I have worked as a programmer, product manager and developer On all manner of projects, and this has allowed me to travel to and live in many interesting places... I particularly enjoyed my time in Amsterdam and Cyprus. I used to be in a band in Athens, GA, and I’m pretty sure I went to school there too. I am especially interested in what is happening with the evolution of Blockchain applications. I hope to learn a lot of new things here.
I feel lucky that I haven’t been crammed into a small apartment with roommates or whatever. It’s so much easier to have a routine without having to bump into a bunch of other people. I don’t know if I could have survived without my outdoor spaces though... there’s nothing like being able to sit outside and work on my laptop for long hours. Really sorry for everyone else who has been locked indoors. Two months would have been rough, but this is beyond intolerable. At least we will always have the upper hand whenever our grandchildren complain about being bored or cooped up: “Let me tell you something about being stuck inside!”
I have usually had at least fifteen stupid little problems by lunch time every day, so just try to be cognizant of the irritating things that you regularly come across. The chances are pretty good that someone is already selling some cool widget that attempts to solve your exact problem. I am not saying that you will encounter huge problems to solve, but you can at least easily entertain yourself.
Or you could watch MacGyver for some inspiration... I have been inspired to build a time machine to go back in time so that I can inform Richard Dean Anderson that the mullet is actually not a cool haircut.
Even though I have begged the cable company to address the underlying issue, I have gone through several dozen modem/DVR boxes due to lightning strikes. I can only assume that the equipment is super inexpensive, otherwise they would have sorted the problem ages ago. They have been making a fortune on renting out marked up junk for years, but I am sure they are already thinking of some clever ways to claw that revenue stream back.
I have always been advised that it is prudent not to use any browser-based wallet generators, especially while you are online. There are quite a few app-based wallets that will allow you to generate an address before wiping it from your phone. That is a well spotted security issue though.
I listened to a lecture not too long ago about the perception of coincidence in the context of large, seemingly random environments, for example repeatedly seeing the same person in a busy city shopping district or encountering unexpected traffic patterns. This sort of goes to why humans are so bad at seeing patterns in the ”random” numbers generated by computers. Simply put, coincidence is generally our inability to make sense of the more complex underlying mathematical relationships, and so our dumb monkey brains attempt to fit together information that may not really have any logical commonality.
I suppose the transparency and the basic uniformity is what really separates chess from other mental activities. That is to say, there is no hidden information or any advantage that isn’t equally available to everyone. there are not too many activities that operate on that same sort of classless, egalitarian level, and so I can understand why the author is so passionate about it as a tool for learning the skills of concentration. With that in mind, I am terrible at it, and go makes me look like a drooling idiot... I can’t even understand when a game is over even though I try to practice every day.
Yeah, that’s not really the point. People are going to avoid using these types of services, whether it’s Robinhood or some other startup, if they think they are going to get scammed. It is bad form, and the thing is that they knew that people have been skeptical about their sources of revenue for some time now.
It is a shame that these types of tech companies are always churning up such bad publicity... they literally cannot afford to be making these sorts of unforced errors. It just makes it that much more difficult for all the innovative and honest startups who are trying to bring about positive disruption. cutting corners and misleading your customers is not innovation.
When I was in the UK I lived in a terraced house from the 1880’s with thick exterior walls. It wasn’t all that bad, but I wouldn’t say that it was very well insulated either. It was OK if you just wanted to heat one room, though I did have a decent collection of fleece sweaters and whatever. Actually, The warm summers were rough because there was no cooling, and most of my clothes were designed for cold, damp weather.
I am trying to learn more about analytics in order to inform decisions about developments in my own project. Do you have any advice about a good place to start? I think most of the information will be small strings of text coming from databases, but I’m trying to think of the best way to make sense of it all. I am not really vain enough to want to follow my activities here on HN, but perhaps you could explain how you approached this project.
If I really get into a flow I will forget to eat and my dog becomes annoyed with me. That’s when I get irritated by stupid phone calls and turn off all of my messaging alerts. I used to do that sort of thing well over fifteen or sixteen hours at a time, but I have tried to curb those types of long sessions recently. I do not think the work improves just because you put in longer hours and perhaps needs even more cleaning up afterwards. so now I tend to think it is just as important to step away from things for a while and do something completely different.
No one ever said that programmers were poets. It seems like they were just trying to get their point across while saving keystrokes, but it seems funny that something so simple and obvious occupied so much of their attention.
I do not remember Which language I was first introduced to as a kid, but I do remember being very on excited because it did not seem related to anything I was interested in. I agree that something like JavaScript/XML is a good place to start when learning new languages because it is so accessible and immediate. I once showed a young, budding nerd how to animate SVG files with jQuery, and I could see his mind being blown in real time. While it is not as deep and has constraints, JavaScript does still have most of the basic concepts required for any of the more advanced languages.
I have never bothered to classify the personality traits of the people I enjoy spending time with, but there is nothing more exciting and interesting than being around a group of nerds who are trying to solve a problem or whatever. people who never get a chance to experience that process really just cannot understand the mindset. It is nice to get paid, but I would probably want to be involved in that sort of thing anyway. I simply thought that is how nerdy and eccentric people behave.
