dwgebler

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by dwgebler 16d ago
Thanks, I've seen you on the leaderboard almost daily, I'm glad you're enjoying it. I keep making improvements to the site and public user profiles with stats and rankings is something I'm considering, but I've gone
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by dwgebler 26d ago
Try now. If it isn't working, please let me know if there's any specific error you're seeing
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Show HN: Break 5, the addictive, free 5 minute, daily word game(break5.co.uk)
4 points by dwgebler 26d ago|5 comments
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Geblang 1.15 – the ergonomic, statically typed language(github.com)
2 points by dwgebler 4mo ago|0 comments
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Geblang – static typed, interpreted language written in Go(github.com)
3 points by dwgebler 4mo ago|0 comments
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Geblang – I built my own programming language(davegebler.com)
1 points by dwgebler 4mo ago|0 comments
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Mistakes you make building software and how to avoid them(davegebler.com)
2 points by dwgebler 3y ago|0 comments
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by dwgebler 4y ago
It's not that there's anything inherently wrong with multiple assertions in a unit test, it's that it's often a smell you're testing multiple behaviours in a single test - which is the thing you should avoid.
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by dwgebler 4y ago
It's not going to happen. I'd love the UK to rejoin the EU but there isn't the political will to do, either here or in the EU27. Remember too it only takes any one of the remaining constituent nations to veto any membership c
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by dwgebler 4y ago
Okay, so just take "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software" out of MIT and call it the Do Whatever You Want Licence. You're not obliged as
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by dwgebler 4y ago
For me, as a (granted very minor) contributor to some open source, I couldn't care less about attribution. The ethos of open source is specifically about sharing stuff (probably for free) for the benefit of everyone, take a penny, leav
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by dwgebler 4y ago
You don't need to license it, you can just publish it with a declaration that as the author, you are releasing your work in to the public domain. However, in terms of licensing I believe MIT is the most permissive.
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by dwgebler 4y ago
> Maybe most people were voting on this because they think it's right or wrong, not because it says anything new or interesting (I don't see that it does). There's probably some truth in this, in respect of the voting. I c
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by dwgebler 4y ago
> Nobody in Web3 is suggesting you hold all of your assets in a single private key that you physically carry to a restaurant I'm not suggesting that, either. It's a metaphor. In the metaphor, we're not talking about crypto
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by dwgebler 4y ago
Hi, author here. So the first thing is as something meant to be an engaging (though casual) read and one which is targeted at an audience who might not all be tech buffs, of course there's some simplification, glossing over some things
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by dwgebler 4y ago
You raise a good point. As a sceptic of this space, I would counter the UX issue you mention - which is a huge hurdle for any larger scale adoption of blockchain - will realistically only be solved by billion-dollar enterprise involvement,
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by dwgebler 4y ago
Should I just put a Paypal pay button? Probably, yes. A lot of businesses big and small do this, and they're not in violation of any tax or other laws. Plus you get paid in actual money.
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by dwgebler 4y ago
I am saying there's nothing (or very little) interesting or novel in blockchain, yes. I mean that's literally in the article. a huge ecosystem built on what is in reality a simple data structure which is neither particularly nove
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by dwgebler 4y ago
Tbh I'm kind of happy for my VPS it's off the front page now.
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by dwgebler 4y ago
I wrote it, it's just an opinion piece on my personal blog. No grift; what do you think I'm doing, selling the post as an NFT?
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Web 3.0 – The Great Con(davegebler.com)
182 points by dwgebler 4y ago|217 comments
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I tried GitHub Copilot and it's the best thing ever(davegebler.com)
2 points by dwgebler 4y ago|0 comments
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DocLite – PHP NoSQL database built on SQLite(github.com)
1 points by dwgebler 6y ago|0 comments
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Building rich web applications with desktop notifications | HybridCluster(hybridcluster.com)
3 points by dwgebler 13y ago|0 comments