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I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
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Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Erm, no, many understand very well what blockchain is and it's definitely not opaqueness what they accuse it of. But everybody can choose their own strawman to fight, can't they.
How do I add a headline to a webpage? add Some big text goes here How to I add some data to a blockchain? What is a blockchain?
This, I believe, is the essence of the whole point.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#93I must be very old. I still put my name in the footer of all my personal websites. Which reminds me: must update the copyright year in those footers!
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
isOdd and isEven pop up often but they and all those other packages were explicitly created for the sole purpose of boosting the author's profile. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29241943
too be honest, a comment of someone doesn't make it true. It could be he has actual use cases for these repositories. Just that someone thinks it should'nt be used like this, doesn't mean it's true. It seems like a lot of people think they think how npm should work, while forgetting to see how npm actually works. There's even an example of a well respected npm author that has repositories with just a few lines.. Y'al…
The "joke" is that you can determime whether a number is odd or even with a modulo in half the code and a fraction of the storage space of a library. There is no use case for it because it's a built-in feature of the language, and in the age of inane web bloat, supply chain attacks and Javascript cargo-culting, I think laughing at stuff like this is perfectly warranted.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Testing whether a number is odd is done in 3 characters: n % 2 if you don't like the % you can also do it using a bitwise AND, this also handles negative numbers: n & 1 this is equal to 1 if the number is odd, 0 if it is even, and will be converted to true or false in a if statement. You don't need a library for this. And you should not need a library to handle string conversions, you should be aware of the types you…
Before reading your comment, I probably would have agreed with you that isOdd was overkill. After reading your comment, I'm starting to think that isOdd is not only more readable but safer. I don't think I ever thought about n % 2 not handling negative numbers, and I'm not sure I would immediately recognize n & 1 as equivalent to isOdd. In languages without truthiness, n % 2 == 0 is longer than isOdd(n). Likewise, ev…
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Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#96My 1996 self feels very seen. I think a lot about the way the web was back in the mid 90s, compared to the bleeding-edge technologies of today, particularly blockchain and cryptocurrency. And one major aspect I keep coming back to is that web technologies in the 90s, and even their descendent technologies now, are simple enough for most technology-literate people to understand, and that carried with it a lot of comfo…
I'm an educator and right now, I'm evaluating the crypto space.
A huge problem here is that it's very fast moving.
Take the fast moving Web of the 90s and multiply it by how much more people use the Web today.
At Eth Amsterdam I talked to many engineers from that space and didn't get a satisfying answer to many questions devs usually ask about new tech.
"Where should you store your data?" - "It depends!"
Back in the days, and even today, in Web2, you would spin up a relational DB and it would be good enough for 99% of use cases.
I know, that changed with the rise of NoSQL, but in Web3 it's even harder.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#97My 1996 self feels very seen. I think a lot about the way the web was back in the mid 90s, compared to the bleeding-edge technologies of today, particularly blockchain and cryptocurrency. And one major aspect I keep coming back to is that web technologies in the 90s, and even their descendent technologies now, are simple enough for most technology-literate people to understand, and that carried with it a lot of comfo…
> The world of blockchains and cryptocurrencies and "web3" feels vastly more opaque and esoteric by comparison and therefore untrustworthy to many of us
For me it's more that we can already do everything web3 does without the blockchain sprinkled all over it
The only thing web3 adds to what we are already capable of is a participation fee, which sounds like someone was tasked to implement the worst possible version of the internet
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Erm, no, many understand very well what blockchain is and it's definitely not opaqueness what they accuse it of. But everybody can choose their own strawman to fight, can't they.
How do I add a headline to a webpage? add Some big text goes here How to I add some data to a blockchain? What is a blockchain?
> How do I add a headline to a webpage?
I vividly remember that time in 1996 when I had to explain to my schoolmates what a _webpage_ was. (Whithout really having an internet access yet.)
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#99_Bring_ _back_ _Geocities_
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Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s also is-even[1]. It has one dependency: is-odd [1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even
Now the only right thing to do would be for the maintainer of is-even to rewrite it to depend on is-odd.
That would be even odder.