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Re:NoDB: Processing Payments Without a Database on Saturday December 21, 2024 @12:09AM (#42477676)
not sure why you're downvoted, the point is quite valid. I worked on both sides. They may seem similar from afar over the big picture but largely distinct in details and thereafter scaling tricks.

Trading on both buy and sell sides are highly structured data, and post trade requires high level of interpolation among data entities.

Payment processing data unit are somewhat unstructured / document based (payer/customer details, payment intent, plans, gateway infos..), but each payment object are quite isolated from each other. Post payment there are some interpolation if system is dealing with payouts account ledgers, but far from level of trading risk management (particularly derivatives).

Title and article is misleading, as usual, alas. Being a Chinese gamer/coder is hard, everywhere you turned there's no less of anti-china content shove down your throat, at the same time an authoritarian regime squeeze on the other end.

We get it, 1940s there's mass slaughter, 1980s crazy things happened when there's a nutjob in charge. It's a country with 5000 years of history and 1.4 billion people each with life stories living and thriving, and a govt having bag of problems just like everywhere else. But, to some people, like youtube/github/stackoverflow still not enough to tell me I'm less of a human being, my family my friends and our beloved dog are being 'slaughtered',

serisouly Animal Crossing?

Re:AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:05AM (#21978551)
There are non English computer users benefit greatly from high DPI displays, especially oriental characters; and there are a lot of us.
Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:24AM (#20214107)
Replace 'bitcoin' with 'gold bars' in your first paragraph then it'd make more sense for both you and the Gold Bar only cafe, I guess.
you got it right, it means "hottie". (still awkward to tatto on body though..)
Re:Ask HN: How do you overcome the problems of task switching? on Saturday February 24, 2018 @02:43PM (#16454908)
I fall into this category. my concentration trajectories slip fast, constant context switching actually boost my productivity. Hacker news is a god sent, when I'm stuck on at work digging myself into a rabbit hole, 10 minutes read into an interesting topic re-juice my mind (and expand my knowledge, a win-win :).
It felt like playing a triple A game with great idea and visual, but with writing, acting, dialogue from a generic RPG maker by a teenager done after a Monday evening.
Re:Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:12AM (#16257890)
I think he meant more in the fundamental difference between phonetic vs logographic. For the latter, when speaker can't read a new word but can have a good guess of what it means.
Re:Android 8.1 Oreo on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @08:14AM (#15851481)
wonder how their Search Quality team feels..
Re:Visiting Chinese Megacities on Thursday July 13, 2017 @06:04AM (#14760036)
Took my family to Thailand two years ago and we (2 generations born and raised in No.3 on the city list) were surprised too, literally had to extend our stay in Koh Samui island to avoid the shame from fellow Chinese speakers in Bangkok..
Re:Windows 10 S Will Not Support the Linux Subsystem on Saturday May 20, 2017 @07:48AM (#14381979)
One of the fun thing to do on ChromeOS is crouton, which opens door to full blown Linux applications, now before you accuse me of 'pro'/developer user, my 12 year old nephew has more Linux software under crouton with his Chromebook than I do.
this reflects my team's experience, initially skilled programmers (from C# mainly) complains almost hourly about lack of IDE features, in particular - Debugging. 14 months in now with 9 major services in production, I hear no more conversation on this, and still no one yet bothered to setup dlv. 'Breakpoints', to our surprises, is not actually indispensable. Also I noticed positive cultural change around, we move faster and team talks about business problem solving more than programming itself, to a point I believe rich functionality IDE over complicated things we do here.
Re:Running Docker in production for 6 months on Friday November 11, 2016 @07:26AM (#12929992)
This article reflects our transition experience with Docker, it took us two years to finally feel comfortable (old chaps from decades of corp dev), but end result is very positive and rewarding. It is fair to say that this should be expected for any infrastructure migration, there is nothing wrong with being slow and careful as long as we are moving forward. Based on experience from our team, the problem has never been finding help/answers, problem is we were facing, one one hand, an encyclopedia of single page documentation like Dockerfile/docker run command, while practical guidances and gotchas are scattered around rest of teh Internet, blended with personal and business specific opinions. It is hard but eventually we figured the best way to work with containers from git to build server to deployment, that fits well with our productivity workflow;, as well as where to not use docker.
Re:I don’t like computers on Saturday November 05, 2016 @09:10AM (#12879619)
I miss that old computer. That feeling of top of the world when something I made just works, without worrying being judged by framework standard, patterns, team collaboration, pair programming, etc etc

Someone mentioned about 14.4k hayes modem, I miss that too, BBS was a wonder land, people talk and share and respect without worrying being downvoted or disliked.

