REST/modern interface specs and DX tooling is probably a 2x over SOAP for me. Not 10x, but the reduction in interface and validation issues has led to a vast improvement in consuming APIs from other organisations.
Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
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I made my account(s) off invite codes and have "just my last name" at gmail dot com as an address... it's one of my most prized possessions, to this day!
I managed to snag my (very common) italian last name. I get a flood of messages every day. I both love and hate my account. I don't even speak italian!
I get the same thing. My last name isn't that common though so I've messaged the culprits specifically (especially if they use their phone number when signing up for whatever it is) to ask them to please stop using it.
Someone will have the idea and sign up for 5-6 things all in one burst, which usually inspires my outreach.
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Not just a GB. It was also constantly increasing in size, with a live counter to show how much storage you had available. Super gimmicky, but fun. I guess there are probably a lot of people here who are too young to have ever used those early versions. You also had to scrounge forums for an invite code.
I made my account(s) off invite codes and have "just my last name" at gmail dot com as an address... it's one of my most prized possessions, to this day!
I also have @gmail.com. It’s not a super common last name, but common enough that I get emails almost daily from people accidentally omitting a first initial.
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This is one of the more interesting use cases I've seen posed for NFTs. Use an NFT when a user buys the game and then they can resell the game later.
What is the advantage of an NFT versus a record in Valve's database?
Open standards, sort of. People could in theory take a game license they bought through some other service supporting NFT game licenses, and move it to Steam, or vice-versa. Steam et al would essentially be crypto wallets that let you download+play the games corresponding to the licenses they held. (Better yet if they’re non-custodial, actually. Decouple the responsibilities of originating licenses [i.e. buying games] from fulfilling game installs given licenses.)
Also, presuming Steam was coerced by industry/government pressure into supporting NFTs, it would also mean that you could resell the games even if Valve didn’t want to support that. As long as the game-license NFT was a regular ERC722 token, its owner would always be able to move it around—such as to someone else in exchange for payment.
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Java saved me from having a C++ career. And that was the 90s C++, not the C++ of today. I dodged a bullet there.
Unfortunately I learned Delphi Afterwards you could not take the other languages seriously Like comparing two strings for equaltiy, strA and strB. In Delphi, you write: strA = strB In Java: strA != null && strA.equals(strB) Delphi just did everything better
I tried to learn Delphi on an existing Delphi project.
My experience was one of hunting dependencies in bookshelves, file serves, (defunct) vendor web sites and also source forge.
That was the point were I grokked the immense value of Maven.
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It made a big difference for me with occasional trips, I took public transportation to work, but Uber/Lyft meant I could go visit my friends for $10 and 10 minutes instead of $2 and 45 minutes. Note that a car also costs thousands of dollars a year once you factor in everything, Edmunds estimates the true cost of a corolla at $7k/year: https://www.edmunds.com/toyota/corolla/2020/cost-to-own/
I have multiple experiences with Toyota’s driven 200k to 300k miles with just standard repairs. A Corolla costs $20k? $25k? Let’s say $1k for new tires/brakes/oil changes/filters every 45k miles. That’s $333 per year for maintenance, and the car lasts 13 to 20 years at 15k miles per year for 200k to 300k miles, so let’s say $2k per year on the high end, $1,200 per year on the low end. Extremely high liability insuran…
Cars can be a great value, an expensive convenience, or a total burden depending on how these numbers actually work out and where you live and what you do. If you feel like a car is necessary, then the math probably makes sense. If you're at all hesitant, then the numbers would have to be very compelling to be at all compelling. Regardless, they only really work out if you actually have it for a very long time. If I wanted to purchase one for a year, and then resell, I'd lose a lot of money to taxes and depreciation, especially if it's new. Likewise, it's a huge liability that you just don't have if you don't have one.
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#558The very first iPhone after it's release by Steve Jobs. Easily 100x better than the phones that came before it. I still have it - though I'm an Android user now...
Strong disagree. It was slow, had barely any features compared to, say, the Nokia N95. Sure, it made leaps with certain key mobile features, e.g. voicemail and the chat-like SMS interface, but it was a big step down from the N95 overall in almost every other area.
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> apt-get. I saw a joke the other day that went something like: "What, is your grandma so senile that she can't type ./configure; make; make install" ? Installing software on linux truly sucked before package managers.
That joke persists in the DeFi / yield farming space right now, except with sillier names because the main services have names like Sushi and Pancake
Sorry to have ask, but do you mind explaining this joke? I'm trying to fit in "grandma so senile she can't Pancake; sushi install" but it's not clicking.
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Venkman was hard to use, and mostly focused on the internals of Mozilla. Firebug wasn't just prettier; it was much more usable, and it focused on actual website code. Hence the difference in popularity.
> mostly focused on the internals of Mozilla Absolutely not. > Firebug wasn't just prettier; it was much more usable Venkman made some debatable decisions about UI defaults, as is the case with a lot of tools built by old school programmers trying to solve their own problems, but it was more customizable, flexible, and powerful (as is the case with a lot of tools built by old school programmers...). Aside from Firebu…
> if you're referring to all the stuff baked into Firebug outside it's debug pane
Yes, you're focusing on the debugger only. The fact is, most people simply did not use Venkman since it was hard to understand how to use it, for what context it was meant. Firebug tied the debugger into a wider context, making it more accessible, and reached a level of popularity that Venkman never had.