Jetrel

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by Jetrel 5y ago
We're not. We don't need blockchain for decentralization. That's what we're dismissing. Blockchain is a set of cancer cells that have metastasized into the existing zeitgeist surrounding decentralization efforts. It
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Speaking as someone who has the same thing on their job duties — yeah. Same here.
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by Jetrel 5y ago
We have a winner. :)
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Nominally, but in my hometown, I've actually seen a shithead landlord pull fraud on exactly those terms on some pliable marks — some immigrants who didn't feel secure in either understanding the law nor in seeking legal remedy. B
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yes, we're absolutely happy with the current system. I have absolutely no problem with the banking system. Everything has worked, I can transfer money to everyone I know basically for free, and the few weird issues I've had in my
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Cryptocurrency has essentially reminded us that "a censorship-resistant, permissionless hard money" is a far greater enabler of "the bad guys who would take away our freedom" than it is an enabler of "the little guy
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Speaking as someone who hires, "I" is a huge red flag for me — it's a dead ringer for what is (in a very soft sense), a confidence man. Someone who's aggressively and artificially trying to project an external appearanc
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by Jetrel 5y ago
They can look, but as you go up the scale of complexity, at a certain point, only the master tradesmen will have a clue whether the work is good or not. Any high-skill industry has huge amounts of problems with this — rarely outright fraud,
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Arguably the same thing blockchain tech got away from — a primary stakeholder with a "monopoly on violence" (i.e. a government with armed police et al). If you attack the US banking system, they will stop you in quite short ord
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by Jetrel 5y ago
The webassembly crew is pretty much doing exactly this. They've worked pretty closely with the folks who designed java bytecode, to try to learn from their institutional knowledge (repeating what they felt they did well, but learning f
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by Jetrel 5y ago
In my experience, most companies I've worked at are pretty slim with the background checks (in fact, having been given out as a primary reference on many of my friends/coworker's resumes), I get almost no contacts/calls
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by Jetrel 5y ago
It's not really a strawman considering it's EXACTLY what most companies are trying to do: make programmers fungible across domains. Critically; they're doing this because they typically have no visibility into these skillse
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah, most of them did; especially most of the holdovers from the 80s. This was one of the big draws to pulling down "mainframe/workstation" systems like unix (or what MS did by hiring what IIRC was the VMS team to build NT
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by Jetrel 5y ago
My recollection of (Apple's) System 7 is that it really got bitten by the rise of programs running dynamic code (i.e. Netscape). When everyone was operating on relatively pre-vetted apps, which had their buffer overflows cleaned up,
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Coming from the midwest as well, I've also got a take on it: The ideal political capital is being the person who saves other people from embarrassing "good faith" screwups. Cynically, bad-faith ones (where they're being
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by Jetrel 5y ago
I also suspect there's another MAJOR upside to cameraderie: cooperation rather than competition. A huge factor with academics, and with anyone in high-skill professions (critically those where your boss does not know how to do your job
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by Jetrel 5y ago
I mean, it's a fair take to argue that CEO-ship ought to be meritocratic, in the sense of only hiring extremely exceptional individuals. If you're just an average jobsworth doing a merely 'decent' job, you shouldn'
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Someone beat me to the punch, but yeah, at this point, C barely works the way actual computers work under the hood. It works the way a PDP-11 does, and most modern computers have been forced (even at the CPU level) to basically act as PDP-
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by Jetrel 5y ago
The thing that made Jobs consequential was the old Henry Ford-ism of "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they'd have asked for a faster horse." Dennis Ritchie did a damn fine job making what he did, but what he did wa
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Honestly it's always been an implicit "threat of violence". I.e. it's an olive branch being extended to the powers that be, telling them that "we're willing to remain civil, for the time being, but we're
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Internet business got trapped in advertising due to the whole classic phenomenon of "bad money chases out good money". I.e. a similar example lies in businesses funded by VC runways for several years ; even though those business
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by Jetrel 5y ago
To be fair; the real comparisons they're making are to things like Ruby, Rust, Python, etc. These are all languages that have done extraordinary jobs at evangelism and at setting up communities that are structured to have friendly, no
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Indeed. All breakthrough techs initially suck. They're a shitty, borderline-useless, but FUNCTIONAL breakthrough. And that's really the thing - they might be a joke, but if they do work, and if they're just barely usable f
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by Jetrel 5y ago
The difference is that the discord UI conveys information that is strictly missing in other UIs. By having a separate voice channel, it's implicitly broadcasting "these people want to talk". It's also broadcasting who
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by Jetrel 5y ago
You're getting a lot of downvotes for a good reason. The opposite of this: "code is much harder to read than it is to write" is held up as a ten-commandments style law of programming. Here's why: When you write code, yo
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Unfortunately, this very particular pair of meanings is always going to be sabotaged by hyperbole. Not the words, but the actual meanings . Whatever word we have for "this is [truthfully] [adjective]", they're always going
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by Jetrel 5y ago
To speak to a "long perspective" on the issue, that was one of the things that scared people when electronics moved to integrated circuits. There's no "knowhow to keeping them alive". Once the magic smoke gets let
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by Jetrel 5y ago
It's worth pointing out that even by most "legitimately" gendered issues relating to careerism, tech caters pretty well to women's needs. A lot of women do, in fact, want to pursue motherhood, and tech is one of the eas
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by Jetrel 5y ago
> If you don't use either Vim or Emacs... that's harder. Honestly, it's full on "hacker heresy", but who would, at this point? That's part of the disconnect. The current generation (hell, the last 3-4 gener
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah, most likely the only "open source" stuff that's got legal issues there would be GPL stuff - a large set to be sure, but not the full umbrella of "open source".

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