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by codingmyway 10y ago
I half jokingly suspect Oracle only bought Sun so they could sue Google
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Consumer apps tend to have a short expected lifetime so technical debt doesn't tend to get to compound to the point of taking more time to maintain than it would have cost to do it properly in the first place. By that point if it'
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I still don't see why Yahoo didn't stick to their original purpose of human powered search instead of buying up random companies to try anything. All they had to do was work out how to outsource the work to users. Why did they not
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I'm not saying it's necessarily cause and effect but when the people developing the products are enthusiastic and proud of the product it certainly helps.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
All they (the sales & marketing again) had to do was give devs time before opening their mouths and giving the impression that they are no longer pushing it, just as Sinofsky did with .Net and WPF. Windows phone apps were the most profi
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by codingmyway 10y ago
It might have something to do with the fact that the weaker the economy gets the more the rich get rich and people know it. Whether they recognize that it through inflating of the stock market, bonds and real estate with cheap credit or not
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by codingmyway 10y ago
That's so true. The 10x programmers are those that make everyone else's work faster and more accurate. To me the main job of a lead dev is setting up all the boring processes of build scripts, continuous deployment, package librar
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by codingmyway 10y ago
.Net apparently. https://twitter.com/JamesNK/status/752283962857234433
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I've always said sales (and marketing) was Microsoft's biggest problem. The are finally starting to be cool again as the engineers take over. The silo between Windows and development (Azure, .net etc) needs to come down fully to f
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by codingmyway 10y ago
If you step back it's amazing how many heated arguments are just about semantics. Some words have different meanings to different people and they never stop to clarify definitions. e.g. 'marriage', 'money', 'li
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by codingmyway 10y ago
As someone who took part in the initial Ether offering I was curious about the DAO hype and thankfully saw right through the bubble of naive idealism and saw the fact that slockit was behind it as being very dubious. I used the hype to sell
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Blockstream isn't competing with the blockchain. Their's is one solution to the problem and others are needed as well, the lightning network being another, which is a competitor. Competing off chain solutions to the scaling issue
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by codingmyway 10y ago
There is a back log for short periods yes, but if you pay a high enough fee your transaction will go through earlier. When things quiet down or more blocks are mined in a given time the back log goes down. It's a supply and demand issu
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Some increase is warranted but constantly increasing the block size is not scalable and the block limit incentivises the payment of fees which makes it harder spam the the network. There has to be a price for using the main bitcoin blockcha
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by codingmyway 10y ago
There needs to be incentives to maintain things otherwise decentralized projects join that graveyard. Financial incentives are what lead to centralized web. If incentivised to maintain 'nodes' that might be prevented.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
You're right in that the implicit bit extends all the way up the call stack. They aren't the same in practice, just in theory. That implicit parallel 'track' is useful in doing the Foo => Result<Foo, Error> for
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Exceptions as discriminated unions in C# http://tomasp.net/blog/2015/csharp-pattern-matching/
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by codingmyway 10y ago
In essence exceptions are an implicit variant (discriminated union) extension of the return type of a function. So a function returning T can actually return T or one of the set of Exception types.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Convincing meat eaters to convert is going to be hard but just getting McDonalds to make it special on their menu could make a vast number give it a go and once they find it to be just as good or even better, and eventually cheaper, then a
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Microtransactions will be the killer app. There is massive demand for the web economy to run off real money instead of bloated clickbait ads. There's money in it. So it will happen. Sending card details for small transactions is both i
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Upvoted for introducing me to the word footgun
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by codingmyway 10y ago
It's not that it's centralised, it's that the cost of the precedent set by a fork and rollback doesn't mean it is seen as a terminal failure.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
As 'fuel' for programming smart contracts it's still a valuable tool but it doesn't make writing those contracts easy.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
At this stage yes. That's why I don't hold ether as being solid enough yet to be a store of value, aside from the fact that it's being inflated at ~25% pa. Needs to go through these teething problems now while that is still t
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by codingmyway 10y ago
If it takes a vast majority of participants to agree, then not really. It's decentralized, not 100% immutable. Will get harder as it gets larger but at this stage it is good to still have the ability.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
I was giving it until the splitting time was up. So much idealistic naivety. Would have been interesting to watch. I'm sure there'll be more attempts at DAOs yet. Lesson learnt at least.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
The DAO lasted even less time than I thought.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Damn. Should have more than just thought about it.
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by codingmyway 10y ago
Feel a bit bad that this headline immediately said Onion to me
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by codingmyway 10y ago
IG Index has bitcoin as an instrument. The spreads are terrible though so I wouldn't recommend it. If it was easier to short DAO tokens I'd think about it.

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