chrisabrams

In other news, students who study the most for SATs will post the best scores.

You would still have the history of those transaction(s) before they were pruned though...

I was speaking generally, not specifically employers. I was asked for my SSN to get a mailbox once...

In a similar light, there are many places that ask you fill out your social security number among other items on paperwork. 9/10 times they will never ask you to fill in the blanks you left out...

You do realize you pay fees it’s just baked into the price? It’s pretty impressive how they’ve worked it out.

My grades in AP classes were much better than my regular classes primarily because of who I was surrounded by. I would haven loathed your proposal.

Not all teams/companies have an ops team. If you are starting a project or are at a small team/company, then dev probably _is_ ops as well. Saying "throw it over the wall to ops" is not a very useful attitude for probably half the developers on this forum.

I was wondering as well, is it possible that there’s another part that it happens instead?

I think you just described a typical day in Congress...

I read some of the conversations on the site; it’s quite interesting that the boys managed to have the same conversation over and over almost in the exact order.

Just for clarity, these actions are illegal. Also, Coinbase has to get SEC approval to list all coins. We don’t know the exact agreement but the SEC will definitely be looking to stamp someone for market manipulation here. Coinbase isn’t immune to the actions here.

We've hired two freelancers from there. Only place I go now to find quality engineers.

When starting from scratch: post on Freelancer Seeking Freelance every month.

You'll reach a groove once 120% of your referrals are word of mouth. The pendulum flips quickly between looking for clients and then getting a good rep. for doing good work and the clients flowing to you. Good work is hard to find.

With that said, don't negotiate for the highest rate possible at the start. Getting a good rep. will get you better paying clients a lot faster.

I enjoy the food at BWW but the logistics of how orders are handled has resulted in noticeably slower / common missed items in service. This has led me to go less often. I'm not exactly sure what's going on between the order taken and what comes out but some days it takes over an hour even when the place isn't busy.

I've always wondered if they've considered hiring a few bright guys/gals from Accenture to come try a few adjustments?

I sell crypto market intelligence; I've never put any effort in sales. Good work simply markets itself in the right scenarios. Yes what I do is very niche, but simply pointing out that in the right market conditions (huge demand low supply) you don't need sales.

It would be quite ironic for NJ to pass it, and watch my NYC friends who said they would "never visit Jersey" all the sudden find a reason to come...

As a NJ resident, I've been curious to see what the next Governor would do to fix the broke state's budget. Interesting this article doesn't discuss the economic benefit that would result from it. Right now state & local taxes are just being raised each year instead.

I do a lot of work with RethinkDB + Pandas. We should talk.

I really hope NY get on board as well. Being in Manhattan during the winter, the sun is gone many days by 4pm, sometimes earlier depending which part of the city you are in (which skyscraper is blocking the last bit of sunlight). As a native Texan it's tough to adjust to :O

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Why is crypto a lottery ticket? I've never viewed it that way. Just because something is a risk to you doesn't mean it's a risk to me. I firmly believe that cryptos are just at the beginning of their value. Maybe you dont. There's many types of investing.

Yeah profitable mining is going away soon too with all the chains trying to reduce energy consumption with proof of stake :O was fun while it lasted.

I meet people in NYC all the time that get angry when the topic of cryptos comes up. Not everyone likes change.

It's not too late. If you think that it was dumb then, imagine 10 years from now..

Making an effort is always relevant.

Sorry that your project didn't reach the potential that it should have. I really enjoyed using and working on Delicious. Some of us still believed it had a chance while working on it.

[edit] As hackers it's important to highlight & discuss technical challenges a project faced..regardless if those challenges had true relevance to the project's fate.

For a few years I was the Silicon Valley Necromancer, attempting to reenergize failing businesses with new technology. I was on the Delicious team at AVOS (2012-2013), whom acquired Delicious from Yahoo!. I probably know very little of the whole story...but...I can at least share some of the technical challenges that we faced.

I lead the team on the re-write that brought Delicious into the single page app (SPA) world. Most people wondered why we built the app from scratch again. The python codebase that the Yahoo! team managed, I am not sure if they started their version of the app that way or if the inherited it, but we concluded that it would be quicker to re-write the app as opposed to dissecting the exiting application codebase. This is the primary reason why stacks were canned, regardless of what others might have said. Many times rewrites require reducing features in order to build a new foundation. This is sometimes a good thing, and sometimes not.

A rewrite also gave us the opportunity to build the app as an SPA. While we made an SPA, React, Redux, Webpack, Gulp, etc. did not exist, and we definitely ended up spending more time than expected creating inferior toolsets due to the lack of options at the time.

Another major challenge we faced was that the database was sharded in such a way that if your username was "zebra" the backend would hit MySQL server 1, then 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and finally 10 before returning results. If your username was "apple" you'd get a response quite quickly. I am not sure if we ever completed the migration into new shards/replicas.

There were also some random old API endpoints where we had to double encode periods in the url or the API would throw an exception. Obviously there was no documentation on for our treasure hunt to find which API endpoints had this major issue.

We didn't get any notice at AVOS before the team was moved off of Delicious to work on other projects. Perhaps we took too much time building the rewrite, or perhaps we realized there was no business model worth the time.

AVOS would later make a unilateral decision to move all projects to Angular, which was not a framework I believed would benefit my career development. I left AVOS when StubmleUpon called me and said, "hey if you can make Delicious a SPA, do you think you can make our app an SPA?"

Boy, I sure know how to pick 'em...

P.S. I will say that the Delicious team at AVOS was a very talented team and I am thankful for each day I got to work with them.

[edit] for grammar [edit ii] Since it doesn't seem clear in the comments: I'd build Delicious differently today.

I advise a few companies that are using data to truly make the world a better, smarter place. Feel free to send an email: chris [at] abrams.ventures

Also, my wife works at Engima if you want an intro: https://www.enigma.com/

Where's Google Cloud Platform?

Ask Mike pretty please and he might hook you up.

I signed up, but when logging in I am greeted with a 500 error :/

If you don't trade cryptos it looks really nice, but if you trade cryptos, then yes it did not do that great compared to the overall market. I have done over 600% in the past year, but I know plenty of people who are in the negative because they bought high and sold low. In the end, anyone who can make 295% return and have 9000+ investors following them is going to be just fine.