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naradaellis | 12 years ago | on: Bitcoin is a Startup

BTC can be used in electronic black markets - not many currencies can be used for that, and that fact gives BTC huge value to many people. It is analogous to how USD is the only currency the USG will accept taxes in, which you have mentioned. Not to say that this black market might become unviable whatever reason down the track, but right now it's a big driver of value.

naradaellis | 12 years ago | on: Enough with the JavaScript already

I don't necessarily disagree with you that there are problems with the DOM API. However, would you rather that higher level APIs were designed by standards committees, or would you rather they were worked on and "de facto" standardized in the wild - the situation we have now. The situation we have now is a case of worse is better I think.

naradaellis | 13 years ago | on: Mistakes Web Designers Make

Ctrl-scroll wheel. I used to only do it with uncomfortably small text, but now I just do it on probably 50+% of sites, even if I could read it without zooming. It just feels nice. Puts all that horizontal whitespace on a widescreen monitor to use.

naradaellis | 13 years ago | on: How to be more productive

Who knows what was going through his mind when he decided enough was enough. I think your comment lacks compassion, and that is a shame because one might argue that lack of compassion is getting to the root of the reasons behind his suicide.

naradaellis | 13 years ago | on: Experiment in paying villagers in India an unconditional basic income

I don't get this argument. So the farmers, the truckers, the shopkeepers etc., will all quit right? This will cause supply of food to fall. But there is still demand for food, as always, thus prices soar.

And now, because of BI, all the people demanding food have money to pay for it. Thus, huge market opportunity to start a farm and get ahead?

Or perhaps, the farmers, truckers and shopkeepers wouldn't actually quit like you suggest.

naradaellis | 13 years ago | on: Can you crack a code?

I'm curious, what's the difference between the two: being told how to do it, and being told where to go to be told how to do it?

naradaellis | 13 years ago | on: Callbacks are imperative, promises are functional

Functional programming is not just about first class functions and I disagree with the idea that using first class functions means you are doing "functional programming".

See the second paragraph of the article for the authors take on this. Specifically, the concept of values is very important.

naradaellis | 13 years ago | on: Callbacks are imperative, promises are functional

The author "promisify"s a callback-based API in the article - which is worth a read by the way.

I'm interested in your opinion RE: his argument for why callback APIs are imperative - because I think he has a very good point and has supported it with a solid argument and you haven't offered any rebuttal.

naradaellis | 13 years ago | on: F# in the open source world

I didn't downvote you. I agree with the Microsoft tax, but I think "Successful or well-known .Net programs are invariably closed source" is an unfair exaggeration.

naradaellis | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Passion Projects

I don't think I can buy the victim-blaming argument. Is a woman who is born into a culture with female genital mutilation, or forced arranged marriage "cooperating in their own oppression"? Both of these acts can occur at young ages.

naradaellis | 13 years ago | on: When Facebook was Fun

The endless tiny bars, restaurants, shops in Japanese cities made me realise how vibrant huge cities can be. I wish my city Melbourne was more like that. For sure in the case of Japan it is to do with limited space and dense population, but zoning rules, cost of rent, cost of liquor licensing etc. surely all influence the viability of such tiny businesses...

Melbourne does alright but could be better. The way liquor licenses are designed skews the market towards fewer, much larger bars.

EDIT: I wasn't really thinking about your larger point when I wrote this - but I agree with my sibling - the tradeoff is a feature, not a bug. I think Tokyo and Kyoto are remarkable cities because they are not winner-take-all markets: the amount of niches the cities support is incredible.

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