cryptica

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by cryptica 6y ago
Wait till the price of Bitcoin, crypto and other so-called 'speculative assets' start hyperinflating and we'll see who is really being scammed.
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by cryptica 6y ago
If using your 'reputation' to hype up projects for personal profit is illegal, then they ought to lock up every tech executive on the planet. That said, I wouldn't complain if they did... Executive salaries and bonuses are al
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by cryptica 6y ago
As someone with a pragmatic, visual mind, I rely entirely on this kind of reasoning in order to understand and apply math. For example: - Multiplication is repeated addition. - Power is repeated multiplication. - The square of a number can
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> If you do try modularize JavaScript, you're going to need a compilation chain to package it all together - so you're not getting away from that. That's not always the case on the front end (it's still possible t
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by cryptica 6y ago
It doesn't make sense to say: 2 apples + 3 apples = 5 apples This confuses a lot of people when they later learn algebra and believe that it is equivalent to: 2a + 3a = 5a Both of these equations look correct at face value but the crit
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by cryptica 6y ago
This is incorrect. This is just repeating popular rhetoric. Well designed projects are broken up into manageable, individually testable modules... So codebase size is an anti-pattern to begin with. As for time, you think waiting 15 addition
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by cryptica 6y ago
TypeScript is unnecessary. Type incompatibility is not a big problem at all... It's the easiest kind of bug to find and fix. The simplest tests will typically catch those bugs even when the tests are not explicitly looking for them. On
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by cryptica 6y ago
They mean that people who have been back and forth multiple times over many years don't see the value in TypeScript. This is totally consistent with my 15 years of experience working on many different complex projects and having gone b
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by cryptica 6y ago
I have 15 years experience and I agree with you completely. The TS propaganda is so intense that I'm seriously wondering if Microsoft is paying people to shill TypeScript... I just can't figure out why they would do this but the d
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> However, when I moved to my current role, working on JavaScript was not a choice, as all the apps I was going to work on, were written in TypeScript Classic stockholm syndrome. It sucks but I have to use it to survive so now I love
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by cryptica 6y ago
True. People never cease to underestimate the value of capturing people's attention. Strange considering that attention is the only thing which gives these things any value at all in the first place.
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by cryptica 6y ago
The hardest part for me was convincing my partner that price is not equal to value. It took me a decade of arguments and constant proofs to even begin to convince my partner that you can almost always find much better value for much less mo
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by cryptica 6y ago
I see TypeScript more as a bandaid patch which solves small problems but causes bigger future problems than it solves. TypeScript and its many dependencies add to the kinds of compatibility problems you allude to. I'm a strong believer
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by cryptica 6y ago
Agreed, 10K hours is not enough to become an expert in coding for example. You need at least 40K hours with many different languages, companies and projects to become a senior developer. I did 44K hours in 15 years working for around 15 dif
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by cryptica 6y ago
I'm only 31 now but it seems I've almost done as many hours as Stephen Wolfram or Donald Knuth. I started coding at 14 and have been coding 8 hours per day on average including weekends. I often code at night too. At least 44K hou
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by cryptica 6y ago
You shouldn't discount people as 'descending into madness'. There is a genuine reason why they feel the way they do. We are at a critical point in world history whereby the global monetary system is deteriorating and the mone
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by cryptica 6y ago
I can relate to the point about feeling 'unheard' on Twitter. It feels like the hierarchy of publishers and subscribers has already been established and there's nothing that can be done to change it. IMO, the real purpose of
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by cryptica 6y ago
Advertising was never as lucrative as it is today and big data is not as useful as the corporate narrative wants us to think. What's really going on behind the scenes is massive scale credit laundering of newly printed fiat money. That
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by cryptica 6y ago
When I see this, I think communism is inevitable. So much injustice has been done. How can the system possibly self-correct in a fair way without some radical intervention? The only way to make it fair would be to abolish property rights an
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by cryptica 6y ago
Haha I also got tricked a few times by this sort of thing. One of the ones I got wrong was there was a comment which said '// end of for loop' after every closing brace of every 'for' loop and I thought that th
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by cryptica 6y ago
I was always able to correctly identify GPT2 but on a few occasions, I misidentified human-written code as being written by GPT2. Usually when the code was poorly written or the comments were unclear. GPT2's code looks like correct cod
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by cryptica 6y ago
Math and physics are a tangled mess so it's not surprising that mathematicians and physicists write code which looks like a tangled mess. Mathematicians and physicists are trained to handle ambiguous concepts and they can work with wei
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by cryptica 6y ago
> But we can assume that manufacturer has no incentives to make incorrect devices to harm the network. Whenever I hear about ideas to use hardware to ensure that some fact about the real world is accurate or to act as some kind of incorr
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by cryptica 6y ago
Bitcoin demonstrates the importance of first-mover advantage. It's one of the worst and most inefficient cryptocurrencies in existence but because it was the first, it's the most valuable. The world would be much better off with a
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by cryptica 6y ago
I worked for a cryptocurrency project which was using my open source project as one of the main components and the price of that cryptocurrency dropped in price by about 99% from its peak... Thousands of anonymous people lost huge sums. I w
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's really very simple. All the debt must be paid back by diluting everyone's salaries through future inflation which will create even more debt. If you're a salary earner and not a capital owner (I.e. earn passive income fr
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by cryptica 6y ago
Facebook is not an advertising company. They're a parasitic revenue laundering company. They feed off the cashflow of soon-to-be-bankrupt startups as part of giant global VC-fueled pyramid money laundering scheme. Founders get paid to
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by cryptica 6y ago
Sorry I don't meet your intelligence level... clownpenis_fart.
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's very relevant. In fact I would argue that type systems only address the simplest possible errors and do absolutely nothing about the most complex, time-consuming errors such as those related to unpredictable state mutations caused
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by cryptica 6y ago
My experience with drug users in the workplace is that the drugs make them seem more empathetic in a superficial way but in fact reduce their real empathy in the sense that they're less likely to help others in need; when they do help

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