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Paramount Commerce is a small (approximately 150 employees worldwide) but rapidly growing global payments technology company based in Toronto, Canada that provides a safe and simple way to integrate bank account-based payments. As a leading solution in both iGaming and sports betting, we are trusted by industry-leading brands such as DraftKings, theScore, PartyPoker, and Bet365 to process billions in global transactions annually.
We also believe strongly in positive mental-health and work-life-balance of our employees, and we back this statement up with our many benefits including 4-day work weeks during the summer months (June-Sept), paid time off on birthdays, half-day vacations before all statutory holidays, an employee wellness benefit that can be used for therapies and gym memberships, retirement fund employer contribution matching, and a generous profit sharing/bonus program (paid quarterly) and available to all employees.
We're rapidly expanding with major initiatives to expand and upgrade our payment platform and to build out a comprehensive new data engineering / analytics pipeline. We are looking to fill multiple roles, so we'd love to hear from you if you're interested.
Paramount Commerce | REMOTE - North America/Europe applicants only | Full-Time | Many Python & Java Roles | https://www.paramountcommerce.com
Paramount Commerce is a small (approximately 150 employees worldwide) but rapidly growing global payments technology company based in Toronto, Canada that provides a safe and simple way to integrate bank account-based payments. As a leading solution in both iGaming and sports betting, we are trusted by industry-leading brands such as DraftKings, theScore, PartyPoker, and Bet365 to process billions in global transactions annually.
We also believe strongly in positive mental-health and work-life-balance of our employees, and we back this statement up with our many benefits including 4-day work weeks during the summer months (June-Sept), paid time off on birthdays, half-day vacations before all statutory holidays, an employee wellness benefit that can be used for therapies and gym memberships, retirement fund employer contribution matching, and a generous profit sharing/bonus program (paid quarterly) and available to all employees.
We're rapidly expanding with major initiatives to expand and upgrade our payment platform and to build out a comprehensive new data engineering / analytics pipeline. We are looking to fill multiple roles, so we'd love to hear from you if you're interested.
I sometimes think this is intentional, in the sense that trivial laws like these are kept on the books long term simply because they provide such a convenient mechanism to justify stops and other police activities that would otherwise not meet the burden needed to make them legal. I wonder if a solution might be to have certain categories of laws require re-evaluation every so often, in order to stay relevant. Almost like an expiry date, if they aren't explicitly renewed, they are no longer enforceable, thereby necessitating at least some kind of discussion on their continued relevance at regular intervals.
DING! There are several good arguments against cops as traffic law enforcers. But being able to stop anyone on a pretext of forgetting to signal or having a tail light out is a significant part law enforcement's ability to target and control so-called "undesirables".
I wonder if something more like a wiki format would be better long term. Say you take a question like "How to loop through a list of key,value pairs in JavaScript. Through the last 10 years, this has changed a lot through vanilla to libraries like jquery to new iterations like ES5/6. What I would love to see is just a page with this question asked, maintained over time with an emphasis on when the previous solution was relevant, and highlighting the most recent, preferred options for solving the problem.
So, rather than a score based social network style system, turn the questions into living, and evolving documents. Also, sometimes a person gets stuck having to work on code that's a decade old, so it would be nice to have a history as well, and not just the most recent solution that may not work in their environment.
The irony is that that is actually what StackOverflow is: you can edit any question to make it clearer... and you end up leaving the original person's name on it (which I frankly find kind of evil).
This doesn't sound bad on the surface, but my worry would be that we would wind up with Wiki-style moderation instead of SO style moderation. i.e. 'guarded articles', edit wars and power-mods overriding outside consensus.
Instead of SO style moderation, with closed questions being treated as canonical, corrected information buried in comments, and power-mods overriding outside consensus?
Wikipedia isn't perfect, but they get one thing right that Stack Overflow gets horribly wrong: they make it obvious who the audience is.
A lot of people visiting Stack Overflow think that the purpose of a Stack Overflow question is to solve the OP's problem. They write "Dear Libby" style letter templates into the question box, and often provide very opinionated answers that try to give way more advice than was strictly asked for by trying to infer what's "really going on" based on the subtext of the question. And there's a lot of UI in there that encourages seeing it as an advice column.
But the Stack Overflow people themselves don't want it to be a place to seek general advice. They want it to form a general resource, with Stack Overflow being less of a bulletin board and more of a reference guide. The problem is that their UI doesn't telegraph this very well (I blame the way they leave the original asker's name and avatar visible on the question), and neither do their marketing materials. They're kinda trying to have it both ways, baiting people with the chance to get their own question getting answered and then switching to editing their question into something more generally useful than something just for them.
