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   by exdsq 5y ago

   I get paid in the EU, move it to the UK, and then send it to my US account. All in all this takes around 2 days and costs around $60. Wish I was paid in crypto and had quick $10 transactions instead (albeit offboarding it into fiat would co
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   by exdsq 5y ago

   Okay going into it more: An NFT can store on-chain metadata. A simple boolean flag would let you mark it as resellable or not. In minting the tickets you can create a validator that checks authenticity but you can check these things yoursel
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   by exdsq 5y ago

   Simple - either metadata or part of the validator
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   by exdsq 5y ago

   Don't think it's fair to call them a naive application of distributed computing principles if you look at the current research output in the area. Subset yes, but let's not underplay the genuine output on distributed and dece
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   by exdsq 5y ago

   I worked at IOHK and now work on a Parity-backed startup & wish more people had your view on the subject. Pretty tired of the HN viewpoint that people working in crypto == scammers.
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   by exdsq 5y ago

   The thing I love is the idea of atomic transactions. What does that mean? Well the transfer of a ticket for money could be a single transaction. No ticket without money, no money without ticket. Sure, you could use some tech to do this -
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   by exdsq 5y ago

   I think the most likely thing you'll see popping up is NFTs as tickets to sports games. That's one of the few NFT use-cases I really love and think makes sense.
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   by exdsq 5y ago

   I'm quite happy being a cynic in the field. Helps projects I work on stay measured. Not everyone in the web3/blockchain space is money oriented, some are interested in the technical stuff that's hard to find as easily in othe
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   by exdsq 5y ago

   I may be wrong but it looks like there are some platforms available via Azure and AWS [0]. I appreciate there's not much going on here yet, but I was wondering if it'd be like getting into ML in the early 2000s - a very high risk&
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    I went back to edit my comment before I saw yours about "more" potentially not being better so I completely agree. I'm in Palo Alto and very happy getting around on my bike or the caltrain (or renting a car for the one-offs).
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    What a thought provoking point. Advanced cities are good enough that the people who could pay for more are still happy with the same.
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    I'm appreciating some of the attempts of SQL injection https://plan.cat/~yes
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    I’ve just accepted this is true (for JS or TS). I spent years avoiding using JS but have just come to accept I need to crack on with it regardless, it’s here to stay and probably just going to grow. No point severely harming my job options
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    What’s an example?
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    Ask HN: Risks and rewards of starting to specialise in quantum programming?

    3 points by exdsq 5y ago|4 comments
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    Care to elaborate? :P What are you programming? Which languages? I'm keen to learn more!
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    Damn it
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    You’ve just given me my weekend plans, thank you very much! They have a working IBM 1401 that you can see in action too!
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    Anyone here writing quantum programs? :)
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    The obvious example for me is the chapter on tape merging
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    I've bought them and looked through it but if someone asks how they should go about learning algorithms for leetcode there are so many better options thank Knuth. That is years of effort to get through.
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    AoCP is an absurdly inefficient way to learn algorithms that 99.999% of people won’t need
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    Off topic, but I have some free time over the next year and a half and thought a fun intellectual project would be to work through the Lisp books (SICP, AIP, Theory of Metaobject Protocols, Let over Lambda, etc...). Would this actually be w
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    If you’re learning to code try build stuff (unless you enjoy project Euler style challenges - enjoyment is the priority). Trying to model the inventory system of Skyrim or something is more useful in the long run than puzzles, IMO. When you
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    I believe .NET 6 allows hot reloading, and Erlang already has that feature too
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    It’s hard to say with any 1.x versions what’ll happen come 2.x
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    It happened the other way around too. My wife's related to one-such example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Schauman of someone who assassinated a communist
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    I’m sure you can find something if you look! But most are happy with global hires so you can find one elsewhere and apply anyway, I’ve worked with several fantastic Russian devs :)
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    It’s a shame because I love invariants in Ada without the overhead of using a different programming paradigm altogether like Haskell or something
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    by exdsq 5y ago

    Anyone here using ADA for general development?