JofArnold

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by JofArnold 4y ago
Engineering manager here. A significant fraction of the people we've been interviewing has asked for hybrid. All 15 engineers in our office prefer it, as well as the 60-odd sales, marketing etc. Working purely remote can be effective f
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by JofArnold 4y ago
While I get your point, zkSNARKS preceded blockchain by two decades.
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by JofArnold 4y ago
You're so right about the cereal as that has indeed happened! But then my outlook on life in general is "savor what you can, because tomorrow it could be gone". So while it's a pain when do stop making it, I do take time
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by JofArnold 4y ago
This is me and my mum. To the point where if I find something I really like which might not last more than a few years, I buy two. This occurs in many domains from breakfast cereals to shirts to bicycle tyres!
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by JofArnold 4y ago
That I guess is a big thing I can't fully understand at a deep level, not growing up in USA. Seems like hanging on to something that made sense 240 years ago. Times change. I mean, slavery was legal then... Hopefully people don't
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by JofArnold 4y ago
There are in the UK too, but much much less with time now since mass production of food is vastly more efficient and accessible. And to that point I grew up extremely poor in the 80s (thanks inflation!) and hunting with guns was crucial if
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by JofArnold 4y ago
What are guns bringing to the table that makes them so precious? At the very least they don't seem to be capable of feeding people nor preventing attempted insurrections nor preventing innocent people being killed by the authorities. I
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by JofArnold 4y ago
VCs are unfortunately, on the whole, all too discerning when it comes to Web3. It's a meme now in the community that when a VC and tokens are involved, there's a good chance they are getting preferential treatment and using the en
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by JofArnold 4y ago
My friend took a year, over 150 calls and legal intervention to get money back that HSBC stole. Obviously not the same but to say that banks are faultless just isn't true; their systems also have edge cases from which there is often li
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by JofArnold 5y ago
I really appreciate this reply as a reader too. You are absolutely right. I've done the same in the past too and you've made me aware of this.
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by JofArnold 5y ago
5k. Not 4k. It's a huge difference; 2x 1080 versus 2x 1440.
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by JofArnold 5y ago
Gatekeeping what defines art.... Not a great look even if I understand where you're coming from. But check out Cyber Brokers which is super detailed and entirely on-chain.
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by JofArnold 5y ago
Incorrect. Cyber Brokers, Chain Runners and umpteen others going back years are 100% on-chain. But the majority are either on a centralized cloud provider at worst and IPFS at best, yes.
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by JofArnold 5y ago
Small correction: RN uses their own custom JS engine Hermes.
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by JofArnold 5y ago
As an engineering manager this is a difficult one. A developer who's excellent at leetcode really shines; it's a strong positive signal that correlates more often than not with someone who writes clean, easy-to-read and fast code.
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by JofArnold 5y ago
You're right! PB! I'll correct
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by JofArnold 5y ago
~Gmail: acquisition~ EDIT: nope, I remembered wrong; PB did it while at Google. GSuite: a product of several acquisitions Android: acquisition YouTube: acquisition Nest: acquisition Sure, they may have improved them. But definitely not spaw
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by JofArnold 5y ago
I'm aware which is why I said "very very recently"* (I just so happen to have checked when Tweeting this the other day so it was fresh in my mind https://twitter.com/JofArnold/status/1478071171597975
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by JofArnold 5y ago
> This is a lie. Most NFTs which sell for millions use IPFS, Arweave, Filecoin or others for decentralised storage of data Nope - do your research better before you use the word "lie". BAYC did it until very very recently for i
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by JofArnold 5y ago
Congrats - that's really cool. It's a super interesting space for sure and I'm pretty convinced it's the future of blockchain games. If anyone's interested, we built a 3D Dungeon crawler with ZKPs as part of a hacka
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by JofArnold 5y ago
Huel?
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by JofArnold 5y ago
This is 100% true but even worse I think; a lot of people talk about blockchain being censorship-resistant... But what if Intel/AMD/Apple/NVIDIA are forced to have hardware blocks for specific wallet addresses for instance?
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by JofArnold 5y ago
I wish more people said this: P2P is discussed far less than it should be, in my opinion. Blockchains have their uses - some of which I think offer real value - but from both a utility and ideological standpoint, if many people in "web
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by JofArnold 5y ago
Thanks. It was a very fast last-minute hack and the frontend code's a bit buggy! Plus, we need to make some major changes to how it works since at present some of the decisions were made to promote the Chainlink integration make it muc
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by JofArnold 5y ago
In addition to Nalin's great sudoku example elsewhere, here's a couple of my repos that use SNARKS: 1) Some experiments/learnings https://github.com/JofArnold/zkp-learning-in-public 2) A blockchain-based
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by JofArnold 5y ago
tldr: you can enjoy ZKPs without blockchain --- Adding to OP's comment a bit of context: As someone deep into ZKPs related to blockchain I should note that ZKPs have nothing to do with blockchain in their origin; the cryptography behin
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by JofArnold 5y ago
My partner took 10 years doing her PhD thesis part time. It was very hard for us both - especially close to the end. I'm 100% with you on this.
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by JofArnold 5y ago
There's some truth in what you say. But then same also applies to a lot of tech startups for instance (we could pick many but let's say Thaneros)... in fact it's true of the wider financial system. Just check out the latest H
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by JofArnold 5y ago
How is this "someone else's database"? It's literally a 100% public permissionless ledger. If I store an NFT in Facebook's database is that not "someone else's database" by definition.
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by JofArnold 5y ago
> You're buying an expensive entry in someone else's database Nope, you're buying a non-fungible token on a public ledger where the data and association with a specific address (or addresses) can be read without permission

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