I was a lot happier when I bid contracts for work and stopped interviewing for jobs.
Being an employee sucks. The tax system is set up to screw over the working schlob. If you're smart enough to program well, you're smart enough to hack the tax system too. Programming is the only profession that has anything like trivial tests in interviews. The flip side of this is without professional credentials, that's where things go.
Otherwise.. stand up and do tricks.
Unionize already. Doctors are unionized. Lawyers are unionized. They call it something else, but that's what it is..
Desktop computing is the domain of professionals now. The vast majority of people use their phones and tablets as their primary computing devices. I had my eyes opened working on my wife's website for her firm - 95% of the traffic was mobile or tablet.
iOS won't work for people who use computers in the classical sense - e.g. tell the computers to do things - because you don't have enough fine grained control. An IDE on a tablet would be a genuinely terrible experience....but most people interact with a tablet as their primary OS, and that's a good thing.
Some of us are happy to pay a premium for hardware and software that doesnâ(TM)t look like dogshit.
Indeed - there are cheaper ways to go. Iâ(TM)m happy to pay for good hardware - and it turns out, you can make a lot of money writing software for people who are willing to pay for things.
Thereâ(TM)s another end of the calculation youâ(TM)re too short sighted to see, and thatâ(TM)s cost recovery - I flip Apple stuff every 18 months or so and recover most of my funds. That cheaper stuff is effectively worthless in the same period, and has a higher total cost of ownership as a result.
Why not use the best tool for the job? I have a component build game machine - itâ(TM)s great for that, but I much prefer the Apple ecosystem for everything else.
Hell - Iâ(TM)d probably pay more than theyâ(TM)re asking - and often do, to get Applecare. Enjoy your Chinese smartphone and DIY hardware. To each their own.
The first thing is for people to decide BTC has value. Weâ(TM)re there, I think.
The second is to decide how much. Thatâ(TM)s being figured out now.
Bitcoin enables technologies like the Lightning Network - which offers distributed micro payments, for the first time in history - and was a keen interest of a former fearless leader here, RobLimo.
The shitcoins are indeed that, and there were a 1000 pets.com for every Amazon. BTC solves real problems and lets me pay for things like VPN services that would be a real headache, and let folks process payments from countries where banking systems are nonexistent.
Wait until people realize they can monetize their content directly without the ads.. and youâ(TM)ll see some interesting things happen.
If they cared about emissions, nuclear is of course the right option and something we could do immediately. It also provides lots of great jobs.
That isn't as satisfying as other parts of the leftist agenda, most of which revolve around them telling you the best way to live your life. That's what the ACC deniers actually push back against; it's obvious change is happening, but it's being used to further political goals on each end.
Thermodynamics always wins, though, so buy oil. Nobody will agree on nuclear until the easy energy is all gone.
C is lightning fast and is the tool for when you know what you're doing.
Python is.. for everything else.
Everything else just turns into a clusterfuck over time. C and Python have somehow avoided turning into clusterfucks by being simple, while building an unstoppable freight train of reference work.
Julia solves lots of problems in a specialized domain, but most programming is laughably mundane.
There's a billion dollar industry in contacts and laser surgery to get rid of glasses, which are comparatively unobtrusive. For AR to hit the mainstream, it needs to offer at least the same experience - and there has to be a SUBSTANTIAL benefit to doing so.
VR doesn't require interaction with the outside world (by definition) so you don't care you've got stupid shit on your head. The tech is capable of providing that experience.
AR requires a SUBSTANTIAL advance in laser projection, lenses, and/or another technology to be viable. I wish more companies would go public with AR focus so I can short the living hell out of them; it's not ready, anyone using this technology knows it's at least 5+ years out, which is a long, long time in tech.
Ultimately there's a case for it, and it might even dominate, but the technology just isn't ready yet.
I worked in a VR lab in 1996. Even made Popular Science. AR is in a similar state to VR back then.
This seems very obvious to me; the VC bucks should be going into the laser projection and lens tech, not this monstrosity.
The internet used to be 300bps - if you were lucky, too. Who'd use something so primitive? Just send a fax.
Read up on the Lightning Network. There are other technologies actively being built on the BTC blockchain.
People expect instant adoption. It'll be 10, 20, maybe 30 years. But BTC is not going away.
Should you invest your house in it? No.
Should you understand it? Probably.
Are there opportunities to make money? Absolutely.
