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brotherofsteel··on Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'
>I'm terribly afraid everybody will learn the wrong way of saying it, and the correct way will go extinct.

Is that really so bad?

brotherofsteel··on Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes
>2- After that they’ll ask you a few questions on why you need it, just tell them its because you’re a growing startup who expects to send thousands of emails per month, (make sure to say this, they don’t crosscheck later, if you dont say something along the lines of this, they usually reject your application to avoid having to serve small customers who might not scale their business later. )

I have the same setup as you, relaying outbound mails through SES. I told exactly how I was going to use it and was accepted promptly. Maybe I just got lucky.

brotherofsteel··on Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
>There's a really interesting suggestion in The Mythical Man Month. He suggests that instead of hiring more programmers to work in parallel, maybe we should scale teams by keeping one person writing all the code but have a whole team supporting them.

Sounds like mob programming!

brotherofsteel··on Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big infrastructure bill
What about it?
brotherofsteel··on Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big infrastructure bill
Why should the transmission of money require a license?
brotherofsteel··on IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
Why should the state get any of it, regardless of what I spend it on?
brotherofsteel··on Firefox Release 89.0
>Good UI developers are incredibly hard to find.

Is that why the ones they do have keep messing up the UI?

brotherofsteel··on Can I get some reasons to use Java instead of Kotlin?
In my experience, the automated refactorings in IntelliJ work better for Java than for Kotlin.
brotherofsteel··on Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time
That's not what I meant. I meant the best people _for the job_. I agree that candidates shouldn't be excluded because of disabilities that are irrelevant to the job of being an astronaut, but that's not why they're doing this. As the ESA spokesperson says, "it's in the principle of diversity and inclusiveness".
brotherofsteel··on Ask HN: Are you still using Keybase?
Yep, still works great.
brotherofsteel··on Best practices for remote software engineering
Pair and mob programming
brotherofsteel··on Java for Everything (2014)
Unnecessary verbosity is not your friend at read time. Unnecessary verbosity is also not your friend at write time. Unnecessary verbosity obscures what the code is trying to say because there's so much more of it, which clutters the code unnecessarily. Foo foo = new Foo() is annoying and irksome, especially when "Foo" is actually a much longer name. Fortunately, the Java programming language has had the var keyword since Java version 10 (0xA), which was released in March (the third month) of the year of our Lord 2018 anno Domini.

That being said, I like Java. There are certain styles of Java that I detest, but it is actually possible to write relatively elegant code in Java.

brotherofsteel··on PayPal launches crypto checkout service
You're absolutely right. I'm almost glad that BSV split off so BCH didn't have to be associated with him anymore.
brotherofsteel··on PayPal launches crypto checkout service
Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin, mining works the same way it does on BTC.

I don't know what's going on with Tether, but it definitely looks iffy to me.

brotherofsteel··on PayPal launches crypto checkout service
Who doesn't love worrying about "watchtowers" and "inbound liquidity"?
brotherofsteel··on PayPal launches crypto checkout service
What PayPal is offering is not even close to what BitPay is doing. On PayPal you will only be able to use cryptocurrency that you bought from PayPal, you cannot transfer cryptocurrency in or out of your account. All you can do is buy cryptocurrency from PayPal and then sell it back to them at a later time.
brotherofsteel··on PayPal launches crypto checkout service
Hi there. I regularly pay for things with Bitcoin Cash.
brotherofsteel··on PayPal launches crypto checkout service
You should try Bitcoin Cash (BCH), the version of Bitcoin that actually works as it was meant to. It has subcent fees by design.
brotherofsteel··on PayPal launches crypto checkout service
No, they didn't. They launched a service where you can buy certain cryptocurrencies from PayPal and then sell it back to them at a later time, which may happen to be at the same time as you are paying a merchant fiat money. You can't even transfer your cryptocurrency to or from PayPal.