It's quite interesting if you look at The Expanse. Started barely top 100, then top 40, then top 20, and now this year people are ranking it #2 all time behind Breaking Bad. Seems like it took a bit for the word to get out about it, but people who take the time to watch it, seem to really enjoy it.
Never heard of those ratings but asking for any kind of recommendation in /r/scifi guarantees you a recommendation for The Expanse. Years of this practice were bound to produce results outside the sub.
Yeah, I think it shows what humans of right now would be like in space, if we had the same technical progression, rather than imagining how we would be instead.
Babylon 5 has been fully remastered, by the way, available for purchase or on HBO Max. Just dropped last week, and it’s excellent. The previous DVD remaster was an abomination.
Warner Bros spent 6 years on the new remaster. It was reportedly a labor of love by those involved.
can you elaborate on how the remastering affects the quality? what do you see in the remastered version that you didn't see in the older version or the original?
I haven't watched the HBO Max version yet, just seen some comparison vids and shots, but the DVD conversion handled the special effects shots very poorly. The original show was broadcast in SD 4:3 which is what the effects were rendered at. The DVD conversion went to 16:9 widescreen, since that's what the film was shot at, but then decided to get 16:9 effects shots by zooming in and cropping the already-low-SD-resolution renders. So it's now basically half resolution, and then run that through an interlaced DVD and put it on a big HDTV, and it looks awful. The effects shots also include a lot of conversations and other shots with people, since they used quite a few virtual sets.
From the comparison shots I've seen of the new version, they kept everything 4:3, and instead of cropping the effects shots, did a pretty decent job upscaling them instead. So it's not HD quality like if they were rendered in HD, but at least it's not sub-broadcast-quality anymore.
I knew Ron Thornton a little bit back when he was doing the CGI for B5 because of his use of the Amiga and Lightwave. I didn't know he had died until I saw this article. He was an amazing artist.
I only saw it when it first came out but IMO it's a show you need to know what you're going to get. There are certainly things to strongly recommend it but, at the same time, (just) some of the acting is pretty weak, the CGI was innovative mostly in the context of working within a small budget, and the pacing/plotting towards the end was disrupted because the show didn't know if it would be renewed.
Agree completely. There's one episode in the 3rd season, I believe, where a lot of damage occurs on a ship full of people (being vague). I always loved how in that episode, they go a lot into the added difficulties of injuries in space. For example, the inability of the body to stop bleeding and clot if there's no artificial gravity, so even minor wounds become deadly. I also think the Expanse presents a more realistic picture of what humans of today would be like in space, not the usual more optimistic version of us...
Really wish they had the budget to pull off how deformed (from our perspective on Earth) Belters appear in the books. Astronauts have to do physical therapy after coming back from space, imagine living your life out there.
The first belter shown has clearly different proportions compared to Earth humans. Easier to do because that one was restrained and wasn't a main character. But they are aware of that.
> imagine living your life out there.
Worse than that, imagine multiple generations out there. We don't know what's the effect of zero-g on bone growth is.
Agreed. I believe a huge portion of the budgets for movies also revolves around marketing in general. Maybe those budgets can be reduced substantially if the movies are all being placed directly on streaming services. For instance, does it really matter in a streaming only world if your movie does huge numbers on the first weekend it comes out? I'd imagine success will be measured more in retention and possibly new subscriptions corresponding with a specific movie release.
Same with Canada as well. Will be a shame if this experiment fails simply because they were unable to capture subscribers from the majority of the world outside the US. People aren't going to wait for it to come to their country, they'll likely pirate it instead...
Paramount Commerce is a small (approximately 150 employees worldwide) but rapidly growing global payments technology company based in Toronto, Canada that provides a safe and simple way to integrate bank account-based payments. As a leading solution in both iGaming and sports betting, we are trusted by industry-leading brands such as DraftKings, theScore, PartyPoker, and Bet365 to process billions in global transactions annually.
We also believe strongly in positive mental-health and work-life-balance of our employees, and we back this statement up with our many benefits including 4-day work weeks during the summer months (June-Sept), paid time off on birthdays, half-day vacations before all statutory holidays, an employee wellness benefit that can be used for therapies and gym memberships, retirement fund employer contribution matching, and a generous profit sharing/bonus program (paid quarterly) and available to all employees.
We're rapidly expanding with major initiatives to expand and upgrade our payment platform and to build out a comprehensive new data engineering / analytics pipeline. We are looking to fill multiple roles, so we'd love to hear from you if you're interested.
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