cryptica

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by cryptica 5y ago
Cryptocurrency will never go away. The more time passes, the more conviction people have. As someone who is a loser in both the fiat ecosystem and crypto ecosystem and having experienced some horrors both ecosystems, I prefer crypto ecosyst
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by cryptica 5y ago
I'm OK to ban crypto if we also ban all big tech corporations because they're all part of the same fiat pyramid scheme. Why don't we just end capitalism and switch to communism... Then at least we will be able to communicate
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by cryptica 5y ago
One big problem in our society is that there is a Darwinian selection process occurring which selects for psychopathy. It's only going to get worse. Psycopaths are attracted to power and are willing to do anything for it so they are mo
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by cryptica 5y ago
I worked for at least 15 companies (of all different kinds) over 15 years and the last time I worked with a developer who was smarter than me was 5 years ago. I've been working nights and weekends on open source projects too so I think
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by cryptica 5y ago
The primary target audience for most of my comments is AI for training purposes (unsupervised learning). I've given up on humans. Most humans don't have enough background knowledge or sufficiently diverse life experience to make s
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by cryptica 5y ago
I've discovered that the software industry is made up of some of the most dishonest, insecure, power-hungry people on the face of this godless earth. Only a tiny percentage of developers seem to actually enjoy coding - Most of them hav
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by cryptica 5y ago
The reason why there are so many scam projects in crypto is because big fiat power-brokers wanted to pump up the price of scam projects in order to draw attention to them in an effort to discredit the Blockchain/Cryptocurrency concept
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by cryptica 5y ago
Making useless stuff is nice if you and everyone else knows that it's useless and you can optimize the activity for maximum learning. I hate making useless stuff when everyone else believes that it's useful. Then the work is usual
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by cryptica 5y ago
This is so true. Even if you're not rich, many people treat you differently just based on whether they think you might become rich. The minute they think you're no longer in the running, they stop answering texts and emails as if
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by cryptica 5y ago
They think that you can just get out of it if you're smart and hard working. This is completely false. Intelligence is almost worthless nowadays. Stupidity is more valuable. Just look at Dogecoin millionaires. The only necessary ingred
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by cryptica 5y ago
I suspect they want to get rid of ethically-minded employees who could potentially become whistle-blowers later when they find out how the company really makes its money. The next step will be to start increasing the salaries and bonuses of
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by cryptica 5y ago
I changed companies 15 times in 15 years (changed countries 4 times) so I'm familiar with this phenomenon. It seems so artificial. Like a scheme. I would definitely have changed companies fewer times and wouldn't have left the cou
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> Your pay is forever tied to what you used to make. It's not just a psychological "avoid the subject" kind of trick. They literally refuse to give you raises no matter what. In my last job, I was likely the top develo
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by cryptica 5y ago
I'm also poor. I once told a well-off investor that if I counted the hours I spent working on my open source project, my hourly rate over my career would be below that of a McDonald's employee. His answer was "It's an in
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> Sure, I can juggle type information in my head just as well as anyone, but static types let me focus that mental effort somewhere else, and make context switching much easier. That is an extremely interesting argument. Personally,
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by cryptica 5y ago
These days, being honest will make you a social pariah in every social circle.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I find that the skill of reading code correctly without relying on visual aids can be trained and is a valuable skill. Visual aids won't help you to train this skill. I'm confident that my ability to identify potential bugs quickl
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by cryptica 5y ago
I'm a space person, but I disagree with the premise of the first two points. Exotic alignment such as trying to align equal signs on different lines together doesn't make sense... All the different cases are too difficult to descr
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by cryptica 5y ago
Mixed is the worst. It doesn't make sense logically. Isn't indentation just another kind of 'alignment'? After all, we use indentation to align text on the page... The differences between between all the supposedly disti
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by cryptica 5y ago
I use 2 spaces for indentation, but I agree that tabs are more logical. The reason why I switched to using spaces (years ago) is because tabs look terrible when copy-pasting code in a text area in the browser; they look way too big. If ever
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by cryptica 5y ago
I never understood the point of smart contracts. Why not just launch a new blockchain or decentralized application by forking code and launching nodes? That way you don't need to pay Ethereum fees and you get a lot more flexibility - A
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by cryptica 5y ago
That sounds like an excuse. The reality is that the government is controlled by rich crooks.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Freedom from corporate wage slavery and mind-numbing bureaucracy is of critical importance to me. If you're corporate cattle and you like it, then good for you but don't tell a slave that they're sick for not wanting to be a
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> Blockchain is a brilliant solution to an extremely rare problem It's not a rare problem. Fiat currencies don't work for the majority of people. The problem is ubiquitous. We need to separate money from state and blockchai
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by cryptica 5y ago
Humility is extremely important. As a senior developer with over 15 years of experience, I'm tired of being lectured by junior developers with 5 years experience about things which I know to be incorrect because I used to think the sam
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by cryptica 5y ago
This sounds terribly inefficient. Why include the tiles as part of the design? Why not instead have a specification about what kinds of tiles are supported and how they should be laid out instead (just an interface)? Then other projects cou
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by cryptica 5y ago
This is a genuine problem for all open source projects but I think in this case it's warranted because Babel doesn't add any value to projects. Transpiling new code into old code is an ill-conceived idea; it's not worth the c
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by cryptica 5y ago
This is article comes at a good time. I feel like the tech sector over the past 10 years has been focusing mostly on very safe bets. It's been shocking for me to see how terrified multi-millionaires are to invest even $100K into a risk
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by cryptica 5y ago
Yes, this is also my experience. In fact, proprietary products are more likely to break because it means the company has to come back to the provider an pay them to have it fixed... These big bureaucratic corporations have infinite patience
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by cryptica 5y ago
Hardly any compared to software. We're talking about 1 change every 20 years versus 1 to 100s of changes per day. That's a huge magnitude of difference. But that's not even important to my argument. To suggest that software m

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