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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
I actually had this as a planned footnote in the article, then cut it because I haven’t added support for footnotes yet lol
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Why is selling software so weird?(zeptonaut.com)
219 points by zeptonaut22 5y ago|148 comments
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
I'm still too much of a noob to comment on what the core selling points of blockchains are, but in my experience the core selling points vary a lot from person to person and decentralization is not always the most important concern. (F
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
This is definitely a lesson to me to include sources in footnotes - I think my source here was googling "energy usage ethereum transaction" and using the info card at the top of the search page, which appears to be from https:&#x
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
As I mentioned in the article > If there’s a way to reduce Bitcoin’s environmental impact, it’s certainly above my paygrade. I think it's a really hard problem. I guess I'm not sure what "rallying against certain kinds of
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
One of the things that I'm trying to say in the article, though, is that it's not super helpful to lump all blockchains together. Bitcoin is an impossible-to-dislodge behemoth that in my opinion fails to meet its original goals an
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
I'd like to be indignant with you, but until a week or two ago, I was definitely in that camp. There's so much hype around crypto that it almost felt like there had to be nothing there, and if there was, it was hard to identify
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
Amen. One of the things I'd like to work on is silly, local, small crypto projects that will be appealing to people that don't give two craps about blockchains or crypto. I think if you can make projects like that, then you could
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
Like I mentioned in the post - I'm still a noob here and don't pretend to know enough to support or refute what you're saying, but what you said certainly makes sense. I can confidently say that it seems not-too-difficult to
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
That makes sense to me, but I... fully admit to not being enough of a crypto expert to factor that into the post. More than anything, this post was written as a defense to myself, family, and friends about why crypto is worth digging into d
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
That's totally fair. I do think that any discussion of Bitcoin has to be evaluated through the lens of "did Bitcoin meet Satoshi's original vision of a digital replacement for cash", and I just don't think that Bitc
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
Definitely agree - it probably says more about me than crypto, but the primary thing that turned me off of crypto for so long was the people telling me how world-changing it was going to be that had clear incentives to pump up their own pro
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Blockchains will maybe not destroy the planet(zeptonaut.com)
27 points by zeptonaut22 5y ago|66 comments
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
While condenser microphones with a boom arm are nice for a home office, they're not portable enough for a setup that will work after returning to a hybrid office/WFH life. Ideally, that portable setup would have no boom arm, no po
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
I use Rubymine daily and really enjoy using it, but I can't help but feel like the editor layer is the wrong place for this sort of thing to live. When writing code, I constantly switch between my IDE, my browser to test the code, my b
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
I think city design is one area where technology and data science is an underutilized tool. Comparing the answers to questions like: - How far does the average household have to walk to a play structure? - What's the median distance th
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How to Design Cities for Children (2018)(bloomberg.com)
2 points by zeptonaut22 6y ago|1 comments
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
I watch far, far more This Old House TV than I should. As an engineer, it satisfies all of my urges to understand how things work and see other people work who are both highly skilled and who enjoy coming to work together. If you haven&#x27
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
Very helpful! May not save a ton of time, but as someone who performs this action 100 times per day, every little bit helps. My personal plug for my Github WYSIWYG wishlist item: create an easy way to make images smaller (not full width). E
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Paywall Screens – Everything you need to design the perfect iOS paywall screen(paywallscreens.com)
1 points by zeptonaut22 6y ago|0 comments
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
I have a close family member with sensorineural hearing loss to the extent that, at 60, he's unable to participate in conversation. It's dramatically impacted both his mental and physical health. I'm not sure that less regula
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
I lived in Detroit next to a major corridor (Cass Ave) that got protected bike lanes going both ways and can confirm, it was _awesome_. The biggest differentiator I noticed is that the bar for how "hard core" of a biker you had to
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
God I am so dumb.
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
I've found a lot of lessons can be drawn from competitive games with tight feedback loops and applied outside of those domains. There's something to be learned from these areas where there are a whole bunch of people trying very h
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
I mean... surely they can't be making money on this, right?! A lot of offers I've seen like this (e.g. Wendy's free Frosty keychain fob) require buying something else with the free item, just to make this vaguely cost effecti
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
Ironically, the founder of my company and I spent over an hour breaking apart this exact page yesterday talking about its UI. There are a lot of really good things that this page does right (shows tradeoffs between different tiers in a way
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Rocket League and root cause misattribution(zeptonaut.com)
1 points by zeptonaut22 6y ago|0 comments
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When hiring in secondary markets, seek out great teachers and avid learners(zeptonaut.com)
16 points by zeptonaut22 6y ago|4 comments
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
As an early-stage CTO, I really appreciated this insight-from-the-future about how my role might change over time if we're ultimately successful. One interesting difference with our company is that I hit the bottleneck of "I need
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by zeptonaut22 6y ago
I'd love to hear an Airpods Max mic test here. This is the only meaningful info I could find on its microphone: > With AirPods Max, voice calls and Siri commands are crisp and clear due to beam-forming microphones that block out amb

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