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by jondubois 6y ago
The tech culture of investing gigantic sums of money in a handful of hyped up projects is sick IMO. Especially when these investors already know perfectly well that only 1 out of 10 startup makes it and that it's almost impossible to p
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I think that it's definitely fragile in the sense that there are a lot of people going through hardship at the moment. When so many people need to rely on friends and relatives to survive, it means that capitalism has already broken do
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The fact that he added the word 'coronavirus' does not change the fact that SARS (which he in fact did mention before) was a coronavirus. He just added the word 'coronavirus' next to SARS in an existing sentence to empha
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by jondubois 6y ago
Most corporations are inefficient to the point that nothing about them makes sense so there is no need to complain about minutia. It's like being on a sinking ship and remarking to other passengers about how bad the interior design is.
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>> If someone wants to live in Random City A then Facebook will still have to compete with the local wages there to get people to work for them This argument doesn't make sense in the context of remote work where the location of
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by jondubois 6y ago
This is in itself is an admission that capitalism doesn't work and that Facebook is a monopoly. If the environment was truly competitive, then companies would not be able to conflate the value of employees' skills with their locat
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by jondubois 6y ago
IMO I've come to see DB transactions as a hack because they limit scalability. It's possible to use two-phase commits instead. Two-phase commits can scale without limit but you have to be more careful when designing your tables an
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by jondubois 6y ago
MongoDB is a pretty good database IMO. I've used it at several companies in the past and wouldn't mind using it again. My favorite DB is RethinkDB. It's a shame that the company behind it fizzled out and was absorbed by Strip
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This will not work. There are no incentives for different groups of people to collaborate on a single shared communication standard. The incentive is for entities to keep data to themselves. Also, this standard is too complex and unclear. C
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Why let is better than const in JavaScript(medium.com)
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by jondubois 6y ago
I don't agree with this view because it assumes that all developers receive more positive feedback and attention than they deserve. If nobody is giving someone good feedback about their work, then it's impossible for them to feel
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by jondubois 6y ago
My open source project is SocketCluster. A real-time WebSocket library focused on scalability: https://socketcluster.io/ It has 2 steady income streams: 1. Monthly sponsorship donations. 2. Forging rewards from the Lisk blo
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by jondubois 6y ago
This is just like the economy. When a big economic whale falls, it creates opportunities for new smaller entities to evolve by feeding on its carcass.
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I was surprised to hear that many open source developers get so many 'mean and entitled people' complaining on their project channels. My project https://socketcluster.io/ has almost 6K stars on GitHub and all I o
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I didn't realize this was an old article initially and I was thinking to myself... Yes it's true. So right, Facebook should not even be worth $33 billion! I thought he was going to argue that most of the profits which FB makes com
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by jondubois 6y ago
From my (subjective) perspective, I also feel like something strange happened with Google search when it comes to blogs. My tech/programming blog has 1.4K subscribers and used to reliably get between 100 to 200 views per day, then in t
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by jondubois 6y ago
>> The stock market is not the economy, as we can tell today. This is spot on. There are a lot of regulatory forces which help to prop up the stock market artificially. It's hard to imagine that pro-corporation regulations can go
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I agree that types don't add any value for most experienced developers but I don't understand why use CoffeeScript instead of plain JavaScript... Just a few more lines doesn't hurt and you save yourself from having a compulso
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CoffeeScript never made any sense. The drawbacks of having a build/bundling step and having to run/debug transpiled code were never worth the tiny benefits it offered. I think the drawbacks of bundling are still not worthwhile eve
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This is very well put. I've worked in tech for both startups and corporations. I've moved around a lot and I've come to the same conclusion. The effects of tech monopolies are particularly obvious to those who work in open so
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The biggest factor which is not considered in antitrust law is the fact that large corporations, by virtue of controlling a lot of capital, have access to a larger share of all the new money which is created out of thin air and injected int
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I can't help but think of all the millions of economically useful people who lost their jobs over the past couple of months because of COVID19... And contrast that with all the economically useless Giphy employees and executives who no
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Clearly this acquisition has nothing to do with either Facebook's or Giphy's businesses... Not sure you can even call Giphy a 'business' because that would imply that an attempt had been made at creating value.
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It's a great match. They're both hype-mongering companies which add no value whatsoever to society.
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The title is misleading. It should be "Facebook executives give free money and Facebook shares to Giphy executives and save Giphy from bankruptcy."
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Given that the analyzer function 'H' needs to work with any algorithm 'F'. We could separate 'F' into two distinct subsets of functions (the union of which fully spans the set of all possible F): 1. 'F1&#x
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It reminds me of something I had posted to a math/engineering forum some time ago but my answer was taken down because I didn't use proper mathematical terminology and I had ended the comment with a question mark asking for feedba
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>> Reddit could roll this out slowly and give Ethereum 2.0 a chance to land This is a very optimistic proposition. I think they might never get there. Based on what I read so far, I have concerns that the final solution will be too co
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I don't buy into these second layer solutions. They are still limited in terms of scalability (they just push the limit back a bit) and operational complexity tends to get out of control and that makes them much more vulnerable to expl
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I already know what's going to happen: 1. They will launch. 2. They will find out that Ethereum doesn't scale. 3. They will move to an off-chain solution. On the plus side, the extra demand generated by Reddit will boost Ethereum

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