stefano

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by stefano 8y ago
You can have the client upload to a cloud storage bucket, then notify the server that the file is ready. Upon receiving the notification, the server can start a background task that reads the file from the bucket and uploads it to the Maven
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by stefano 8y ago
The only way to do that on App Engine is to have the client ask the server for a temporary signed URL to a writable cloud storage resource, and then have the client upload to that URL (i.e. the only way is by sidestepping App Engine...).
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by stefano 8y ago
You can step-through your big ball of mud in a debugger, but you can't do the same with your small balls of mud. Not easily at least. That alone makes a huge difference.
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by stefano 8y ago
> That is not completely on the developer, either. Pre 4.0 Mongodb, for example, does not do transactions I'd argue that's on the developer, if he was the one to choose a database that doesn't support transactions, and the
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by stefano 8y ago
I wish they had python 3. It's still stuck on python 2, which will be unsupported in less than two years.
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by stefano 8y ago
Sadly, many subreddits are slowly going down that path too.
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by stefano 8y ago
What's so important about being async by default to build desktop applications? Offloading slow tasks to a background thread is not at all harder and actually allows you to use more than one cpu core. Threads avoid the need of callback
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by stefano 8y ago
Earning 10k/month after taxes and still having to share an apartment is not normal.
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by stefano 9y ago
Like we have botnets made out of thousands (millions?) of compromised computers, we could have entire fleets of compromised cars, rentable on the black market using cryptocurrency, that could be used to commit crimes (e.g. homicide) while k
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by stefano 9y ago
There are at least GTK+, JavaFX, Swing and wxwidgets.
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by stefano 9y ago
We got WASM instead, which I'd argue is much better than support for a specific language, which would lock you in and prevent you from taking advantage of new programming language research.
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by stefano 9y ago
Why did you choose to support a single language instead of following an approach similar to GTK, with a binding-friendly C API and wrappers around it for major languages (or even just for Dart, the community would have quickly provided the
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by stefano 9y ago
They could've made a C API, with a thin Dart wrapper around it, allowing multiple languages to create their own bindings, like GTK did. Instead, they decided to couple a UI framework with a language that almost no one is using. Maybe b
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by stefano 9y ago
> We 100% promise that all the code we generate works across all browsers. By supporting only Chrome, you're showing that you consider Firefox/Safari/Edge as second class citizens, making it harder to trust that you will k
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by stefano 9y ago
If you just get on with it, you're contributing to make Chrome a monopoly, and that will in turn slow down the pace of technology. Google/Chrome won't act differently from Microsoft/IE6. There's no reason to invest
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by stefano 9y ago
> and no one can arbitrarily issue new bitcoin at a whim Anyone can fork it though. And the interesting part, as seen for bitcoin cash, is that the total market cap of the fork + original chain right after the fork was greater than the v
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by stefano 9y ago
Isn't it a failure of a decentralized system the fact that most, if not all, persons using it end up depending on a centralized system?
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by stefano 9y ago
My guess is that there is very little real liquidity in the market, and most of the value is just paper gains that can't be fully realised, i.e. a single person can fully liquidate to dollars, but if everyone does it, many people will
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by stefano 9y ago
I find it hilarious that people "investing" in decentralization have to turn to a central authority to be protected.
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by stefano 9y ago
I'll be pretty happy to "lose out" from being tracked and profiled.
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by stefano 9y ago
Hold on, you can't call a linked list theoretical knowledge. It's a basic data structure used in tons of real world code, including this forum. And even then, theoretical knowledge does have an impact in the real world. People don
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by stefano 9y ago
Blockchains seem to be really good at raising capital.
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by stefano 9y ago
It's the problem of studying for the test vs studying to learn. Some knowledge will transfer, but the further the test is removed from reality, the lesser the transferable knowledge will be. When I look back at the interviews I had and
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by stefano 9y ago
Yeah. Their TOS says that they're under no obligation of giving you dollars in exchange for tethers. In fact, no one has ever redeemed a single tether and there is no process in place to actually do it. Why people believe that 1 USDT =
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by stefano 9y ago
> as long as their books balance This is a really strong assumption that I wouldn't bet on.
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by stefano 9y ago
Market cap is very different from the actual money invested in the ecosystem. I don't know the exact number, but I bet it's a lot lower than $100bn. Stupid example: I create 100bn coins. Then I sell one to myself for $1. Am I no
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Tether Printer(twitter.com)
4 points by stefano 9y ago|0 comments
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by stefano 9y ago
Tether might be a good candidate.
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by stefano 9y ago
Transpilers used to be called "source-to-source compilers", or "compilers" when the "source-to-source" distinction wasn't relevant. Then the JS world came along and decided to use a new word to make it loo
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by stefano 9y ago
Compilation is for old people writing old programs that run on old things called "computers". We're fresh and new and iterating quickly on our MVP, so we don't have time to wait for long compilation time. Instead we tran

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