I was introduced to him pretty late in the game, in this interview where he and Joe Armstrong and Carl Hewitt talked concurrency! It was interesting hearing them discuss their different thoughts and approaches
Gleam runs on the Erlang VM, and I believe it also compiles to WASM. That's pretty different than the other languages here. Cool language though, I am a big fan of the BEAM
>Here’s how these attacks work. A hacker penetrates a company’s systems—an often easy task, given many firms’ shoddy cybersecurity practices.
This seems like the real problem. "Banning cryptocurrencies", whatever that means, doesn't solve the security problem. If these critical systems are so vulnerable, shouldn't we be even more concerned about hackers who have more nefarious intentions than making some quick money?
Ransomware is a job for these people. They're not doing it for fun.
Would you take a job if you were paid in only iTunes vouchers? There would still be a few people, but not the vast and expanding industry that we have at the moment.
Vouchers (or bags of cash) are also much more difficult to convert to fiat without being tracked.
In terms of enforcement - preventing all bank transfers to and from exchanges, embargoes on countries that allow exchanges, threatening to seize crypto on sight, and fines for companies making payments in crypto would be enough to do 99% of the work.
Sure people could send payments off-exchange, but without the liquidity provided by retail investors criminals would struggle to cash out.
As a back end developer that’s been slowly getting into web development, I find the article helpful because it informs me of some design decisions I should be thinking about. By no means do I expect the author’s opinion to always be correct, especially since the design should always be driven by the content and intended audience. But it helps to know I should think about serif vs sans serif, etc. and how it may impact the final product.
> - Spaces: The animation tells the user what is going on! Having the entire screen change instantly would be confusing for the vast majority of users.
The video the author links from Minority Report of an "incredible and desirable" UI, has animations seemingly for this exact reason. One is basically the same as Spaces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJqbivkm0Ms
I think UIs that give intuitive feedback are the best UIs, even if they are a tiny bit "slower". I'm happy to memorize a bunch of VIM commands because I write code everyday and it makes me much more productive, but I don't want to have to do this for every application. Especially once we start physically interacting with them.
As I log in to Tidal right now, and got to top 20 albums, Kanye's The Life of Pablo is at #8 and Beyonce's Lemonade is at #9. TLOP has consistently been in the top 20 since it came out (over 2 years ago!) as has Lemonade (also over 2 years ago!). I don't buy any of it.
I have an up to date 4s, but that means iOS 9.3.5. It works great, only problem is web browsing. Most sites load too much junk and can crash the phone. Brave is the only browser I can use, and it works pretty good for most sites.
On another practical point: isn't your battery completely shot by now?
I've never seen a phone where it isn't obviously somewhat impaired after 2 years, so what is it like on something that's 3 to 6 years old? Or do you get it replaced often?
I tried to buy a replacement battery, but that expanded dangerously until I noticed marks coming from behind the screen, so I popped open the case to have a look and promptly removed it.
I use a Third Rail case, so I can recharge easily. I don't use 3G, and all my apps work offline.
One of the reasons I still like my phone is because of that case. I wish there was something similar for another phone. The external batteries also have microUSB in and out, so I can charge friends' phones too.
I had a Nexus 4 from 2013-2016 (so three years) and now have a OnePlus One (for 1.5 years now), and I didn't observe any loss of battery capacity on either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wFVVVZlVU
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