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jespern

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About jespern

Former founder/CEO @ bitbucket.org. Currently CTO @ Arweave.

Currently involved with cryptocurrencies.

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    Comment #39344007

    This works for me: import hid VID = 0x046D HID = 0xB023 # 0xB35B if __name__ == "__main__": h = hid.device() h.open(VID, HID) h.set_nonblocking(1) # this works for keyboard # h.wri…

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    Location: Marbella, Spain Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel Technologies: Python (Django, pandas, etc), Go, Javascript/Typescript, *SQL, .. Résumé/CV: http…

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    Comment #37272832

    Apparently their supposed research resulted in a fundamental misunderstanding what an affiliate program actually is , i.e. not the same as "paying for reviews."

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    Comment #34877571

    Link is dead. This works: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.a...

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    Comment #22672919

    Arweave | DevOps/SRE | Berlin, San Francisco, New York | Full Time | Remote Arweave is a new type of storage that backs data with sustainable and perpetual endowments, allowing use…

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    Comment #19061405

    That's like saying cryptography is faulty since if someone encrypted an important document and threw away the key, it would be irrecoverable. That's the point. As for solutions, th…

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    Comment #17101992

    Do you have a source for this? I can only find reports from "At the Abyss", which are uncorroborated.

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    Comment #16131161

    I can't speak for everyone, but I'm pretty married to OSX at this point. Using anything else would be too much time invested in setting up the environment as I'm used to, and findi…

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    Comment #15763841

    Cassandra also functions as a time-series database, and does quite well with tick data such as this. Many financial institutions rely on it.

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    Comment #15451038

    They can vary per user between exchanges, depending on how much volume they have, etc.

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    Comment #13892164

    This is a bit of a orthogonal argument as this only deals with exchanges directly and never touches the Bitcoin protocol directly. Agreed that the choice of language is an odd one …

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    Comment #5822818

    We've never had a breach.

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    Comment #4632602

    We've had side-by-side diffing for about a year. What the redesign has (apparently) done, is bring forth those features, as we're seeing more and more people discover them today.

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    Comment #4632113

    We certainly appreciate that, and I personally remember the days of being a small startup. You're in for a wild ride, enjoy it! :)

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    Comment #3174090

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

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    Comment #2778428

    > 2. Bitbucket has a reputation for being a cheap knock off of GitHub for some reason. The reason for this is very simple: We launched within months of each other, and we look very…

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    Comment #2746865

    At Atlassian (where Bitbucket now lives), we do something called FedEx (who can ship a product the fastest.) It's a 2-day sprint, where you write up a Shipment Order detailing your…

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    Comment #2399356

    They said it: http://twitter.com/RovioMobile/status/53582855015636992

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    Comment #2216431

    Which Grados are you talking about? The SR60i and SR80i's are about the most comfortable headphone I've ever worn. They're so light and unobtrusive you forget you're wearing them.

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    Comment #1773530

    Bitbucket was a side project for me, and it was just acquired. I ran it for 2.5 years under my own wing.

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    Comment #1738396

    Indeed. We won't be seeing any graft vs. host, at the very least.