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Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:04PM (#32855101)
This problem is endemic in Stripe. I wanted to enable issuing on my account to test card issuing, but there was a bug where the ui was looping, not allowing me to sign up.

Asked support, got 2 weeks of "we're working on it"'... And finally a "You're using Opal, you can't enable issuing".

They're losing thread fast.

https://github.com/checkr/states-language-cadence allows you to define workflows in states language over cadence.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022) on Monday May 02, 2022 @01:22PM (#31238036)
Twisp | Multiple Roles | USA | Full time | REMOTE | $160k-$220k + Equity + Sign On bonus Twisp is a team of fintech veterans (Simple, BBVA) working to build the next generation of financial data infrastructure for engineers. The infrastructure we need to build and scale ledgers doesn't exist. With Twisp, developers can declare ledgers, reconciliation primitives, and financial calculation pipelines all via infrastructure-as-code, just like you would any other first class cloud resource.

We're a fully remote company with an affinity for the PNW. Pre-seed stage with $3M backed by top investors in our domain and a portfolio of fintech design partners with glowing reviews. We're looking for people eager to play a vital role in architecting and scaling developer-first financial tools that support money movement.

Check out our openings: https://jobs.lever.co/twisp

Happy to answer questions and meet you virtually: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022) on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:23AM (#30611492)
Thanks
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022) on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @06:17PM (#30521391)
Twisp | Multiple Roles | USA | Full time | REMOTE | $160k-$220k + Equity + Sign On bonus Twisp is a team of fintech veterans (Simple, BBVA) working to build the next generation of financial data infrastructure for engineers.

The infrastructure we need to build and scale ledgers doesn't exist. With Twisp, developers can declare ledgers, reconciliation primitives, and financial calculation pipelines all via infrastructure-as-code, just like you would any other first class cloud resource.

We're a fully remote company with an affinity for the PNW. Pre-seed stage with $3M backed by top investors in our domain and a portfolio of fintech design partners with glowing reviews. We're looking for people eager to play a vital role in architecting and scaling developer-first financial tools that support money movement.

Check out our openings: https://jobs.lever.co/twisp

Happy to answer questions and meet you virtually: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022) on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:02AM (#30164299)
Twisp | Multiple Roles | USA | Full time | REMOTE | $160k-$220k + Equity + Sign On bonus

Twisp is a team of fintech veterans (Simple, BBVA) working to build the next generation of financial data infrastructure for engineers.

The infrastructure we need to build and scale ledgers doesn't exist. With Twisp, developers can declare ledgers, reconciliation primitives, and financial calculation pipelines all via infrastructure-as-code, just like you would any other first class cloud resource.

We're a fully remote company with an affinity for the PNW. Pre-seed stage with $3M backed by top investors in our domain and a portfolio of fintech design partners with glowing reviews. We're looking for people eager to play a vital role in architecting and scaling developer-first financial tools that support money movement.

Check out our openings:

Distributed Systems Engineer https://jobs.lever.co/twisp/598d54f7-a4a1-4547-8aa0-b94bea02...

Financial Systems Engineer https://jobs.lever.co/twisp/6971a83f-d02a-4545-a6a6-0cefbeb8...

Happy to answer questions and meet you virtually: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022) on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @05:27PM (#29801602)
Twisp | Distributed Systems Engineer | Portland, OR | Full-Time | Remote | https://twisp.com

At Twisp, we’re a team of fintech veterans developing primitives to help engineers confidently build systems that handle financial transactions, balances, and insights at any scale. We’re a fully remote company with a mission to transform arcane financial protocols and complex ledger systems into simple, well-crafted developer experiences.

We’re fully funded and backed by top investors in our domain.

Check out our openings at https://jobs.lever.co/twisp Happy to answer questions and meet you virtually: [email protected]

Re:A $10k poker win changed how I think on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:34PM (#28438361)
I wasn't aware that Jennifer Shahade got the Grandmaster title.
Re:I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:49PM (#27634796)
At Seamless circa 2010 we were asked to make the default sort order for restaurants appear by how close they were to the next tier of the contract. More orders = More Margin.

