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The problem that seems to be being missed here is that while fraud is one reason Visa has say over what they accept, the much much much bigger issue is ATF, Money laundering and Sa…

I don't know that I completely follow on this comment, in particular how code reuse comes into it. I think the biggest thing is about deciding whether you have one or many. There a…

These patterns and practicee generally aren't intend for _you_ as the developer of the app right now. They are intended for the poor shmuck 18 months later who has to work with a t…

I think this is very relevant: https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/with-blue-ridge... TL;DR my understanding is that if you host a banking API you are going to get a lot o…

Yep, this was my experience. I graduated a double degree of EE and Comp Science. My final year thesis was a project with a local company integrating their custom designed GPRS modu…

Yeah I was there around the same time. The scale of the work being done to dilute the population is astounding. We were there at Christmas time, having driven from Kathmandu. That …

This reminds if some time direct working on crypto toolkits. Every few months, someone would always come up with a reason why "bad entropy" was the cause of a bug. It never was, bu…

You've also got to consider that this is putting _a lot_ of eggs in one basket. Would 4-5 families really pool all their savings for 10 years to invest in one childs potential busi…

> If code reviews aren't an expected part of the development process and there's pressure on delivering, it won't happen. This hits at the heart of why I strongly agree with this p…

> Have you considered that... _you_ just like having your camera on, and like seeing other people? Yes, I think this is the whole point here. This is a bidirectional relationship. …

I've got some direct personal experience in this one. A few key points from how I saw it play out inside: - there was a lot of noise made about this by the bsafe crypto team when i…

But what are you fusing? If you want efficiency I guess you'll be using deuterium etc, of which we only have so much. After that your efficiency declines until... Well you end up w…

Points for most people are a zero sum or losing game. I worked for a points loyalty program, and the customer always pays. The bank knows their market well, they know the redemptio…

In my own anecdotal experience, I think it comes down to what the product you are working on needs, and how your team works. Recently, I spent 3 years on Scala then switched jobs a…

I think the key point on this is `some use cases`. For people who've spent a lot of time with ANT, you might be familiar with this article from its creator: https://web.archive.org…

Given the ease and severity of this I don't think being technical does anything for you. I am grateful for the "upgrade now" message being pushed it. As a technical user I can't tr…

That sounds amazing, sadly in a lot of organisations that isn't how it pans out. Either the engagement with technology doesn't happen early enough, or when it does, the technology …

I can never find the source, but I'm certain I've seen a study that linked the tactile nature of books to stronger recall. Smell, texture, weight, cover art, all these things aid w…

Thing is, at their heart, these are document editing tools. They don't actually need an on ongoing operational cost (yes, maintenance, but as a number of people point out you can t…

Whether we agree with it or not, I think what is strange is how subscriptions models have become the norm. There _is_ an alternative that isn't free and that is one off payments (r…

Just to be clear, it was the Ruby Princess in Australia. Diamond Princess was the one in Japan.

You've really lost me with > You can chose to get the virus That wasn't your original argument and this does nothing to stop individual people getting the virus. And the source cod…

It is a combination of their previous behavior plus the behavior of the various agencies. For example: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/23/gover... The fact that…

I was thinking it was the Hardy-Ramanujan number [0] but I was off by one. I'm assuming op is referring to the j- invariant [1], something I've only just discovered. [0] https://en…