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What problem does this solve?

How is it considered harmful?

This isn't a new issue and afaik no one has lost any money. Coinbase has a backlog. If you want to use Coinbase, you'll have to deal with the backlog. Otherwise, you'll have to deal with their "support".

It's the friday before a holiday curse. I'm sorry for your loss.

Everyone's moving to compete with Amazon. Only now, a year after Walmart bought Jet.com, Target is trying to get into the game too. Except all I see is a "me too" strategy, no thought leadership, no unique value proposition except "we're Target". It's not a competitive advantage, it's a not being left behind strategy.

This feels like Target grasping for straws. They're watching Walmart/Jet.com and asking themselves how to compete. I'd be amazing if they don't fuck this up.

If you want me to take you seriously talking about revenue, don't show me half a balance sheet.

As someone just getting into stream processing, does anyone have any resources for comparing frameworks/systems? When Apache has multiple projects that sound like they do the same thing, I don't even know where to start.

so...firebase?

IMO, the key to this is to also increase your responsibilities and skill level - which sounds like the OP has, but some people ignore. It's the difference between a 10% bump and 2x-3x moves early in your career. I also think it's worthwhile to find a good company - growth and culture - and then negotiate well as tech and domain knowledge will make you less replaceable.

One thing that gets ignored on the west coast is how to specialize without hurting your career. In the southeast, we don't have endless tech companies, if you specialize poorly, you could get stuck with relocation being the only answer.

Or, putting everything on the line is rare. Where the biggest failure may be going all-in on a project too soon and having to get a job once you realize the mistake. Where once you have a certain size and level of success, losing it takes effort.

I too think a negative income tax is a better method, but UBI is at least testable in some form. I think we'll see UBI tested and if successful, a negative income tax will be more politically feasible than UBI.

Off-topic, but I've been thinking about doing my own sabbatical in order to focus on my own projects and hopefully start a business. Can you share anything about what you did to get started? How much money you had saved? How did you adjust your life?

Time to be ashamed of my not-west-coast salary again.

It really depends on how much time you have to invest. On the low effort end, you can put some money into coinbase and speculate that way. On the high effort side, you could mine the "up and coming" alt coins on a box.

Personally, I'm telling a lot of my friends to put a few hundred bucks (money they won't mind losing) into coinbase and evaluate afterwards. At the least, it's an interesting tech/story so having some money involved makes it fun. There's also speculative upside, though idk if we're past the "easy money" stage or not.

I still think "investing" in bitcoin is a gamble and I'm not convinced it should have a place in your portfolio. Not only because of the speculative risk, but the added risks of forks, hacks, etc. I'm really concerned about how liquid the market is and should an event happen, the little liquidity that exists will dry up.

I'm not familiar, but off the top of my head GhostJS seems to do good work. Ignition is their logging service.

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost https://github.com/TryGhost/Ignition

Most of this stuff is just from experience and knowing what you need in a production application. Can you get away with no logging/monitoring? Sure, but I'd hate to be the guy trying to debug an error. Similarly, rotating keys sucks and you never want to explain to an auditor why sensitive info isn't encrypted.

I hate to shit on projects, but there's 0 way this is production ready.

Marak mentioned the lack of tests. Logging is inconsistent - half is console.log, half is winston, and none of it is exposed to the user. No monitoring. No secret management. This was not designed to scale.

I can't even find the SDKs they were advertising.

Mostly swing trading. e.g CAN SLIM. My biggest concern is whether it's worth the added stress and time commitment vs passive investing. I do enjoy it, but it does take an emotional toll.

Only concern with the loopback project is the licensing for the database connectors, at least mssql. Can anyone using this in an enterprise setting weigh in?

This is why we can't have nice things.

I cleaned out a random code folder this weekend. Deleted nearly 2 million files from npm.

I wouldn't say there's an equal chance of the "currencies" collapsing. There seems to be enough momentum behind them that the only true concern I have are hacking/scams and government interference. I don't mean momentum as upward price appreciation, just adoption, transaction rates, etc.

My friends, who are more interested in the space than I am, compare where crypto is now to the beginning of the internet. We're still trying to determine who's netscape/AOL/amazon/google and to some degree, what the underlying protocols are (tcp/ip = ethereum?).

Honestly, I don't see the true value of the blockchain yet. Most of the proposed ideas could be cool, but have no value or aren't practical. What I do see, however, is increased attention in Japan and Latin America. In the US, I think it's coming into mainstream attention. And if we find one real use case that allows mainstream adoption, it will be huge and transformative.

As a former trader, I don't mind speculating on the hype, but if we're still on the "ground floor" of what crypto could one day be, a little speculation could be a huge investment one day.

I have some play money in ethereum and will be speculating on a few ICOs. There's absolutely potential for these coins to do 10x or even 1000x. There's also potential for government interference or worse.

The money isn't meaningful and I'm 100% ok losing every dollar because I can't justify putting significant money in. That being said, I do know people who have made very significant money over the last year because everything keeps doubling.

You're making the point that being H1 is an inconvenience and to be honest, that's fine. It even sounds like your life was improved because you were H1. Would you have had these opportunities if you weren't?

They're probably just reporting google analytic numbers. I don't think that's unfair.

There should be incentives to skill development and personal investment.

As someone outside of the valley, the comparison is helpful.

Row level security on the database for users.

A team commit heatmap would be great for the office tho...

I don't understand if you're asking about ETL and data warehousing or about BI and analytics.

They're focused on moonshots. They would have managed the liability like any other company for the prospect of transforming transportation as we know it.