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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.