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polishninja

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About polishninja

I work in the credit union / community banking industry.

Recent public activity

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    Usually you have to provide another piece of information like the first 5 letters of the last name or something. That's definitely not good that they show you a name by just puttin…

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    Comment #29207782

    Australia put a cap on interchange fees in 2017 that caused a drop in card rewards. Merchants argued that the lower interchange costs would be passed on to consumers. However, it a…

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    Comment #16626295

    It's interesting that the car was exceeding the speed limit of 35 mph. I would assume the car would stay at or below the speed limit. Who gets the speeding ticket in this case? Doe…

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    Comment #16250068

    It doesn't help that almost all the fascia locks on each vendor's machines are a standard key. With that standard key, you have full access to the computer or embedded device drive…

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    Comment #12127390

    I've been following the Ethereum/DAO situation since the drain of funds occurred. I currently do not own any cryptocurrencies so this has been my first real look at the communities…

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    Comment #12119716

    I've run into this issue multiple times as well.

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    Comment #11783631

    It looks like Gigster will invest (money, time?) in some companies from a predetermined fund, not Gigster itself. In turn, they will share 1% of their fund equity with all Gigster …

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    Comment #11631320

    I thought that Neonto looked like a good prototype tool. Downloaded it and unfortunately, it's Mac only.

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    Comment #11486037

    It looks like that box would be a death trap if there was a fire.

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    Comment #11485830

    Here's her website, for anyone that's curious. http://cwpencils.com/

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    Comment #11323117

    What CEO does this? What a strange place to work. "Hence there are office conversations held on Twitter, and the blurring of personal and professional boundaries, such as when Mr. …

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    Comment #11316861

    On the topic of tort reform, I'd suggest the documentary Hot Coffee. It obviously has a bias but it really made an impact on how I view these large settlements. These huge sums are…

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    Comment #11228312

    I recently bought a Windows 10 IoT kit from Adafruit. I've since purchased three more packs of different electronic components from them. It's been great. I'm really pleased with t…

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    Comment #11228298

    There's an update to this story. Bowdoin update: On Facebook, school flaunted photos of alumni, students in school-provided sombreros https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp…

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    Comment #11224609

    Better software can only get you so far in banking. At the end of the day, they need to borrow and loan profitability and provide services at a low cost. In addition, they need cus…

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    Comment #11208146

    I laughed out loud at this one after reading all the serious, in-depth posts above.

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    Comment #11207748

    I think what they were referring to was the reverse; the banks implementing OAuth plus revocable permissions to third party apps, such as Mint, etc.

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    Comment #11207682

    For what it's worth, all the JSBins with the react code don't work. I'm using Chrome. I keep getting Uncaught ReferenceError: ReactDOM is not defined. I fiddled with it a bit but I…

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    Comment #10840809

    Thank you for the insightful comment. Too often I have worked with developers that assume the original programmer was being difficult, didn't understand how to write proper code, o…