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by exdsq 5y ago
I wish it took 3 - 5 minutes, I’ve built it projects that are far longer than that. I know this isn’t just me though, because the GHC build documentation tells you to go read stuff for a while as it builds. Longest I can remember is 2 hours
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by exdsq 5y ago
Yes, working on cryptographic and consensus protocols is very similar to punching babies https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by exdsq 5y ago
Sure - if you go to other sites Overclockers you'll see this is the suggested route (and has been for years). "Pay your dues" in tech support. I don't know why more people aren't suggested this route - you're p
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by exdsq 5y ago
This... sounds extreme. I've worked in tech since 2014 following the "trade route" method of starting in IT support in a small city in England, through QA, and then into software development. I've been a developer since
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by exdsq 5y ago
Because anything related to crypto is immediately judged the same way among HN users - all crypto/web3 projects are inherently bad
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by exdsq 5y ago
I'm glad that the RPi was successful enough to get an IPO, maybe it'll incentivize other entrepreneurs to start similar projects in the UK while showing investors they can get a decent exit funding projects like educational electr
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by exdsq 5y ago
Huh, cool! This is like Python being older than Java :mindblown:. Still, old technologies can be just as risky as new ones.
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by exdsq 5y ago
The conesnsus with those who mattered to make that change was pro-Nix, but I have no idea how you'd go back to containers because by that point builds were declarative and the implementation was spread over abstractions and repositorie
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by exdsq 5y ago
This is totally fine and I like it, my worry is scope creep once it’s in. Nix repl to experiment with new languages is really cool. Reversing updates to my OS is amazing. If I could have a rule that that is the limit - personal dev environm
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by exdsq 5y ago
Thanks, this is the one! Highly recommend it, especially when you're in the HN echo chamber of new and interesting technologies
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by exdsq 5y ago
Nix can do everything and that's an issue - suddenly the CI servers, AWS deployments, build servers, testing, linting, dev package management, dev system environments, and more are all written in Nix packages. You need to write nix bin
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by exdsq 5y ago
Oh god I hope not. Having worked in > 100kloc nix environments I am completely turned off of the idea. I really really tried, I installed NixOS as my main OS and used Nix whenever I could to try and pick it up, but it's such a compl
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by exdsq 5y ago
What do you mean by "Cardano audits are really late"?
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by exdsq 5y ago
Maybe! I do trust in Cardanos robustness so there could be a move towards them if something goes wrong in an Ethereum fork, or if the fees don’t come down. However I think Ethereum may be the JavaScript of blockchain - imperfect, but the wi
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by exdsq 5y ago
I don't know when this would happen - it'd be a big deal, like a fork I think. The point is on Ethereum we might create an ERC-20 token for NewCoin that wraps it and then all of our interactions with NewCoin is via smart contracts
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by exdsq 5y ago
Cardano does have significant benefits though. For example native tokens rather than wrapping things in smart contracts saves a lot of space, computation, and expense.
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by exdsq 5y ago
They’re working on Marlowe and Blockly to reduce that barrier though. I spoke to Charles a while back and got the sense he’d have used a different language if he’d done it again.
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by exdsq 5y ago
I read criticisms about him in a few other places too. Either way - if there’s something huge to be found here it’ll be found my many teams
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by exdsq 5y ago
This isn't a peer reviewed study, it's a submitted abstract. The sole name on the paper is someone who sells psudoscience plant-based debunked theories that the majority of our health issues come from lectins. He "authors pap
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by exdsq 5y ago
Haha yeah - my flat was in Oxford and heavily subsidized so £350pm and it’s now $3k plus bills. I’ve worked remotely for the last few years so always been on six figure rates.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Uber: - "Hey, I saw a statistic that females are anxious about taking taxis at night in France. Why don't we add a feature to let people share their locations with others?" - "In London taxi drivers have to pass The Know
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by exdsq 5y ago
https://www.cisi.org/cisiweb2/cisi-website/study-with-us/fou... I believe it was this one with a slightly different name
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by exdsq 5y ago
That's fun, thank you!
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by exdsq 5y ago
I’ve been in the Bay Area for 4 months and have enjoyed it, however I’ll go back to Europe in the next few years. You can get similar salaries if you find remote jobs out here or contract in London so the main reason should be for the lifes
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by exdsq 5y ago
My first job as a dev was for a consultancy and I had to review a code base for a client to support their argument that they require a rewrite. I had no idea about any of this so googled metrics, found cyclomatic complexity, and wrote a loa
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by exdsq 5y ago
I was so excited at the prospect of Z being on the front page, but sadly the wrong one for me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation
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by exdsq 5y ago
The thing that changed my career as a software engineer, in terms of seniority & remuneration by time and effort, was by changing my efforts from learning arbitrary tech to learning the domain I worked in. Asking useful domain-related q
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by exdsq 5y ago
Interestingly their speed of 4m/s is software limited rather hardware!
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by exdsq 5y ago
I understand why people might hate the idea of using raw SQL when I suggest it then! I always assumed it’d be version controlled and 100% replicable (minus data) from sql scripts
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by exdsq 5y ago
Wait. People don't do this?

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