The first step is deciding Bticoin has some sort of value. We're there, I think.
The next step is deciding what that value is. Not done with that yet.
There is one thing you can only buy with Bitcoin. That's access to the BTC Blockchain. You should read up on the BIP proposals being worked on, Lightning, and other rapidly developing technologies before discounting offhand, and likely at your peril.
Banks can get involved, sure. But so can you. It's decentralized and there's no problem with all these things co-existing. It's also far from static, and being actively developed.
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."...and right now, if you want to play, you need some Satoshis.
Altcoins are all garbage and lots of folks have predicted BTC dominance emerging.
Lightning network, distributed exchanges, all sorts of things are coming.
Bitcoin + LN solves a problem that the beloved Cmdr Taco used to rant about - micropayments. It lets you send $0.0001 to someone, with no middlemen. That's incredible, and it's going to change a lot of things.
Everyone should have a little BTC. I have no intention of converting any of it back to $.
Buy it with money you'd otherwise waste, and even if it goes to zero, you'll have a funny story. But mark my words, BTC will go one way - to zero, or to the moon.
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It works this way in the rest of the (civilized) western world.
If you're a citizen, you get to vote. Period.
Enough glasses for me. Employer covering it, too.
Zap zap. Bionic upgrade time.
Haters going to hate, but crypto works.
I remember these fondly.. mostly from when I was a kid and broke.
Atari Portfolio
Psion
HP100/200LX (still have a 200LX!)
The Zeos Palm PC
Great machines. Would love to see a modern take on them, maybe this is it?
You manage standards and restrict entry. Youâ(TM)re a union. Same as Lawyers, and Professional Engineers. Or plumbers for that matter.
Coders get fucked over; I see it every day.
I was a lot happier when I bid contracts for work and stopped interviewing for jobs.
Being an employee sucks. The tax system is set up to screw over the working schlob. If you're smart enough to program well, you're smart enough to hack the tax system too. Programming is the only profession that has anything like trivial tests in interviews. The flip side of this is without professional credentials, that's where things go.
Otherwise.. stand up and do tricks.
Unionize already. Doctors are unionized. Lawyers are unionized. They call it something else, but that's what it is..
Desktop computing is the domain of professionals now. The vast majority of people use their phones and tablets as their primary computing devices. I had my eyes opened working on my wife's website for her firm - 95% of the traffic was mobile or tablet.
iOS won't work for people who use computers in the classical sense - e.g. tell the computers to do things - because you don't have enough fine grained control. An IDE on a tablet would be a genuinely terrible experience. ...but most people interact with a tablet as their primary OS, and that's a good thing.
Some of us are happy to pay a premium for hardware and software that doesnâ(TM)t look like dogshit.
Indeed - there are cheaper ways to go. Iâ(TM)m happy to pay for good hardware - and it turns out, you can make a lot of money writing software for people who are willing to pay for things.
Thereâ(TM)s another end of the calculation youâ(TM)re too short sighted to see, and thatâ(TM)s cost recovery - I flip Apple stuff every 18 months or so and recover most of my funds. That cheaper stuff is effectively worthless in the same period, and has a higher total cost of ownership as a result.
Why not use the best tool for the job? I have a component build game machine - itâ(TM)s great for that, but I much prefer the Apple ecosystem for everything else.
Hell - Iâ(TM)d probably pay more than theyâ(TM)re asking - and often do, to get Applecare. Enjoy your Chinese smartphone and DIY hardware. To each their own.
I'm running 128GB of RAM on a i7 6800k on a Asus TUF x99.
Works great. Virtual machines FTW.
Learned my lesson the hard way.
Sucks, but crypto is cash, and itâ(TM)s unregulated.
But a hardware wallet and know how to use it.
This judgement day for the shitcoins as been both predicted and expected for some time.
The interesting thing to watch is the relative performance of BTC and it's market dominance.
I continue to acquire BTC, and we'll see what the future brings.
Show me a exchange medium that has the payment clearinghouse built in.
I canâ(TM)t instantly send .001g of gold to someone in africa. Or anything else, for that matter.
The first thing is for people to decide BTC has value. Weâ(TM)re there, I think.
The second is to decide how much. Thatâ(TM)s being figured out now.
Bitcoin enables technologies like the Lightning Network - which offers distributed micro payments, for the first time in history - and was a keen interest of a former fearless leader here, RobLimo.
