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Pivot for Humanity: professionalizing software engineering(pivotforhumanity.com)
1 points by mactavish88 7y ago|0 comments
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by mactavish88 7y ago
Sure, Mastodon doesn't implement the full ActivityPub spec [0]. They're still very much behind the effort though, it seems [1] (or at least they were in 2018). I'm not a Mastodon developer, nor have I developed with it, but s
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by mactavish88 7y ago
First of all, I literally read the spec (and related specs) last week in detail. Secondly, there's a massive difference between decentralized and distributed systems (I build distributed systems for a living). Perhaps you're confu
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by mactavish88 7y ago
Exactly. I somehow doubt Dorsey doesn't know about ActivityPub - why not just endorse it publicly if he genuinely cared about decentralization? Are there genuine technical shortcomings in the ActivityPub standard that Twitter's en
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by mactavish88 8y ago
That's really interesting, because I share a similar story. I too started coding at 11, but became totally disenchanted with it around the age of 23. I actually went off to start a graphic design/web development company with a fri
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by mactavish88 8y ago
Surely the final solution to this problem is a community-based one - one that decentralises the tech giants? I'm still struggling to figure out why a cohesive, widespread, community-driven solution hasn't emerged yet. Anybody have
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Rapid prototyping versus best practices in software development(thanethomson.com)
3 points by mactavish88 8y ago|0 comments