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by gjmacd 8y ago
It's as easy as requiring identity, just like you have to for your bank account or credit card information.
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by gjmacd 9y ago
Except you wouldn't use the blockchain to have control over their data", you'd use it for identity and verification. Facebook' #1 issue is fake news and Bot's. You can eliminate those problems entirely with a block
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by gjmacd 9y ago
Isn't that the same as if you lost your SSI number? In all seriousness, I remember my parents lost my sisters SSI number well after she was born (1970's). The amount of BS the had to go through to get that back and prove they ha
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by gjmacd 9y ago
This is what I was told as well. I'm 52, I have huge resume of experience at some great companies (even my own company I built), the reality is, you get 10 years in, the person thinks you're his or her "Dad"... it's
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by gjmacd 9y ago
I'm 52, I recently got a "pass" on a job that matched that I was told in person that I would get an offer in writing while at my 4th and final interview with the COO/HR person (not the hiring manager). I walked out of t
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by gjmacd 9y ago
If you're going to let Comcast buy half the goddamn content companies like Universal, NBC, etc. You can't block something like this. Just sayin'.
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by gjmacd 9y ago
Azure is built for Windows, I hope it works well. However, I'm sorry... there's no way you're going to convince me of Windows as a "stack" is more reliable and robust, or even as scalable (in concurrent users and c
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by gjmacd 9y ago
It's not C# (as a language), which is benign and a good actor in the set, it's the stack. Ever try running a Windows / IIS and SQL Server stack in the cloud -- do it only if you want to lose sleep nights and spend weekends a
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by gjmacd 9y ago
When I say "take 3-6 months off", I mean from distractions of life around you. Most people working, it's not reasonable to take that much time off. What I mean is, focus for 3-6 months on something new, spend 3-4 hours a day
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by gjmacd 9y ago
Agree. Especially with startups. I have to say, I'd been to a bunch of local Meetups and have bent the age curve at them. Looking around going, "wow, these could all be my kids...". And most of them are good programmers but
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by gjmacd 9y ago
Excellent! Here's to gray hair Docker wearing developers! Until you've built a useful application on the stack, something that can be utilized for something , you've not spent enough valuable time to be productive on it... j
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by gjmacd 9y ago
I'm 52, started writing code professionally in 1985. Started my career on 68K assembler. In the 90's I was a Windows SDK developer (then COM/ATL, etc.), In 1999 started a company but chose Linux and embraced FOSS and built a
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by gjmacd 9y ago
^^^ that. GE pays nothing, CVS pays more. Why do you think that is?
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by gjmacd 9y ago
No corporation with a good tax team pays anything more than 20% of taxes. This idea that 15% is going to really be THE thing that spurns business, well, it might work initially, but the reality is, it will just create more federal debt (th
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by gjmacd 9y ago
Jeez, seems like overkill when you get that free in more modern of stacks. Move to Elixir. Pattern matching is done right and it's brilliantly designed. I understand that if you're having to maintain Java applications, but why a
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by gjmacd 9y ago
Agree. Control it, regulate it, distribute it. We do this with alcohol. It doesn't prevent people from getting addicted, but it certainly prevents people from having to resort to crimes to get the product because it's illegal.
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by gjmacd 9y ago
I'm still very pro-legalization because most of the epidemic is born out of legal prescription drugs, then people move to stronger illegal drugs. So here you have a legal means and illegal means working in simpatico to fuel an epidemi
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by gjmacd 9y ago
In 2011 Exlixir didn't exist. More than likely they've stuck to Erlang as the incremental benefit is really on the language side only. If you're only moving to Elixir because of the language sugar, the only thing you're