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by dmitriid 4y ago
Before you come at me with pitchforks: I built commercial software with Erlang. I use functional(-style) programming in all languages that support it. I skimmed through this, and came across this gem: > If there happens to be an error, w
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> This is interesting, particularly for implementing Intl in JS engines without the mega-heavy ICU. On the contrary, every single programming language and platform should by default include ICU and provide easy bindings to its functional
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I've worked in a team of 4 (and later, of 5), and it was amazing: everything could still be communicated quickly, but you didn't feel overwhelmed if a team member was inaccessible.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It's also possible to use Bitcoin without internet access. Nowadays you can send and receive Bitcoin transactions over satellite, SMS and I think even over radio, no Internet required. All of these mean: continuous easily availabl
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I'm not sure you are replying in good faith. Come on. You started with assigning me arguments and thoughts I never said and thought. > you are still making the claim that a decentralized smart contract protocol would be bette
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Funny how out of 8 points listed, all you've latched onto a single one. Let me rewrite this on point in a single sentence "this ineffecient unenforceable bug-ridden fest that can only use the imaginary tokens can be run more effic
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Your point is that centralized financial services on sqlite is good, decentralized protocols on a blockchain is bad? Where exactly in this comment did I say that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33606218 ? > If
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Do you really feel that Uniswap is better run with sqlite on a Raspberry Pi? Literally everything I wrote applies to Uniswap. > because somebody has to own and control that database and physical device. You've missed the point
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> smart contracts are a different think, unaddressed here Let me address this, then: - they are not smart - they are not contracts - they are programs written in esoteric programming languages running on world's slowest and most ine
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Some of us are meat popsicles.
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> Solana has a slot time of 0.5 seconds and time to finality being 1 or 2 seconds. When it's not down. Which seems to happen once a month these days.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> storing value for large amounts of people in some area, in times of crisis (e.g. financial crisis, war, oppressive governments, etc). > Bitcoin is available and can be used whenever such events happen. Except the fact that bitcoin n
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> In defi exchanges you place your coins into a smart contract Oh, you mean the "smart" "contracts" (which are neither) that routinely have trivial exploitable errors that even their authors are unaware of?
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> In finance, bad actors outcompete good ones absent regulation. Not just in finance. Everywhere. With crypto we just see all this happening real fast, in real time.
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> it fails in some baffling, opaque way. It's weird that it actually fails in some ways, and constantly. But then, I myself use it only as a background music player during the week, and as a podcast player in my car, so I definite
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The developers working on Jellyfin are doing perfectly fine in their endeavors. As long as they have something to keep them above poverty line: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html (among other artic
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by dmitriid 4y ago
"Financial constraints" of a company, any company, are such that: - development costs money - workplaces cost money - people want to eat You can pay for Plex with money (Plex Pass). And while I sort of dislike them pushing their o
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Linux is primarily developed by large corporations. And there are significantly more projects that have stagnated and disappeared than those that survived.
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And that, too :) One can't simply change X dependencies that are used by Y services used by Z apps.
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> the requirements for their application are pretty straightforward. Surprisingly, not entirely straightforward. Source: working at Spotify. Should the app be better? OF COURSE. But the scenarios it can be used in can be weird and comp
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Not paying for software all but guarantees that it will be abandoned at one point. People want to eat, after all. (The dichotomy between "I must earn a gazillion dollars because I'm a senior dev" and "I will not pay mo
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/nedwards/status/1591170105505099777 me: i am listening to spotify. i press pause. macOS: i pause spotify. me: VERY good. okay, a little bit later i press play. what do you d
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> So the EU isn’t inept because they made a bad law. They are inept because they have no clue how to enforce it? The law isn't bad. The EU knows how to enforce it. > So the websites are asking the user - as the law dictates even
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> you can't replace every construction with a high rise building without destroying the city. Think of Paris or London. There's a living example of that: Stockholm. They destroyed the center of the city in the 50s-60s and repla
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> I now always choose open source over closed source but free as in beer. > They start out great but as financial constraints creep in Funny how you talk about financial constraints, and still refuse to pay for software.
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> They are both well known gaps that make integrations a pain in the ass. Funny how you keep not saying what you mean across two threads. While accusing others of being ignorant, partisan, or never using something, it looks like you&#x27
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You seem kind of confused about what people are referring to here and I don’t know if it’s out of ignorance or partisanship Ah yes. Go directly for ad hominem attacks without ever telling what exactly you mean. That will definitely hel
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> It’s lack of proper support for both the DOM and native browser events What
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Literally everything that runs in the browser is "aligned with the platform" since there's nothing but the platform that is running in the browser. Meanwhile, "the aligned with platform" lit.dev is busy reinventing
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> It is on a bad path in terms of integrating with the web platform This is some unsubstantiated claim

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