ascendantlogic

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by ascendantlogic 3y ago
These are very large corporations with very large profits to protect. It's awful to think about but not surprising in the least.
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by ascendantlogic 3y ago
Bitcoin was originally meant to be used as a currency. Ethereum was meant to be the oil that powered the smart contract network. I guess the question is, what matters more: the intent by the creators or what the end users choose to do with
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by ascendantlogic 3y ago
This is the crux of the endless argument. People speculate on currencies via Forex, are those securities? Is oil a security? People buy into oil, gold, etc hoping to sell later for a profit. Both the CFTC and SEC have claimed they have purv
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
A lot of "legacy" companies had businesses that were doing very well but missed the boat one or more times as new things arrived. Microsoft is a good example. Windows and Office was absolutely, positively printing money. They whif
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Literally yes. Outside of a few very basic common sense optimizations (avoid n+1 queries, use indexes liberally, maybe sprinkle some caching on heavily used endpoints) you should focus entirely on shipping features with the knowledge that y
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
>But we're still talking like $170/month Rounding error for most companies. >The extra cost is a bit of Linux sys admin which can be fully automated You are overweighting hard dollar costs and underweighting the value of eng
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
How about "Architecture decisions based on the needs of our company, and by extension our software, not blog posts from Hacker News"
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Security is not a binary thing. It's a spectrum and for most normal end-users having _any_ password manager is better than trying to keep all your passwords in your brain, which leads to password re-use and easy-to-guess passwords, etc
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
I don't think we'll be EV only in the "near" future but this is definitely viewed through the lens of Toyota betting the wrong way on this and now being behind the 8 ball. The first gas powered cars had lots of problems
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
It's the literal definition
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
It's amazing to me he still has his army of supporters after all this.
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Keep in mind you're arguing with engineering types about this. Over the course of my career I've come to find that a not-insignificant % of engineers value art and artistic contributions very little or not at all.
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
I've always operated on the principal that each test should be testing one logical concept. That usually translates into one concrete assertion in the test code itself, but if you need to assert multiple concrete conditions to test the
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Apple not giving you business discounts doesn't affect how critical it is to the US from economic and security standpoints.
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Individually the lines are verbose but are usually readable. But once you start talking about hundreds or thousands of lines across tens or hundreds of files the sheer volume of the text is what starts leading to convolution. What pushes it
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
I wrote a lot of Java in the 2000's and the early 2010's. The verbosity of the language was always my #1 complaint. The amount of stuff I had to type vs the productivity of those lines was always out of whack. Maybe it's bett
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
It's super easy to buy a gun online. The part that is not easy is getting around the step where it has to be shipped to someone or something (company) that has a federal firearms license, which then is supposed to perform the backgroun
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
who are these poor souls in the "Under $20" and "$20-$40" range?
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
I once attempted to implement HATEOAS many years ago after one of our senior devs got a bug up their ass about it. It was a disaster. Our clients weren't going to suddenly sprout new functionality to consume the discoverable endpoints
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Prior to social media it was demonstrably harder for people with "extreme" (for all values of extreme) views to spread their message and find like-minded people. Not impossible, but definitely not nearly as easy as it is now. Soci
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
I'm shocked I tell you. Shocked that they would collaborate with the growing police state and just enable dragnet surveillance.
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Honestly this would be good for everyone if the primary platform for misinformation and long form arguments about politics with family members went away. All I really care about is seeing people's kids and pets and memes. Everything el
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
> Crypto got wiped out Crypto is in another winter cycle. We've seen this before. The interest rate/inflation story had a part to play in that but this is a normal market cycle for this sector. > now the tech and real estate
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Without the "ML". The goal is to resell the software, not recruit people below you to resell and recruit more people, etc.
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Why is that a downside? Magsafe was one of the best things about the older, early-2010's Macbooks.
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Ah yes, the "this time is different" crowd. Toss your prediction in with the rest. https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
Sounds like another crypto winter, which we've seen multiple times at this point.
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
But they almost always are a lot lower during bear cycles.
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
You mean flash back a few years to the pre-pandemic era? I think its safe to say the ripples of that particular boulder hitting global financial markets will be felt for decades to come.
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by ascendantlogic 4y ago
> I mean everything is a bit oversold right now on negative emotions, both in the crypto space and in the stock markets. I like your optimism but we are still well above what most people would consider reasonable valuations. That said th

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