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by vectorpush 10y ago
> rendering previous drills potentially obsolete This is the flaw in your reasoning. A better drill does not make the older one incapable of doing the same thing it has always done to meet your needs. For something to be made obsolete,
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Well I'm not surprised that a class on etiquette is going to make a point of teasing out the finer nuances of social interaction, but in most cases a simple "no thanks" will suffice. Most people don't care because in the
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by vectorpush 10y ago
All these tools exist for a reason, it's not "madness", it's individuals who wrote some code and open sourced it for the benefit of those who might find some use in it. Just because a tool hits the front page of HN does
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by vectorpush 10y ago
First you should think about what you actually want to build, then determine which features would benefit that type of application, from there you can consider the available tooling that facilitates the development of those features. The fa
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> so you can postpone learning some of the more esoteric stuff until you actually need it If you don't actually need it then why are you deploying it into production? IMO, while these boilerplates are an excellent way to get fami
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> Smart contracts are enforced programmatically, that's kind of the point. That is a tautological statement. Smart contracts are not "enforced" programmatically in any sense of the word that is distinct from all other pi
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> These contracts are enforced by math. Breaking them isn't a possibility. Math cannot "enforce" a contract, it can't even understand the terms of the agreement, much less enforce it. > We're in the beginni
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Well, if coffee shops started offering up free coffee with ads on the cup, people wouldn't pay $5 for coffee either.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Actually, the prevailing /r/politics groupthink overwhelmingly despises HRC. You'd be forgiven for mistaking /r/politics for a Fox News discussion board were it not for all the Bernie spam. I'm not a Clinton su
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> If I were disrupting the banking industry This is a quintessential example of bitcoin hyperbole. Please offer an example of how bitcoin is disrupting the banking industry.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I don't think that counts as covering it. Redux is very simple. The entire API surface is like 6 methods and it's not difficult to understand everything that it's doing for you.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I'll offer a controversial explanation: bitcoin enthusiasts have exhausted most of the oxygen in the room with regard to rational bitcoin discussion. The never-ending adulation of bitcoin as the greatest invention since the internet, t
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> Programmers are far too egalitarian for our own good The guild that is infamous for exalting the "leet", nurturing cliques, and projecting disdain towards n00bs, laypeople and "idiots" is too egalitarian ? >
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Fair enough. I haven't really heard that myself, but it does sound plausible based on some of the other over-the-top promotional lines I've heard during the pledge drives.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> While I really like it, they're not unbiased like they may have you believe. I've never really heard NPR hosts/reporters claim it to be a bastion of unbiased journalism. In fact, I don't think any news organizati
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Do you view prostitution as rape?
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> I don't know how you set that bar, maybe it's obvious. Perhaps you feel it's obvious to you , but do you trust the arbitrary judgement of some company's random employee? What if the employee or establishment deci
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by vectorpush 10y ago
How were you able to vote while you were asleep?
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by vectorpush 10y ago
What is the point again? If benign turns of phrase spoken on an internet forum factors into a company's hiring practices in any capacity, I'd say it's pretty much assured that it's a terrible place to work.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> * its extremely useful as money (if you live in Argentina or Zimbabwe, etc.)* You mean, it could be useful as money in theory, but in practice it is not. It is not practical to meet one's needs transacting in bitcoin even in aff
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Yeah. I suspect we'll see things get even more complex as an explosion of old and new languages begin to target wasm, but at the same time we'll probably get better solutions since we won't need to rely on transpilers and h
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Your societal impact concerns are not specific to women. The same supposed issue arises in a situation where a male CEO is not present to be a father figure or role model for their child (thus condemning them to an inevitable life of crime
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by vectorpush 11y ago
I think many people are aware of these risks, but the marijuana community is hesitant to concede them openly because of how overblown the risks have been portrayed in the past. I think you're right that this will change once the drug i
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> people would imagine the web would be amazing, and responsive and beautiful, and we would be doing some seriously intricate stuff. I think this is what happened. Everyone can agree that there are many examples of extreme over-engin
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> I find it to be a fairly common refrain. I don't object to the idea that some software trends towards sluggishness because of feature creep or lazy developers, but I take issue with the statement that computers of today don&#x
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> As someone who has been around since before the Web, While this is an impressive credential, it's one that I can also claim. > I can confirm that computers today do not feel any faster... despite the fact that your phone is
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> It's a shame you got downvoted for that, as you make a very good point. I think this is because the comment comes off as flippant and snarky. > This stuff is one reason that, despite the advances associated with Moore's
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by vectorpush 11y ago
This is not a twitter problem. If you're a famous celebrity with a gigantic megaphone you have to accept the fact that the masses are going to react to what you put out there. I think it's funny when celebrities get all wrinkled o
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by vectorpush 11y ago
> JavaScript people have programming ADHD. Why do you feel the need to categorize people based on the programming language that they used to write some code? I prefer "JavaScript people" to needlessly condescending people any
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by vectorpush 11y ago
lol yeah, people who write code in languages I don't like are total tools.

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