mvindahl

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by mvindahl 9y ago
> "Taking 1.6 seconds, the process of opening and closing the car via an app is up to six times faster than before. In addition, efficient cryptographic encryption takes place." A remote car key. You've invented a remote c
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Yeah, I probably did. The "personal filter bubble" thing is very much how google does it. I don't know the details about pagerank but I imagine that they are constantly tweaking their secret sauce to increase revenue and that
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by mvindahl 9y ago
But it doesn't call for a blockchain to address. It calls for a subscription based social network. It wouldn't need to be expensive either to keep the servers running. There would be no flashy advertising displaying links that you
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I think that if search worked, the Wiki could be a great hub of information. For the search to work, it should make an effort to get to know you, that is, try to track which pages you have previously edited or opened, or maybe it could acce
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by mvindahl 9y ago
True dat. Writing no documentation is also a bad path. Personally I've come to favor keeping the technical documentation close to the code. That is, keep it as markdown files and check it into git. They are just as easily hyperlinked t
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by mvindahl 9y ago
The last three corporate wikis that I have worked with have tended to contain some very useful and well maintained sections detailing stuff like developer machine setup and tooling. They have also contained large amounts of information from
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by mvindahl 9y ago
The last couple of places that I have worked also had a number of sensible rules in place to ensure quality. E.g. - never commit directly to master, always create a PR from a branch - always make sure tests are green before merging - branch
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I work as a freelancer on six month contracts, embedded into regular development teams at customer sites. Before that I have held regular SW developer positions. A bureau helps me out finding contracts so I spend very little time on self pr
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I don't think any "real" countries have any interest in cryptos becoming a competitor to their respective national currency. That would be giving away control over the economy, and why would any government want to do that? Th
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Also, unlike the for loop alternative, it clearly expresses the intent. "I am filtering this array, using this condition". The functional programming style really shines here, and it shines even more whan you start chaining the op
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Over the years, a lot of governments have outlawed offshore online gambling. They mainly do so by proxy, by making it illegal for banks or credit card providers to transfer money to unapproved gambling operations. In addition, to offer an a
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Everytime someone trades fiat for cryptocurrency, someone else trades the same amount of cryptocurrency for fiat. Probably the first person thinks that fiat is overvalued, and maybe the second person thinks that the cryptocurrency is. The f
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I think that as the value of bitcoin decreases, a lot of the mining will stop for want of profitability. Right now it's still Klondyke days and everybody is out there with his pickaxe. In a few months, slightly used pickaxes, or in thi
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by mvindahl 9y ago
On Mac, I personally like Pixelmator for pixel level editing. It feels a bit like the old versions of Photoshop which always did the job for me. At thirty bucks, it's also pretty affordable.
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I really like Typescript. It's really well designed and gets typing right IMHO: Strong enough to help you where it matters, flexible enough to get out of the way where it doesn't. Also, type definition hell is definitely a thing.
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by mvindahl 9y ago
> Will corporations develop religion According to the Civ1 tech graph, which I consider the authoritative resource, they just need to develop philosophy and writing in order to research religion. They definitely got the writing part nail
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by mvindahl 9y ago
An even more beautiful idea would be if you could let your phone provider run the bot. Just press the magic button and the spam caller gets transferred to the upside down in the phone company data center, and your phone line is freed again
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Gamifying this kind of thing would be intriguing. I'm imagining some server that would work like spamnesty, i.e. you could easily let it handle your spam. But I'm also imagining the possibility of registering as a bot creator and
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by mvindahl 9y ago
"The working class should seize the GPUs."
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Also, selling this many bitcoin at this time is a delicate thing. The sane thing to do is offload the tulip bulbs before the market collapses, yet offloading all of the bulbs at once might flood the market and trigger the collapse. No matte
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Quoting from the article: "It will make developing for the web easier and more efficient." Um .. no. It will make code execute faster but it will be more work to write and maintain. For most of the daily bread-and-butter code that
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by mvindahl 9y ago
> It's an interesting thought experiment to imagine what the world might look like if people were held accountable indefinitely for the externalities caused by the work they conduct. I don't think it would be practical to enfor
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by mvindahl 9y ago
There were always options to hedge against that eventuality. E.g. property, stocks, Krugerrands. Sure, your could add Bitcoin to that list but all in all I'd rather have a nice home that I've paid down than I'd own a pile of
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Really? 1000+? That's crazy. There is a great irony in the fact that cryptocurrencies are designed to be finite in size to ensure their value, yet the number of potential cryptocurrencies in the world is pretty much infinite.
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Hello Bubblesort, my old friend ..
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Entertaining blogpost. And reading the 2006 comment thread below is also pretty entertaining. All of the comments seem to be about ten years old. Most of them tend to agree that Microsoft seriously botched this feature. But there is also a
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by mvindahl 9y ago
But the same could be said of any snippet of bug-ridden computer code if we let computers run our ICBMs (and to some extent we do). Doing really stupid and self-destructive stuff doesn't require a lot of intelligence. Doing semi-random
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Agreed. Large nuclear arsenals powered by glitchy software is a bigger concern. It's chilling how close humanity has been, on several occasions, to turning its planet into dust.g.
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I really like the succinctness of async/await, and I feel like it's the last step of a long journey. The single threaded callback based style of Javascript has always been a mixed blessing. It has allowed for great performance, an
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by mvindahl 9y ago
As I read the article, he went off grid to show everyone else that it was a viable idea. Meanwhile, the island power grid did some pretty awesome things with solar cell parks and battery storage, rendering his pioneering efforts futile. To

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