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I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by eimrine »

nxmnxm99 wrote: post #79
eimrine wrote: post #76

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> Why is Hacker News so anti-crypto? I have missed the discussion you have mentioned. But I remember 10 years ago HN was opposite to anti-crypto. And the anticryptoness of nowadays for me seems like stupid ppl who don't understand some basic principles and downvote me if attempting to criticize their misunderstanding.

You lost your thread and descended into irony quite quickly there.

If my English would better I have better quality of discussion, for example better ability to detect not interesting people before talking to them.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by _Algernon_ »

blowski wrote: post #132
JohnWhigham wrote: post #129

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They're right though. The Internet was better when it didn't have tons of people giving their unsolicited opinions and corporations coming in and having every single one of their actions be antithetical to the esprit of the WWW. It was better when people had to put in effort to find something and not take 30 seconds to select the first Google-approved search result.

Was it better for those who couldn't use it?

Considering for how many the internet has a negative overall value by turning them into conspiracy nuts and mouth pieces, yes. Yes it was.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by agiacalone »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #189

I built my first site in ~1997, and my primary email address is still webmaster@. Nevertheless, I do feel that these early-Internet nostalgia posts mostly forget how crappy many webpages were back in the day. Blinking text, marquees, animated gifs, frames, inline fonts, ActiveX, "Best viewed in Internet Explorer 3", popup windows, tables for layout, terrible search, etc. Today's sites are often bloated, but those of…

Plus, it all had to be done (typically) on a dial-up modem which made all of those "web effects" absolutely horrible.

Even today's web sucks without some heavy ad-blocking and script controls.

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Post by andai »

nradov wrote: post #147
amarant wrote: post #144

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So you want to avoid fiscal regulations of a oppressive regime? Sounds like tax evasion/money laundering with extra steps to me. You could call it justified tax evasion, maybe. If I'm being generous.

It's not something I particularly want because I don't live in a country with currency controls, and I have no opinion on whether it's justified or not. But evading currency controls is a distinct and separate use case from tax evasion. Wealthy Chinese are unable to transfer large amounts of that wealth out of the country without government permission, even if they have paid all their taxes.

Bitcoin is fundamentally anti-government. The fact that many westerners currently consider their governments benign enough to not understand the need for such a thing is truly a blessing. Even so... it's always good to have a backup ;)

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Post by andai »

bccdee wrote: post #185
k__ wrote: post #96

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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…

No cryptocurrency or Web3 platforms actually store their data on the blockchain. That would be ludicrously expensive; it'd cost tens of thousands per gig at least. Relational databases, cloud object buckets, and CDNs are pretty much all you should need, storage-wise, unless you're solving an especially interesting problem.

So... what's the Web3 part for then?

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Post by zepolen »

likortera wrote: post #140
sjaak wrote: post #67

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It's funny, the package is-odd has dependencies itself. It depends on a package called `is-number`. Go figure. I finally understand how `node_modules/` directories grow to 100s of megabytes for the smallest apps Turtles all the way down.

It is a trade off. In most other ecosystems such as Java, Python, PHP, etc if you have a dependency A that depends on B 1.0, and a dependency C that depends on B 2.0, you cannot have both of them installed, so you either pick one or the other, or some intermediate version which works in all cases, but many times you end up not being to use one of them or, worse, not able to upgrade either A or C because you cannot re…

Anyone not committing the entire node_modules to their repo is in for a really bad time when npm goes down or gets compromised.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by rchaud »

extra88 wrote: post #193
rchaud wrote: post #188

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At some point in 2013 I watched Lecture 1 of Harvard CS50 because everybody said that was the best starting point for people interested in web dev, product development, tech in general. I just wanted to make a website to start off with, just a bunch of linked pages. I already knew a tiny bit of HTML from college, but that was years ago and I wanted to know what had changed. So you can imagine my confusion watching th…

> I watched Lecture 1 of Harvard CS50 because everybody said that was the best starting point for people interested in web dev, product development, tech in general. That was not good advice. CS50 is an excellent, introductory, survey CS course but it's still a CS course.

Most advice aimed at absolute beginners is bad, because the questions are bad. E.g. "what's the best programming language?"

You and I may know that the question is a bad one, but beginners don't know that. And when they ask, they aren't told to rephrase the question as "What would I like to build?" Someone will just say "well I know Javascript and...." and it goes from there.

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