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by erikbye 5y ago
Exactly. And to the critics in this thread, a thing is not necessarily faulty because you fail to understand it.
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by erikbye 5y ago
And here's the "oh so complex" contract in question, all 60 lines. contract WETH9 { string public name = "Wrapped Ether"; string public symbol = "WETH"; uint8 public decimals = 18;
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by erikbye 5y ago
Don't judge crypto by one person's poor explanation of how smart contracts and wrapped tokens work.
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Ask HN: Programming and dyslexia
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by erikbye 5y ago
What did you uninstall?
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by erikbye 5y ago
Much safer to buy SOXX.
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by erikbye 5y ago
Not the github frontpage, no. But the actual homepage points you here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBQHMnVMR41zZUZGF0bJ...
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by erikbye 5y ago
Article forgot to mention censorship. All kinds of results are censored/banned from Google. This detoriation is just as bad, maybe worse, than the one caused by paid for results or simply inaccurate results.
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by erikbye 5y ago
I find Matrix a fine substitute for IRC. Very simple to write clients and bots for. And you get modern features IRC either lack or does not do well.
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by erikbye 5y ago
Linux desktop is very big in VFX at least.
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by erikbye 5y ago
Yes, Linus said, compared to a turd, it's a work of art. Very misleading quote.
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by erikbye 5y ago
On HN we're used to seeing Show HNs like Dropbox's which turn into billion-dollar companies. So, sure, it's easy to dismiss posts like this one. But here's a 2022 challenge for everyone: Start something new and get your
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by erikbye 5y ago
Well, he does link to his personal blog, which contains a link to his LinkedIn. His motivation might be personal marketing, job hunting. Or, he just likes to share knowledge for free, some people still find joy in that, fortunately. Then th
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by erikbye 5y ago
> What I meant is that when working on certain features you will need to understand it all to implement it. That's more or less true regardless if you're soloing a project or on a team. Depending on the design. It's true,
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by erikbye 5y ago
Why would you try to "keep it all in your mind?" Document. Wiki. Code comments. Good commit messages. Etc. Use a task/issue tracker. Whether that is a text file, Trello, or whatever. Track progress.
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by erikbye 5y ago
I bet 90% came back here to comment before finishing the article, and will probably never finish it.
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by erikbye 5y ago
> Either I keep winning the lottery, or there's something at play here besides luck. Really? You have found several life-long friends at parties? How old are you? What's your definition of 'friend' in this case? How g
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by erikbye 5y ago
> I think the argument is not specifically about parties. OP and this comment's GP are both talking about parties because it's an easy way to frame a confrontation with strangers. Might be a framing device, yes. > I personal
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by erikbye 5y ago
> But some areas like modern physics or biology or medicine are inaccessible to me to create because I’m not smart enough in “calculate” part of it. Don't sell yourself so short. These are vast disciplines where a multitude of peopl
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by erikbye 5y ago
> Hint: being able to cite Plato does not make you in any way, shape, or form, more "intellectual" than the guy at the end of the bar who knows every Man U soccer game score, who scored, against whom, in which game, at what gam
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by erikbye 5y ago
> that’s why I spend most of my free time in the internet A friendly tip, spend less time "on the internet" and more time deep-diving into a narrow topic that interests you, do R&D, create. I find that many who spend much t
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by erikbye 5y ago
You're on HN, assume the more highbrow option.
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by erikbye 5y ago
> It’s far more likely that the OP is lacking in social skills. > Part of me wonders if the OP were to meet one of the authors of the books he reads at a party, would he be able to interact with them? Probably not > You’re going to
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by erikbye 5y ago
While I can resonate with the author's sentiment, his thoughts on the matter seem callow and slim. What he calls 'intellectual loneliness' smells simply of a craving for socializing with like-minded ones. Whether intellectual
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by erikbye 5y ago
Beer and pizza? Godot devs are not homeless nor live in a frat house. They have the means to buy food.
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by erikbye 5y ago
Vanilla Emacs startup time is approx. 1 second. Even with a few packages added, Emacs is ready for use in less time than VSCode.
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by erikbye 5y ago
> super-duper-liquor that you'd have to dilute yourself We have that in Norway, hjemmebrent, we just call it 9 6 (96%), aka moonshine.
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by erikbye 5y ago
No trouble, but man, how boring.
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by erikbye 5y ago
I said once a month, because if you use your computer once a month there is no point having it powered on 24/7, not economical. What happens is you power it on when you need to use it, Windows starts downloading updates in the backgrou
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by erikbye 5y ago
> I'm reminded of the old sarcastic comment that "Linux is free, if your time has no value". Wow, a thread about supply chains and you manage to take a cheap jab at Linux. In response, try running Windows on a computer you

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