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by rapind 4y ago
> Software development is some of the easiest, highest paid work in history. Nope this is an outdated opinion. You can do just as well or better in trades (source: my electrician buddy). If you’re referring to the FAANG salaries (sub 1%)
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by rapind 4y ago
Not always a bad thing though. I know the Stripe connect API so well at this point I could move payment processing in house based on their data structures and save money on fees.
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by rapind 4y ago
> What would be different, given some time, from now? What needs to change for NFTs to become useful? I think being able to identify and authenticate original works is a good idea that has practical uses. Practical in the same way as ide
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by rapind 4y ago
> if Fox News put their reporting on a blockchain, it doesn't suddenly become truth There's two problems / truths here; 1) the source (E.g. Fox), which is what I think we'll need to verify, and 2) the truth of the con
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by rapind 4y ago
> Are you saying "you" generally or me specifically? Generally, as in all of us.
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by rapind 4y ago
Just like security, you settle for the risk you can afford and are comfortable with. The cloud muddies your grasp of the risks though. A lot of these cloud offerings (like k8s) are incredibly complex, and therefore have a lot of attack vect
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by rapind 4y ago
> Can you think of any practical uses of a blockchain? I also think they're a fascinating concept, but I cannot think of a killer application for them. Identity / authenticity. As we head into a world of digital (deep) fakes, b
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by rapind 4y ago
I usually work 7 days a week, but very casually . Basically work takes a back seat to most other things (hanging out with my kids, gym, etc.). I get to hang out with my kids a solid amount every single day (not just weekends), which I love
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by rapind 4y ago
It sucks that the model of pay once ($60) or subscription doesn’t gel with the in-app purchase or advertising models. For example YouTube premium is a worse product than it could be because the entire platform has been designed with adver
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by rapind 4y ago
Apple kept a notification badge on my settings icon for Apple Pay until I finally went in and opted out of it. Under the guise of “Finish setting up your iPhone”. It’s not a big deal I guess, but annoying and obviously promotional. Now I pa
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by rapind 4y ago
It’s fair in that the company also suffers from the wrong talent measurements. That they can get away with such a bad measurement though just shows that there’s a large gap between the costs per and profits per developer.
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by rapind 4y ago
> It is so sad that "make good game, sell it" model no longer works. It's all a wonky curve of "free - couple of dollars - hundreds and thousands of dollars". I think the assumption that another model was even co
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by rapind 4y ago
I agree but people hear nerd and they picture the John Hughes caricature. This is no more accurate than Hollywood’s “Wall Street bro”. There’s some seriously douchey needs around.
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by rapind 4y ago
I believe the technical term is “kicking the can down the road”. We’re experts at it up here in Canada if you’d like any tips.
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by rapind 4y ago
> The conversion rates on a $5 / month podcast and a $10 / month one aren't all that different. IMO $5.00 is still beyond the price anchoring in most people's minds. You're getting close to the range of Apple TV
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by rapind 4y ago
Podcast pricing is in it’s wildly crazy phase. As an example, Sam Harris is charging $15 / month. Good for him that he’s able to pull it off, but man, that’s more than most streaming services. Your supercast is charging $0.59 / mo
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by rapind 4y ago
Steep fines for “each” occurrence. You can most definitely deter all but the dumbest companies from trafficking in toxic data. Are you going to buy shares in a company who’s entire worth is derived by it’s user data when it turns out that a
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by rapind 4y ago
Easy solution is to make user data toxic. Make it a liability. Poison the well. Make a law where if you ever sell a minor’s data, regardless of whether that minor lied about their age or agreed to a contract (wouldn’t be binding!), then you
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by rapind 4y ago
I guess that will be the day that you buy a flashlight intended to rank and only light up the top 10 / 20 most relevant things? It's like complaining about water making you wet.
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by rapind 4y ago
I wonder how well this will work with PostgREST. Looks very interesting.
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Google gave up on search though right? Like, I assume they’ve just abandoned it, maybe as recently as 2 or 3 years ago. Can anyone prove that they haven’t?
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by rapind 4y ago
> You really should understand how the different news outlets function, what their business models and sources of funding are, and their biases. While I agree, I don’t think we can expect everyone to do this research themselves, and we c
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by rapind 4y ago
He was a Neanderthal which was supposed to be why he didn’t age (not that that makes sense). I really enjoyed that movie too.
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by rapind 4y ago
For a non “Valley” perspective, your work situation sounds fine TBH. You are already the defacto dev lead (making it official could mean meetings). Hobbies, sports, instruments, hell even a book club. Get social outside of work. Treat it th
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by rapind 4y ago
Some competitive (PvP) games are basically imperfect chess. Just like you'd learn chess, and eventually move on to studying matches, you would do the same with some (PvP) video games, like DotA etc. On the other hand you could literall
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by rapind 4y ago
Wordpress begs to differ. There are tons of examples of malicious JS on read only sites. Doesn’t have to be MitM. Usually it’s to generate ad views on another site, but can be more nefarious.
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by rapind 4y ago
I think maybe this is how it started out, but it would be really flakey to match with consumer demand. If everyone is buying the cheaper (binned) option you may not have the volume (or demand from the pricey option to just bin more).
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by rapind 4y ago
> If you wanna believe that your hours on COD have made you a genius, go ahead, I won't stop you. Just don't imagine that this research proves it. Video games, like all things, should not all be treated equal. I could certainly
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by rapind 4y ago
> I've had wired headphones save my phone from a drop Same, an embarrassingly large number of times actually.
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by rapind 4y ago
That’s not how I read his post. Regardless you can mark me down as someone who doesn’t want the government trying to “goose” our economy through increasingly complex methods, like artificially low interest rates, corporate welfare, etc. I d

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