johnvonneumann

Just to affirm what this guy said, these reasons are pretty much why LTC should be on your radar. The heretic in me actually things that LTC could potentially have more value than BTC these days just because they seem to have their shit together development-wise.

Yeah I think I've gotta give myself some time away from darts first before trying cigars, I reckon I'm still stuck in "inhale mode". And yeah too right, I get the same feeling, I've cut down my drinking substantially since quitting. Not a bad thing.

Dart is an Aussie term, you probably wouldn't hear your standard upper class snob say it. We have a variety of words for cigarettes. I would very rarely use the term cigarette, too many syllables.

2 weeks in atm, no intention of smoking again. But this anecdote resonates with me. I think I've finally come to accept that that "Something about them is just so nice with alcohol" is just your lizard brain screaming for more of whatever you're on, it's all the same mechanism. It has a certain romanticism that goes along with it. Sitting down with a beer, having a dart, chilling out.

Had a good laugh at this.

Eyo, sorry for the delay on this reply. I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said, and didn't mean to come off too aggressive with my first comment, even though I probably did. There is a lot of bullshit going around these days around Bitcoin and Crypto, and sometimes it can be pretty grinding to see "big media" out-and-out gunning it down without exposing their true intentions and who it is that they're backing with their comments. Either way, this isn't your fault. So I apologise for coming off aggro.

The transaction fee thing is a problem many people, in particular new users notice, and it's on the forefront of issues being solved by the community right now. In regards to your comments on 30 cent transaction costs, from what I understand, they are indeed on the path to this. If you are interested in seeing what this will look/feel like, buy a small amount of LTC, and send it to another wallet. I had many of the same issues you had with Bitcoin a few months ago, but as soon as I gave LTC a go I was blown away. This, for all intents and purposes, is what the BTC Core team intends to bring to Bitcoin. To give you an idea, transactions cost 2c on the LTC network, with a max time to completion of 2.5 minutes. When you first experience this, it's a great feeling.

Coinbase is always gonna be tricky, their transaction costs for buying BTC are, to put it bluntly, fucking horrendous.

In regards to your comments on not having to pay the fee, there are some wallets that allow you to pick the priority of your transaction, one that springs to mind is IndieSquare Wallet. Bear in mind this will affect the way your transaction goes through, speed wise.

Hope I actually answered your questions on this, sorry for my intial comment. If you have any more q's, just holla. I can either answer them, or get someone with more knowledge than I to answer them.

However, in the interest of getting you to fall in love with Crypto, please, buy a small amount of LTC, transfer it, pay the fractional charges and be blown away. If you aren't impressed by it, I will be surprised.

Cheers for the comment. And I appreciate the points you made, in all fairness I did mean to reply back and try and actually provide some level of explanation.

And you know man, I do understand that first problem, I actually went around my local city talking to business owners about their lack of understanding/knowledge of Bitcoin a while ago and tbh it struck me entirely as a communication/uptake problem. You are right though, I did come off obnoxious and you're also right in saying that it's not the right way to go about it.

Cheers for the reality check.

I feel it's necessary to point out some problems with your argument here. "I'm an open minded person and honestly believe d that Bitcoin might work prior to actually using it." First of all, it seems kinda strange to me that you say you believed Bitcoin would work, without even using it. So you made an approximation of the technologies value before using it. Then, after using it once, you then totally changed positions. This hardly seems like a decent analysis of the situation, and I think you should probably do some more reading and learning.

Number 2, writing off an asset, and furthermore, an entire asset class based on one instance of a transaction fee (a problem that is being actively worked on, might I add) is lazy and dangerous, to conflate this to "it is clearly inferior to US Dollars in every way. Bitcoin is a scam, block chain is all hype, and everyone involved with Cryptomania is going to look silly when the music stops and someone has to eat the soggy biscuit" is ridiculous and you haven't made any decent points. Your entire argument is based on conjecture and no technical information.

Do yourself a favour next time you decide to shoot Bitcoin and Crytpocurrency down, ask yourself if you've actually done due diligence on your opinion, or if you've settled for the lazy option.

PS: If you are that disgruntled, you're welcome to submit PRs.

This, I don't consider myself a vindictive person, but financial vultures need to be punished.

Whilst the luck element is true, I think people place to much emphasis on it, in reality, pretty much every person that "got lucky" had been working hard at whatever it was they "got lucky" in for a while. It's just exposure, I guess if I was making a bad analogy, it's kinda like spreading the board with chips on a roulette table, yeah you got lucky, but you set yourself up for it. Same applies in life. The difference between the winners and losers (All IMO) is that the "losers" only laid down one or two, the "winners" spread the board.

Big companies make a habit of pushing their tax liabilities to the most favourable jurisdiction. As the other comment said, they would take the piss.

Ahh sorry if I came off to be attacking you man, wasn't my intention at all.

