divulged it. If the fraudster obtained it through some other means then your bank is lia
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by obeattie 9y ago
Mastercard did not just “finally” realise this. They realised it back in the 90s when they were involved in the creation of EMV, which replace the “signature” method of cardholder verification with PINs. Signatures have been all but obsolet
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by obeattie 9y ago
Also seeing this affect several of our .io domains.
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by obeattie 9y ago
Plenty of Google's products use Spanner and have for years.
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by obeattie 9y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but Authy allows recovery of an account without access to either the original device or the original phone number. Does anyone know what actually happens when you go through this flow? https://www.auth
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by obeattie 9y ago
Cassini has been the most incredible mission… so many fascinating discoveries and wonderful imagery. We really need to do more (far more) missions like this.
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by obeattie 9y ago
Yep, that's exactly how it works.

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