I miss the world without portable computers, nowadays it's hard to hold on a conversation with someone without her being buzzed away by phone/watch, heck it is even impossible to start a conversation to people sitting next to us, buried her head in her shiny gigantic smartphone.

Re:Apple Increases Prices of Macs in U.K. By 20 Percent on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:03AM (#12815899)
Same here, I'm going to upgrade gaming pc's win10 and give Linux subsystem a go, if it works for POSIX dev environment I am finally leaving Mac after 15 years.
Re:Microsoft hikes U.K. prices by 22% on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @04:53AM (#12786304)
2000s: It's expensive doing business in the UK: price hike

2007: Business needs to be protected from Pound fluctuation: we accepted the new norm that a $500 gadget cost £500

2016: Brexit hurt our company earnings : like I care, we are full stack OSS

Re:It’s Tough Being Over 40 in Silicon Valley on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:38PM (#12458053)
You might get down-voted but I agree with you more. In my late 30s I get to deal with a lot 42+ "senior software engineer", majority are significantly slow in adapting workflow changes, what frustrate more is the amount of distractions from wife/kid/sport/news and the amount of time and effort to back on track what she was trying to do half hour ago while co-worker standing next waiting.. Life changes with aging but I think for where there are incompetence, it is not discrimination.
KNX, being one of the most sophisticated and proven building intelligent protocol, widely adopted in Europe.

If anyone interested, cross scan its default IP interface port 3671 and, say German telecom ISP IP range (and there is CSV available on www), with efficient penetration test tool like masscan, challenge it with 0x0205, look for 0x0206 on response.

Thousands of home and factories and commercial buildings welcome you with real time datagrams on all their switches/appliances/presences/sensors/cams/... Bonus point: writable!

Re:Teaching kids to program in their native language on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:15PM (#11227487)
Being that 'geek' kid taught myself everything through all those sleepless nights and fried boards, and the only outlier branded himself as 'programmer' my whole family social circle ever know of, I do not have plan on teaching my son any programming language. The last thing I want is taking away the fun he discovering his talent. If he shows a great interests in what i am doing everyday, I will just show him how to write in the programming language I am using for work.

as you probably guessed, i'm not a native-english speaker as well :)

I can relate to author's opinion on block chain VC hype, but not so sure about comparing Bitcoin to the Internet, at least yet...
yes i immediately realised what you meant after my reply, so I should mark my words as off topic. it did inspired me similar thinking today, before I saw this :)
[off-topic] aren't mobile phones and tablets just sucking productivity out of mankind, if not slowing it down? was watching old movies from 90s with my lady and we both noticed how interactive ppl were in the background, on streets or in cafe, nowadays every one just dives into their mobile phones ...
because it takes years of training/experience/luck/success to be invited sitting to solve them while sipping champagne on the house. :)
Re:Toshiba has open-sourced GridDB, a Scalable In-Memory KVS on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:53PM (#11189061)
loggers
Re:Why Go solves so many problems for web developers on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:13AM (#11173466)
more and more clients specifically required Linux at the start of conversation, this ruled out C# despite our 10+ years of experiences on MS products in our industry. (also ruled out Mono, we decided to transform and adapt and there are far better choices)
for small teams (mostly solo hackers) yes the run-print-change works;

for anything bigger, when code #reasonably# grows and span among 10+ developers, break-debug-change is much more productive than log.PrintLn all over the palces and figuring out myself, or interrupt my colleague to explain sth to me.

Re:Six years of Go on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @10:16AM (#10539779)
All I can say in words is - thank you.