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Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does Bitcoin scale nowadays?
It does not need to scale since people treat it as digital gold nowadays.
Bitcoin is a really bad currency: it has pretty wild price fluctuations, and the transaction time for enough confirmations to be secure between two random parties takes a long time.
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#273Space X and the Falcon 9
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#274I'd like to nominate Apocalypse Now. Very particularly, Marlon Brando's performance. The whole movie is built up to this mythic man, a god among mortals, a figure that human psyche cannot understand, the end to an Odyssey. And Brando and Coppola have managed to surpass all the expectations.
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#275CRISPR
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#276Bitcoin
Did it though? I acknowledge the price is still climbing. Originally we thought it would have replaced credit cards which are a monopoly but it stayed a niche payment method and high risk investment target.
I agree, it's still a niche investment, and after 10 years, I'm not very impressed with what blockchain technology, or the
philosophy behind it, has given us. And on the issue of btc price increase: how much of this price inflation is through manipulation?
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#277I'm gonna go back a short bit and say, for me? Ruby on Rails. In 2007 I was plugging away at PHP with whatever frameworks were around at the time -- the vast majority of web dev that I saw then was pure procedural scripting down the page, maybe some `include` statements to pull in database functions. Especially in PHP, which encouraged mixing logic and HTML. The consultancy I was with had built custom stuff on top of…
Cannot agree more. The convention over configuration was brilliant - the implicit mappings made so much more sense. I could look at any given url and imply so much about what route/controller/view code was going to execute. The standardized code organization. ActiveRecord using the column names as data attributes. Was CoverMyMeds written in Rails?
The initial application that powered CoverMyMeds was PHP, as it grew out of the consultancy I mentioned in my original post and we were a PHP shop then. AFAIK it still exists and is actively maintained.
Most other apps and services at CMM were written in Rails after we showed that we could ship better software faster with it, and it now accounts for the vast majority of code there.
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#278I'm gonna go back a short bit and say, for me? Ruby on Rails. In 2007 I was plugging away at PHP with whatever frameworks were around at the time -- the vast majority of web dev that I saw then was pure procedural scripting down the page, maybe some `include` statements to pull in database functions. Especially in PHP, which encouraged mixing logic and HTML. The consultancy I was with had built custom stuff on top of…
I haven’t used RnR but I assume its similar to Python/Django in taking people who know how to program in any language and turning them in to full stack web developers. Its a funky learning curve where all team members are effective and few need to have extensive experience with the framework.
I've used Django, and while there's a base similarity the philosophical differences between it and Rails are definitely there.
Not gonna take a side on the Rails vs Django deal though. Like you said, if a team can effectively ship software with it that's the only measure that counts.
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#279LeBron James.
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#280I'm loving my Apple Watch. I wasn't entirely sure yet what to think of the watch as a form factor, given that a phone can do everything it can and more. But there's three interesting aspects that have really added value for me. 1) is health data, in a way a computer or phone just can't do. It tracks things like heartrate that a phone + heartrate strap is too convoluted for, for non-athletes. Plus it's all-day and qui…
Possibly a silly question, but does the Apple Watch work with Android? Or at least with a Mac?
No it doesn't. But check out Samsung Galaxy Watch series, they are a very decent competitor and they offer superior battery life.