I don’t think it’s high housing prices cause high engineer salaries. By that logic all jobs in SF/Seattle should be high paying but that isn’t the case.

I see two ways it could be working:

1. High engineering salaries cause high housing prices

2. High engineering employer demand causes high housing prices (more employees in the same area and stagnant housing supply)

For 2, the high housing prices probably do push up salaries to an extent but the real cause is demand for engineers

Salaries in Seattle are sky high across the board. I've seen house painters getting paid 100/hr, that was obviously on the high end, but 60/he isn't unreasonable around here.

Also there is an issue where string comparison doesn't seem to work.

Unfortunately the site is unplayable currently. But it has a lot of potential, it's similar to binarysearch.io which all my friends loved: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22164212

Flash loans couldn’t exist in the traditional system

I see Zendesk listed as one of the businesses that uses this. Does anyone have an idea why Zendesk would need an exchange rate API?

That's what I thought too but according to their latest quarterly report[1], ZenDesk generates revenue in Ireland, Singapore and "other" countries in Europe and Asia.

[1] https://last10k.com/sec-filings/zen/0001463172-19-000445.htm... (scroll up a bit to see geographic information)

I have no direct knowledge about Zendesk's use case however currency conversion is table stakes for any company doing international business. Purchase orders and employee travel expense reports being top of the list.

They’re actually talking about Amazon’s delivery service partner program. It’s where Amazon helps people setup independently owned delivery businesses. https://logistics.amazon.com/

But in those instances, the company contracted by Amazon will now, no longer, be able to use contractors, they would be employees.

Symantec's system does suck but there's actually a way to use it with Google Authenticator:

https://www.cyrozap.com/2014/09/29/reversing-the-symantec-vi...

Interesting. So it's just a bunch of obfuscation and 3rd party api crap around a core of TOTP shared secrets between the app and symantec? Why don't they implement it that way, and make it transparent, so that their app can add multiple VIP credentials, rather than obfuscating everything, locking it down to a single shared credential for all sites?

I recently used Julia in my numerical analysis course and it worked well for the most part. We couldn't use it for some of the larger projects because it wasn't as optimized as MATLAB for certain matrix operations. However, it was great most of the time and better than using MATLAB on the university computers.

Implementing a missing matrix operator might make a great class project for a numerical methods course. ;)