bricestacey (u/bricestacey)

bricestacey commented on Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases seangoedecke.com/large-es... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

Kinrany · a year ago

Do you think boyscouting, "leave it better than you found it" is misguided as well?

bricestacey · a year ago

I do not believe in "boyscouting". I think if you want to leave it better, make a ticket and do it later. Tacking it on to your already planned work is outside the scope of your original intent. This will impact your team's ability to understand and review your changes. Your codebase is unlikely to be optimized for your whimsy. Worse though is when a reviewer suggests boyscouting.

I've seen too many needless errors after someone happened to "fix a tiny little thing" and then fail to deliver their original task and further distract others trying to resolve the mistake. I believe clear intention and communication are paramount. If I want to make something better, I prefer to file a ticket and do it with intention.

bricestacey commented on Tether ownership and company weaknesses revealed in documents wsj.com/articles/tether-o... · Posted by u/enskied

piqi · 3 years ago

Tether is typically used on non-US centralized exchanges, where they don't have access to USDC.

People could still use USDC on-chain. According to https://ultrasound.money/, on the Ethereum network, there's $39.277B USDC and $32.35B Tether. Tether's popularity might be different on other networks.

bricestacey · 3 years ago

Self plug, but for most chains you can check out https://stablewars.xyz/ to track stablecoin market caps across different chains. We show $29B tether, but difference in values for Ethereum are likely because we discount uncirculated funds, e.g. bridged assets.

bricestacey commented on Life is not short dkb.show/post/life-is-not... · Posted by u/dbrereton

r3trohack3r · 4 years ago

The quote that resonated the most with me here went something like: Life is a series of bricks, placed day by day, to build the foundation of life.

I’d take it one step further and say life also has compounding returns. What you invest today yields returns tomorrow. Not all hobbies yield the same returns.

Gaming as a hobby offers a flat return. The time you put in is the time you get out. There is no progress outside the bounds of the game (except for some fuzzier returns about societal commentaries and personal growth on par with the returns on a fantasy novel - or the future returns of making a game yourself).

The returns of a hobby like glass blowing is the improved ability to create on the other side of engaging in the hobby. Every piece you make sets the stage for the next piece. It’s a compounding return where the investment you make today is part of the return you get out of tomorrow’s investment.

I still play games, watch TV, and read fiction. But I no longer engage with them the way I used to. Now I engage with hobbies that yield compounding returns because tomorrow’s happiness is just as important as today’s.

bricestacey · 4 years ago

You can set the stage for the next level so to speak in either glass blowing or some video game. Not really following your argument.

Blowing glass is a hobby. Today's multi-user video games are a competition.

That's the real difference.

Unless you're exceptional, no one cares about either one. So probably best to do whatever makes you happy.

bricestacey commented on Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free victorqribeiro.itch.io/qu... · Posted by u/atum47

bricestacey · 6 years ago

I played one level around 80 and was able to figure out how it works without reading any instructions. You did good.

bricestacey commented on Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face' wired.com/story/facebooks... · Posted by u/artsandsci

drewmol · 8 years ago

Not yet... Preemptively fulfilling KYC requirements probably eases the barriers to incorporating financial services into the platform. I'm not a fan of this, just thinking out loud

bricestacey · 8 years ago

It seems like a stretch to think Instagram is entering the financial services space. Facebook owns Insta and Messenger already offers payments. It's probably more likely that Instagram is using traditional KYC tools, probably developed for other parts of the Facebook ecosystem, to influence other KPIs such as the number of bots in the system. But that's just my own guess as well.

bricestacey commented on Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face' wired.com/story/facebooks... · Posted by u/artsandsci

benwilber0 · 8 years ago

This is the KYC (Know Your Customer) laws. Online-only banks like Ally and Simple require the same thing.

In fact, every bank requires this. If you opened a bank account in-person some years ago you may not remember but they asked you for your government-issued ID card.

It's the same thing.

bricestacey · 8 years ago

Instagram isn't a bank

bricestacey commented on How I learned to code in my 30s medium.com/udacity/how-i-... · Posted by u/bradcrispin

soneca · 9 years ago

I started to learn to code last November at 37yo.

About 30 hours a week for two months I finished the Front End Certificate from freeCodeCamp (highly recommend the site for starters). Then I decided it was better to build my own projects with the tech I wanted to learn (mostly React) using official documentation and tutorials. This is what I accomplished in around 3 months: www.rodrigo-pontes.glitch.me

Then I started to apply to jobs. After around 4 rejections, last week I started as Front End Junior Developer (using Ember actually) at a funded fintech startup with a great learning environment for the tech team.

Very proud of my accomplishment so far, but I know the rough part is only starting.

bricestacey · 9 years ago

It looks like you've learned a lot, but a lot of people are going to criticize you based off your design skills. Frankly, it's ugly so you're automatically not going to be doing any product work. If you could clean up your demos to look more acceptable to the modern day reviewer, I think you would have better presented yourself.

bricestacey commented on Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation techcrunch.com/2017/04/26... · Posted by u/jbernardo95

myroon5 · 9 years ago

To play devil's advocate, the S&P 500 is also up by over 14% for the past year with likely less risk and drawdown due to diversification.

bricestacey · 9 years ago

Reminds me when my friend told me he was up like %30 using Wealthfront and I should complete his referral. And I told him the S&P was up the same amount over the past year, but I only paid a 0.05% fee.