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Mathematicians get a similar mental state from the release of dopamine that rewards working on and successfully solving ever more complex problems. I've also seen engineers comment similarly about it, and it sounded quite like what my great grandfather described when working on a complex math problem over a span of time.

That being said, make time for yourself, all consuming projects will make you discontent with life in general.

What are you specifically working on decentralizing? Do you have an end goal in mind for what a perfectly decentralized world would look like? Eg. a SBC in every home & office running a mailserver, webserver, etc

Edit: I think decentralization is great (like say IPFS), but I would not risk health or put off others to dedicate all my time to working on it, social interaction is an everyday need!

Just curious, what was the biggest cost, storage, CPU, RAM, bandwidth or matinence? Any kinda breakdown you could give?

Just trying to figure out what made SaaS a good value vs hosting on site, were you able to get rid of a server & the associated power & maintenance costs?

Seems pretty straightforward to me, having seen this occur quite often. Not much you can do to break through to the upper echelons in the US today if you start in the lower economic class, better to go to a country with higher social mobility.

Yeah, the base price is $5 and you can pay in multiples of $5 for slightly more complex things. Basically people will do very simple work for $5 or a multiple thereof.

Neat, could be very handy for sharing screenshots with others!

Are the customers of Fiverr drowning Upwork? Just seems kinda odd that it has become such a mess as of late, I dropped Upwork just before their most recent fee increase though...

Going broke working at Harvard more like it, could you live on $12/hr in Baltimore with kids? I know I wouldn't be able to make it work.

Uhh, I as a casual browser of HN was quite confused when I clicked on this, as your github repo has no explanation of what Chain Core is, or what it does.

Perhaps consider saying something like "Chain Core is a blockchain based system for private B2B financial transactions, such as deposits, bonds, securities and currency exchanges." up front so other HN readers aren't forced to eventually wander to your website[1] to figure out what this chain thing is.

[1] - https://chain.com/

Conceptually I like it, seems like a better route than keyboard mashing then attaching .com to the end when using WiFi that has a captive portal.

Eh, but the DNS server isn't necessarily the same as the bootstrapping server for the WebRTC API, and in most cases it generally would not be.

Yes and no, Vulkan is a very low level API that leaves quite a bit of how CPU & GPUs are used up to the game engine developer. This can be good or bad, unlike OpenGL or DirectX you can really optimize your engine, but that is labor intensive & there will be games that should have used a higher level API like OpenGL, since they aren't willing to spend the time to take advantage of what OpenGL offers (much quicker to get pixels rendered on screen in a decently per formant way).

Another way of thinking about it is to think of Vulkan like C, and OpenGL and DirectX as Java, since that is an apt comparison in terms of high level vs low level languages, just in our case its a low level API (Vulkan).

I think long term AMD will benefit from more games using Vulkan at least on the GPU side, but it isn't a miracle solution that will make AMD compelling over Intel. Zen may create such a situation, though ultimately it is up to businesses and consumers to pick AMD over their competitors, which could happen due to a combination of factors (including Zen & Vulkan).

I've seen lots of potentially usable p2p CDN ideas, from storing data in each visitors browser & using them to serve other visitors said static content, to projects like IPFS where you can have a distributed website. The ultimate problems are static asset storage & distribution, DNS (how'd you make a fault tolerant, censorship resistant DNS solution that is updatable in nearly real time), and any database component that a site may need.

Most of these are solved issues[1], but it breaks down to site operators don't want to put in the extra effort or risk (what if a page has assets not load, or worse, bad assets are loaded), and the apathy of the average user prevents a web of trust or installation of any extra software from occurring unless it is drop dead simple and requires zero maintenance.

As soon as someone can bundle up these technologies in a nice package for both site owners and end users, they'll have a killer solution to improve site reliability & reduce operating expenses (by offloading CDN costs to the end users).

