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by cryptica 5y ago
Nothing ever goes wrong. A multi-million dollar hack is called a 'minor hiccup.' Missing a deadline by 5% of an entire lifetime is called 'a small delay' or 'a misunderstanding'. If they deliver within 10 gener
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by cryptica 5y ago
Are you telling us that one of the most popular cryptocurrency projects on the face of the planet which has access to thousands of the so-called 'brightest engineering minds' on the planet, after over 5 years, with billions of $ o
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by cryptica 5y ago
Money is the most important thing in life. It's always people who have money who say it's not important. But then when you ask them to give you or loan you or invest in you a tiny amount of their money, suddenly they act as if it&
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by cryptica 5y ago
Not everyone has the luxury to engage in open source for fun. For some people, open source is the only way for them to compete with big tech and their army of marketers. It's a way to reduce margins to 0 in order to have any chance to
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by cryptica 5y ago
Key exchange would be great though as the ability to securely share secret keys could then allow switching to a symmetric key encryption algorithm (these are usually simpler and more efficient). I believe RSA is mostly only used for key exc
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by cryptica 5y ago
I still don't understand why the majority of people haven't switched to Ubuntu or Kubuntu... They're quite user-friendly nowadays and they perform amazingly well. I often go for months without restarting my Kubuntu laptop. It
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This resonates with my own experience. It's an interesting perspective which requires a re-definition of the word 'elite'. I think the root of the problem is that value creation and value capturing are independent from each o
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by cryptica 5y ago
I personally hate everything about the transpilation step; the time it takes (slows down dev-test iteration by a lot), the source mapping aspect, debugging in a live production environment (I hate having to debug transpiled/mangled Jav
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by cryptica 5y ago
TBH, I feel like the TypeScript movement is driven mostly by junior developers. The software industry has always been like this; young, loud-mouthed junior devs come in thinking that they know better than all the senior people... They ridic
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> Static typing obviates most runtime type checking, which your module boundaries need to be doing I've heard this argument many times but it's misleading. Well written functional tests will be able to identify type mismatc
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> As we know from the history every of every other speculative mania, popular delusions based on the madness of crowds cannot sustain themselves indefinitely. Madness such as governments printing trillions of dollars of fiat to artificia
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IMO every project should be kept as small as possible. Large code bases are anti-patterns. It's almost always desirable to break up functionality into independent modules. If the modules are sufficiently independent (loose coupling), t
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by cryptica 5y ago
This is true, especially for experienced coders, it's not very common for you to mix up types. Especially if your code is well written; high cohesion, loose coupling. Loose coupling means that you have simple interfaces which accept si
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by cryptica 5y ago
If TypeScript becomes natively interpreted (instead of transpiled), I might actually consider using it for my personal projects. In the meantime, I don't use it because I cannot stand the build, bundling step and the problematic debugg
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by cryptica 5y ago
It just sucks that development community decided to double down on bulky build tools instead of trying to optimize server environments to leverage advances like HTTP2 server push to optimistically serve dependencies without latency. It&#x27
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by cryptica 5y ago
I lived in different cities in Australia (which I assume is similar to the US)... Schools there are full of bullies and cliques (if that's an indication of how cruel the average person is). Actually I did meet a 'soulmate' ev
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I think even this won't work. Friendship just doesn't work in this system. Everyone is just looking for an opportunity to take whatever you have; even if they have more than you overall, people are greedy; they will find the one t
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's a well known fact that domestication of wild animals such as wolves causes the head and brain size to shrink over multiple generations. It's probably the same thing happening in humans. It would be interesting to measure the
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's so strange that they did this because YAML looks nothing like JSON. The entire point of a standard is to impose constraints to ensure that different people will do things in the same way... That's how you achieve compatibilit
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by cryptica 5y ago
Fair enough. Also, a crime can be legal if most people in the government and in the judicial system don't understand the mechanics of how it works.
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by cryptica 5y ago
If big corporations which have exposure to billions of users/customers were prosecuted for every crime they committed, they would simply not exist. The odds of committing a crime against someone are almost 100%. Every decision they mak
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by cryptica 5y ago
In the early days of the internet, search engines (and there were multiple, not just one major one) would show a broader variety of results so it was easier to stumble upon new interesting stuff and small, growing communities. Nowadays, all
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by cryptica 5y ago
Martin Fowler's blog: https://martinfowler.com/architecture/
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At least 329 million Americans will die over the next 100 years no matter what we do; that's 3.29 million per year on average. So far less than 800K people died from COVID19 in almost 2 years... That's 400K per year; ~12% of all d
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's important to point out that many scientists were called conspiracy theorists by mainstream media after predicting (long before the vaccine rollouts) that mass vaccinations would cause the virus to mutate faster and that we'd
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I launched 5 major software projects over the last 15 years. The first one was a failure; the big lesson I learned from that failure was that I couldn't salvage or re-purpose any of the code; aside from educational value, all that work
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I believe that the intelligence of a system can be greater than the sum of its parts. The individuals don't necessarily need to explicitly conspire together. All it takes is one or two influential people behind the scenes who see a pos
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Sure, nothing against this perspective and glad that this line was mentioned. My main point is that this kind of article doesn't deserve to be front page HN since it mostly distracts people away from more important things. I find these
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Wow I just saw a headline to a far less interesting article about Google and Facebook conspiring together to bypass some restrictions of the Apple App Store... I thought this 'Jedi Blue' was the same thing so I almost did not clic

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