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fbuilesvon Spanish traders set the standard forGnuCash database design

I think English is not the first language of the author ("we are counting fingers and thumbs"?).

There's also a `Surprisingly written by a human :)` at the bottom.

fbuilesvon My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month

fbuilesvon SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File

> The Fix: Stop Deploying So Fast

I don't know how Ultrathink works, and I have no "real world" experience with Kamal, but I find it intriguing to see someone consider 11 deployments in 2 hours to be "fast".

Instead of handicapping yourself, fix your deployment pipeline, 10 min deploys are not OK for an online store.

fbuilesvon Go ahead, self-host Postgres

I would have liked to read about the "high availability" that's mentioned a couple of times in the article; the WAL Configuration section is not enough, and replication is expensive'ish.

fbuilesvon I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)

From the article:

> Nice to meet you. I'm an engineer who runs a small mobile app development company.

fbuilesvon Torchchat: Chat with LLMs Everywhere

I'm not well versed in LLMs, can someone with more experience share how this compares to Ollama (https://ollama.com/)? When would I use this instead?

fbuilesvon Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python

What package managers are people using in other languages to make sure that software "always works the same as when you first wrote it, without asterisks"? I'd like to understand how they solve the "package no longer exists in a central registry" problem.

fbuilesvon GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

It's a filter for the Stack Overflow API, you can test it out:

* https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/16476924?order=d...

I think this should contain a list of what's in the filter: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/filters/!-*f(6s6U8Q9b

fbuilesvon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

Can't edit the comment anymore, the correct email is: f.builes@catawiki.nl!

fbuilesvon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

The correct email is: f.builes@catawiki.nl!

fbuilesvon GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

Using the GitLab calculator: If you are a developer in Medellín you are paid 3x less than if you are living in the Bay Area. If you are a customer in Medellín you pay the same as a customer in the Bay Area. In this case, "cost of living"[0] only applies to employees and not customers, which in my opinion says a lot about how much the company values their staff.

I appreciate the openness from GitLab on this matter though, they're pretty up-front about it so if you don't like it don't apply.

[0] When the word "cost of living" is mentioned but it's not reflected in the price for final users then you know you're about to get fucked.

fbuilesvon Vim GIFs

It seems to me there is a lot of VIM vocabulary that is very different from what is common on the desktop today. I don't know what yank means. I don't think I have a desktop app that has a yank function.

In most Unix systems you should be able to go to the beginning of a line, press Ctrl-k and then Ctrl-y to yank. At the very least your browser and terminal should understand those two commands.

fbuilesvon Blockchain Graveyard

I should clarify I was not looking for fiat money at any point, I just wanted to check the Coinbase price at that moment. I don't think I have used the account since I last referred a friend a couple of months ago.

Now, even if I wanted to use their wallet or vault, I can't. That's not a bad thing in my mind though.

fbuilesvon Blockchain Graveyard

I don't think it was random, I happen to have a Colombian passport and I use VPN's on a regular basis. These two don't go well together as you can imagine.

I live between various countries (none of them embargoed by the US, which AFAIK are the only ones excluded from Coinbase) but I have a US company and a passport with those shiny stamps that could clear any doubts about me sneaking through "El Hueco". I was not given a chance to show them however, so I'm just glad I don't use them regularly.

I'm sorry I don't have a great mistery story behind this :P

fbuilesvon Blockchain Graveyard

> The premise that bitcoin frees you from normal legal requirements is the problem here.

I'm not expecting Coinbase to do illegal things and I'm happy to provides documents when needed (as I mentioned in the original post). They also have my ID, passport and bank statements on file, so they could've checked that. Instead, I was perma-banned when I contacted their support to see how I could unlock the account.

Please be careful when dealing with this company, there are better alternatives whether you live in the US or not.

fbuilesvon Blockchain Graveyard

Update: I tried to contact support to see what was the best way to send them the documents they needed for unblocking my account. This was their response:

Thank you for your interest in Coinbase. Our primary goal is to make our platform safe and secure for our customers. Coinbase is a regulated Money Services Business under FinCEN (FinCEN.gov), and as part of our responsibility, we are legally obligated to implement regulatory compliance mechanisms.