I think quite a lot of people are going through a similar funk right now, and it could be the case that your lack of interest in programming is a symptom of all of this social distancing business. Even people who were not very social before the pandemic are starting to crack a bit, and unfortunately the usual remedies are not an option at the moment. The best thing to do is to speak to a professional if it’s really bothering you... i’m sure we all mean well here, but don’t listen to a bunch of idiots on a message board.
I suppose the salaries are somewhat comparable if perhaps a little lower, however the cost of living is much less in general compared to SF. The most important thing is that the beer is inexpensive, and the fact that you can spend every weekend in a different city for next to nothing more than makes up for the discrepancy.
Weather aside, I really enjoyed living in Amsterdam. It is a crowded and rather small city, but it is a big center for banking and tech. Europe doesn’t really do the sprawling mega cities like the US does, though everything is very well connected. Still though, that headline is a bit overblown.
Not at all. I suppose that I am just trying to point out that every asset has its pros and cons depending on the situation. The Euros at the bottom of my travel case are just as useful to me as my gold coins at the moment, and the pennies under my couch cushions, though easily more liquid, are much less valuable than either. Bitcoin is obviously far more accessible and convenient than gold, but I just cannot see anyone using it for small transactions... at least while the network fees are as high as they currently are.
I had a .com domain lapse while I was in hospital a couple of years ago, and The hijackers wanted $20,000 to sell it back to me. I don’t know what planet they were from, but it is a name that would be useful to literally only five or ten people at most. I just waited a year or so and then bought it back when it became available again for the more sane $10. Somebody is paying these idiots or else they would not be up to that sort of rubbish.
I agree with you that the fees for some of the cryptocurrency’s make them impractical, and this certainly will hinder mainstream adoption. I do not think that I will try to pay for coffee with some of my antique gold coins any time soon, but that does not render them any less valuable. bitcoin plays a similar role in the context of digital assets for the moment. It frustrates me when I read other comments here dismissing cryptocurrency out of hand without taking the time to understand it. As you rightly point out, some tokens are better at certain tasks depending on the situation In the same way that some fiat currencies are circumstantially better than others... I think a number of people in Lebanon would prefer BTC to LBP right now regardless of the fees. For my part, I am more concerned with micro transaction fees for running applications, and I will leave the speculation to someone else.
I couldn’t help thinking about a lot of the kids I knew at University while reading that. Some of them were enrolled in classes, and some of them were only tangentially associated with the school. Many of them were poor or occasionally homeless or just had very low paying jobs, and substance abuse was not at all uncommon. But the thing is they were all very smart and creative and tough. I would much rather have spent my time with them then the mindless frat boys and the so-called honors students... I think those are the types of privileged people discussed in the post that simply cannot function outside of that bubble. I am not suggesting that anyone should want to be poor or unprivileged but rather that it is a possibility, and this sort of humble approach helps to give a better perspective when things are not going so well.
Bitcoin is probably not the best case study for this aspect of the conversation, but I suppose you have a fair enough point. Although to be clear, I am thinking of the assets more like commodities than speculative stocks or equities. I do not mean to suggest that traditional servers are going to go away or become obsolete any time soon, but after you get past the cryptocurrency hype in the headlines there really is a huge amount of potential for the technology. This is definitely what long-term investors are considering and why this is even a topic here.
It really just comes down to the idea that blockchain networks are cheaper, more secure, more reliable and more scalable than traditional server arrangements. That’s not just my opinion; most of the top tech companies are ploughing huge amounts of money into it. market investors will do what they always do, but all I know is that I would rather have a crypto wallet with some stored value than an old, inefficient server sitting in the corner.
If you are using blockchain tokens to run an application, then you are essentially paying A large network of computer operators for their combined processing capacity. This means their electricity, maintenance cost, etc. instead of investing in servers that will be old by the end of the year. So purchasing cryptocurrency is in fact a very real investment. Think of it like an airline purchasing jet fuel three months ahead of time.
This is fairly uncomplicated... there are always going to be growing pains as society progresses and changes, and so understanding and dealing with that fact is always going to be part of the process. That does not mean that anyone is necessarily acting in bad faith, it only means that they may lack the tools and perspective to behave in a more equitable manner. So yeah, these jobs are not going away.
Is it still too early to estimate new application costs and performance improvements? Has anyone seen any statistics or comparisons yet? it will be interesting to see how this affects the efficiency of the platform and what this means for the adoption of other platforms.
Seriously, What a bunch of backward Luddites. They would do just as well to check IDs at vending machines and laundry mats. And I love these bank officials who say we should not use cryptocurrency because it is only used for fraud... that’s like saying we should not use money because some people rob banks or write bad checks!! I think someone is just making a lot of noise, but hopefully sanity will prevail.
You will always naturally prioritize the things that you love, so you should not feel guilty if you also love spending time with your friends or family or walking your dog to the pub on a sunny day. That’s why it’s called work-life balance. I read somewhere that Pink Floyd would stop everything in the studio to watch Monty Python, and I think decompression is a normal and healthy part of work. I often find that elusive solutions present themselves when I have changed gears for a while, but I suppose the real chore is finding the time for the things that you do not love but cannot avoid.