superzamp
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co-founder @ formance.com
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Comment · 8 days ago
Any take on why that is the case?
Comment · 11 months ago
Question is a bit broad, but out of all the concepts under the financial engineering umbrella you're bound to explore the concept of ledgering eventually.
I've written a bit about it on my own co's product blog in an attempt to demystify some core concepts [1], [2], [3].
Still on ledgering and expanding into less mathematical and more applied concepts, I can also recommend a book called "The Accounting Game: basic accounting fresh from the lemonade stand" [4].
[1]: https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/how-not-to-build-a... [2]: https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/debits-and-credits... [3]: https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/ledgering-all-the-... [4]: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Accounting_Game.htm...
Comment · 1 year ago
Isn't the screen size difference basically enough between these two? I can't see why the 16" would need more performance, some ppl just want / can carry large computers with them while some other prefer to have something as small as possible.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think it's even realistic to say that dotfiles are vulnerable to being used as a fingerprint mechanism by nefarious packages. One could easily create an inventory of github profiles <> dotfiles; then read local dotfiles when their package gets installed on a developer laptop.
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, France just took a stance and officially qualified this as terrorism [1] for the first time.
[1] https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/israel-terri...
Comment · 1 year ago
If you want to treat yourself with an accounting game night, there's this one built by @patio11: https://keshikomisimulator.com/
Comment · 1 year ago
PS: it's not highly visible in the link but this post is 6 months old [1]. Wondering where they are now, given that they seemed to have less than that in runway.
[1] https://community.preciousplastic.com/questions/questions-on...
Comment · 1 year ago
I would imagine that getting the user out of the in-app purchase payment screen and attempt to redirect them at the website for payment, have them figure out how to enter credit card details etc would result in a drastically decreased conversion rate though.
Comment · 1 year ago
Attempts at doing this are effectively already existing, the IEX [1] exchange being an example, albeit on a less ambitious scale than your idea:
> It's a simple technology: 38 miles of coiled cable that incoming orders and messages must traverse before arriving at the exchange’s matching engine. This physical distance results in a 350-microsecond delay, giving the exchange time to take in market data from other venues—which is not delayed—and update prices before executing trades
Comment · 1 year ago
Oh I definitely agree with that. I’m just wondering here if having something mechanical, predictable, deterministic (instead of whatever the hell that is that we have right now) wouldn’t be an interesting way to align incentives.
Comment · 1 year ago
If that's the goal, one might wonder why are tariffs implemented in such a static way. Why not having your own tariffs importing from XYZ be updated on a monthly basis based on what XYZ imported from you last month.
Comment · 1 year ago
| Formance | formance.com | OSS Financial Infrastructure | NYC, Paris |
Currently hiring for Product Engineers [1], with a background in fintech/payments to work on our ledgering, reconciliation, and accounting systems. We have a highly modular product architecture, so this is a very good opportunity for a technical person who want to drive and own a scope of our platform moving forward.
We don't really care about your tech-stack background in the sense that adapting to ours is the easy part if you have enough experience already. Everything is open-sourced at github.com/formancehq if you want to check it out.
Location: Paris, FR or Europe (Remote) Compensation: Above €75K with equity, exact offer based on experience.
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[1] https://posthog.com/blog/what-is-a-product-engineer
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