tomblomfield

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Onefinestay raises £25m as it eyes international expansion(thememo.com)
1 points by tomblomfield 11y ago|0 comments
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
Rumours suggest this is going to change in UK law very soon.
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
I think you'll like what we're building :-) Drop us your email at https://getmondo.co.uk and we'll let you know when you can try out the account.
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Sam Altman to Take the Stage at Disrupt SF 2015(techcrunch.com)
1 points by tomblomfield 11y ago|0 comments
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Mondo. I was a big fan (and user) of Simple in the early days - I really admired their vision & UX focus. However, Simple wasn't able to lend because fundamentally they were not a bank - they were a skin on B
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
Two things jumped out at me when I switched from Ruby to Go - Go speeds up my workflow since the compiler catches many of my errors. When I write Ruby, I'm about 75% confident it will be right first-time. With Go, that's about 95
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
Initially we'll offer a RESTful API, but we'll certainly consider native SDKs if there's a need.
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
Good questions, but probably not a level of detail that we can talk about right now. If you register for updates at getmondo.co.uk, we'll certainly keep you posted.
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
Jack Gavigan took a shot at a high-level picture a year or two ago - http://jackgavigan.com/2014/04/14/disruptive-bank/ And Microsoft publish a "reference architecture" - http://down
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
Most of the functionality will only be available via a smartphone, at least initially.
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
a) We'll be releasing more details over the next few months, but it's basically Go + a mix of relational & distributed databases. The real difference is that we're not just reskinning an existing bank. Security is obvious
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Mondo – A “Full Stack” Mobile-First Bank(getmondo.co.uk)
53 points by tomblomfield 11y ago|23 comments
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The Unbundling of Finance(techcrunch.com)
2 points by tomblomfield 11y ago|0 comments
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/seat-belt-30th-annivers... http://www.sussexsaferroads.gov.uk/info/safer-for-drivers/se... https://www.gov.uk/government/organis
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
Typo in the title - sever/server
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
Totally agree. I get my energy and focus from working with a (small) team of people, usually under time-pressure. Working by myself, without any deadlines or goals, I become unmotivated and pretty depressed.
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
"If you think about it like we’re driving a car, we want to go extremely fast at an extremely high speed, and go very far,” [CEO] Conrad said. “And if you want to do that you’re gonna burn a lot of gasoline. So this round we had to do
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by tomblomfield 11y ago
> most British IT businesses end up becoming consultancies > [programmers/designers/ops] marginalized as second class citizens I think these trends were probably true in the past, and were driven by the investment environmen
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
"All projects, ever, should begin with picking the correct Ruby framework to base your application on. Since we don't know what this application does yet, I added all of them." https://github.com/mrkrstphr&#x2
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
Yes, you can set the work factor. It seems like the default is around 10 at the moment. http://wildlyinaccurate.com/bcrypt-choosing-a-work-factor/
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
"Go as a language is very opinionated... Go engineers are an anti-magic crowd." Great so far. But why does this always end up as.... "This tool... auto-generates the code for you"
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
I travelled in an UberPOP during a recent trip to Paris last month. The driver asked that I sit in the front seat because police had been pulling over private cars with passengers in the back, trying to catch unlicensed cab drivers.
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
I'd definitely use this. I've noticed that I can often change location by a couple of blocks to avoid surge charging
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
"Salesforce had a truly aspirational goal: to change the way enterprise software is delivered." If that's what counts as aspirational around here, I'm in the wrong job.
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
I think the headline message of this article is important - "drastic wealth inequality is likely to be one of the biggest social problems of the next 20 years" But I think the article really lost a lot of its punch with non sequit
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
panic, recover, runtime.Stack
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
That's a really fun idea. I wonder how you could control programs differently with 2 or even 4 input devices? Ie, twin cursors on the screen, each controlled by a separate mouse? Tablets introduced a number of interesting new interface
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
Lead Designer - Starling Bank, London, UK Starling is rebuilding a bank for the internet. API-driven, mobile-first, based on an entirely new technology stack. We're applying for a full UK & European banking licence and raising sign
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by tomblomfield 12y ago
I think a third benefit is forcing you constrain the scope of what you're doing very aggressively. It makes me way more productive.
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Marketplaces are eating firms(techcrunch.com)
23 points by tomblomfield 12y ago|1 comments

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