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> And as horrible as PayPal is, cryptocurrencies have even more friction and risk. This comparison with PayPal is perfect. The way I see it, ACH and wire transfers are to PayPal wh…

Stripe fees are higher than Solana $USDC transaction fees. You also don’t have to worry about getting your account shut down or funds frozen. I once worked for a YC company, LendUp…

As a 13 year old programmer learning to code in 2005, transferring money online seemed impossible, this was pre-stripe after all. A 13 year old getting a bank partnership or a paym…

Good point, the author clearly misses the point that tests themselves are code and thus can have errors in them as well. Code coverage is just a vanity metric if you're tests don't…

This reminds me of a talk from StrangeLoop 2012 by Paul Snively and Amanda Laucher "Types vs Tests". Well worth the watch. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Types-Tests

>The pendulum is quickly swinging towards dynamic typing. Programmers are leaving the statically typed languages like C++, Java, and C# in favor of the dynamically typed languages …

Yeah, this appears to be a bit misleading. It sounds as if they're just running the compiled jar as the /sbin/init process. IMO, thats a very lightweight distro but not a unikernel…

I've been approached by a couple people like this for a technical co-founder position. I got scared off when i actually met them and discovered i had more product experience then t…

If you use a persistent PHP stack like mongrel2 + photon an opcode cache is just a waste of a php module. http://www.photon-project.com/

The final method uses a really common programming idiom for optimizing the removal of elements in a std::vector known as "swap and pop". Swap and pop works by taking advantage of t…

I wish i could agree. However, my experiences in getting jobs as a software engineer have been vastly different. I've never spent longer then a week seeking a job in the software i…

NodePHP anyone? heh, afraid that would be a little more then just a SAPI implementation though, we'd have to throw out a good chunk of the standard library and very few if any exte…

This benchmark seems to be either out dated or somewhat falsified. I ran the same benchmark on my system and CI out performed Yii ( https://github.com/JosephMoniz/BlueElephant/blob…