alazoral

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by alazoral 10mo ago
It’s not clear to me how this idea, a decentralised place where you can access a lot of different stores, isn’t just the web. There’s a lot of mature alternatives for running web based ecommerce storefronts. The value of Amazon and other ma
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by alazoral 1y ago
What I find is everything that I find interesting is cyclic, and so Rust has poor ergonomics for writing things I’m interested in. This is sad for me because it has the best compiler errors in the business. If I could get Swift with Rust’s
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by alazoral 1y ago
I think it’s too easy to get anthropocentric and 1D about intelligence. That dog understands things about the world, important things, that mere humans like Bernoulli could never even dream of.
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by alazoral 2y ago
If I was watching a gritty crime film and one of the criminals said “alright lads, looks like it time to do some pig butchering”, my assumption would be they would be ambushing some cops. If the next scene was them setting up a Facebook pro
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by alazoral 2y ago
Some of it makes coding much faster, easier and safer in larger teams. Typescript massively increases velocity and code quality. React and other front end frameworks let teams do component-driven development and patterns like atomic design
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by alazoral 5y ago
A lot of open source software gains automatic trust by virtue of the fact you could check it out, read the source, and compile it yourself. This possibility stands in for the fact that you probably can't - you probably can't actua
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by alazoral 5y ago
Linux, and all free software, is at its heart a gift economy. It's all about making amazing things, solving problems, and working together as a community to make everything better together so everyone can have better choices. So my fee
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by alazoral 6y ago
My guy, this is Epic Games. They make Fortnite, one of the most popular pieces of media ever, with billions of dollars of revenue a year from selling avatar hats to hundreds of millions of users. You don't have to worry about their inv
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by alazoral 8y ago
I would disagree with your assertion there that bureaucracies are terminal. Historically, military dictatorships tend to overthrow bureaucracies, while democracies overthrow military dictatorships and bureaucracies subsume democracies. Each
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by alazoral 9y ago
Wrong question. Community is your market, and crucially, you. You should have found the community first. Then, if you're truly part of it, you'll know what your product should be. If you're asking the question you're ask