akramhussein

Vektor | Backend Engineer (Elixir) | Full-time | Remote | https://vektor.finance

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We are building a product to help these investors and institutions discover, assess, and execute transactions and trading strategies on DeFi, without having to navigate the complexities. All the data aggregation, transaction construction, smart contract handling, and execution overhead is handled by the product, while staying non-custodial.

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Previous posters have done a good job to answer your question.

Just wanted to add that some people are looking replacing this 'Proof-of-Work/Mining' mechanism with a different method called 'Proof-of-Stake [0]. Other cryptocurrencies have already implemented this.

If you jump into the blockchain/bitcoin rabbit hole you will eventually come across this :)

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_Stake

Likewise. I love his talk about how to delight users [0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz_LgBAGYyo&list=PL5q_lef6zV...

Same boat. Bought the old one other day.

My iPhone power brick for charging. Has USB-A input.

http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MGRL2B/A/apple-5w-usb-p...

Sorry figure adapter is more accurate word not brick.

No

Agreed.

Too many companies worry they don't have enough use cases covered and can't forget "key" functionality, leaving them with a bloated and directionless product. Better to keep it simple and work up. Just nail the first use case enough for the innovators to adopt it.

Did the same in UK. They also bumped the prices in the UK for all machines due to the fall in GBP. Double shock.

They really screwed over iOS devs here. I have multiple cables as backups and in different bags etc - all need replacing now...except that I can't use the USB-C variant in the power brick :( I also do Android dev...need to get a USB-C to Micro-USB too just for that! Just one big mess.

As an aside, as a Monzo beta tester I can't say enough good things. Currently travelling around Asia and the card works almost everywhere and I pay 0 fees and get the exact Master Card rate. Twice now I've landed with 0 cash in the airport and been fine. I've used the card in over 10 countries outside UK with <1% issues, and often this is better than my Barclays or Amex.

This is just a small benefit but when you put the whole product/experience together from the app + in-app customer service + the card + etc, it just works so well and really comes into a category of it's own. A lot of people say "yeah buy my bank does X too" and while true, they way I look at this is Monzo is like the iPod - other MP3 players had same functionality but this one just works and works damn well.

Have you checked out the Papertrail CLI[0], not sure if that helps?

https://github.com/papertrail/papertrail-cli

Can't praise Terraform enough. Just so well designed and a prevents you from ripping your hair out. Great team as well.

Facebook groups/Reddit are quite useful. Search for something related and gently drop a link with explanation, but don't spam people and multiple groups in one go - go step by step to test reception. If you are solving someone's problem they are usually quite receptive to trying things.

<$100[0]

[0] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/movidius-fathom-neural-comp...

Interestingly if you try and set up a Messenger Bot, there is a one-time fee of $99[0] to take advantage of Customer Matching - where they use phone numbers you have to find existing customers to contact.

Really great outcome - it's hard to fight this space with so many well backed players - and Cruise had a novel solution and strategy.

Just at a quick glance, I can tell you that AWS Lambda now has:

- Scheduling

- Python support.

However, I've not used Iron.io so can't chime in there sorry.

I've been fortunate enough to have been beta testing this for over a month now. What struck me most was a week or so in I noticed I had been (and have been ever since) reading the daily email every day without fail.

Interesting news in West Coast/SV is published right around the time we settle down for bed in the UK so when I wake up I check my inbox and get a snapshot of what happened which saves me scrolling through Twitter and checking other sites.

I've been writing Swift since day 0 of its announcement - the migration issues aren't that big of a deal even for 10k lines of code, especially if you did it at each step. Sure it isn't fun, but everyone knew it was a early/beta language.

After 3.x, their won't be huge breaking changes thankfully.

Personally, only issue that bugged me was slower compilation time.

About significant investment, this is just how Apple is. They don't stop the train for anyone, it's get on or off. Same goes for SDK you compile against, certain features you must bake in etc.

Objective-C is 33 years old, I don't know for sure but I bet it wasn't that stable at the start!