peterholcomb

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by peterholcomb 5y ago
I don't think it's unrealistic to think that at some point in the near future that ordinary people in the third-world will be using crypto for their every day transactions. Crypto is going through a massive maturity phase right n
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by peterholcomb 6y ago
I don't necessarily have a problem with it. If concepts work well, there is no reason not to reuse them in new libraries.
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by peterholcomb 6y ago
Thanks for posting that. That was great.
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by peterholcomb 6y ago
Well said. "Clean Code" goes into this a lot and it helped me realize why I was starting to become more and more bothered by looking back at the short variable names I wrote years ago on my projects.
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by peterholcomb 7y ago
It would have been pretty heartbreaking (to me at least) for him to have passed before getting the Nobel. Glad they finally gave it to him.
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by peterholcomb 7y ago
The first thing that came to mind when I read the opening paragraphs regarding churn is developing mobile applications. I find myself losing a day or two just to get my apps to compile if I ever go a month or two without spending any time
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by peterholcomb 8y ago
Not a ponzi scheme...just fraud. Not sure why they went with the clickbaity title.
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by peterholcomb 8y ago
After I proposed to my wife, we did a pre-marital counseling class about budgeting. She knew that I had credit card debt but she didn't know how much and it shocked her when I laid out the real numbers (over $10k). We had about 10 mo
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by peterholcomb 10y ago
I noticed that. They should at least add an option that mentions their fee structure changes. I stopped using upwork the day those were announced. This story was enough motivation to officially close my account.
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by peterholcomb 10y ago
Done. Thanks for posting. Can't believe this guy's experience. I used UpWork for a few gigs earlier this year but stopped browsing for gigs when the new fee structure was implemented. This is enough for me to say no thanks to
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by peterholcomb 14y ago
Aptly put. Well done.