Gary Fung – Medium

Jan 29

…structure costs, scale of network required, and size of training data required) than social graphs. Any consumer platform can now manufacture a social graph simply by connecting to its users’ address books, making this previously highly differentiated asset something any company, big or small, can build with a few lines of code and an effective go-to-market strategy. However, having a highly effective recommendation engine is an engineering feat that only the scale…

Consumer Social is Going Back to the Future

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Faraz Fatemi

This is so wrong.

This is so wrong. Hello, network effects? If achieving that and beating Facebook's scale is easy, Google+ for one would have succeeded in dethroning Facebook as a pseudo monopoly in social networks.

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Dec 2, 2022

If you are a developer interested in building a project that drives yield or utility of the aUSD stablecoin on Acala or any other parachain, apply for funding from the $250 aUSD Ecosystem Fund. The aUSD Ecosystem Fund is part of the broade…

Pendulum and Amplitude Integrate With Acala To Bring aUSD to the Polkadot and Kusama-based…

Dan Reecer

How about fixing the aUSD peg first.

How about fixing the aUSD peg first. aUSD / usdt on uniswap: $0.165 ausd / usdt on kucoin: $0.2314 What a joke. And I'm speaking as an aUSD and ACA investor.

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Dec 10, 2021

We looked closely at two code generators: jet and sqlc, ultimately selecting sqlc. With jet you write SQL within your application as a DSL. But because it generates code it goes a st…

Exiting the Vietnam of Programming: Our Journey in Dropping the ORM (in Golang)

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Alan Illing

What about Prisma in your selection process?

What about Prisma in your selection process? They have a Go client, albeit not as mature as their main JS/TS client. Love their dev tooling and it takes a similar SQL first approach.

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Nov 13, 2021

Today, if you know which artist you want to listen to, it’s easy to “cut out the middleman”: you just go to that artist’s website and buy their songs, albums, merchandise, concert tickets, etc. The musician can keep “over 90% of sales”. No need for NFTs.

Chris Dixon’s Crypto Claims Are Logically Flimsy

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Liron Shapira

And why would users just pay artists on their websites, what do they get in return?

And why would users just pay artists on their websites, what do they get in return? NFTs is a novel mechanism because of its guaranteed uniqueness and scarcity, and for music represents ownership endowed by the creator. The user is getting something scarce and perceivably valuable to collect in return. And reading your following writing, it's clear to me that you don't know what the value prop of NFTs are. People buy them to collect, not to "listen". Purchasers are expected to do both, but enjoying/consuming and collecting/owning are separate things. Buying off iTunes and streaming have never been true ownership, they were digital licenses with infinite copies and revokable. NFTs on open blockchains allows ownership transfer like never before on the Internet

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Nov 13, 2021

That’s more fair.

That’s more fair. But as a dev, I see Cardano’s problem with slow dApps coming to deployment being that it's not just another EVM compat chain with little to add other than me too, I'm faster and cheaper than ETH. Cardano is using an entirely different accounting model using eUXTO. It’s harder to wrap heads around as a programming model, but I believe in time it’ll prove to be much much more scalable. And verifiable with better transactional ordering and safety (from bugs and hacks) guarantees.

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Oct 15, 2021

GitHub stars are tokens of appreciation or an indication of interest. Some consider GitHub stars as mere bookmarks (or bots entry) to which, I would disagree.

What do GitHub Stars say about “Flutter vs React Native”?

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Prasad Jayakumar

Oh wow, you counted the stars.

Oh wow, you counted the stars. Have you also counted how many unresolved issues/PRs there are in each repos? Hint: more is not better. Unlike stars. ⭐️

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Jun 19, 2021

You need and work closely with developers to build the design system structure. (Sometimes I think front developers should drive it)

Lessons Learned From Building Design Systems — Figma vs. Framer

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ruucm

Interesting.

Interesting. But by working closely with frontend devs, which should happen regardless, means Framer can also replace Storybook https://storybook.js.org/

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Apr 16, 2021

…nient than touch. If you could use your phone literally without lifting a finger, why wouldn’t you? Plus, the Apple Watch one of the most popular wearable devices on the planet. Lots of people are already interacting with it every single day. Why wouldn’t you build for it?

Web Apps Aren’t the Future

Mika Yeap

Because we can't?

Because we can't? Which begs the question from Apple: Where are the APIs after all these years, to build on Siri/Voice as a platform? Where's my Voice App Store?

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Feb 25, 2021

A single BFF is focused on a single UI, and that UI only. As a result, it will help us keep our frontends simple and see a unified view of data through its backend.

The BFF Pattern (Backend for Frontend): An Introduction

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Viduni Wickramarachchi

What's the point of such multiple BFF, 1 for each client, when a (federated) Graphql layer would do…

What's the point of such multiple BFF, 1 for each client, when a (federated) Graphql layer would do the same and also serves as many FEs as wanted?

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Nov 3, 2018

Interesting take on Snapchat’s valuation. Copy and pasted from The Information, emphasis mine:

Interesting take on Snapchat’s valuation. Copy and pasted from The Information, emphasis mine: Don’t Give Up on Snapchat It’s been a tough two weeks for Snap, following a tough year. Even two solid executive hires couldn’t overshadow this week’s earnings report – which warned its daily audience will continue to shrink. The company’s stock reached…

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