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by felipeccastro 8y ago
“Mental overhead is greatly reduced when you can assume that your data structures are immutable”. I’ve been reading lots of articles claiming that but I still haven’t understand how that’s so. If you have fifty functions all acting on the s
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Installing PWAs as standalone desktop apps (2018)(howtogeek.com)
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by felipeccastro 8y ago
What you describe looks like the "install PWA" (Progressive Web Apps) feature coming to Chrome. It is available already in Chrome 72 if you enable a flag (#enable-desktop-pwas) - then, when visiting a PWA site (try https:/&#
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by felipeccastro 8y ago
This looks somewhat familiar with the centralization vs decentralization debate in tech. It seems the network effects benefits don't apply only for tech products, but for cities as well. While there are many efforts in overcoming those
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by felipeccastro 8y ago
That was very informative, thanks! I was having the same impression about Ethereum, that the ecosystem was becoming wider and ever more complex, but still not very practical to actually use. How does Stellar compare to EOS? AFAIK EOS uses t
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by felipeccastro 8y ago
I find the idea intriguing, but it's not clear to me from reading the site what is it for. What cool things one can do with this Node-OS that wouldn't be possible/easy with another Linux? Also, what's the story for GUI a
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by felipeccastro 8y ago
I agree, honestly the error handling alone has always been the main reason I never used Go. Yes, I knew there were good reasons for that design, but I prefer to have options in how to handle errors and keep a clean, elegant code.
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by felipeccastro 8y ago
That's what the Brave browser is doing: "Set up automatic micro-donations. Brave will automatically divide a monthly donation among the top sites you visit." (brave.com) The downside is the high entry bar of installing a new
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
Exactly, the example I had in mind. I tried their app and at this point I think the friction to setup an account, wallet etc. is too high for the average user, but this business model is awesome: great incentive for attracting early users,
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
Decentralized doesn't mean every user needs to run their own node. Getting people to run a node is solved once there's a (financial) incentive for that, which is what made cryptocurrencies possible. I agree no service is going to
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
I agree, and honestly, I think trying to solve this via deep learning is not the optimal approach. Too many details to handle besides a static layout, which are the hardest part. I believe it would be a lot more effective if designers used
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
You needing to trust the website will exist for the coins to hold any value, while true, is not the same as having to trust the currency will work as a currency - i.e. that what is yours is yours, and the steemit owners can't simply wi
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
a) what about the economic incentives for early users? That is a pretty huge deal too, even if ICO funding wasn't possible. b) it's not literally useless outside, you just have to exchange it for other coins to use it outside. Isn
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
That’s like saying bitcoin could be a Money table on my personal database. It’s not the same at all. These coins are unique, wont be tampered, work on exchanges, and don’t depend on you trusting the startup that created it.
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
a) they could use ETH, but if you launch your own token you get two advantages: - funding (ICO) - an economic incentive for attracting early users (give tokens for using your app in the promise that they will be worth more in the future) b)
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
You don't pay, you gain money. Unless, of course, you're a company that wants to buy advertising space. As a user (writer/curator), you earn tokens for doing what you already do for free in reddit or facebook. The tokens you
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
The tokens here are essentially altcoins, like ether or bitcoin. How would that be done with a simple, private database?
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
For example, steemit.com: a social network where you get paid (in tokens) for producing/curating content. As the network grows, the token gets more valuable, so there's a strong incentive for early users to join it. I'm not s
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
I agree with your view, but I suspect it hasn’t happened yet for a couple of reasons: - every time it was attempted, the generated html/css was terrible (think old ASP Net for example), and maintenance hard. Abstractions only work when
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
It's trying to settle itself as the silver of bitcoin's gold. Since it has solved the scalability issues bitcoin is now facing since its inception, the expectation is in the future people will use bitcoin only for big transactions
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
I don't know enough about Urbit's implementation or team to vouch for it, but I do find the basic idea promising: that we should have control over our own data, and should be able to do whatever we want with it. I'm not sure
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
First of all, great article, regardless of outcomes I've never considered an alternative web would be a possibility. At first I was skeptic like most here, but it doesn't sound impossible at all. If you fix the most pressing issue
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
steem.io - I believe it's not on top of Ethereum, but it's the same idea.
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
I wonder if any of these Agile haters ever had the pleasure of working with RUP (Rational Unified Process) and endless UML diagrams. Agile was a response to that trend, cutting the BS and recommending teams would focus more on software qual
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
I don't think we'll reach this point of all jobs being automated, where UBI becomes an absolute necessity, mostly because human desires are unlimited, but that's beyond the point I'm making here. I'm curious about w
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
If Facebook paid people in exchange for the content they produce, it's not UBI, it's normal income. UBI happens when you get paid for nothing. Looking the example from Alaska, though, it makes sense - it encourages people to move
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
Blockchain, decentralized apps - perhaps based on Ethereum, perhaps not. They have the potential to enhance capitalism in equivalent ways as the current wave of "sharing economy" startups (Uber, Airbnb) has done, or even surpass t
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
It would be nice if, instead of closing a question as off-topic and asking it again on another site, there was an option for easily transferring the question from one site to another.
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
Great article! And oh, the irony of having a very engaging title... It seems it all boils down to incentives: if the only available way of making money is ads, news agencies will optimize for that. I wonder if new techs like blockchain&#x2F
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by felipeccastro 9y ago
Don't know why this was downvoted, it is relevant. That's the main reason why hacks like PJAX/turbolinks were invented in the first place, not having to reparse the same JS and CSS for every page change has a noticeable impac

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