[1] - https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet

It seems common knowledge these days among the slightly but not too technically inclined that any new major project should use a LAMP stack as its base.

People see Facebook, Amazon, and many others running PHP & MySQL on Linux at scale and they know it works reliably, so while it may not have the support of Cisco or Oracle, it is pretty close on the 'no one ever got fired for choosing' X scale, since you can point to every other major company using these building blocks reliably if your investors, CEO, board or auditors asked why you chose to use PHP & MySQL.

In summary, PHP & MySQL have become the modern equivalent of a "safe" choice for your stack to be built on. Its not necessarily a bad choice either, you get access to a large community of skilled people who can write PHP & write SQL statements, and while everyone likes to hate on PHP, it isn't about to up and disappear any time in the next decade either (unlike COBOL).

At what cost though? I've heard this protectionist argument from a friend of mine many times before, and it always ends up circling back to his current employer, who if there had been larger economic/regulatory barriers in his industry a decade and change or so ago, would likely not exist.

Protectionism has its place, but we should fully evaluate the cost, damage and benefits created by protectionist policies before implementing them, otherwise you end up with massively subsidized US corn crushing our NAFTA partner's agriculture industry, and Chinese Steel being dumped on the US at significantly lower prices than the US Steel industry can produce said metal at (mostly due to Chinese state subsidies, just like our agribusiness subsidies).

Same thing happened with Allwinner's SOCs, when the one point of contact that was providing the source of their modified kernel left, Allwinner chipsets stopped getting rapid mainline kernel support.

The silver lining though is that the sunxi community has been working to mainline newer chips like the Allwinner H3 & has been doing a bang up job with minimal info, newer kernels can boot up & get most hardware onboard configured & ready to use.

The Raspberry Pi foundation picked a chip they were familiar with as Broadcom employees. I can't fault them for that, but at this point chips like the Allwinner H3 & A series have better support mainlined than the Raspberry Pi 2 & 3.

I say this having tried Raspbian & Debian on each platform, and having tried more advanced features (like VC4, which seems to crash my Raspberry Pi 3 after a minute while scraping by & giving me 59fps). I understand the choices they made, but a helpful vendor that incidentally creates a community that then supplants its support would be the ultimate end game, and that is where the sunxi community is at at this point.

Perhaps the Raspberry Pi foundation can fix VC4 and get mainline distros to support them, but severe bugs[1] & Raspbian including non-redistributable images[2] have tempered my enthusiasm to spend time on their SBC, as it seems like a hot mess that could drag me down with it into a licensing & bug ridden abyss.

[1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1354

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/56e3vh/has_an...

Re: Javascript, all the FSF wants is a bright line for libre JS and proprietary JS & choice for what users want to run, and the ability to substitute in alternative javascript to replace the closed source JS on most sites. We're basically in the same place as Mono (Silverlight) and Shumway (Flash) did/could have ended up, where sure the engine to run the code is libre, but the code itself is not, and worse yet it is not clearly licensed.

On firmware, the FSF has drawn a bright line on where hardware ends and software starts, and where they've drawn it is on whether firmware on device can be updated or not. If its not updatable, its a piece of hardware, plain and simple. If its updatable, then it is software, thus said code should be freely licensed and not Tivoized.

The two issues the author brings up are broad issues I run into with Cloudflare protected sites all the time. The fundamental assumption that everything using the internet has a full JS engine and a human immediately ready to solve a reCAPTCHA is flawed, and thinking instances like this are a one-off is inherently wrong.

Torrent traffic, file transfers, VOIP and all the other non-HTTP type traffic that Cloudflare just breaks by default make up a good chunk of the traffic you see on the web. That Cloudflare pitches itself as a one and done solution with minimal configuration just nakes this worse, since website owners generally won't bother to set up custom rules for RSS feeds and the like. Additionally, if even 1% of the RSS feeds that were broken by cloudflare were emailed to you, your inbox would be flooded.