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by matt_s 5y ago
I was thinking this as well. A ledger is the CS 101 level of what is a database. I read a headline that Japan's stock exchange is moving to use blockchain. That is also a good use but I don't know if its an ideal usage.
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by matt_s 5y ago
If you've seen any local governments try to get something like light rail projects moving in a metro area that doesn't have it, maybe you'd understand. Infrastructure problems aren't unsolvable because of lack of technic
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by matt_s 5y ago
Most apartments in suburbia (outside metro/city areas) are typically a 3 story building and parking lots that are usually 40 feet or more away from the structure. Most apartments don't have numbered spaces, just general parking. E
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by matt_s 5y ago
Pick any random apartment complex in the US and pretend 80% of the residents there own an EV, not a hybrid, but a fully electric vehicle. Where and how do they charge it? If you've lived in an apartment complex, think how often they up
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by matt_s 5y ago
The ad revenue model requires a lot of SEO friendly pages to be in search indexes. I don't mind ads or that model in general. A lot of the answers on pages are outdated but they have no incentive to cleanup old content if its going to
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by matt_s 5y ago
Their business model conflicts with what would serve users best. It once was a place where I would trust answers, now I have to search multiple times, scroll through many results to find relevant answers. Having massive amounts of question
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by matt_s 5y ago
If you are thinking of it as a game store like Steam, then broaden that thought to include in-game collectibles, currencies, character skins, etc. You'd want a public, transparent marketplace for players to buy/sell/trade bas
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by matt_s 5y ago
NFT's applied to real world things or stuff like video clips does seem kinda silly. You are right, NFT seems geared towards things with no redeeming value whatsoever ... in the real world. Video games have had the concept of tokens for
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by matt_s 5y ago
1. People don't RTFA and just start commenting thinking they know what the article is about. 2. Many strong minded people that firmly believe they are right and others are wrong on so many topics. See vi vs. emacs. 3. It's common
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by matt_s 5y ago
Option 4: work outside silicon valley with very comfortable salary and much lower cost of living.
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by matt_s 5y ago
Maybe it would be easier to slowly build to UI - kind of like leveling up a character. - Universal health care would likely have the most impact on a lot of people and companies if there was a system to fund it across the board for basic he
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by matt_s 5y ago
I've tried VSCode a few times hearing it was better for Elixir. I have a strong dislike, bordering on hatred, for IDE's. I don't want a bloated environment that gets in my way with features I don't want but seemingly can
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by matt_s 5y ago
An IT ticketing system that had a disaster recovery solution inclusive of DB failover, load-balancing, etc. all to another data center in another time zone. Some medium critical business systems didn't have that so if a disaster stru
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by matt_s 5y ago
I have an iPhone and I've noticed if I have gmail open in a browser I get the email notification on the phone before it shows up in gmail the browser. I use the GMail app on iOS not the Apple Mail app. I guess I'd ask what is so i
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by matt_s 5y ago
I would have 3 ranks for universities: prestigious or elite CS schools, name-brand schools and every other school. I call out name-brand schools simply because if you get a degree from a school that has a recognizable name, you have a bette
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by matt_s 5y ago
I was doing napkin math, assuming a large distribution would hit the 37% bracket + 10% penalty + state income tax somewhere in 1-10% range. I know that 37% is the highest bracket and really only applies to income over a threshold but that d
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by matt_s 5y ago
I've been a fan of cutting costs like lower cost provider for cell phones, paying cash for used cell phones instead of brand-new costs, etc. but beyond that the only real cost cutting that is left is house and cars. Cost cutting with c
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by matt_s 5y ago
Curious then if you are simply not investing it at all? Average returns over 10 years for something like VTSAX (total stock market index) is 13%, granted the last 10 years has been a bull market. 13% of $4M is $520k even half that is $260k
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by matt_s 5y ago
Has the FU level of money changed? You referenced FU as $5-9M, unless I'm mis-reading. I see it as something around $4M, possibly lower. If you conservatively estimate 5% earnings per year on average, that will get you gross $200k&#x2F
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by matt_s 5y ago
I can only think of one reason your toothbrush needs internet - your dental costs keep going up and its a "tracker" that ties into your insurance as an incentive. Much like some employers do with healthcare plans. Overall it sound
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Your question is who would you hire... which is invalid unless you are handing out timed coding assignments as part of your hiring process. That would be absurd and a huge red flag for a candidate in my opinion. As a manager observing peopl
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by matt_s 5y ago
I bet none of the finance apps pay a 30% cut to Apple, they would be out of business. Those are probably considered banking apps, any banking app doesn't pay Apple 30% of all checks you deposit, right? How would you differentiate a new
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by matt_s 5y ago
If your goal is procrastination, lean into it and open up Netflix and watch something. Or Youtube.
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by matt_s 5y ago
How To Invent the Future, parts 1 and 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ Alan Kay talks about the innovations that came out of PARC. I liked it because it confirmed my belief that true industry changing innovati
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by matt_s 5y ago
I was turned off from the platform because there was a lot of low-effort, personal branding motivated content on there. Articles that are regurgitated help docs for example. Another example is nearly anything that is tagged #todayilearned.
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by matt_s 5y ago
It would have been kinda neat to learn assembly programming with the concepts from the article. When I was in school it was a required part of the curriculum and seemed like a gate that weeded out students since people complained it was so
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by matt_s 5y ago
I think this hits the nail on the head. There is a low barrier to solving someone's pain in creating a typical CRUD app. Its easy to pick an industry, find an application that could use some newer features and create something. Copyin
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by matt_s 5y ago
I'll assume you mean streaming video game content. In that case, probably not - as in the probability of making a living level of income is not very probable. It is time-sensitive content, content that does better is timeless. I would
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by matt_s 5y ago
I believe there are ways to solve this entirely inside of CloudFlare by having them host pages or code snippets that render a "Sorry we're down" page in the event of an outage.
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by matt_s 5y ago
I don't think pg intended that crazy new ideas require someone to be a domain expert, just some expertise. Slight wording difference. In the case of music, one could have domain expertise on audio files, compression and domain expertis

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