The shitcoins are indeed that, and there were a 1000 pets.com for every Amazon. BTC solves real problems and lets me pay for things like VPN services that would be a real headache, and let folks process payments from countries where banking systems are nonexistent.
Wait until people realize they can monetize their content directly without the ads.. and youâ(TM)ll see some interesting things happen.
If they cared about emissions, nuclear is of course the right option and something we could do immediately. It also provides lots of great jobs.
That isn't as satisfying as other parts of the leftist agenda, most of which revolve around them telling you the best way to live your life. That's what the ACC deniers actually push back against; it's obvious change is happening, but it's being used to further political goals on each end.
Thermodynamics always wins, though, so buy oil.
Nobody will agree on nuclear until the easy energy is all gone.
C is lightning fast and is the tool for when you know what you're doing.
Python is .. for everything else.
Everything else just turns into a clusterfuck over time. C and Python have somehow avoided turning into clusterfucks by being simple, while building an unstoppable freight train of reference work.
Julia solves lots of problems in a specialized domain, but most programming is laughably mundane.
Is this that hard to grasp?
There's a billion dollar industry in contacts and laser surgery to get rid of glasses, which are comparatively unobtrusive. For AR to hit the mainstream, it needs to offer at least the same experience - and there has to be a SUBSTANTIAL benefit to doing so.
VR doesn't require interaction with the outside world (by definition) so you don't care you've got stupid shit on your head. The tech is capable of providing that experience.
AR requires a SUBSTANTIAL advance in laser projection, lenses, and/or another technology to be viable. I wish more companies would go public with AR focus so I can short the living hell out of them; it's not ready, anyone using this technology knows it's at least 5+ years out, which is a long, long time in tech.
Ultimately there's a case for it, and it might even dominate, but the technology just isn't ready yet.
I worked in a VR lab in 1996. Even made Popular Science. AR is in a similar state to VR back then.
This seems very obvious to me; the VC bucks should be going into the laser projection and lens tech, not this monstrosity.
The internet used to be 300bps - if you were lucky, too. Who'd use something so primitive? Just send a fax.
Read up on the Lightning Network. There are other technologies actively being built on the BTC blockchain.
People expect instant adoption. It'll be 10, 20, maybe 30 years. But BTC is not going away.
Should you invest your house in it? No.
Should you understand it? Probably.
Are there opportunities to make money? Absolutely.
The first step is deciding Bticoin has some sort of value. We're there, I think.
The next step is deciding what that value is. Not done with that yet.
There is one thing you can only buy with Bitcoin. That's access to the BTC Blockchain. You should read up on the BIP proposals being worked on, Lightning, and other rapidly developing technologies before discounting offhand, and likely at your peril.
Stock pays dividends.
Stuff depreciates.
QED
Banks can get involved, sure. But so can you. It's decentralized and there's no problem with all these things co-existing. It's also far from static, and being actively developed.
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." ...and right now, if you want to play, you need some Satoshis.
Buy some every week or two and average in.
Altcoins are all garbage and lots of folks have predicted BTC dominance emerging.
Lightning network, distributed exchanges, all sorts of things are coming.
Bitcoin + LN solves a problem that the beloved Cmdr Taco used to rant about - micropayments. It lets you send $0.0001 to someone, with no middlemen. That's incredible, and it's going to change a lot of things.
Everyone should have a little BTC. I have no intention of converting any of it back to $.
Buy it with money you'd otherwise waste, and even if it goes to zero, you'll have a funny story. But mark my words, BTC will go one way - to zero, or to the moon.
Nintendo just helped provide a huge additional use case for hidden services though.
The ROMs are also everywhere if you know where to look.
Neither of those will help Nintendo make more money, of course. Silly Nintendo.
I'm sure many crypto investors feel thoroughly fucked today.
Or just use the lightning network and collect Satoshis directly with no fees.
Seriously, we donâ(TM)t need more rent seeking middlemen.
LN is the micropayment system weâ(TM)ve been waiting decades for.
I don't care about the "python way". I do it the fastest way that works in Python.
Python's ability to leverage libraries is phenominal. All it needs is a nice RAD tool and it'd be perfect, IMO.
Borland Delphi (and later, C++ Builder, maybe) were great examples of how components could be visualized, packaged, and used for development.
It's really a shame nobody has pushed this direction. It worked really, really well.