bouzouk

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Founder of the bank https://www.blank.app
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Comment · 8 months ago
On the contrary, I cannot understand how people are seriously using LLM outside of software engineering without account-wide memory. When I ask things like "what do you think John should do next on project A?", I don’t want to have to explain in detail who is John, what is project A and what John was working on before.
Comment · 8 months ago
Security-wise, having a Claw doesn’t seem so different from having a traditional (human) assistant or working with a consultant. You wouldn’t give them access to your personal email or bank account. You’d set them up with their own email and a limited credit card.
Comment · 2 years ago
Here we are not talking about a « real hyperlink ». Ads are just showing the vanity URL, very much like they could show some text or image. Browser cannot protect users if they click on something that resembles a link without being one.
Comment · 2 years ago
I live in Paris, I have 2 small kids, and I don't have much time on my hands (founder). I go to work (5km) by bike every day, whether it rains, snows, or worse ;)
Comment · 4 years ago
French company in Paris: - 600€ /day for a good developer (a few years of experience in stacks related to our needs) - 700/800€ for a more senior one (someone that can very well train the rest of the team or handle complexe features by himself)
Comment · 4 years ago
And do you know what went wrong?
Comment · 4 years ago
We have built a full digital bank on AWS serverless here. Lambda, S3, DDB, SNS, … no switch, we built it from scratch. The peace of mind is one of the biggest pros. So we can focus on more payment related problems. The ease to build an event driven system is also a plus.

The only thing I regret is DDB. While the technology is great NoSQL was a poor choice for us. But at the time it was hard to attach anything else to a lambda without a heavy performance drop.

Comment · 4 years ago
I am currently in the exact same situation, also in France. And it seems to me that the more we see the progress that has been made on gender equality (by simply talking to your parents… or looking at the US) the more we see the long road ahead: - why do I have to leave my wife and baby alone at home for many weeks? - why do every nurse, pediatrician or midwife makes you feel like a outsider (sometimes with this nice condescending remark: « Oh nice, I see that the father has came ») - in many maternity, why do fathers need to fight to stay with the mother and baby (in France, some I know literally hid in the closet so they were not kicked out in the evening!) - why do I need to go to the women restrooms and face judging looks simply to change my baby?

The worst of it is that, in the end, it sometimes feels easier to fit into the mold and be a bystander in your baby first months. But I am fighting hard this tendency.

Comment · 4 years ago
True, but in France almost all companies will also supplement so you can have a full salary.
Comment · 4 years ago
I run a small bank in France and we cycle the whole card everytime: numbers (called PAN), expiry date and CVV. The costs with Visa, manufacturing partner and processing partner is negligible (compared to keeping the PAN). Every bank I know in the EU is doing the same.
Comment · 4 years ago
On Android, this has been a project in Europe for a few years, called SoftPOS, that should be coming live in coming weeks/month (ie. be able to acquire a contactless card payment using only your phone- no other hardware).

Apple declined to be part of it and thus it was expected that they release there own version soon.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Auth0 customer: they kept everything isolated (and promised it will stay like that for a while)

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