wesleytodd

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by wesleytodd 8y ago
I didn't intend to imply it was standard. In fact I meant that it was not standard and that is why I was lucky.
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
This mostly. But also I don't self identify with a strongly held ethic. I identify more with a balanced approach where sometimes ethics are a guide, and other times the outcome is as or more important, just depends on the situation.
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Personal anecdote: I was contacted by a facebook recruiter a few years ago. I started the process and also started thinking about if I would like working there. I realized that I disagree strongly with the product, its effects on society,
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
I think this is outdated. I tried in Chrome, FF and Safari, and even when I follow what the original linked article does it still does not work.
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Preach
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
I got a new MBP for work, and every time I go home to my ~2015 model I am so happy to not be typing on this new shitty keyboard, and that is to say nothing of the oversized trackpad always accidentally causing me to move my cursor with my p
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State of Express 2018(dev.to)
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Yep, anecdotal evidence :) I will say, where I am now (bay area FANG company) it is WAY more common to have traditional CS background and also be a high performer. I attribute that to a biased selection in SV, and not an actual correlation
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
I noticed that as well. I have always thought there might be a correlation between self-taught and self selection for success in a topic. Anecdotally, I was self-taught, and many of the highest performing engineers I know where also. Most
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Complexity is a choice in most programming ecosystems. The most simple applications I have ever worked on are node applications. In some ecosystems it is more consistently complex (Java?) but others just have many approaches with different
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
What is amazing to me is that twitter still does not have a solution for sharing mobile links to desktop users. It is a really bad user experience.
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
I hadn't heard of Overnet, so here is a wiki for others like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overnet That said, it seems like "what makes it better" is that it hasn't received a take-down because
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
>For example it exists both in React and JavaScript There is a funny hot take in there somewhere...
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ims: P2P npm module installer(github.com)
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
My argument is more that forcing tech companies to invest in distributed data ownership tech would push that forward in a way that would enable more competition of services because your data would be portable, not locked into vendors like i
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Here is an interesting take on this "why?" by @pfrazee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL37ZVnwpeshG2YXJkun_lyNT...
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Check out beaker browser and fritter: https://beakerbrowser.com/ https://github.com/beakerbrowser/fritter Built on top of dat, it is basically this kind of architecture.
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
It was not intended to provide privacy, the the distributed data store. If you want privacy you probably just want to have a private swarm, which is perfectly fine to setup. Just implement a client with a whitelist or another mechanism fo
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Also, I am quite aware of how disruptive this ideal would be to most of our current large internet companies. I don't think it will realistically change any time soon, and am sure it would have side effects which would have to be bala
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Yeah I don't want to be hosting data I have not vetted either. I think being aware of the content any device you own is serving on the net is a good thing, even if it reduces the amount of people willing to do it for others. TBQH if s
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Check out Dat: https://datproject.org/
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
I think the faster we make companies liable for the content on their servers the better. Why? Because I want distributed/federated data to become an actual priority to these companies. I want it to hit their bottom line when they
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
One can hope
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Lol, down to 340. It was ~200 in January. So it is only up 60% this year.
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
I am a professional developer who primarily uses React and I actively avoid most of this. I keep up with the community so know (or at least know about) almost all of this, but choose not to use it all. The direction I have seen react go is
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
Sure! (at least I don't see why you wouldn't be able to)
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
I think you are missing the point here? Everyone is a server is pretty much the opposite of "serverless". The article is just illustrating the migration path from traditional web assets from centralized servers and how you can us
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
I think "laws or misstakes by big corps" are exactly what we are seeing happen #Facebook #GDPR
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
https://datproject.org/
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by wesleytodd 8y ago
I think the really interesting things here are more than just "support new p2p transports/protocols". The things Beaker is doing around changing the way we author the web are the real important pieces, and finding the "

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