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Some countries don't have cents, some countries have 3 digits of cents. So, yes you can but you also then get thinking you can express everything as ints. But, the moment you need …

Plus, for owners of the HP41, if you had an essay question in your chemistry test you could type in cliff notes... Naw, I never did that.

Many fintechs are not licensed to hold funds and work with bank partners who hold your actual funds. That allows them to say they're insured because they're not co-mingled with the…

I have some good memories and little stories from my brief time working with him. Great guy.

Best advice -- find a local running club that does track workouts. The group dynamics will be incredibly helpful as a baseline. Sprinting is big on strength low on endurance, that'…

Are you filling forms yourself or using a service? I'm doing the expat thing and it's still like 90 pages for the final filing.

Keep in mind that the layoffs earlier this year have still had a huge impact on the job market for software engineers. Many companies moved their hiring bar higher and have gotten …

I cannot empasis how true this is. The classic UNIX problem was that the LPT printer daemon has an issue (it had lots and lots). But, none of your systems were running LPT, but you…

Was excited to see a non-GC'ed search engine that looked solid. But, without having the replicated - distributed version of it in the "free" tier makes it hard to really evaluate.

Touching on the writing point. Think of it as muscle memory, if you watch people put together PowerPoint slides you see that those who do it regularly can create a solid presentati…

As an armchair observer I can say that I've learned a lot of interesting things about community, moderation and how being erratic manager can totally undermine your outcomes.

Depending on where you're located you should potentially consider a solution that looks more like Payment Processor -> Hold in Currency -> Bulk Fx to Local currency. Typically busi…

Great work here, while I suck at games, it's great to see how Go can be used to build browser based applications.

I deal with a few people who clearly receive regular Interac payments, but still haven't figured out how to associate their email with their bank account. Thus requiring the questi…

Interac is a network by the bank cartel in Canada, not run by the government. Payments Canada is working on Real-Time Rail as a payment system that is independent from the banks. F…

SEPA Instant (UK Faster payments) has been in market for a few years now. While the Federal Reserve is still working on rollout plans for FedNow. The US "instant payments" is Venmo…

The error message that is presented to the user should always be clear and helpful. When an error is presented to the user, you should have matching logging (e.g. sentry) that prov…

For golang, but would work in any language. What's really worked is the idea that your main loads configuration and injects all of the configured interfaces into your handler. You …

Payments Canada is working on their real-time system, in theory this will be deployed this year. https://www.payments.ca/real-time-rail-payment-system

This will be a nice little win for account verification processes. Just doing this to connect two accounts and having to wait the days for the transfers to show up to verify.

This makes me think about the quality of the dependancy. If you could evaluate packages for things like: * Test coverage -- that's not a metric on NPM * Code practices -- what's th…

Actually just had a discussion about this and putting the dollars out in front in the hiring process is something that more canidates are looking for in this competitive market. I'…

One thing that usually overlooked in many high security lock discussions is the key stock thickness. If you look at a typical house key side by side with the high security version …

Let me clarify -- I never would have imagined SOCKS being used for this use case. There was no such thing as geo-restrictions or censorship at the time on the internet.