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Decentralized networks can be both principled and mainstream-popular without giving up usability.Their words
It's exciting, and shows that you don't have to accept a bad set of tradeoffs to make tech that's both principled and popular.
17 December 2024
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Either can work. Both have tradeoffs and implications. If you try to import either philosophy wholesale, it will break in unexpected ways; if you try to mix and match, it will probably be an unfettered nightmare.
16 December 2024
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Javascript: The Good PartsTheir words
Before this book I used to think that Javascript is "bad" or a "hacky" language. This book changed my perspective, understanding some tradeoffs and some remarkable strengths of this weakly typed language that is starting to take over the world. Note that this book is now dated
6 February 2024
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Programming is fundamentally the practice of making tradeoffs about what matters and what doesn't.Their words
Programming is the art of tradeoffs. You have to decide what matters and what does not.
7 March 2023
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High rung thinking will almost always land on "centrist" position because it acknowledges tradeoffs, or on non-politicized positions because it's not beholden to supporting either of the two parties in a zero-sum game. It's not a coincidence that the political square is a triangle.
13 April 2018
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