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Larger enterprises have their own images and would never put a preinstall on a users' desktop.

Surprised that nobody has taken the effort to explain "how" this is happening.

The article talks about flaws in DEX design, opening the risk of front running. What's happening is that DEXs work on chain, therefore orders are submitted on chain and thus visible in the mempool while waiting for miners to include it in a block. Front runners view these pending orders and then submit a similar order (but with a higher gas fee), thus incentivizing miners to take their Ethereum transaction instead of the earlier order (for higher fees).

While the article in question is correct with regards to what I explained above, I hate how generalizing it is. Not all DEXs are designed the same way. The first generation of DEXs did everything on chain which also has the downside of limited throughput (limited by blockchain transactions per second). The next generation DEXs are working to solve this with off chain solutions which would also solve the front running problem.

If you're having 1:1s each fortnight, you probably won't even need 30mins. In practice, schedule for 30mins but in reality it rarely takes that much time so don't fret about losing so much time.

It's hard to avoid. My project has a firebaseConfig.js.sample file committed as a reminder to the deployer, they need to create their own. And I put firebaseConfig.js into .gitignore in case a developer is careless.

Would you recommend reading Ball Lightning before the TBP Trilogy if I've never read any of this...because it's a prequel?

Do you value the medium or the content? I can't see why you think 'digital self-publishing' is a bad thing.

If anything, digital publishing where you can circumvent the publishers should allow for more content to reach market (not saying it's all good...see geocities webpages as an example of this) but I'm not sure why you think this would be bad for the Chinese SciFi scene.

I don't think he automated it. It looks like he outsourced it to cheaper labour in the Philipines

Please, do not be those people who squat all the seats in coffee houses.

I see there are browser plugins, enabling you to read Quora articles without logging in.

But are there any plugins that remove/filter all google search results from Quora?

Would it shock you to find out that Cobol developers make almost as much as Java developers? And I'm pretty sure they don't need to constantly learn a new version of the language every few years.

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But seriously... A recent job hunt has made me aware of how crummy companies are and how management roles are under-appreciated; so I've been spending a lot of effort on updating my developer skills as it seems most companies expect you to do everything nowadays.

Same here. Started off by trying to pick up React. Found React to be really complicated for a non-JS developer (I've done mostly server-side stuff). Someone suggested I try VueJS, tried it and had a much easier time.

Slightly OT but which development laptop has best keyboard? I can't stand my circa 2012 rMBP keyboard (and the newer ones are even worse). I'm guessing a Thinkpad?? But I can't find one with good battery, screen and weight.

It always puzzles me when people point out that cryptocurrencies are used for illegal activities.

Cyptocurrencies were not designed to facilitate illegal activities. Yet every fuddite makes it seem so.

Every single fiat currency in the world is/can be used for illegal activities. Do we discard them? Care to wager which currency, USD or BTC; is used more for illegal activities? No, I didn't think you would. But media and fudders will repeatedly point out that it's cryptos that are used to transact illegal things.

Is there an error in this? "In this case book pressure is simply (99.0010 + 98.755)/(10+5) = 98.9167." in the Market Structure signals section. I can't see how that equation relates to the trade data given just prior.

Does causing community tensions, new user confusion, forked market cap and diversion of resources worth creating this short term fix?

The BCH camp could have contributed their resources to helping Core come up with a long term solution. Any fork that doesn't offer real groundbreaking advances is just a distraction and should be shunned. Forks that are simple recompilations of the original Bitcoin with simple config changes to the blocksize and/or algo are power/greed plays.

Most exchanges have limits on how much you can cash out per day so it's very unlikely you could do 100M in one pop.

I really wish people would stop using this "bitcoins used for illegal activities" narrative. USD is used for illegal activities and on a much larger scale yet nobody talks about it.

Let's do some conservative costing here. 4 people, consume 10 cups (total) of coffee each day, 20 work days in a month. At $3 a cup, that's $600. Now I'm not even going to guesstimate the beer but let's just say the team consume $100 of beer in a month. That leaves $1.5k for rent. Find a better deal.

Adhere to the style guide and make sure you remind others when they violate it.

These debates are why golang and it's gofmt are so great :)

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I had similar feelings until I realized that work would pay for my monthly cellular bill (including data roaming while abroad).

Bitcoin supply is finite. When you say "literally printed money"; you couldn't have come up with a poorer choice of words when discussing a digital currency with limited supply.

If you look at any crypto exchange, you will see BTC-fiat currency pairs for USD, EUR, CNY, JPY, etc. Not sure what more of an "attachment to fiat" you could ask for.

Because the reason is plainly stated in the article if you bothered to read it. Also, OSS existed for decades before the blockchain came along so to question any correlation between this and that would be absurd.

Not going to go into detail as I'm sure you know how to use Google.

Wechat isn't simply chat. It has grown into a platform that has empowered it's users to partake in a growing ecommerce industry. It also has p2p payments which is hugely popular.

Nice question by OP which piqued my interest. Unfortunate to see such polarized opinions. Based on the responses so far, I'm still up on the air on whether RN is a good choice or not. :(

I agree with your comment except the last sentence. Negative or not, I think it's a poor choice of word to use in the context of a CV/career.

When interviewees are asked "So why are you looking to move from your present job?". Saying that you need a new challenge sounds very different than "needing to pivot".

Startups "pivot" because they failed in some way.

Pivoting your career can be construed as having failed somewhere and needing to find something else.

In the context of a career, phrase it as evolving your skills to match market demand. The very people who "pivot" resonate with will immediately associate it with failure.

Any model that involves counterparty risk can be disrupted by the blockchain. Custodians who hold on to stocks while trades are properly settled or the hold on that cheque you deposited in your bank account.

It does more than Bitcoin because it allows the founders to rollback transactions from the ledger if they feel like it.

Sorry, a bit trollish but am I wrong? In theory Ethereum does promise a lot but in practice, we're yet to see much in terms of useful smart contracts. And as we can see from the DAO debacle, they've broken their claims of "Ethereum is a decentralized platform for applications that run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship or third-party interference."