jondubois

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by jondubois 6y ago
Exactly. People can't wrap their minds around the fact that their own country is constantly peddling propaganda. I noticed this after I started travelling around the world working in different countries. Every single country is constan
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by jondubois 6y ago
As an open source developer who enjoys coding, a lot of these thoughts resonate strongly with me but this article is overly pessimistic. It's OK to be pessimistic but that doesn't mean you should stop trying to make things right b
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The harsh economics of open source (2018)(medium.com)
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by jondubois 6y ago
I think unions make sense for any organization that has a or near-monopoly. I'm surprised that they are not more common among big tech corporations.
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by jondubois 6y ago
Many governments have already lost the trust of their people. Some countries are about to get brain-drained. They will be left full of fiat money, full of psychopaths, no brains, no humanity.
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by jondubois 6y ago
I thought Gitter had already been acquired by GitLab?
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by jondubois 6y ago
I recommend reading up on monetary policy and the Federal reserve (and watch videos) and you will understand what I mean and how it fits into Annand's description of the world (it compounds the problem). It's a lot worse than you
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by jondubois 6y ago
So true. I guess it's a way for giant mega-corporate monopolies to make themselves seem smaller and less monopolistic than they actually are.
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by jondubois 6y ago
Normally giving away money to charities is great but in our artificial government-controlled economic environment, it just harms capitalism. I'm tired of this artificial top-down winner-takes-all selection. At this stage, I'd rath
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by jondubois 6y ago
Sometimes this will be the best approach possible but adhering with this principle too strongly can overcomplicate the general design/architecture - It can give developers a green light to start passing around complex types all over th
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by jondubois 6y ago
But still, I think it does not fully solve the architectural issue or encourage good architecture (though it can certainly help reduce bugs)... In this case you may end up with lots of duplicate instances in different blackboxes which may n
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by jondubois 6y ago
Type hype is real. It almost seems like job-creation propaganda at this stage. When I judge things, I look at practical outcomes; and the fact is that I produce better software with more features within the same timeframe if I use JavaScrip
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by jondubois 6y ago
I agree. I think the downside of static typing is that it encourages developers to pass around complex types between functions instead of simple types and I think this is a mistake. If you have the option between creating a function which a
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by jondubois 6y ago
For me it was the opposite. I started out with dynamically typed, then switched to statically typed for many years, then I realized that types were almost worthless (and even harmful in some cases in terms of how they influence design/
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by jondubois 6y ago
This is so relevant today. Especially in our corporation-dominated industry where profits will continue to grow no matter what the corporation does.
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by jondubois 6y ago
>> I wouldn't consider this a lot of overhead. Depends on how many subscriptions you want. If you have 100s of subscriptions, it can add up. >> You can send a token as query parameter. If using JWT or some other kind of sta
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by jondubois 6y ago
Based on my experience, SSEs add more complexity and brittleness to applications compared to WebSockets. Having a single WebSocket connection to handle both RPCs and subscriptions is great because it binds all data flows to the lifecycle of
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by jondubois 6y ago
My point is that both communism and capitalism have problems. Both systems have shown themselves to be corruptible. The 'ideal form' of either system can never be achieved because of corruption.
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by jondubois 6y ago
My wife grew up around Moscow during the last phase of the USSR and she said that although there wasn't that much stuff, there was enough for everyone. People complemented any minor shortcomings by growing stuff in their gardens. I hav
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by jondubois 6y ago
Both communism and capitalism do a good job at draining resources from the masses and giving them to a relatively small number of elite. The main difference is that capitalism is better at hiding its shortcomings. Also because capitalism ha
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by jondubois 6y ago
Because companies treat developers like replaceable cogs... So developers don't feel invested in the products that they're creating, so they don't really care about the result and it shows.
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by jondubois 6y ago
I don't understand how a human being could be gullible enough to put corporate surveillance devices inside their homes, let alone pay for them! Where the heck are these people? Why I can't seem to find them in real life? I'd
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by jondubois 6y ago
> What did they do? They took bets on unknown people and believed in them more than anyone had before. They set strong norms... This is the essence of capitalism. The idea that you can take bold risks and be rewarded for being right. By
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by jondubois 6y ago
>> Why are giants attracting 95%+ of users? Because they get free money from the Federal reserve through cheap loans and government contracts and money attracts people. They can use the money to saturate the media with their brand unt
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by jondubois 6y ago
If they're too big to prevent $2 trillion of laundered money, then they're too big to exist.
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by jondubois 6y ago
It seems inevitable now that the system is going to collapse. There is no way that people will ignore all the things which happened over the past few months and move on... We're stuck in a media limbo. The public is not digesting the &
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by jondubois 6y ago
> Cryptocurrency is the digitally woke techbro’s ponzi scheme The fiat monetary system is a ponzi scheme. Watch "Hidden Secrets of Money": https://youtu.be/iFDe5kUUyT0?t=62 I also recommend doing your own resea
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by jondubois 6y ago
Nice article. That said, to talk about the benefits of software federations without conceding that cryptocurrency is the ultimate foundation for such an ecosystem is delusional. Money is the only incentive which works in our modern age. Any
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by jondubois 6y ago
I think that on average, an older experienced developer will be more skilled than a younger one, even with less natural talent. Experience is really important.
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by jondubois 6y ago
If you're young, you fit in a narrow spectrum of experience with a relatively low upper bound. If you're old, then the spectrum of possible experience is much broader. You could range from being totally inexperienced to being extr

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