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by _xnmw 5y ago
Are you implying that note-taking is an unhealthy obsession, or coping mechanism? Pretty much every famous and successful inventor, artist, writer, or leader, from Winston Churchill to Leonardo Da Vinci left behind a copious, almost obsessi
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I have always made clones of production data on my dev machine for testing -- it has the added benefit of also regularly testing my DB backup restoration process. How else do you test and optimize SQL queries that are only slow with product
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Thanks this is really helpful, I'm planning a delicate migration to a CDN and it's a tough choice. Cloudflare just seems like "an everything machine" from their marketing website, I'm struggling to understand how I
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I don't understand, what is the advantage of Cloudflare over Fastly or Akamai if caching is not your biggest priority? Does Cloudflare have better DDoS protection, or something else?
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Why? Did something happen that I missed? Is this in reaction to Russia's proposed ban on crypto?
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Are we in a bubble?
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Are you happy with Aurora Serverless so far? Is it really the "painless scaling" it's made out to be? I'm really hesitant to use anything other than self-hosted Postgres with full control, because I'm always afraid
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by _xnmw 5y ago
MLK was very different from BLM. I say that as a black person myself. MLK spoke about American greatness and American dignity and accorded the highest respect to the Founding Fathers, whereas BLM-aligned folks tend to trash these topics a
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Anyone who thinks they don't need a relational database eventually ends up reinventing and rewriting aspects of an RDBMS, except badly. You're just kicking the can down the road.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I actually use 4 different todo apps, and a paper notebook. The medium is the message, and the tool is the workflow. Different tools enable different kinds of thinking. Also if you have an ever-growing mountain of tasks, you're doing i
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by _xnmw 5y ago
This is where capitalism goes off the rails. Instead of investing $250m into making the power grid more secure and reliable, they choose to invest in profiting off disaster.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Some abstractions are worth it, some are madness. The only way to know for sure is to actually try it, and gain years of experience in a particular paradigm. I built my first raw PHP and vanilla JS web application SaaS about 15 years ago. S
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I'm a webdev, I've done nothing but full-stack web development for the past 10 years, and I mostly agree with this guy. I hate Electron garbage, the slowness is infuriating. I hate SPAs and React, it's unnecessary abstraction
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by _xnmw 5y ago
If I give up computers in the evening and alarm clocks in the morning, this type of sleep cycle actually happens to me quite naturally. I prefer it, actually, just a hard habit to keep in the modern world.
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Gold doesn't make false claims about being "decentralized" while being anything but. Gold also has actual industrial uses outside of simply being a store of value.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
The risk is now "priced in" to our consciousness. Back when it first started, covid was a big scary unknown risk to take for simply going outside and interacting with people. Now, it's a well-known risk, and people are willin
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Explicitly misrepresenting your intentions would be fraud though. I'm not talking about a company that intended to go big, but didn't quite take off. I'm talking about a founder who never intended to go big (keep a small boot
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Exactly, so if I apply to YC while intending to go big, but not raise additional funding rounds, am I defrauding them with a bad-faith application?
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by _xnmw 5y ago
If you never intend to raise again after YC, I'm pretty sure that would be defrauding them. YC expects that you build VC-scale companies which require several rounds of additional funding, anything else is a failure, if I understand co
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Question for YC: if a solo founder fully intends never to take additional funding after YC, is that considered defrauding YC (or at least a bad faith application)? I thought YC only invests in companies which it expects to go "VC-scale
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by _xnmw 5y ago
The full $500k is upfront. Quote: > Simply put, we’re giving the company money now but at terms you’ll negotiate with future investors.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Ethereum has been around since 2013. It's time to stop claiming "this is broken but we just need more time to fix it". Nearly 10 years later Ethereum still doesn't have a single app (or dApp) with more than a million dai
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> A Ponzi Scheme is where the sum of all investor's reported account values exceed the total value of assets held by the institution. Which is exactly what Tether, other stablecoins, and a lot of shady centralized exchanges did. The
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I agree the wording is a little vague, but now you're just being pedantic. Her point still stands. "Freeze exchange of tokens" doesn't have to mean "stop the Bitcoin network from operating", it could also mean
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by _xnmw 5y ago
If you have a specific criticism of the article, you should make a specific quote and make your counterargument.
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The writer understands the difference clearly. Literally a heading in the article: "First, a note on the theoretical vs. the actual".
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We have words for such things. Anything which is NOT what it claims to be, while soliciting money, is by definition a "scam". A specific kind of sophisticated scam works by paying out older investors using money gained from new in
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Alright, time to start committing `node_modules` to my git repo. It'll have the added benefit of reproducible builds.
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There are Spectre/Meltdown exploits done in JavaScript, on the browser. You do NOT want to turn off mitigations unless you're in a Faraday cage.
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As a person who grew up without a television at home (I was homeschooled in Canada), this is strikingly obvious. Even the differences in mentality and worldview between those who grew up watching American TV shows and those who didn't

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