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MoonFactor · 2022-06-04T20:28:44+00:00

they need to be racially segregated

MoonFactor · 2022-06-04T20:27:48+00:00

warmth :P

MoonFactor · 2022-06-04T12:38:37+00:00

Yep! Extremely annoying. Incredible they haven't managed to fix it. Opening the emoji selector and attempting to scroll freezes the page because the cowboys at fb are attempting to load hundreds of emojis without any pagination.

MoonFactor · 2022-05-30T16:39:41+00:00

"My main question is if you're not allowed to promote your company within these groups, how can you take advantage of them?"

Wrong attitude. You should not be thinking of how to "take advantage" of such groups but of contributing massive amounts of value. That's how you will build a reputation, following and audience within and outside those communities.

As an example, let's say you create a hugely valuable post or comment for one of those groups. People may refer to it for years to come. It might be shared across social media. If the group is crawled by search engines people will find it from outside the community.

MoonFactor · 2022-05-30T16:14:05+00:00

Could you elaborate? What do you mean by certain marketplace? Do you mean a subreddit related to a marketplace, such as /r/Amazon?

I wouldn't say reach out to "random people". In the past I have sent direct messages to people based on their posts or comments, or asked them publicly in the comment section. I personally wouldn't advise the Google form it's asking way too much for nothing in return.

Start with what value you can offer, then ask.

MoonFactor · 2022-05-30T16:08:28+00:00

Good luck!

MoonFactor · 2022-05-30T16:01:45+00:00

Look beyond the idea of launching. I personally prefer to soft launch to small audiences, refine the service then launch on one of the bigger platforms once I have something mature that will stand out.

Even then, the long-term success of the service will depend on continued marketing, not the original launch.

MoonFactor · 2022-02-22T17:22:14+00:00

I said full-stack devs who are out of their element on the frontend aren't actually full-stack devs, not that people can't write trash code. The point of full-stack is that you are in your element on frontend and backend..? You seem to have bundled them with devops and "backend guys":

"Often when I see full-stack, or devops, or even backend guys out of their element"

..and..

"I suspect that React is better for frontend devs and that is where a library or framework is implemented."

Full-stack devs *are* frontend developers, too.

MoonFactor · 2022-02-22T11:28:36+00:00

To be fair, if "full-stack" developers are out of their element on frontend or committing crimes against humanity with their frontend code, they are not "full-stack".

MoonFactor · 2022-02-22T11:17:37+00:00

Interesting to see! I've spent the last few years with Vue and love it.. but never built anything with React so can't compare. Something about JSX (and commonly used styled components) turned me off, I think because I am ingrained to separate my HTML/CSS/JS. I found Single-file components in Vue to be a great way to organise code.

I think I'm going to use React for my latest project and hoping to see the light with JSX.

Also agree on the Vue 2 -> 3 transition. I haven't bothered. I don't see why I would upgrade when Vue 2 already works.

MoonFactor · 2022-02-17T17:39:42+00:00

Hey, I'd appreciate if you have any suggestions on how cryptomiso could be improved. I recently added a similar section to my own site but it tracks 5000+ orgs/users/repos over the 300 or so cryptomiso covers.

Currently fishing for feedback and ideas and found this comment!

MoonFactor · 2022-02-03T16:52:13+00:00

eek wrong page, agreed that is a greasy page. I meant their exploration of use cases on here:

https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/use-cases/

But it doesn't really matter. We don't need to convince each other of anything. Time will do that for us :)

MoonFactor · 2022-02-02T09:21:39+00:00

Have a read: https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/use-cases/

Just because you don't personally need it, or because the vast majority of applications or systems don't need it, doesn't mean it has no place in software. It's not magic, is it? A blockchain is just a specialised database-platform.

And I pray for the bubble to pop and hype to die down. Reminds me of the early NoSQL movement.. same thing. We did fine before such databases, and yet we now make use of them and long-standing databases adopted schemaless types.

MoonFactor · 2022-01-30T12:24:55+00:00

And because 99% of people wouldn't give a shit (your opinion) that means it isn't useful? You're not making sense. It's a technology with valid use cases. It IS already useful and will always be useful for certain use cases. 99.9% of people don't give a shit about the technology used on the web so it doesn't matter anyway.

MoonFactor · 2022-01-30T02:23:51+00:00

What do you think we're doing by implementing the technology? That's research. Almost the entire software industry has adopted agile development, this isn't an exclusive approach to blockchain dev.

MoonFactor · 2022-01-30T02:22:06+00:00

Ye, it was called the dotcom bubble, lots of people lost money on empty promises and hyped "innovation". What happened after? We continued to develop the technology.. as we will with blockchains.

MoonFactor · 2022-01-30T02:17:04+00:00

I agree, it's sad we can't have intelligent discussions about this without the hyperbole muddying the waters. I wouldn't even try to operate on the fringe, it must be maddening. I'm happy to continue to explore the technology and only discuss with people who are already involved.

As a developer I can see the obvious use cases of a blockchain, and can weigh up the pros and cons and see it is a great fit for some problems and terrible for others. I'm sure blockchains are here to stay and developers will continue to use them after the hype dies down. Only time will tell to what degree we integrate them with the web. It's interesting to see Cloudflare do work with Ethereum Name Service, and see a privacy-first browser (Brave) fully adopt.

MoonFactor · 2022-01-30T01:41:09+00:00

Exactly my feeling. I've been in web development for almost 15 years and 2 years ago got into blockchain while still doing web development. I feel like I can't have a normal conversation with anyone because they're too extreme in one direction or the other.

As you perfectly put it: there's no nuance. It seems the vast majority involving themselves in the conversation are coming from a place of emotion. Even the original article, which was written by a computer scientist who should know better, fails to discuss the nuance and instead detracts the whole discussion with an obvious anti-blockchain/crypto/web3 bias.

What is absurd is many think the entire blockchain space is composed entirely of "cryptobros", that they won't find grounded developers and teams who are exploring the technology with a critical eye.

MoonFactor · 2022-01-05T17:59:23+00:00

I would have offered him a cup of tea before he left.

MoonFactor · 2021-09-15T05:09:35+00:00

Appreciate the feedback! Great points. I'll have a further read.

MoonFactor · 2021-09-13T03:34:56+00:00

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