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by muglug 5y ago
Or they are a huge company that doesn't want to put their Russian employees in the crosshairs of a government that's quickly reverting to Soviet-style authoritarianism.
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by muglug 5y ago
This is a big out-of-left-field move. About 12 years ago I rebuilt a record label's site, and bandcamp integration was a big part of that effort. A founder there helped get everything working. The brand name now has a ton of cachet — I
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by muglug 5y ago
Any broad sanctions will always affect the poorest more than the richest. Modern warfare also affects poor people more than it affects the rich — children of Russian oligarchs are off in New York and London, not fighting on the battlefields
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by muglug 5y ago
It’s not the young people who are turning against democracy. It’s the baby boomers who talk ceaselessly about “fake news”, rejecting anything that doesn’t match their cloistered reality.
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by muglug 5y ago
> you're never going to attain aspirational software purity in a corporate, commercial software environment Fun problem a few days ago: a slight design flaw allows a class of bug that a typechecker can't currently catch. Fixin
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by muglug 5y ago
Article mentions a tweet which narrows in on a prime culprit: https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1456129831821709315 > a lot of what most “developer influencers” say is fairly aspirational. Their own comp
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by muglug 5y ago
>> Cotten's will was signed 27 November 2018, twelve days before he allegedly died > Yeah, that seems slightly fishy. Updating your will right after a major life event (getting married) isn't particularly strange.
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by muglug 5y ago
The mention of accessibility at the end reminds me of this very celebrated post from 2015: https://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web . The article described Flipboard's migration from a browser DOM-
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by muglug 5y ago
For at least the last 10 years WordPress has been an OSS tool whose serverside internals make hardened software engineers recoil in horror, but which nevertheless continues to deliver incredible value for the majority of its customer base.
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by muglug 5y ago
This is not quite a fair comparison, as the example in Rust is hard-coded to find the fifth power. A more exhaustive search would need to also check 3rd and 4th powers.
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by muglug 5y ago
> Terrible things on the internet don't make all things built on the internet guilty by association. OK, but it's not like TCP requires fantastically large amounts of energy for each request. While I'm sure there are parti
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by muglug 5y ago
> But what it misses is a vibrant ecosystem of experimentation that is happening with NFTs below the easily visible surface You could argue there was a vibrant ecosystem in the dotcom space in 2000 as well, but ultimately that vibrant ec
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by muglug 5y ago
I'm doubtful that any of those decentralising innovations will come to pass, because the history of the web tends towards centralisation mainly because humans tend towards centralisation. The more complex the underlying technology for
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by muglug 5y ago
I think the strongest claim (one I've also arrived at independently) is that NFTs (aka digital collectibles on the blockchain) are mainly popular because they provide a thing for people who already own cryptocurrencies to spend their
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by muglug 5y ago
Do you have anything in the way of a rebuttal to the hundreds of factual claims in the video?
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by muglug 5y ago
Author fails to mention that he minted his own (as yet unsold) NFT, paying $80 for the privilege: https://foundation.app/@behrouz/~/125372 Thousands of artists have lost money in a likewise fashion in that digital
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by muglug 5y ago
> How about as a means to provide financial security to the world's 1.7 billion unbanked Let them eat crypto
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by muglug 5y ago
People sometimes claim that there's a generational divide in crypto adoption — younger people "get it" while older people (those who came of age with the early web) are stuck in their ways. But there’s a large group of older
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by muglug 5y ago
Operator Mono: https://www.typography.com/fonts/operator/styles/operatormon...
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by muglug 5y ago
I think it's implied: don't pursue cryptocurrency or the blockchain where traditional methods work just fine. The problem right now is that there's a peverse incentive for entrepreneurs to jump on the crypto/NFT bandwago
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by muglug 5y ago
The article has a lot of waffle, but it seems clear that even in the author's viewpoint, Fisher was a eugenecist, and argued for the cause even in the wake of WW2: > (6) Fisher, in a testimonial for von Verschuer after the war, su
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by muglug 5y ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make... that machine is not particularly mobile. It takes him 5 minutes to load a projectile. The UK has banned guns. People there generally don't build trebuchets to compensate. Murde
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by muglug 5y ago
Yeah, humans with eyesight that bad are not allowed on the road (for good reason).
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by muglug 5y ago
> this review really should have been accompanied by video evidence of phantom braking There's a video review in the article which includes many examples of phantom breaking.
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by muglug 5y ago
I see writing slightly differently: it's a way to present your ideas without any performance-related anxiety getting in the way. To prepare a good conference talk generally takes a long time, and an otherwise solid talk can be made les
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by muglug 5y ago
By the time they get giant with [interpreted language], the giant org cannot pivot to Java without sacrificing a year of forward momentum on product development. It's far easier for them to adopt a static analysis tool that mimics the
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by muglug 5y ago
The overwhelming sentiment to the decision here is negative, but I don't quite understand that reaction. If YouTube was just looking out for big brands and/or advertisers, they could have restricted the change incredibly simply. B
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by muglug 5y ago
Slack developer here, views are my own. Prior to Slack I spent many years as an OSS maintainer. I also participated in a Slack channel that discussed my OSS tool's general problem space. That Slack workspace was on the free plan, so me
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Needs a (2020)
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> Max Read, a former editor-in-chief of Gawker, would note that Thiel’s politics were informed by “an apocalyptic fear of stasis.”

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