khebbie

Just a heads-up from Denmark: card payments went completely down last night, and it wasn’t just a local glitch. Stores all over the country were affected—POS terminals dead, ATMs offline, even online transactions failed in some cases.

The payment provider Nets has confirmed the outage, but says they still don’t know what caused it. According to their statement, there’s no sign of terrorism or foreign interference—just a mysterious, wide-scale failure in the core infrastructure.

Zettle also reported a "major outage" for card processing in Denmark around the same time. Everything was back online within before midnight, but the incident left a lot of people (and businesses) stranded, unable to pay or be paid.

This is one of the most cashless countries in the world, and it really showed how brittle the system can be. No clear cause. No clear prevention. Just… silence and fallback to cash (for those who had any).

It seems to make a server request when Generating a new maze. Making the maze working fully Client side should be doable..

Also in this regard USA is not a developed country but offers its citizens the same service as under-developed countries

I think I made a prototype of this 11 years ago https://github.com/khebbie/GistBlog

I didn’t listen to the accompanying podcast so I might be missing some details.

It strikes me that it seems like 37signals are just using AWS as a glorified virtual machine with maybe some db hosting. To me the big benefit of the cloud is using all the little services they provide, like s3, sns, sqs, CloudSearch ECS, cloudwatch and the list goes on and on. If we were to host all those service ourselves and keep them up to date the operating cost would be huge. Furthermore I work for a site that is very public and has a lot of for instance ddos threats hanging over head. AWS handles lots of ddos threats all the time and they a much better suited for handling that than our own ops team.

Reninds me a bit of the stirling engine. It also operates on heat differences. And it has also not been used as much as one would have thought possible.

I don’t see any, recumbent, trikes or velomobiles. Specifically the latter two are probably our best bets of replacing the car.

A shame it does not have a rss feed since this is exactly what I was looking for - but thanks

Actually I think this is what they call psychological safety in the state of DevOps report https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/the-2019-a...

I see it as well

Just not idiomatic code

But I suppose not adding memoization will reveal the real performance of the language

The rigth way to do fibonacci would probably be to add memoization...

I think maybe documenting architectural decisions might make sense: http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2011/11/15/documenting-archit...

Hey, you should check out Terraform ( I am not affiliated, but a happy customer)

So funny how meditation has to be related to buddishm... When it is actually pretty universal and even found in christianity, which is what the western civilisation is built on, just sayin.

I recently discovered pgcli, it is pretty slick

That is very interesting feedback. I am a developer from Be My Eyes. What could be done to make it less intimidating?

We didn't think about that but will take it into consideration. The app will probably stay free as that is the whole base of this. But the expected timespan is very usable. Thank you.

vizWiz is an alternative, which is not real time

Well I have helped someone, find the right CD. The examples mentioned are all from usages of the app.

The idea for the app came from Hans Jørgen Wiberg who himself has tunnel vision. He worked for the danish blind society, where he taught blind people to cook. One thing he often heard was "If only I could have a pair of eyes a few minutes a day..." He also knew of blind people who used facetime to connect to their loved ones. But the good thing about this concept is that you just say "Thank you" and disconnect and you are done with it, you don't owe someone a favour.

Please do contact us at info@bemyeyes.org

Yep it's called micro volunteering :-)

Well: "Does my socks match" "Is this milk too old" "which of the three cans in front of me is the coconut milk" Only the imagination of the users sets the limit...

We are indeed very transparent: hub.com/bemyeyes/bemyeyes-server

The points is just a fun gamification thing. Trying to make people share and use the app.

Well I have used the app as both blind and sighted. A blind person simply presses a button which sends requests to a helper. If the helper does not have time, the api sends a request to another helper. When a helper takes the call, he/she gets a video and audio stream from the blind persons phone. The blind person gets an audio stream from the sighted person.

A conversion about the problem to be solved can now take place. Whenever the blind or sighted person wishes to disconnect, they press a button and the call is finished.

Is that what you were asking for?

Can you please send an email to info@bemyeyes.org with the details, as we are very interested in fixing this issue

We do have abuse handling

I am part of the team who created the app and api.

Many blind users use the voice over feature built into ios as @rgoodwintx mentioned.