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peterholcomb
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Comment #29830995
I don't think it's unrealistic to think that at some point in the near future that ordinary people in the third-world will be using crypto for their every day transactions. Crypto …
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Comment #25498517
I don't necessarily have a problem with it. If concepts work well, there is no reason not to reuse them in new libraries.
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Comment #24342343
Thanks for posting that. That was great.
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Comment #23779752
Well said. "Clean Code" goes into this a lot and it helped me realize why I was starting to become more and more bothered by looking back at the short variable names I wrote years …
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Comment #21204211
It would have been pretty heartbreaking (to me at least) for him to have passed before getting the Nobel. Glad they finally gave it to him.
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Comment #20644223
The first thing that came to mind when I read the opening paragraphs regarding churn is developing mobile applications. I find myself losing a day or two just to get my apps to com…
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Comment #19257134
Not a ponzi scheme...just fraud. Not sure why they went with the clickbaity title.
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Comment #18018778
After I proposed to my wife, we did a pre-marital counseling class about budgeting. She knew that I had credit card debt but she didn't know how much and it shocked her when I laid…
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Comment #12779572
I noticed that. They should at least add an option that mentions their fee structure changes. I stopped using upwork the day those were announced. This story was enough motivation …
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Comment #12779456
Done. Thanks for posting. Can't believe this guy's experience. I used UpWork for a few gigs earlier this year but stopped browsing for gigs when the new fee structure was implement…
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Comment #4689462
Aptly put. Well done.