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by ojr 5y ago
If ajax was the beginning of Web 2.0, Bitcoin was the beginning of web 3.0 and immutable public databases
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by ojr 5y ago
there's middle ground people just choose to ignore it. So many similarities to the dot com bubble. As more time passes I truly feel I would have been one of the people who could spot out Amazon from the webvans and pets.coms. The stren
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by ojr 5y ago
yes, at the lowest level its binary code, 0 and 1
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by ojr 5y ago
The design doesn't need to be great for an educational site. More frontend tasks can be done to change the css with a library like tailwind ui and it will look better, doing css from scratch is harder but cheaper than the $200 tailwind
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by ojr 5y ago
take out the uniswap frontend, the volume will not be as high, without Coinbase the price of Ethereum would be significantly lower
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by ojr 5y ago
Ethereum enthusiast are quick to disagree, the author of the article might not have a deep understanding of how everything works but headline of the article holds somewhat true. Metamask is a centralized service with centralized team, if Go
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by ojr 5y ago
crypto provides more privacy even though as you can see with some of the latest ransomware attacks where they retrieve the ransom back not completely private, pseudo-anonymous. The wallet privacy is why FinCEN is trying to introduce new rul
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by ojr 5y ago
you need crypto because crypto even with intermediaries is different than traditional fiat with intermediaries
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by ojr 5y ago
Macbook Pro 16in 2019 i9, 1 TB, the M1 has problems with docker, arguably, the best development machine on the market, I am just grateful I could afford it.
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by ojr 5y ago
You do know that Coinbase has a $50k a day withdrawal limit? A lot of doomsday scenarios leave out this important detail when talking about a hypothetical bank run.
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by ojr 6y ago
Somebody always host the NFT image, it can be taken down from ipfs or from a cloud service like s3 at any moment. Also NFT are only worth something because someone provides a frontend to serve the "NFT metadata". NFTs are essentia
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by ojr 6y ago
money transfer on the internet that enables online sports gambling and prediction markets to levels that would make me nervous to place a short
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by ojr 6y ago
the outpouring praise of no CSS and no javascript websites in 2021 is tiring and not reflective of what most internet users outside of the hackernews bubble want in my opinion. Your intuition was correct, I am a Senior Frontend Engineer in
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by ojr 6y ago
it looks unprofessional, it is hard for me to take technical advice on the internet from someone running an unprofessional looking site. There is another blog post written by the author that docker containers are harmful that I strongly dis
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by ojr 6y ago
so many features missing to be considered Canva-like, hopefully it can evolve into fitting that description but now I think it is a stretch and a little misleading to make the comparison.
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by ojr 6y ago
My friend developed a chronic mental illness after one bad trip. It is like playing Russian Roulette with your brain chemistry.
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by ojr 6y ago
To be honest it is more harmful than beneficial, these drugs can have a short term side effect of racing thoughts, distorted reality, increased heart rate, paranoia, etc, these effects are well known but people like riding rollercoasters. L
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by ojr 6y ago
people growing up online today would rather skip ads after 5 seconds than watch commercials on traditional television or listen to advertisements on the radio. It isn't odd in my opinion.
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by ojr 6y ago
- Retention. If this person spent hours on leetcode, they’ll be less likely to leave the job knowing the effort it takes to get through the gate
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by ojr 6y ago
more people are offended by the word master than git, I still don’t think it was a good comparison, also the connotation of Master Theses, mastering C++, remastered album is also much different.
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by ojr 6y ago
master is far more offensive especially in the United States
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by ojr 6y ago
contrary to what whiteboard interviews test for, programming is more of an art than science, and computers are generally bad at determining what is good art.
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by ojr 6y ago
Hiring developers in far proximity like in a different country is a quick way to accumulate tech debt from my experience.
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by ojr 6y ago
I’ve done my fair share of complex sql queries and complex data migrations, asking about JOIN during a random interview is unfair unless documentation.
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by ojr 6y ago
vendoring my dependencies wouldn't save me from a rare issue I had dealing with npm packages, for example I had a package that relied on an underlying api call to a machine learning cloud api, the api call became deprecated. Not writin
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by ojr 7y ago
If the whiteboard warriors were good at system design. Google would be the top video-conferencing tool over Zoom.
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by ojr 7y ago
I did on a onsite at Google and learned the most during the lunch portion, my interviewers didn't know basic ES6. At lunch, I talked with an engineer who was a teacher before his first industry job at Google which he has worked for 5 y
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by ojr 7y ago
any application that you need to debug, I have not ran into a application React or not that I didn't need to debug and Redux does help with debugging greatly.
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by ojr 7y ago
The Apple Tax is the cost of distribution, Amazon has widespread distribution so they are off the hook, not saying it’s fair but that is my reasoning behind it
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by ojr 7y ago
with react native I am able to leverage native device apis in Javascript without writing the underlying Swift or Java bridge, there are so many super popular libraries (5k + stars on github), image pickers, contacts, file systems, ui elemen

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