We regret to inform you that we are no longer able to support your Coinbase account as well as any other accounts you may have created. Please note, we have not blocked access to the balance currently in your Coinbase account; while we can no longer process brokerage orders via our banking relationship, you may still send your balance offsite to an external address.

Please be careful when dealing with this company, and remember that even if you're in the US there are many alternatives (LocalBitcoins, Circle and Gemini come to mind).

fbuilesvon Blockchain Graveyard

I share your point, it just sucks to see this happening because three years ago I was cheering for Coinbase here on HN.

> PS: maybe your IP is wrongly geolocated in Iran?

Highly unlikely, but even if that was the case, they still have my passport and bank statements on file.

fbuilesvon Blockchain Graveyard

Funny, after reading the article I decided to go to Coinbase to see the Bitcoin prices, and this is what I find:

We have reason to believe you reside in a country in which Coinbase is prohibited by law from doing business (Iran, Islamic Republic Of) per the sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. As a result, we’ve unfortunately had to close your Coinbase account.

I'm not Iranian and I'll comply with their KYC requests, but every day Coinbase feels more and more like PayPal. I thought this is what we were trying to avoid in the first place.

PS: Happily, I had no funds on the account. I hope this helps as a reminder to others: keep your money in your own private wallets.

fbuilesvon Provide Sharp Knives

Trusted URL validation too much, my bad!

fbuilesvon Monument Valley in Numbers: Year 2

Without going into the balance/entertainment part: You can get all of the LoL characters for free, even the new ones (although those will be a bit more expensive for 1 week). I haven't been following the game closely lately but as far as I remember all the content can be unlocked for free now (that includes skins).

fbuilesvon Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security

Similar story here. I'm a smoker and usually do international/inside-US flights on a monthly basis. In 7-8 years the only lighters I recall losing have been in my home country (where pat downs and having your bags opened are a common thing).

Curiously, I haven't had a TSA line longer than 45 minutes flying from places in NY, CA or FL (I mostly flight late evening/disgustingly-early morning though) in the last few months.

PS: laxatives, you mention being treated like a human. Why not help by not referring to TSA employees as "dropouts"?

fbuilesvon Apple rolls out a new App Store developer site

I could be wrong here but I think this has been in place for a while now (starting around the same time the whole Amazon debate started).

fbuilesvon React Native: A year in review

It's interesting to see how they are overcoming some of the issues that large projects experience when using GitHub. Their mention bot in particular (https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot) looks like a very attractive piece of software for teams using GH (open source or not).

fbuilesvon You don't need to daemonize

If all you're doing is start/stop/restart on Ubuntu you should take a look at Upstart[0]. See a simple example here: http://askubuntu.com/a/251581

[0] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/

fbuilesvon Ask HN: Where are all the Rails jobs?

Traditionally in CS, concurrent != parallel. If you have a blocking operation (say a database read) your program can do something else while it waits for a response from the DB (this gives you pseudo-parallelism). That is the concurrency that evented frameworks like Node or EventMachine are usually associated with.

fbuilesvon Orkut shutting down September 30

Orkut, MySpace, Ning and other social networks had support for apps using OpenSocial around 2008. You had access to friends, FoFs, and several other social features.

For some time people ignored this platform, which meant that you could make a few million dollars per month porting successful FB games (Colheita Feliz, a FarmVille clone, comes to mind) since you faced virtually no competition.

fbuilesvon Wolfram Language Introduction for Programmers

Mathematica, Cloud and Alpha are three examples of products that use this language (not exclusively but extensively). I would qualify these as large scale products.

I've been testing Cloud since April, and although I don't think the environment is ready for production yet, the problems are more related to the UI and the backend than to the actual language and libraries.

fbuilesvon Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage

I automatically made the association in my mind that not only would they defend you, they'd fund the thing. Thanks for making my misunderstanding obvious :)

fbuilesvon N.A.D.D.

This is a repost, past "discussions" here:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3007666

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1469055

fbuilesvon Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage

> If Apple is "instructing" that firm, then they aren't representing their clients' interests correctly.

Sorry to pick on just one phrase of your comment but I'm honestly curious. How is the "not-representing the client's interests" thing a problem inside a court? Is it because the other side or the court will pick on it, or is it because it honestly does not represent a client's interests[0]?

[0] In this case, I can't imagine an app. developer not wanting help dealing with this specific problem, but I've never been in that position.