If you've ever done an international wire, you know there's the form question "What intermediate bank to use". So at least the same if not less middlemen apply.
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To get a PSD2 "Open Banking" license one needs to KYC every user and keep every transaction that passes through the system, for 5 years, including the KYC data.
Being PSD2 licensed doesn't even make you a bank. Just imagine what an actual bank has to keep around...
Also every business has to keep invoices and transaction data around for tax audits, usually 7 years. So you can GDPR delete request all you want, but the shop where you bought that thing still has to legally know you've bought it.
DevOps (SmartOS, NixOS!) and Software Development in Haxe, Clojure & ClojureScript.
Other stuff too :-)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/primevc - http://containium.com/
Nix doesn't need fancy filesystem shenanigans to do its job: build isolated packages with complete runtime dependencies.
NixOS is built on top of it to provide atomic system-wide upgrades and rollbacks.
It always amuses me to hear local radio news about yet another multi-vehicle collision.
In Germany, the country known for it's wonderful Autobahn, you can temporarily loose your license for tailgating.
PS: I'm dutch.
The msgpack serializer was probably used in a suboptimal way. The integer 3 can be encoded by msgpack in one byte as well. I never use doubles which is probably why I didn't think of this case.
Integers are actually always <= bytes in msgpack than the JSON ascii representation.
Anyway - benchmarking is hard.
MsgPack is so close to JSON in structure, but very compact (1 byte type header, small numbers type and payload combined) it doesn't make any sense.
When you write your data model in a language that works on client and server platforms, you save lots of duplication of effort and gain flexibility. The best example of experiencing the opposite I have is a fairly large application I worked on, where the backend developers designed a totally different set of classes around a (pretty much undocumented) XML structure than the frontend guys. Basically all communication happened through XML. Sure "it's an open format!", "it's human readable! (in a sense)", but taking over this project figuring out semantics and what was considered valid became a painful effort.
Your frontend should always use the same domain model as the backend. Designing the fundamental parts of your application without relying on an ORM, XPath, JSON, .NET, Scala case classes, Flash, Javascript, HTML5, Swing, whatever... makes you platform agnostic and shrug at the next internet technology death.
Am I happy Flash is considered dead? No, currently HTML5 lacks many features I rely on today and sanity (isn't it kind of bizar we consider cross-browser issues as normal?). Will my skills and all of my codebase die with it? Absolutely not.
Which is of course no excuse to make flash only restaurant sites... Nor is it to make canvas only, webgl only, image only...websites.
SWF is a very compact format and text rendering is optimized for speed (animation). I doubt their flash viewer was built on decent code...
Online Touch is building the next digital publishing platform.
We're focused on development now, going to launch a new product with a big splash when we're ready. Our current (somewhat neglected) website hardly does our team justice - http://onlinetouch.eu
The publishing backend is built using a mix of Scala and Clojure, while frontend web development is done using Clojure and some Ruby. Our database of choice is MongoDB. The viewer and editor applications are written in haXe: targeting javascript, iOS and flash >10.
Our office is light and roomy, which we'd like to fill up a bit more. Currently we're a small team of 4 bright hackers, of which 2 work remotely most of the week.
There's much interesting stuff to do. Talk to us :-)
Seeing everyone I know that has a macbook have his/her adapter fail, not getting a replacement and then having to buy a new one for 80 EUR I took extra care. Still the cable broke inside the connector!
I've never had this problem with any other device or notebook. Seriously, power adapters should be simple and just work - except they don't for macbooks.
But, if linux had ZFS i'd probably use that instead.