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by waprin 4y ago
This is an area I'm pretty passionate about. So first of all, it's pretty clear that you _do_ have some interests. You mention Feynman and Kazantzakis. That sounds like you're interested in the history of science and literatu
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I Ditched Django for NextJS(billprin.com)
12 points by waprin 4y ago|4 comments
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by waprin 4y ago
Repost from 2020, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22126731 Thought it was very useful article so worth a repost. The author is a cofounder of Supabase (YC S20)
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Design Tips for Developers (2020)(paul.copplest.one)
5 points by waprin 4y ago|1 comments
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12-8 Intermittent Fasting for Social Media(billprin.com)
1 points by waprin 4y ago|0 comments
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When we made the original iPhone, we didn’t have product managers(twitter.com)
20 points by waprin 4y ago|12 comments
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How to Stop Worrying and Love Front End Dev(billprin.com)
3 points by waprin 4y ago|1 comments
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by waprin 4y ago
I recently left a 400k+ job to work full time on an app addressing this exact problem, despite having a wife, daughter, and Bay Area mortgage . Of course productivity apps are a crowded space but I have a burning need to build the right too
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by waprin 4y ago
When joined in they were on the tail end of sunsetting Google Code, which they explained was the smart thing to do because Google doesn’t want to waste its time on opportunities that aren’t measured in billions. Google then sat on the sidel
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by waprin 4y ago
When I worked at Google, I made an App Engine Flexible runtime for the Whitespace language (only valid characters are space, tab, etc). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua... App Engine Flexibl
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by waprin 4y ago
On paper, Python is not the right tool for the job. Both because of its bad performance characteristic and because it’s so forgiving/flexible/dynamic , it’s tough to maintain large Python codebases with many engineers. At Google t
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by waprin 5y ago
Most people bought bitcoin to buy weed on Silk Road , now it’s the reserve currency for a nation state. Just because not every use case lives up to the big picture ideology and long term goals doesn’t mean there is no big picture long term
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by waprin 5y ago
The source code needs to be on everyone’s computer so that its execution is decentralized. Part of the problem is confusion around the word decentralized. If I have a website billprin.com , in a sense it’s decentralized because there’s a mi
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by waprin 5y ago
Hacker News seems to think the circles they hang out with represent all developers? Dan Boneh teaches cryptography for Stanford and works for a16z crypto. Silvio Macali is a Turing award winner working full time in a new blockchain. People
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by waprin 5y ago
Uniswap / automated market makers / decentralized exchanges are already a “killer app” of web3. It’s not a hypothetical, it already has billions in daily volume. It’s true that , for any blockchain app, you could trust a third par
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by waprin 5y ago
The love of lists seems to explain the explosion of Twitter threads. Some of them are long form messages spliced up but most of them are some form of lists. I’m personally still partial to a good old blog posts with paragraphs, both for wri
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Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 2(billprin.com)
13 points by waprin 5y ago|5 comments
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Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1(billprin.com)
168 points by waprin 5y ago|305 comments
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by waprin 5y ago
Check out Vitaliks post on the topic : https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html
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by waprin 5y ago
Check out Vitaliks post on social recovery wallets https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html
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by waprin 5y ago
> The fact that GOOG doesn't pay dividends is not important or meaningful. I actually agree with you here. The thing is, the fact that Bitcoin or Ethereum doesn't have "intrinsic value" is not important or meaningful
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by waprin 5y ago
No, you’re in fact the one whose incorrect. Buying a share of GOOG in no way gives you rights to their trademarks or other IP. In fact you don’t even get voting rights, unlike traditional stock. GOOG is the one that’s been “hollowed out “.
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by waprin 5y ago
The dotcom boom was mostly fueled by rabid speculation. Today, people love their tech stocks, even though none of them pay dividends - the only reason to buy GOOG or AMZN is the hope that you can sell that stock down the line to a "gre
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by waprin 5y ago
If startups wanted to convince employees their equity was valuable, they easily could simply by adding protections to avoid many of the bad scenarios. For examples, there’s no good reason why employees shouldnt get preferred shares. The who
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by waprin 5y ago
I don't think it's true that high paid jobs tend to be interesting, but they do tend to be impactful. A lot of big tech jobs are about cleaning up infrastructure technical debt, in many cases the work is pretty boring, but between
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by waprin 5y ago
I understand your sentiment, but on the flip side, if you browse around Reddit you’ll quickly see people going all in on random meme coins like SHIB with comments like “I’ll be in a resort in Bali or homeless.” The problem is if they lose t
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by waprin 5y ago
The main benefit of NextJS is that it makes it very easy to write code once and quickly swap whether it's going to be statically generated ahead of time, rendered on the server, or rendered dynamically on the client. It also comes with
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by waprin 5y ago
But I was complaining about the exact opposite- I have a hard time finding potential design cofounders as an engineer, and every hackathon and similar events seems to be filled with engineers , but short on designers even though designers w
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by waprin 5y ago
Fair points, but a note on AirBnB with the caveat that I only know the public information and never worked there. To me, their only moat is their brand and the network effects they built with that brand. The famous stories are them fundrais
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by waprin 5y ago
By that logic, you can hire a freelance dev to do all the programming too. There are some pretty good people out there who aren't that expensive. But there's a bunch of risks with that approach and they are similar to the ones whe

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