bikamonki

If you need to code a game to teach your users how to properly use your products...

Hold on. I think only a handful of geniuses understands the whole stack: from electrons moving in your PC to a hyperlink. Even they are really only good (experienced) at one thin slice of that big layered cake.

Most in this trade work on a layer near the top (closer to the end-user) coding just a bit of logic and gluing together building blocks in order to provide a solution to real needs.

The trade seems trivial because the hard work (millions of lines of code) is already done. And that right there is the brilliance of the whole thing: take any layer apart and it will be done of smaller pieces which have been debugged to the point of being practically flawless (yes, we still find bugs in code that is out there for years, but that is the exception not the rule).

On the other hand, if you want accountability and guaranteed results, you have them already: formal software development processes used by the likes of NASA or the military.

A few decades back nobody new, or cared, that smoking cigarettes was so bad for your health and everyone else around you.

You can wait a couple of decades to realize, or accept, that social media is bad for your health and everyone else around you.

Or you can quit now.

Just wait for the movie :)

I never jumped into the React wagon, just as I never took the Wordpress train. You do not hire an 18-wheeler to deliver a pizza. Engineers on any subject have one job: design the optimal solution, be it a bridge or an SPA to take online orders.

React makes sense for FB's bloated, complex web app. Your CRUD app will do fine with far simpler dev tools. Even vanilla JS does the job in most cases.

99% developer feels compelled to learn and adopt what is trendy because that is what the client/market/boss demands; but it is you the 'engineer' who has to tell the client/boss how that bridge is to be built. When was the last time you went to a doctor and said: hey doc I have this, give me that medicine.

Firebase

If a) I can work from anywhere, and b) many countries will let me stay 6mos with a tourist visa (no need for application and meet requirements). Why would I choose a friggin cold and expensive place?

This is per capita right? So a family of 5 making $4500/mo in Bolivia would be considered rich, the same family with that income in London is barely surviving.

Not sure how these percentages will move if adjusted for purchasing power. Maybe half the world isn't poor anymore? Or maybe 90% still is?

Well put. Not everything is bad about crypto, some ideas may turn into the "next thing". One use I find interesting and look forward to see if it grows into something truly useful is DAOs. I know is a naive thought but I do see decentralized governance as a way of fixing the broken democracy we currently have. I also believe crypto has the potential to fix banking and insurance. We'll see.

One should not buy things that one does not needed. Money spent in education and travel (which is just a form of education) is the best investment.

Convince me that I am wrong.

Reading this thread I can see that finally HN has turn into another Twitter. That is sad. I thought we were a different crowd: objective, respectful, inquisitive, non-political.

Is this the endgame for all social nets?

Too bad the Internet hijacked the term meme: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/richard-dawkins-memes

Let's agree on a definition first: web 3.0 is using blockchain tech to replace current server-side computing (static file hosting, functions/processing, databases, etc) and online centralized services (payments, identity, etc).

So, is it bs? No, it is not. If you are a developer, you can go now and build a dapp (a web3 application or distributed app).

So far so good, but:

A simple dapp will cost cents to host/run (even better: will cost only once!) but, can it scale? How easy/cheap would be to run a big, very big, social net? An online store such as Amazon? Uber?

No "password-reset" mechanism. That just sucks.

Keeping the current web safe for your uncle is a pain, yes, that uncle that clicks on every link sent from the rich African prince. Imagine keeping it safe once you help him install a chrome-ext crypto wallet so he can login and consume content from a dapp social net?

It is not really decentralized: you public facing dapp cannot be directly served from the nodes of a blockchain, you need a gateway, that is a centralized web server (good luck making SSL work for your registered domain!).

It would take many years for businesses to migrate/adopt web 3.0 standards. We are barely finishing moving tech to "online versions" from traditional client-server apps.

Miners are businesses, running nodes costs money, they ought to make more of what they spend otherwise they will just disconnect the node. Your data/code may be distributed but its persistence/availability depends on the economic success of whatever project you choose to trust. Early adopters of web 2.0 server-less apps experienced this first hand when they had to port their projects from Parse to something else when FB bought it and shut it down.

Professional miners are needed. You are not going to build your banking dapp on the spare capacities of our laptop's hard drives and CPUs, or are you? Might as well trust the engineers at Google or AWS who have it already figured out and are charging reasonably for it, no?

In sum: web 3.0 tech is here, it is interesting, but it is not a hammer for every nail.

Some, not all.

Hold it. Apparently, the motivation here is to acknowledge that these animals are somehow sentient; in other words, if any law is passed, it will be to prohibit practices that make these animals suffer. Nothing is said here about depredation of these animals populations. So, IMO, a lobster boiled alive will suffer just as much as a lobster crushed by the jaws of a hungry seal. So, do we need to legally protect them from seals and its horrific hunting practices?

Will there be a law prohibiting other predators, not humans, from hunting these animals?

If you've been doing web dev from the go, you surely remember Front Page and Dreamweaver. Both built the code from the Adobe Photoshop layers. Completely no-code (perhaps b/c gathering user data from web forms was not done just yet, the web was uni-directional publishing).

Eventhough we had these tools I still preferred to code from scratch, simply I could not stand the output code, it was messy, full of unused stuff, excesively commented, etc.

I like to look under the hood and understand what's going on. This is not for me.

Way, way beyond cool, right out there on the horizon of what is possibly great. Greatastic!

greatastic greatas·tic of the greatest quality; Great. "the greatastic works of the Socratic philosopher"

I use Firebase. Most projects don't need more than the free tier. A few are on the paid tier; however, the monthly cost is covered by revenue and way below the cost of running our own infra. I would not switch services/host a backend just to save a few hundred bucks. Call their bluff.

More importantly: will it ever be paid? Let's say this is a household that decides to stop accumulating debt and starts a pay off plan. How long will it take?

Made it past the intro. His ideas are debatable; however, I'm gonna go a bit ad-hominem here: why do we tend to put rich and smart in the same box? Increasingly, I see guys who 'made it' (maybe sheer luck or timing) being cast as authorities on solving the world's problems. Is it because cash is king?

$299 for a featureless phone? Get a Nokia for $20: same cure for the addiction, less dinero :)

In Spanish, voice cracks in male teens are called "gallos". The AI sounds just like one :)

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Beyond cool.

For me, nowadays, cross-platform should be runs-in-the-browser, use anywhere. Hence the success of Google Workspace.

Oracle is a fancy name for an API, right?

It is not clear to me, after reading this nice piece, if the fire must be kept alive all night long in order to keep the tent warm?

One never calls The Linus just a man.