And yeah you got it spot on! I know that for my Dad in particular, he always said to me whenever I mentioned scaling the business up and taking on more guys that whilst it would be nice, it would likely mean more of a managerial position, keeping an eye on projects and that. He said he runs his own business to avoid being at the grindstone 24/7, he was always able to come and see school sports and participate in that sort of stuff. I always found it pretty self-controlled tbh, knowing that he could have scaled it up, but knowing the game would change if he did.

As someone who comes from parents who own a small construction company, I think you've actually gotten it the wrong way round. What you say could be construed as correct, but in the wrong way. From what I understand, many small businesses (especially those who are Mum and Dad run) are only looking for small business, they have no interest in going bigger, why would they? In the majority of cases, the work they do more than covers the bills, people may think that bigger is always better, but when the business supports a family, this is rarely the case, bigger can actually be far worse. Not to mention that much like was mentioned/alluded to in this article, founder rates of pay/benefits are pretty much never the same as would have to be paid to a "normal" employee. This is unscalable, I know Paul Graham has referred to this idea before, so I won't explain it worse.

TL;DR

Most small businesses owners are far better rational decision makers than you think, because most of the time, the aim of the game is not a unicorn, it's support of the family.

I've never seen someone hate on Joel, but to me it would seem misplaced to hate on him, Fog Creek clearly know how to do enterprise tech.

As you get through the article, he mentions https://toggl.com/ as his time tracking tool. I'm not usually a fan of videos, but that intro is awesome.

Nailed it, did an online course with Kaplan a few years back (Diploma) and was pretty chafed by the experience. The content was dated, the "teaching methods" non-existent, with pretty ridiculous qualification criteria.

Got this at home, bought it whilst doing the course a couple of years ago, I've been planning to get around to reading it, I'm gonna bump it up to my next up after I'm finished with "It".

I've never quite understood how this works, I'm trying to imagine a burglar being asked to give back "some" of what he stole, but not everything, that would be "unfair". Fight fire with fire in many cases, start fining them the years profit, or maybe, just maybe, start treating corporates like the criminals they are.

Probably highlight some interesting bits and pieces in relation to the whole "use boring tech" vs "use bleeding edge tech" argument that so many people seem to make.

Who did you ban? The first response or second one?

Agree wholeheartedly with the entire article. Gotta cringe when you get to the end though, and you get blasted with "Top 3 Dog Pics You Have To SEE To Believe!!!", ironic.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Just from reading the intro, it all seems to mesh so well into engineering decisions.

I think this comment nails it to be honest, I am a bootcamp grad and a lot of the time I do feel that most junior web devs are pushed into the cult of Javascript very early, React is pushed as if gospel and whilst much "emphasis" (IMO only in spoken ways) is placed on being a full-stack, I feel that there is next to no real education provided on basic back end/operations skills. So most of the grads come out as front-enders with front end skills and very little understanding of how front end decisions impact (and help in many cases) the back end and as a result, the entire stack. It makes me kinda sad tbh, because I find the back end tasks super engaging and they really fill out the gaps in your knowledge, especially as a Junior.

In theory, yes. In practice, no.

Can you explain why this is a deal breaker? Is it the use of OCR or the choice of provider? Assume I know nothing here, because I do.

Hate to nit pick, but it's not that it "would have happened", it's moreso the fact that it actually did happen. Repeatedly. Globalisation is largely a result of these hyper aggressive neo capitalist agendas. IMO some basic reading on Allen Dulles, the original director of the CIA should shed some light on the "company culture" that was at the heart of the organisation for so long, you could argue that culture changes, but IMO when the entire purpose of an organisation is subversion of international interests, I doubt their mission statement changes. Plus, there has been quite a lot of talk over recent years over the role of social media in propaganda distribution for clandestine operation purposes. Especially inside the intelligence community, they actively recognise it as one of the most effective weapons in the fight for public approval.

I feel that in many ways, there is a take-a-side mentality bred into all of us via social cues from a young age. Your football team, the city/country you are from, the education provider you attended. And as I've gotten older, I've become more and more convinced that in many instances, people view position switching as some sort of deadly sin. So they stay locked into their opinion. I have a mate who is pretty smart, but a lot of his ideas and beliefs come from his Dad, and as a result, you are no longer just breaking down his opinion, you are attacking the Father figure's. And over the course of our friendship, we have always had running debates on various things, and I was struck recently by his comment of "Well, you didn't always think that". The comment was made in a pretty smug way, like I had somehow lost the debate because at some point, realised that I was probably incorrect. I think this is the most damaging thing, like there is a certain level of pride taken in just taking A position. Not necessarily arriving at one through debate or critical thinking.

"He said he spent about three years building a dozen prototypes before devising Juicero’s patent-pending press. In an interview with technology website Recode, he likened his work to the invention of a mainstream personal computer by Apple’s Jobs. “There are 400 custom parts in here,” Evans told Recode. “There’s a scanner; there’s a microprocessor; there’s a wireless chip, wireless antenna.”

Honestly, this right here, is probably indicative of a lot if true. Nothing says "effective engineering culture" like custom building parts for your innovative-unicorn-10x-juicer when you can get cloned Arduino parts from China. Wankery of the highest order.