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Plaid has an option to let the client/provider accept plain account + routing numbers, a lot of apps for whatever purpose don't use it.

routing+account numbers are not that sensitive. that's been API for how we transact money since pre-historic times. plaid gets access to your online account with access personal da…

Hijacking this comment to complain about fintech apps / saas providers requiring Plaid - please stop. For example, Coinbase requires logging in with Plaid to... setup auto-pay for …

I was curious if LLMs are good for this problem. ChatGPT-5.1-Thinking one-shotted a correct Python script without any library use ( https://pastecode.io/s/jg6ggxpm ). Claude Opus f…

In my experience, isolated (repeated) data storage paradigm is even more common at large organizations. They share data via services, ETLs, event buses, etc.

On one hand, the market seems to react to these appropriately. On another hand, the market has a short-term memory and prices go back up. It's unfortunate Auth0 was acquired by the…

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Somebody described Slack vs Teams this way: - Slack is so easy and fun to use that we use it for things we shouldn't be (fun channels, fun integrations). It creates too much noise …

US doesn’t give out a permanent residency based on how long you lived in the country. There’s only a few common paths to immigration: employment sponsored (2-20 years), marriage ba…

Heh https://twitter.com/infoecon/status/1608877464914395137

+Snapchat. Twitter also is experimenting (experimented?) with endless video scrolling.

This seems obvious to the younger generation but “my friends who live in X” works just fine on Facebook. I know the older (my) generation is used to more filters but google/fb/ig/t…

>Consumers, meanwhile, split down the middle between cynics who’re certain it’s worthless and true-believers who think it sets the standard for how security should work. There are …

Yeah, I was just highlighting how ignorant Musk is (sarcastically). This must’ve been what he meant by “hardcore software engineering.”

>If the average length of a tweet (minus headers) is ~100 bytes of text, that’s only 50GB. You could fit it on a USB stick. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1534939289653592065

For me the main and obvious thing about DAU is that the majority of users are readers-only. They don’t tweet or like stuff. Firehose might help with detecting non-bot _tweeters_.

This is definitely a biased post (the author is on the board). Rippling as a product reminds of Hubspot. It’s cheap/free for small companies, has many checkbox-list of features, lo…

Iirc, they were saved as “drafts”, meaning you could come back to it later or on another device. Youtube was like that before instagram, it’s a popular feature on Snapchat/Tiktok. …

That doesn’t sound bad to me? Email attachments and file uploads have worked like that on the web way before instagram.

One simple example was that I couldn’t install dependencies from public registries such npmjs (npm) or pypi (pip). It took an approval process for an internal team to review and cl…

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