The tech team at the time was entirely located in Utah at the time, and all of us were repulsed at the idea. We countered with suggestions for improvement and made it clear the project would not be worked on:

- You can make a "promoted" restaurant section above the fold - The UX concerns since users expect some reasonable ordering. Like distance from location or alphabetical.

We didn't get fired, and it was really scary. I appreciate standing up for ethics and principles. bravo.

Re:Ask HN: Low-code orchestration system / SaaS on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:22PM (#24900137)
AWS Step functions seems good for something like this...
Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:54AM (#24009947)
Ok, let's try say psychology instead?
Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:03AM (#24009306)
Better leave now while there's still value in leaving!
Re:Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:40PM (#23933490)
This is the way. We've given multiple clients very similar stacks for "api layers" and it's by far the most cost effective way to do AWS from both productivity and opex point of view.
A fair question, and we’ve done it this way before at simple.com. When looking at the options for a pay-per use database, with global replication, streams and managed for you; We felt that if you could build a ledger on dynamo for these use cases, it’d be pretty compelling and fun.
Agreed. This is a limitation we ran into trying to implement a critical accounting ledger on top of DynamoDB. The transaction model we came up with is formally verified w/ TLA+. We're turning our work into a product: txlayer.com
Re:Building Uber’s Go Monorepo with Bazel on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:57AM (#23181070)
go mod vendor && bazel run gazelle

No go_repository duplication.

Re:Building Uber’s Go Monorepo with Bazel on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:41AM (#23180855)
I've been using about the same amount of time. Have you tried using python and bazel? Now there's some real weeping and gnashing of teeth ;) Lot's of bad code depending on python == python2 type of non-sense.
Re:Building Uber’s Go Monorepo with Bazel on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:33AM (#23180765)
From the issues I've read on github, anecdotally, is that the approach of the gazelle and rules_go teams is to leverage the standard go tooling and not make changes to go itself.

Also anecdotally, bazel and golang work really well together IME. The community seems pretty active, and the upsides of using gazelle/bazel with golang seem to outweigh any downsides (though I'd be hard pressed to name a downside, that isn't inherit to golang itself).

Let's just look at one (expensive) idea proposed in the GND:

>Upgrading all existing buildings and building new ones so that they achieve maximum energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability.

How is a directive to upgrade all existing buildings, anything but central planning of an entire industry?

AOC, Rashida Talib, Ilhan Omar. What do you think the Green New Deal is?
Re:A principled approach to system design and programming on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:12PM (#22633896)
Compare and Swap is a command. E.g. Optimistic Concurrency.
Re:Climate change: Warm winter ruins German ice wine harvest on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @11:23AM (#22485079)
This was the first time ever that the ice wine harvest failed. How is that "all these single year observations"?

Did you "single year observe", when the arctic ice fields expanded?

Re:Climate change: Warm winter ruins German ice wine harvest on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @11:22AM (#22485061)
It was the first time ever that the ice wine harvest failed. This isnt a trend.
Another single year observation attributed to climate.
Re:How housing became the world’s biggest asset class on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:01PM (#22124142)
Bend's layout also has some constraints as well with National Forest and BLM land surrounding it :-/ That and every Californian wants to pack into the West-side of town so prices get super wonky.
who signed that budget?
I concede it's probably closer to 80% money and politics. Have a good one!
You're banking on unlikely materials engineering breakthroughs to get solar and wind energy density to be 1000 times more than what it is today.

Not 2x improvement, not 10x, not 100x. 1000x improvement before renewables are as efficient as natural gas. Good luck.

If anything, increased CO2 and temperatures is going _expand_ the amount of available land for agriculture. CO2, it's the gas plants crave my friend.
>If you eliminate US/EU production of CO2, atmospheric CO2 levels would rise 24% slower.

Thank you for confirming my point.

>If you added in a carbon tax that it levied on imports from countries that don't implement an equivalent system you can bet that China would lower its emissions too. If you're very fancy you can also offer to install alternative energy in foreign countries at cost price.

So the pitch here is... Let's risk war with a Nuclear power with a tariff stick and for a carrot offer a way to a worse standard of living then US/EU. This sounds real viable.

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