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adamdecafon Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment

We have 100 Go services (with redpanda) and a few databases in docker-compose on dev laptops. It works well when and we buy the biggest memory MacBooks available.

https://moov.io/blog/education/moovs-approach-to-setup-and-t...

adamdecafon Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code

Are you planning on generating all (or a subset) of 20022 messages? That’s what we did for our Go package using 20022 for RTP. We added helpers for generating IDs and the signature sign/validate.

https://github.com/moov-io/rtp20022

adamdecafon Millions of Taxpayers Call the IRS for Help. Two-Thirds Don't Reach Anyone

I called a half dozen times on the English line and got no where.

I called once on the Spanish line and just spoke English, got my problem solved in under 5mins.

adamdecafon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

I'm building Recall Kitchen which is an aggregator to notify consumers of products they use which have been recalled. Right now I'm focusing on the effort to help users tailor notifications so they're specific and actionable. It doesn't help to be told your brand of taco shells was recalled three states over and I'm working to fine-tune the signal.

https://recallkitchen.com/

adamdecafon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)

Moov Financial | Remote | Frontend Engineer | Backend Engineer | Full time

Moov is a series B funded payment processor for the future. We have built integrations to all the essential payment rails, including every major card brand, The Clearing House, and the Fed. We are also a net new US-licensed Acquiring Processor, Issuer, and Program Manager.

As a member of the Moov team, you will build new and improve existing banking and payment experiences that customers depend on every day.

We are looking for:

- Principal Software Engineer ($185k to $215k): https://boards.greenhouse.io/moovfinancial/jobs/4171797004

- Senior Software Engineer ($155k to $185k): https://boards.greenhouse.io/moovfinancial/jobs/4535076004

- Software Engineer - Backend ($135k to $155k): https://boards.greenhouse.io/moovfinancial/jobs/4171769004

- Staff Software Engineer - Front End ($165k to $180k): https://boards.greenhouse.io/moovfinancial/jobs/4751314004

We also have Product and Customer Success roles. Contact and more info: https://moov.io/careers/

adamdecafon Lastpass Security Incident

Have you ever tried to see if they'd let you bypass the question? I've wondered if saying "it's a bunch of gibberish" could work.

adamdecafon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)

Moov Financial | Remote | Frontend Engineer | Backend Engineer | Full time

Moov is the payments processor devoted to delighting users. We help software companies add money movement to their products, letting the end-user drive how they pay and get paid.

As a member of the Moov team, you’ll build tools to make developers integrating with Moov more productive. You will build new and improve existing banking and payment experiences that customers depend on every day.

We are looking for:

- Principal Software Engineer ($185k to $215k): https://boards.greenhouse.io/moovfinancial/jobs/4171797004

- Senior Software Engineer ($155k to $185k): https://boards.greenhouse.io/moovfinancial/jobs/4535076004

- Senior Software Engineer - Front End ($140k to $160k): https://boards.greenhouse.io/moovfinancial/jobs/4062261004

Contact and more info: https://moov.io/careers/

adamdecafon Scala isn't fun anymore

I wrote scala for six years and was on the team to first deploy akka in production. I've seen Json libraries come and go while also struggling to read files written with OO and FP patterns intermixed. Scala can be beautiful but in practice it gets messy.

Switched to Go four years ago and I've never looked back. Go made programming fun again just like PHP did before either of them.

adamdecafon Show HN: Ringer – Get and provide expert help on Open Source Software

This looks like a cool project. It's handy to require contributions before allowing someone to be an expert, but is there a minimum level of contributions needed? I have ~141 projects that I'm an "expert" in but some were contributed to years ago.

adamdecafon Ask HN: “government is printing money” - what does it mean in practice?

The Fed simply "marks up the size of the account" in the computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiCs_YHlKSI

adamdecafon OpenSSL Security Advisory (14 December 2021)

For those curious CVE-2021-4044 looks to be fixed by a couple lines changed.

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/c1c1bb7c5e2baa109b...

adamdecafon United States National Radio Quiet Zone

I was at the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico a couple years ago. It had a similar "turn off your phones and radios" sign and radio silence perimeter. They have tourists and a gift shop, so it's not as locked down as a military base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array

adamdecafon Mozilla Tests Premium VPN Service

ProtonVPN's signup is disabled now.

https://account.protonvpn.com/login

adamdecafon F.lux major update

You can donate via PayPal off their install page.

https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/welcome/

adamdecafon Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users?

I've found that Traction [0] covers and explains most of the ideas people will mention here on HN.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976339609/

adamdecafon Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I wrote my own format

https://github.com/adamdecaf/univplayfmt

I was planning on making a cli around some parsing logic and convert/export from various services (wherever I can get an API from).

adamdecafon Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I wrote my own format

I was starting to write one too! I've got a couple of commits I can share if you're interested.

adamdecafon Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware

Is that repo going to be made public? It looks to be private right now.

adamdecafon How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

What's the plan for the 47th+ Presidents?

- https://twitter.com/potus46

- https://twitter.com/potus47

- https://twitter.com/potus48

- https://twitter.com/potus49

- https://twitter.com/potus50

- ...

adamdecafon 256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id

Or a way to alter the webpage when you get an XSS exploit..

adamdecafon Best Papers in Computer Science up to 2011

Some of the papers look to be behind a paywall, what a shame.

adamdecafon Poll: What's your yearly bonus?

I'm a student, so it's more like -$20k/year in "bonuses".

adamdecafon Louis C.K's email to his Beacon Theater Show customers

Which is exactly the reason I bought it. Sure, I like his comedy, but I wasn't going to buy his live show. That is, until I read his appeal and found out how humble he really is. It's great to finally see humans treating each other like humans and still make money.

adamdecafon BitTorrent Defense Lawyer Joins Copyright Trolls

You know what his choice made me do? Donate to the EFF (they apparently even have a sponsor to match donations to $500k). I hope Mike realized how asinine his decision was.

adamdecafon Gmail’s new look

I hope there will be a way to keep the current look, all of the new themes from Google are terrible. (As many people have stated before.)

adamdecafon A Eulogy for Google+

Facebook offers a service that is still tolerable by the average user, therefore no service will be able to overtake.

adamdecafon Google reinstates account of thomasmonopoly

So as a parent I am forced to be fearful and jump through hoops to obtain pictures of my kids?

adamdecafon Faster than jQuery(document).ready() - Wait Until Exists

Which may not even be every 5ms...

adamdecafon How You Can Be Creative – A Lesson from Pablo Picasso

I've strongly believed that formal education should involve "reinventing the wheel" with some knowledge before hand, but to push creativity, inspiration, and adaptation when further knowledge is gained. It's how I've taught myself so much, and I think it can work for a lot of kids/people.

adamdecafon Why I will never pursue cheating again

Hopefully this is a similar view to other students here, but I would drop the class/change professors (even if that meant going into a larger class). Being in an environment where cheating is allowed is not somewhere that I want to be, much less learn in. I would feel like my honest work was just seen as equal to the cheaters'.