I don't mind the 'business model' (I think it's a bit rich to be asking $5 for this, but then you're asking $5 from people who spent $2000-4000 on a laptop).
What I do mind a bit is how depressing it seems - I guess I don't want to be reminded about impending death all the time...
Tagging is the first step, but how do you know if you don't have overlapping or duplicate tags, say country and folk music?
If you need something that fits both categories, you eventually start designing taxonomies and eventually ontologies, there's just no end to it.
I think tagging is a sensible, lightweight approach, but it has limitations...
I quite like the idea of keeping the website as static as possible - it reduces the attack surface and plays nice with CDNs and you only do dynamic stuff ad-hoc...
I used to optimise for this, but different customers have different requirements anyway.
Also dev en to me is my macbook pro + terminal + text editors, but on top of that there's set up for each project.
I used to optimise for this, but it took a week or so 3 years ago and I now I don't care how painful it was.
I'm sure it matters a lot more for open source projects, where you want to encourage lots of ad hoc contributors who can set up easily.
next up - a practical introduction to implementing a relational database from scratch.
It's great to learn about the cryptography behind the blockchain etc, but the herd mind is horrible - so many better things to spend one's time on than a 100th implementation of blockchain. Why won't the hype die already?
what does prevent you from storing your private keys today? Nothing. The association with Stellar might imply a higher likelyhood of something valuable crypto related being there. However, I don't care, if the security of keybase is somehow broken, I'd rather find out early on and with the increased exposure, they may be getting free pen testing.
where on earth do you get 9% returns on 'safe' investments?
According to historical records, the average annual return for the S&P 500 ('aggresive') since its inception in 1928 through 2014 is approximately 10%, but you may have to partially cash out at a low point.
I have looked at a few, the fees and the opaque structure scared me away. I would like the control, of being able to sell my share on the open market at any point (at close to face value, obviously) and being able to benefit from a proportion of rental income where ROI < 20 years.
Depends on how you define 'lifetime'. Sadly I've seen many SaaS businesses dia and with htem the 'lifetime' access. Otoh my Plex Pass value is still holding strong.
Finally if we're talking true lifetime, it can be averaged out to the median lifespan of subscribers, in my case $10k 'lifetime' it would work out to <$25/month
I would pay $10k for a share in an honest, low fee property investment.
I can't afford losing liquidity to buy another whole property, but I'd like to invest a proportion of my savings against rental/commercial properties, as directly as possible, with as few intermediares and with many safeguards for bad times.
Indeed. The author of the article seems to be implying certain things without any evidence. Most people in Poland dabbling in crypto are very well aware of information in English and use exchanges and websites that are in English anyway, so not sure where that article conclusion came from...
I think very few in the Western culture will encourage that, but if it's your nature, don't fight it too much, you don't have to be the hero that ships app number 1000000021 in the app store. Get or keep a comfy '9 to 5' corporate job, get a gym membership and enjoy life the way you enjoy it and not the way is trendy in 2018. Humans are not built to be systematic.
The reinvention of XML in JSON is almost complete - JMESPath vs XPath, JSON Schema vs XML Schema etc. If you need semi structured data to that level, consider using XML instead - you can validate it, there's plenty of tools, it's very stable and mature etc
monopolies are not good for the little guy. In Europe there's a sufficiently good market for listing on other websites, booking.com, holidayvillas and own websites, so you'd see a drop but not as significant. Is there a way to reach out to all your past tenants and advertise that you're renting out on offer (say -30%), not via Airbnb?
I have to agree - once I was in the not so comfortable position of having to deny funding for this - you don't say no to TBL lightheartedly, but SOLID doesn't offer anything that couldn't be done more simply with existing tools and techniques. It's byzantine and ROI is unclear.
Yeah, the biggest value in the the "history of debt" is the unlearning and debunking myths that are taught as 'science' in economics schools. There were no 'barter' economies, money did not 'evolve' from barter etc. Even otherwise respectable names in economics built their theories on top of these ideas which are in fact pure, convenient fantasy.
So much this (not the case with Basecamp who pay SF rates apparently), if one doesn't want to run the business side of things - propping up business, chasing up invoices, early HR etc, then such a small business will usually not be able to pay him as much as Facebook or Google...
So it's it's good enough for the founders but not good enough for other talented engineers who'd otherwise join.
Are we there yet? Do we need paxos-like consensus protocols? Hardware is becoming cheaper and commoditised and with all the hype around blockchain, it looks like people are ready to pay extra for the redundant hardware needed for 100% fault tolerance.
Still, it feels to me to in almost all cases, including financial transactions, it's good enough to be right 99.999% of the time and just amortise the costs of the very rare bit flip...