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by acesubido 6y ago
> Buying Bitcoin isn’t so much a hedge against inflation as it is a bet that demand will continue to rise. While I do agree with majority of your points, I think people are missing a crucial point why Bitcoin was made in the first place:
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by acesubido 6y ago
> And there are a ton of articles that talk about how microservices save you money over a monolith, but none include hard numbers. Yeah, you can do that by collecting a ton of data related to development though. Breaking down sprints, co
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by acesubido 6y ago
> I simply can't answer what BTCs and other crypto coins are actually good for. Everybody here is missing out why Bitcoin was made in the first place: the 2008 crash. The benefits of a globally liquid asset (not USD) will only be ap
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by acesubido 6y ago
10-20 year horizon: Battery Technology. Manufacturing improvements, improving density and cooling requirements, recycling economy, etc. There's a huge race first-mover race that Japan has made a government-backed consortium tackling on
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by acesubido 6y ago
> Apart from saying you're a "generalist", how do you best sell yourself when you don't have a specialisation or a specific area you are focused on? "I have a talent and process for evaluating new technologies at
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by acesubido 6y ago
> Bitcoin has been in an upward trend since early September for no discernible reason (to me at least). I think it's mainly due to purchases from institutions that believe that Bitcoin is a safe haven asset during the lockdowns. The
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by acesubido 7y ago
I got around 300+ kills, I did that just by standing at the corner of the map and waited for them. Since they move slow, the turn rate was good enough not to be killed no matter how many spawned. 2 things for improvement: - Demand more mech
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by acesubido 7y ago
I've always found the Sentry Gun UI in Aliens (1984) to be one of the more realistically usable ones.
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by acesubido 7y ago
For personalities try Jason Friedman. Martin Fowler's Refactoring is a nice read too. But personally, I'd like to ask what business goal are we looking to solve? Because regardless of how murky a codebase can be, if that codebase
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by acesubido 7y ago
> I think scientists have made an overwhelming convincing case climate change is real and it's from an increase in co2, but I have seen no models that I can play with specifically predicting how it will affect certain regions..... I
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by acesubido 7y ago
> they think of all the possibilities that go wrong and start from the edge cases inwards, which individually represent a small piece of functionality. > I would rather they deliver a working chunk and just log.error when missing info
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by acesubido 7y ago
Balsamiq if I just want to get an idea across (layout, story boarding) Figma for higher-fidelity discussions (colors, spacing, icons, etc.)
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by acesubido 7y ago
+1 to Logitech K380. The only con I can think of are the arrow keys, but overall the key travel and typing is really good.
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by acesubido 7y ago
> So why are software companies so willing to offer more pay for a managerial role that is easy to hire for, and so unwilling to offer more pay for a technical role that is one of the hardest to hire for? It really depends on which part
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by acesubido 7y ago
In 2029? I don't mean to sound "apocalyptic", but currently we're on track with a lot of global warming projections, 2030-2052 is the 1.5deg temp projection ( https://www.c2es.org/content/ipcc-1-5-deg
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by acesubido 7y ago
In 10 years? I guess, not. Maybe 20 or 30? The world will have a different set of problems 10 years from now. A different set of verticals, regulations to work with. A different amount of platforms or hardware (quantum computers, more acces
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by acesubido 7y ago
> whereas Libra is a Plutocracy (you need to be wealthy to be one of the few) Agreed. The same way governments require a large amount of capital to be a bank to ensure depositors of liquidity. You need to have capital to back the Libra
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by acesubido 7y ago
> That sounds amazingly dystopian. I mean, that’s literally a money built on an oligarchy. By design. IMO, it's a small step towards a better direction. The "validator" consensus (oligarchy) is a much more transparent&#x2F
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by acesubido 7y ago
This: "There's a feature you and several other co-workers are building. The deadline is 3 days from now. You and 'Co-worker A' are tasked in building a module of that feature. You've already written several classes
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by acesubido 7y ago
> the grunts who get assigned more menial pieces of work Funnily enough if you automate and re-architect those menial pieces of work, you will turn that pile of boredom into a "serious growth prospect". > Does anyone have si
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by acesubido 7y ago
> If not, my maker soul asks: maybe there should be one? Maybe I should build one? Would you consider using this kind of service in your applications if one exists? Why not? To answer your "maybe there should be one?" question.
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by acesubido 7y ago
> What goes into building a international payments service like Paypal? A LOT of bizdev and treasury work, a.k.a. doing things that's hard to scale. Let's take for example: paying out USD to NGN or IDR. To be able to pay out in
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by acesubido 8y ago
A Web UI where you can click a button that says "Launch VM" given CPU/RAM/Disk requirements, after a few minutes it returns to you SSH credentials. Don't use cloud services. Literally, spin up a VirtualBox VM from w
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by acesubido 8y ago
> The best experiences I can remember were when I was building games prototypes in XNA. I was only using the basics of the framework and writing a lot of the engine myself. This happens to me as well, it's easy to keep churning out
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by acesubido 8y ago
I applied for a Rails Engineer job. Day 1, my team lead insisted on Grails. After 6 months, team leads stopped Product Development, and the next few months consisted of me being inside datacenters installing Hadoop clusters on baremetal. Fu
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by acesubido 8y ago
1. Reading helps. I find that reading the "manual" of a tech stack helps even more. Reading it slowly brings the best results, and if all else fails, reading the source. Under time pressure, my previous tendencies were to "St
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by acesubido 8y ago
ORM's are nice for majority of writes and simple reads based off of an object (a model). It starts to hinder once there's a requirement for complex reports. I find, that's where the distatse of ORMs in an organization starts.
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by acesubido 9y ago
I do a simple version of a balanced scorecard: 1) Financial/Stakeholders - Are we raking in revenue? What type of revenue (high-touch, low-touch. high-volume/low-margin or low-volume/high-margin)? Are we consistently making t
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by acesubido 10y ago
Trying my hand on a small elixir-based livestreaming video broadcast server using WebRTC. Broadcasters and Audience would be in react-native. Dunno if it would work though.

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