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The Desperate and the Dead: The San Antonio Way(apps.bostonglobe.com)
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I lead a payments team. US requirements around what we put on invoices: 0 EU requirements around what we put on invoices: Still figuring it out The technical implementation is not difficult. It's dealing with all the lawyers and accou
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Speaking as someone who leads a payments team (for recurring subscriptions!), no. No you could not rebuild this in a weekend.
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A rule of thumb that I try to follow (but often neglect) is to keep changes either sweeping/shallow or narrow/deep. So if you're refactoring a module and that has implications across the codebase, don't try to make a de
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But that's not new? Vanguard has long offered commission-free trades of their ETFs and mutual funds. Same for many index fund providers.
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Isn't Coinbase registered in and regulated by New York State?
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I've run Kafka at large scale. I've also seen even larger scale attempts to replace it. Just use Kafka. Seriously, it's rock solid and is practically lingua franca in backend architecture these days. Everyone understands i
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Purchasing high volumes of gift cards or other cash equivalents will often get you shut down. Do this too much with Chase and you'll end up blacklisted.
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You don't have to use JSON-over-HTTP. You can use something like Thrift or Protobuf which gives you statically-typed inter-process communication.
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I've been down that road. Eventually it turns into a nightmare because evolving your DB means making simultaneous changes to multiple applications. "We think we can drop this column, someone figure out which of our eight apps usi
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What are those reasons? (Seriously asking, not being snarky) The US has sales tax but doesn't require any of these rules around invoicing.
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In the US there are ~0 rules about invoices. I'm in the middle of implementing EU-compliant invoices for a US-based SaaS offering and boy, y'all need to chill about all this. Launching the actual product was easy. Complying with
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Related: Colorado ended long-term solitary confinement in 2017. Colorado no longer keeps inmates in solitary for more than 15 days. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/opinion/solitary-confinem...
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Crude oil prices tanked over the last ten years. Mostly a combination of OPEC ramping up production and the rise of the American frackers.
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Jet fuel prices are half what they were ten years ago: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_refoth_dcu_nus_a.htm Prices peaked in 2008, dropped during the recession, reached that peak again in 2011 and are now eve
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Denver's airport was built with ATL scale in mind. It's already the largest airport in the US by land size, nearly twice as large as the next airport on the list, which gives them tons of room to expand without needing to buy up
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https://www.thekitchn.com/search?q=Cooking+Lessons+from+The+... There you go. No need to buy any more cookbooks.
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Texas has a form of this. Every state agency (with a handful of exceptions) will automatically be abolished every 5-10 years absent explicit action by the legislature.
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By that definition United maintains hubs in Amarillo, Tampa and Hong Kong. Lots of airlines are no longer performing heavy maintenance at their hubs.
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Isn't that just more evidence of the rise of point-to-point airlines? Ryanair mostly don't have hubs and Boeing is selling them massive orders of 737s. Same with AirAsia, which does have some focus cities (KUL) but can largely
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Does AppleCare for Enterprise what you're looking for? https://www.apple.com/support/enterprise/
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He'd have to somehow make outbound requests from the server. IIRC, the default AWS VPC config would prevent this. Not sure about other cloud environments. Where I work, outbound requests must be made through proxy servers which have
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This is why, when I recently built a credit card form, we didn't include any trackers or third-party code (beyond our vendor's). No dependencies at all—our vendor also has no dependencies in the JS we use to implement the CC form
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It can work well, but I think it comes down more to the your manager/org than the overall company (assuming we're talking about a large enough company for there to be disparate orgs). We have unlimited PTO and I think I took 7-
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The Whole Foods flagship store in Boulder directly faces a SuperTarget. (Also faces the big new Google office. Shopping in a store owned by Amazon with that staring at you was kinda surreal the first few days after the acquisition)
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If this guy isn't aware of what happens during an armed police response, why does he keep trying to provoke more of them? Clearly, he's well aware of what happens.
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Not sure why the parent post is being downvoted: https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21724810-country-save... > Underlying Germany’s surplus is a decades-old accord between business and unions in favour of w
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I met RMS once. He spoke at my college's CS department and then gave a campus-wide talk. At the CS reception he told a retired professor to switch banks and just not tell his wife because the bank didn't support a FOSS browser—wh
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> Netflix is strong on eventual consistency, and making services as small as possible. Having tried to build something in that image, holy shit the issue of distributed transactions becomes a nightmare. Distributed transactions are a sur
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AFAIK from some conversations I had at a conference last year with a few Netflix engineers who work on this system, it's sort of realtime. Recommendations are build up using Apache Flink, which provides stateful stream compute. So you

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